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Here are the upcoming opportunities for December 2023. Best of luck!
Writing Space’s Design Writing Fellowship is a program to encourage and facilitate scholarly pursuits within the field of design. During the three-day workshop, participants will work on a book or exhibition review, journal article, or book proposal. There is no fee to apply.
Global
December 1, 2023
The Puffin Foundation is accepting new proposals in fine arts, photography, music, and projects in any artistic genre focused on environmental activism for its Annual Artist Grant Program. Average grants are approximately $1,250.
United States
December 1, 2023 [Request for Application]
Located in Savannah, Georgia, at ARTS Southeast's flagship project, Sulfur Studios, the ON:VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. Artists working in all media are encouraged to apply. There is a $50 application fee.
Global
December 1, 2023
Alchemy Art Center's Artist-in-Residence program is an opportunity to live in an immersive arts community on San Juan Island, Washington, and have focused time to create art. The Teaching Artist Residency is a shoulder-season residency for artists who specialize in one of Alchemy's primary studio practices: ceramics, printmaking, or darkroom photography. The Artists in Community Artist Residency occurs during the summer months, when Alchemy is most active in the community. The Special Projects Artist Residency is for artists who are interested in developing a special project that will remain at Alchemy after they leave.
Global
December 1, 2023
The New England Foundation for the Arts' NEST Grant funds nonprofit organizations to present touring artists in venues across New England. Grants provide up to 60% of the artist fee and range from $500 to a maximum of $5,000.
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
December 1, 2023
Bloodletter encourages female and nonbinary writers of all disciplines to submit work that offers a feminist perspective on the horror genre, or more broadly, the horrific. The theme of this issue is: Phantoms. Additionally, one female or nonbinary artist will be selected to illustrate each issue. Featured artists will receive a $250 stipend.
Global
December 1, 2023
The Puffin Foundation Artist Grant program is accepting new proposals in fine arts, photography, music, and projects in any artistic genre focused on environmental activism. Average grants are approximately $1,250, with the maximum grant size being $2,500.
United States
December 1, 2023
Artists, curators, designers, researchers, writers, and architects are welcome to apply for an 11-month residency at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. Participants receive a monthly stipend of €1,000 and a working budget of €2,000 annually. There is a €65 (excl. VAT) application fee.
Global
December 1, 2023
The Mesa Refuge residency is an opportunity to develop ideas and present them to the public. Priority is given to writers focusing on nature, the human economy, and social equity. There is a $50 application fee.
Global
December 1, 2023
South Arts’ Jazz Road Tours supports small, three- to six-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. Grant amounts generally range from $5,000 to $15,000. Professional jazz artists, working solo or working with a composer-led or collective jazz ensemble, are eligible to apply.
United States
December 1, 2023
The Met is offering two fellowships with application deadlines this month: the Conservation Fellowship and Scientific Research Fellowship; and the Research Scholarship in Photograph Conservation.
Global
December 1, 2023
The Critical Design Lab at Vanderbilt University is seeking two community fellows to work on a collaborative project, Labs for Liberation. Qualified candidates are activists, artists, designers, cultural workers, access workers, and community scholars who do not necessarily have a formal academic affiliation. Compensation is $50,000 as well as an additional project budget.
United States
December 1, 2023
The Woodward Residency in Ridgewood, New York, invites established/emerging artists and creative professionals in the fields of literary arts, visual arts, design, music, architecture, multi-disciplinary and other arts to apply for a guest residency.
Global
December 1, 2023
SFFILM Festival's final deadline for youth works, mid-length, and feature films is this month. General entry fees for feature films are $90, with a $10 discount available to Bay Area residents and college students; fees for mid-length films are $80, with a $10 discount for Bay Area residents and college students. There is no entry fee for youth works.
Bay Area, California
December 1, 2023
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program provides visual artists with space, support, and community. Participants receive a private studio in Midtown Manhattan, New York, for a period of up to two years that is subsidized at below market cost. Visual artists working in all forms for media are eligible.
