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 August 2024. Best of luck!
Wilmers Integrity Prize
The Wilmers Integrity Prize honors an individual strive to better our world in a different field. Efforts in the arts, education, environment, law, medicine, nutrition, social justice, and social reform are eligible for the $50,000 award.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
August 1, 2024
PBA Hispanic Heritage Festival: Call for Proposals
Palm Beach Atlantic University welcomes proposals involving all facets of the music, visual arts, and theater of Spain, Portugal, Latin American, and the diaspora for its Hispanic Heritage Festival.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 1, 2024
Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence
The Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence program in Omaha, Nebraska, is a process-based experience—residents have the ability to research, experiment, and explore free from expectations. A variety of disciplines are accepted. US-based residents receive a $1,250 monthly stipend and $750 travel stipend, and international residents can apply for a visa to be eligible to receive monthly stipend payments. There is a $40 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 1, 2024
New England States Touring (NEST) Grant
The New England Foundation for the Arts' New England States Touring (NEST) Grant funds performances, readings, and screenings of work by regional, national, and international artists presented by New England-based nonprofit organizations.
Geographic Focus
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Deadline
August 1, 2024
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Project Grant
The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation announces five $10,000 project grants for Maine artists working in all genres. Artist teams are also invited to apply.
Geographic Focus
Maine
Deadline
August 1, 2024
South Arts Grants
South Arts offers two grant opportunities with early August deadlines. Cross-Sector Impact Grants of up to $15,000 support "Arts &..." projects developed by partners—one arts organization or artist, and one non-arts organization—harnessing the power of collaboration. In These Mountains Project Grants of $10,000 support organizations to conduct projects that promote the sharing, teaching, learning, preserving, and documenting folk arts and traditional culture of Central Appalachia.
Geographic Focus
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Deadline
August 1, 2024
Our Town
Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts' creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, the program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. Nonprofit organizations and institutions of higher education, units of local government, and federally recognized tribal communities or tribes are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
August 1, 2024
Art and Change Grant
The Leeway Foundation's Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,5000 to fund art for social change projects by women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia.
Geographic Focus
Greater Philadelphia area, Pennsylvania
Deadline
August 1, 2024
Yaddo Residency
Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 1, 2024
PEN America Literary Grants
PEN America confers distinct grants each year to support writers and works-in-progress in diverse genres. The grant cycle includes: the PEN/Bare Life Review Grant, the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children's and Young Adult Novelists, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, the PEN/Faranak Adibi Translation Grant, the PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History, and the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
August 1, 2024
Artist Entrepreneurial Grant
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts' Artist Entrepreneurial Grant supports opportunities that will benefit artists' careers, including the development of business skills, participation in programs to raise the level and quality of their art, and participation in programs that will bring their art to the widest possible markets.
Geographic Focus
New Hampshire
Deadline
August 2, 2024
PAM CUT Artist in Residency
The PAM CUT Artist in Residency program in Portland, Oregon, offers emerging and mid-career artists the opportunity to spend three and a half months working on a new or continued project. The program includes a $3,000 stipend. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 2, 2024
In Practice Open Call
SculptureCenter invites artists who have not yet had an institutional solo exhibition in New York City to submit proposals for solo exhibitions in designated gallery spaces at SculptureCenter. Participating artists will receive a separate honorarium of $1,000.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 4, 2024
Fountainhead Residency
The Fountainhead Residency in Miami, Florida, seeks visual artists who are at a pivotal point in their careers where connections and conversations with art professionals and an immersive and nurturing environment is just the catalyst needed to expand and evolve their art practice. The program includes a $1,000 honorarium and $500 local transport stipend. This open call is limited to 300 submissions.
Geographic Focus
Global (excl. South Florida)
Deadline
August 4, 2024, or when 300 applications are submitted
Café Royal Visual Grant
Café Royal Cultural Foundation will award an exhibition/project grant to NYC artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs. The grant amount is $10,000.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
August 5, 2024
CALI Catalyst
The Center for Cultural Innovation's CALI Catalyst program provides unrestricted grants of up to $7,500 to California changemakers who are creating tangible impact within the arts and culture sector, shifting power and influence to historically underrepresented voices.
