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June 2025 Artist Opportunities

Written by Taji Senior | April 29, 2025

Every month, Fractured Atlas provides a list of upcoming grants and opportunities for artists and arts-based projects so that you can discover more opportunities to get financial support and other resources for your work. As a fiscal sponsor of over 3,500 artistic projects, we provide access to grants for artists in every discipline.

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Here are the upcoming opportunities for June 2025. Best of luck!

 


Artadia Awards: San Francisco Bay Area 

The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. 

 

Geographic Focus

San Francisco Bay Area

 

Deadline

 June 1, 2025

 

 

Dorland Mountain Arts Late Summer/ Fall Residencies

Dorland Mountain Arts offers self-directed residencies for visual artists, writers, musicians, and composers seeking inspiration and solitude. Residency accommodations include five cozy cottages, access to two pianos, a vibrant Community Arts Center and more.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

June 1, 2025

 

 

Core Clay Ceramic Artist in Residence

The Core Clay Artist-In-Residence Program provides an opportunity for clay artists at the beginning of their careers. The goal of the program is to create a community of artists that fosters creativity and practicality in the arts, and grows a long term group of contacts for artists after their program has ended. Core Clay offers a working relationship with professional artists-- wheel throwers, hand-builders, and slip casters.

 

Geographic Focus

Cincinatti, Ohio 

 

Deadline

June 1, 2025

 

 

Larch Creative Fund Grant

The Larch Creative Fund, in conjunction with the Spruill Center for the Arts in Dunwoody, Georgia, is seeking project proposals for innovative projects that encourage creative and critical thinking through the arts, with a focus on having fun and encouraging community participation and related activities. Projects must be arts based and taking place in Georgia.

 

Geographic Focus

Georgia

 

Deadline

June 1, 2025

 

 

Anolic Family Awards

The Anolic Family Awards are given to Jewish artists with a wide array of talents and goals. The Naomi Anolic Early Career Jewish Visual Arts Award is $1,000 towards the completion of a specific project by active early career Jewish visual artists between the ages of 25 and 35. The Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts Award is $1,500 towards the creation of a unique, one-of-a-kind, or limited edition, work of art in the field of Jewish book arts.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

June 1, 2025

 

 

Venturous Capital Grants

The Venturous Capital Grants program supports writers of bold, experimental, and/or large-scale new plays by giving theaters the ability to say “yes” instead of “no” to writer-driven projects that are unusually heavy lifts, i.e., that are perceived as especially challenging. Venturous offers grants to support specific extraordinary costs that might otherwise make venturous plays difficult or impossible to produce. 

 

Geographic Focus

United States  

 

Deadline

June 2, 2025

 

 

Wassaic Project 2026 Residency Program

The Wassaic Project uses art and arts education to foster positive social change.  Wassaic Project is now accepting proposals for the 2026 Residency Program, which includes the Winter Residency program (Jan – April 2026) and the Summer Residency program (June – September 2026). This call is for individual artists, collaborative teams, groups of two or more individual artists, and artists applying through the Family Residency program.

 

Geographic Focus

United States 

 

Deadline

June 2, 2025

 

 

Wassaic Project 2025 Haunted Mill Open Call

The Wassaic Project Haunted Mill Residency seeks artists to apply for a fully funded 1 – 5 week residency to create site-specific installations in Maxon Mills, outdoor creations, and performances that will make your skin crawl. Haunted Mill artists will have access to housing in one of the residency houses, private studio space in Maxon Mills, and additional space in the Luther Barn. Artists are offered $500 – $800 honorariums depending on the scope of the project.  If work is time-based or has video documentation, you may also link to media from YouTube, Vimeo, or SoundCloud.

 

Geographic Focus

Global 

 

Deadline

June 2, 2025

 

 

Headlands Artist In Residence

The Headlands Artist in Residence (AIR) program awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 50 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, housing, travel and living expenses. Artists selected for this program are at all career stages and work in all media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, dance, music, interdisciplinary, social practice, arts professions, and architecture.

 

Geographic Focus

Global 

 

Deadline

June 2, 2025

 

 

The Farm Margaret River Residency

The Funded Residency Program at The Farm Margaret River in Western Australia provides artists with a residency fee, studio accommodation to develop site-responsive work within a five-to eight-week period. The program is open to artists working across land art, sculpture, installation, mixed media, environmental and ecological practices, and other disciplines. It supports artists who are committed to rigorous research, experimentation, and dialogue—encouraging new ways of thinking about land and our relationship to it. 

 

Geographic Focus

Global 

 

Deadline

June 2, 2025

 

 

California Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship

The California Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship program uplifts and celebrates California artists across all disciplines and traditions, highlights their excellence and acknowledges their leadership in shaping traditional and contemporary cultures. The IAF is open to Nonprofit, tax-emempt 501(c)(3) organizations and units of municipal, county or Tribal governments with a unique artistic vision, sustained commitment to creative practice and, engagement with and impact on the cultural ecosystem. 

 

Geographic Focus

California  

 

Deadline

June 2, 2025

 

 

UpTide Accelerator

UpTide, a nonprofit accelerator by 92NY, gives community-building nonprofits the tools they need to reach the next level of impact. UpTide will serve a cohort of five nonprofit leaders with $5,000 unrestricted grants and a week of programming in New York City.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

June 2, 2025

 

 

Jazz Road Tours

The South Arts Jazz Road Tours program supports three- to six-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. Artists may apply for grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 to cover eligible expenses. The program also provides artists with business development tools to advance their careers beyond subsidies and grants. 

 

Geographic Focus

United States 

 

Deadline

June 4, 2025

 

 

Independent Projects Grant

The Independent Projects grant program is a partnership between the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the Architectural League of New York, awarding $10,000 grants for New York State-based individuals and teams to explore a design topic through creation or research.