United States
December 1, 2023
The New York Foundation for the Arts’ Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $3,000 to eligible dancers facing dire financial emergencies, due to the loss or lack of recent/current live performance work, because of circumstances outside of their control.
United States
December 1, 2023
Atlantic Center for the Arts’ residency program features three mentoring artists in different disciplines. The program includes studio time, advising, group discussions, critiques, and voluntary collaborations. Sculptor/visual artist Sonja Henderson, poet/writer Crystal Wilkinson, and composer/media artist Pamela Z will be the mentors for this cycle.
Global
December 3, 2023
Foundation House, located in back country Greenwich, Connecticut, will open its doors for 10 days to six residents of all disciplines. Each resident will be given a stipend, private bedroom and bathroom, all meals plus full kitchen access, and access to studio space, a wide variety of common areas, and 75 acres of land to explore.
Global
December 3, 2023
The Morgan Drawing Institute and the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, will award on research fellowship of three to nine months to support independent projects on some aspect of the history, theory, interpretation, or cultural meaning of drawing throughout the history of art. A monthly stipend, commensurate with experience, will be provided.
Global
December 3, 2023
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is searching for emerging or established researchers and cultural presenters to work with the Foundation to realize their pre-existing and as-yet unrealized exhibition concept. The selected curator will be given an honorarium of $3,000 for their work on the exhibition and $2,000 for their essay in the accompanying catalog.
United States
December 3, 2023
The New England Foundation for the Arts’ Public Art for Spatial Justice program supports public art that creatively expresses and embodies a more just version of what’s possible in public. Massachusetts-based artists and Massachusetts-based organizations working with artists are welcome to apply for a project grant. Grants range from $15,000-$30,000. All artistic disciplines are welcome to apply.
Massachusetts
December 4, 2023
Rhode Island School of Design's Movement Lab Fellowship offers post-graduate artists and scholars the opportunity to focus on independent creative research that advances the study of movement into uncharted territory. The fellowship is a 10-month, on-campus program with salary, benefits, and additional compensation for teaching commitments.
Global
December 4, 2023
The Bronx Council on the Arts' SU-CASA initiative connects artists with seniors in their local Bronx communities. Individual artists-in-residence will receive a $6,000 stipend, an additional $2,000 materials/supplies budget, and access to materials and supplies from Materials for the Arts.
Bronx, New York
December 4, 2023
Not-for-profit, professional theaters in the United States are the primary recipients of Shubert Foundation general operating support grants. The foundation provides grants only to professional organizations that have an established track record as well as a history of fiscal responsibility.
United States
December 5, 2023
Center for Craft's Craft Archive Fellowship will foster archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the United States, such as feminist, intersectional, queer, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and other communities and approaches that may not be specifically listed here.
United States
December 6, 2023
The National Parks Arts Foundation's Chaco Culture National Historical Park Artist in Residence program in Northwestern New Mexico consists of 10+ ancient village complexes nestled in a long valley of cliffs and buttes. The program is open to artists of all artistic media and includes a $2,000 stipend.
Global
December 7, 2023
Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State is offering three residency programs this month. The Better Together Annual Residency will host a cohort of six professional BIPOC artists who will make their own work, explore new directions in glassmaking, and expand on current bodies of work. The John H. Hauberg Fellowship Residency offers an opportunity for collaboration among a group of three to six established professional artists. The Innovation in Image Residency offers supported access for two image-based artists to come and explore the potential of Pilchuck's Digital Imaging Lab and adjacent Print Studio. There is no application fee.
Global
December 8, 2023
The Center for Art & Advocacy's Right of Return Fellowship offers an annual award of $10,000 in unrestricted funds and $10,000 in project development funds to previously incarcerated artists of any discipline. The Frieze Impact Prize will be awarded to a visual artist or experimental filmmaker who is either a Right of Return alumnus or one of the six new fellows.