Geographic Focus
California
Deadline
August 5, 2024
City Mark Capital Art Project
As part of the ROC the Riverway initiative to improve and revitalize public space on both sides of the Genesee River, the City of Rochester, New York, is seeking an artist for a capital art project to be located on the Sister Cities Bridge. Finalists will receive a $1,500 stipend.
Geographic Focus
Rochester, New York
Deadline
August 8, 2024
Reinventing Asia Futurism
SaveArtSpace and The Here and There Collective are announcing an open call focused on artists from the Asian Diaspora to have their work placed on ad space in New York City. There is a $10 donation per image submission to participate.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 12, 2024
Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions
National Endowment for the Humanities' Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) program supports institutions that provide fellowships for advanced humanities research in the US and abroad, foster communities of intellectual exchange among participating scholars, and provide access to resources that might otherwise not be available to the participating scholars.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
August 14, 2024
Open Call for Academic Book Showcase
The Latinx Project (TLP) will organize and host its first print media fair on September 21, 2024 in New York City. As part of the fair, TLP is organizing an interdisciplinary showcase of academic books published within the last three years in Latinx Studies.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 15, 2024
Trillium Arts Residency
Trillium Arts is an artist residency center where artists of many disciplines can find a creative home away from home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Its facilities are best suited to the disciplines of literary arts, photography, visual arts, and arts administration. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 16, 2024
Passing Glows
Warimono invites artists to submit their works for its inaugural exhibition Passing Glows. The gallery seeks artworks that explore fleeting moments, capturing the essence of brief, illuminating experiences or the temporary yet impactful moments that shape our existence. All visual art media will be considered. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 18, 2024
Incentive Prize for Young Art Critics
AICA International's Incentive Prize for Young Art Critics invites early to mid-career critics (commentators, curators, educators) to submit essays under the theme Becoming Machine, Resisting the Artificial. Art in the Present Tense. The first place cash prize is $1,000; second place $500; third place $250. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 18, 2024
Future Vision
SaveArtSpace and The Untitled Space presents a public art series of billboards throughout the United States revolving around the theme of "future vision." An accompanying exhibition will be presented at The Untitled Space gallery in New York City. All mediums are welcome. There is a $10 donation per image submission to participate.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 19, 2024
NYAM Library Fellowships
The New York Academy of Medicine Library offers two annual research fellowships to support the advancement of scholarly research in the history of medicine and public health: the Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Public Health and the Paul Klemperer Fellowship in the History of Medicine.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 23, 2024
On the Brinck | Places Prize
The On the Brinck | Places Prize supports ambitious public scholarship focused on the Southwestern region of the United States. The winner of the prize will receive an honorarium of $7,500 to research and write a major work of public scholarship and present a related public lecture. The prize is open to institutionally-based and independent scholars.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 30, 2024
Bryn Du Artist in Residence
The Bryn Du Artist in Residence program in Granville, Ohio, will provide a setting for the creation of artistic works by one artist at a time, of any discipline, over an 8- or 12-week time frame. The program includes a $1,000 stipend for every 4 weeks in residence. There is a $15 application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
August 31, 2024
Willapa Bay AiR
Willapa Bay AiR, situated on 20 acres in coastal southwest Washington state, offers month-long, self-directed residencies to emerging and established artists, filmmakers, writers, playwrights, scholars, singer/songwriters, and musical composers. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 31, 2024
Residencies at the Corning Museum of Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, hosts three residency programs: the Artist-in-Residence, the David Whitehouse Research Residency for Artists, and the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Residency.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 31, 2024
Liu Shiming Artist Grant
The Liu Shiming Art Foundation invites early career and professional artists and artist collectives to apply for a $5,000 grant to support the creation or completion of new projects. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 31, 2024
Opulent Mobility Call for Art
The Opulent Mobility call for art seeks art that reimagines disability as opulent and powerful. There is a $20 submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 31, 2024
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