 

Geographic Focus

New York State

 

Deadline

June 4, 2025

 

 

Art Fluent Evolution Grant

The Art Fluent Evolution Grant provides unrestricted funding to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art. This call is open to artists worldwide, both amateur and professional and artists are granted $1,000 each cycle. 

 

Geographic Focus

Global 

 

Deadline

June 6, 2025

 

 

2025 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award

Booooooom, a global arts & culture platform fostering a community of tomorrow’s talent offers the Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award. Artists will get the chance to have their work published as a standalone book at zero cost to the artist. Six projects will be 6 projects to turn into books—each by a different artist, illustrator, or photographer—at zero cost to the individual. On top of that, we will also be choosing 3 additional projects to be turned into smaller perfect bound zines.

 

Geographic Focus

United States 

 

Deadline

June 6, 2025

 

 

Abington Art Center Solo Series Review

Abington Art Center, located in Jenkintown, PA, offers artists the opportunity to show a body of work in an individual gallery. Over the course of the year,  9-12 artists will present an exhibition of their own design in one of Alverthorpe Manor’s historic rooms. Artists will be selected for a solo exhibition in either our Fall (September-October), Winter (January – February), or Spring (April – May) exhibition season. Applicants will also be considered for an exhibition in the Community Art Gallery, which highlights artists whose work aims to create conversation and engagement around local cultural and historical concerns. 

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

June 7, 2025

 

 

Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025 Open Call for Curators

The Hyundai Blue Prize+ invites curators to explore the most pressing contemporary issues, in connection with the contexts of Asia, by pursuing boundless perspectives. In today’s ever-changing landscape, curators play a crucial role in examining contemporary cultural, sociopolitical, and technological transformations, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, and shaping critical discourse.  Five curators or curatorial collectives will be selected as shortlisted finalists and will each receive one-on-one mentorship with the members of the jury panel, a research tour in China, and a $4,000 grant to develop a final exhibition proposal. 

 

Geographic Focus

Global 

 

Deadline

June 8, 2025

 

2026 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise

The Vilcek Foundation will award six Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in the amount of $50,000 in two categories: Fashion & Design and Fashion & Culture. In each category, three young immigrant fashion professionals who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field will individually receive the unrestricted cash prize.

 

Geographic Focus

United States 

 

Deadline

June 9, 2025

 

 

Film Independent Fast Track

The Film Independent Fast Track selects up to ten fiction and five non-fiction feature projects to participate in an intensive film finance market that takes place over four days in November. Designed to connect producer-director teams with industry leaders and put projects on the “fast track,” the market consists of meetings with top executives, financiers, agents, managers, distributors, granting organizations and production companies. 

 

Geographic Focus

United States 

 

Deadline

June 9, 2025

 

 

Akron Poetry Prize

Each year, the University of Akron Press offers the Akron Poetry Prize, a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives $1,500 and publication of their book as part of the Akron Series in Poetry.

 

Geographic Focus

United States 

 

Deadline

June 15, 2025

 

Prairie Ronde Artist Residency Fall 2025

The Prairie Ronde Residency, hosted by the Mill at Vicksburg, is a process-based residency for for independently driven artists to explore and grow their craft. The residency offers artists  a range of disciplines a five to six- week residency with the goal of engaging with The Mill and its surrounding 80 acres of property. Artists receive a $2,000 stipend upon completion of the residency, a $500 travel grant and more. 

 

Geographic Focus

United States  

 

Deadline

June 15, 2025

 

 

Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize

The Tusculum Review seeks single story manuscripts for its Fiction Chapbook Prize. The winner receives $1,500, publication of the story in the Review, and creation of a limited edition standalone chapbook with original art. There is a $20 entry fee (with an additional $15 fee for international submissions).

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

June 15, 2025

 

 

NO DEAD ARTISTS Call for Submissions 

The NO DEAD ARTISTS exhibition at the Ferrara Showman Gallery was founded by Jonathan Ferrara in 1995 to give a voice to emerging artists. Now in its 29th iteration, the exhibition has been a springboard for numerous artists; leading to national press coverage, recognition, gallery representation, art fair exhibition, and acquisitions by museums and other prominent collections. 

 

Geographic Focus

Global 

 

Deadline

June 16, 2025

 

 

Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award

New York Foundation for the Arts presents the Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award, a $8,000 cash grant to be awarded to one New York State-based playwright or screenwriter who self-identifies as LGBTQ+.

 

Geographic Focus

New York State

 

Deadline

June 17, 2025

 

 

Theater Production Award

The Gerbode Foundation has announced a fund for the creation and development of new theater productions by California writers, playwrights, spoken word artists, and theater-makers. The new works will be commissioned and produced by Bay Area nonprofit artist-centered organizations with annual budget sizes of $60K to $3K.

 

Geographic Focus

California

 

Deadline

June 18, 2025

 

 

NISDA Offshore Artist Residency 

The Offshore Artist Residency at the Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts welcomes emerging and professional artists and educators in all fields including, but not limited to, photography, painting, ceramics, textiles, writing, music, performance and any interdisciplinary projects committed to the creative process. NISDA’s residency is an independent, self-structured experience that provides time and space for personal renewal. NISDA’s residency at the  Atlantic House  provides  live-in studios of different sizes. 

 

Geographic Focus

United States 

 

Deadline

June 30, 2025

 

 

Vilcek Foundation Grant for Nonprofit Organizations

The Vilcek Foundation invites applications for grants to support nonprofit organizations that work with immigrant artists and communities, and that promote diversity in the arts, sciences, education, and humanities.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

June 30, 2025

 

 

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