United States
December 10, 2023
The Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs' Cultural Competitive and Emerging Film Festival Grant program supports community arts organizations, including collectives, by providing funds toward executing and promoting cultural arts programs open to the public.
Suffolk County, New York
December 11, 2023
Flushing Town Hall's Arts Grants for Queens programs will fund artists and arts organizations based in Queens, New York, to produce arts and culture projects to be presented in the borough in order to enrich and enliven the community. The Queens Community Arts Grant for organizations awards $1,000 - $5,000 per project. The Artists in Queens Grant for individuals awards $2,500 per artist.
Queens, New York
December 12, 2023
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is an $8,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Tribal Nations located therein. The categories for this cycle are: fiction, folk/traditional arts, interdisciplinary work, painting, and video/film. Applicants must be 25 years or older. There is no application fee.
New York State
December 13, 2023
The Newberry offers various short-term fellowships this month. Researchers spend one to two months investigating specific collection items that are essential to their scholarship.
Global
December 15, 2023
The National Parks Arts Foundation's residency program at the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is open to all artists, writers, musicians, and performance artists. The program includes a $4,000 stipend. Single artists, couples, groups and families are welcome to apply.
Global
December 15, 2023
The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize promotes and financially supports contemporary artists by offering them the opportunity to create a new, site-specific artwork. This cycle's theme is Care.
Global
December 15, 2023
Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks seeks an early career postdoctoral fellow in environmental history with a research focus on race, indigeneity, and/or settler colonialism as revealed in place and on land. This is a one-year fellowship, with the possibility of renewal for up to two additional years. The fellowship carries a stipend of $65,000 per year with an additional $1,000 annual, taxable research allowance.
Global
December 15, 2023
The WNC Center for Craft Artist Residency will provide two Western North Carolina based visual artists working in craft with time, space, and resources to tend to their artistic practices. Each resident will receive a $10,000 honorarium, a $2,000 materials/professional development stipend, and daily access to studio space. There is a $10 application fee.
Western North Carolina
December 15, 2023
Sundog Theatre in New York City is seeking one-act plays for “Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry.” This year’s theme is Things Are Not What They Seem. Selected writers each receive $200. There is no submission fee.
New York City
December 15, 2023
The Folger Institute offers five, long-term fellowships at $70,000 for the academic year. These fellowships are designed to support full-time scholarly work on significant research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs.
Global
December 15, 2023
The Fine Arts Work Center offers seven-month residencies to a juried group of emerging fiction writers and poets. Each fellow receives an apartment and a monthly stipend of $1,250 plus an exit stipend of $1,000. There is a $65 application fee during the month of December.
Global
December 15, 2023
Aviário Studio Artist Book Residency aims to promote the exploration and production in the Artist Book field. The program is customized according to each artist's goals regarding duration, outcome, and focus.
Global
December 17, 2023
The MAP Fund invests in artistic production as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. Each grantee will receive: a $25,000 grant for the creation and development of a new, live performance project, a $5,000 unrestricted general operating grant, and a $1,000 microgrant to redistribute to another artist in their community.
United States
December 19, 2023
The Bronx Council on the Arts’ program Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) provides direct support to individual Bronx artists who create works in literary, media, visual, and performing arts with awards of $5,000.
Bronx, New York
December 26, 2023
Aviário Studio Multidisciplinary Residency aims to promote exploration and production in the visual arts. Artists can develop projects using a medium or a combination of technologies.
Global
December 31, 2023
The Wolfsonian Research Fellowship program supports projects in a variety of academic fields to promote independent scholarship on subjects and items found in Wolfsonian holdings. The program is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph. D. candidates, and others with a significant record of professional achievement in relevant fields.
Global
December 31, 2023
The Poetry Society of America presents a number of awards and award programs each year. The Annual Awards offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. The Chapbook Fellowship program publishes each winner’s work as a chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences.
United States
December 31, 2023
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