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Here are the upcoming opportunities for December 2024. Best of luck!
MLK Winter Residency
Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center's MLK Winter Residency invites artists to submit a community arts project proposal inspired by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professional and emerging visual artists, musicians, and literary artists are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 1, 2024
US4A Call for Submissions
The United States for Abortion is an abortion justice design project seeking to include design contributions from all fifty US states, as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Contributors retain the rights to their designs.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 1, 2024
New England States Touring (NEST) Grant
The New England Foundation for the Arts' NEST Grant funds performances, readings, and screenings of work by regional artists presented by New England-based nonprofit organizations. The max grant amount is $5,000.
Geographic Focus
New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
Deadline
December 1, 2024
Jazz Road Tours
South Arts' Jazz Road Tours supports three- to six-site tours at any 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.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 1, 2024
Philadelphia Stories Fiction Contest
The Philadelphia Stories Fiction Contest is a national short fiction contest that features a first place $1,000 cash award and three $250 runner-up cash awards. There is a $20 reading fee for each story submitted.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 1, 2024
Emerging Artists: Summer Group Exhibition
Smack Mellon seeks artwork submissions for a summer group exhibition exploring themes of in-betweenness, belonging, and global movement. A small stipend will be offered for participation in this exhibition.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
December 1, 2024
EFA Studio Program
The EFA Studio Program offers professional visual artists subsidized studios, curatorial visits, and a supportive community in Midtown Manhattan. Visual artists working in all forms of media are eligible.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 1, 2024
Design Writing Fellowship
Writing Space's Design Writing Fellowship encourages and facilitates scholarly pursuits within the field of design. Fellowships are open to full-time and contingent faculty in one or more of the following areas: graphic design, information design, branding, marketing, advertising, typography, web, interaction, film and video, animation, illustration, and game design. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 1, 2024
Alchemy Artist Residencies
Alchemy Art Center's Artist-in-Residence program is an opportunity to live in an immersive arts community on San Juan Island, Washington. There are three different types of residencies: the Teaching Artist Residency, the Artists in Community Artist Residency, and the Special Projects Artist Residency. Artists working in the mediums of ceramics, printmaking, fiber art, or darkroom photography are encouraged to apply. There is a $10 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 1, 2024
Venturous Capital Grant
The goal of Venturous Theater Fund's Capital Grants program is to support writers of bold, experimental, and/or large-scale new plays by giving theaters the ability to say yes to writer-drive projects that are unusually heavy lifts. Small- and medium-sized theaters with annual budgets of under $5 million are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 2, 2024 [Letter of Inquiry deadline]
Arts in Nature Artist in Residence Program
Bernheim Forest and Arboretum's Arts in Nature Artist in Residence Program awards visual artists of all mediums the opportunities to live and create works inspired by Bernheim's natural environment. One residency is dedicated to an artist currently living in Kentucky or nearby counties in Southern Indiana, and one residency is dedicated to an artist whose work addresses environmental issues and the climate crisis.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 2, 2024
Public Art for Spatial Justice
The New England Foundation for the Arts' Public Art for Spatial Justice aims to support public artmaking that helps us feel, experience, and imagine spatial justice. Massachusetts-based artists and Massachusetts-based organizations working with artists are welcome to apply. Grants range from $15,000 to $30,000.
Geographic Focus
Massachusetts
Deadline
December 2, 2024
Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research
M+'s Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research supports new research on Chinese art in dialogue with the M+ Collections in Hong Kong. The fellow will be awarded a grant of HKD 200,000 to cover all expenses, including travel, living, insurance, and research-related costs.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 2, 2024
Shubert Foundation Theatre Grant
Not-for-profit, professional theaters in the United States are the primary recipients of Shubert Foundation general operating support grants. Artistic activity, service to community, and fiscal responsibility are factored into each evaluation, as is the company's development of new work.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 4, 2024
Scholarly Editions and Translations
The National Endowment for the Humanities' Scholarly Editions and Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 4, 2024
FCA Emergency Grant
Foundation for Contemporary Arts' Emergency Grant program provides urgent funding for visual and performing artists who have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding, or who incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Grants range from $500 to $3,000.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 4, 2024
Call for Submissions for CLOG : FEES
The magazine CLOG is accepting submissions for publication in its FEES issue addressing the topic of architect fees. CLOG is interested in all forms of critique and commentary.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 6, 2024
NYS Choreographers Initiative
The NYS DanceForce's Choreographers Initiative is designed to help individual choreographers, in all genres, develop their choreographic skills by providing them with resources that include a $2,500 stipend, creative time with professional dancers, and mentor guidance.
Geographic Focus
Western New York, Central New York, Capital District/North County, and Hudson Valley/Long Island regions of New York
Deadline
December 7, 2024
Open Call for Curatorial Projects
The Latinx Project at New York University invites applicants to submit specific proposals on any theme and/or participate in a special call on "Rasquachismo in the 21st Century." Curatorial projects will be supported by a budget of up to $20,000.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 9, 2024
Lower East Side Young Artists of Color Fellowship
FABnyc's Lower East Side Young Artists of Color Fellowship supports early career artists between the ages of 18 and 26. Fellows receive a $500 stipend.
Geographic Focus
Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City
Deadline
December 9, 2024
Wisconsin Special Project Grant
Ruth Foundation for the Arts invites applications for its Special Project Grants program, awarding project funding to small and mid-size nonprofit visual and performing arts organizations situated in Wisconsin. The program provides support at $100,000 or $200,000 over two years.
Geographic Focus
Wisconsin
Deadline
December 9, 2024
Arts and Culture Rebuilding Program
Oregon Community Foundation's Arts and Culture Rebuilding Program offers funding to arts and culture organizations to rebuild and strengthen the sector through support for general operations, capacity-building, small capital projects and new or expanding programs/projects.
Geographic Focus
Oregon
Deadline
December 10, 2024
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts' Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant program provides one-time grants of up to $3,000 to professional dancers in need, who are in dire financial emergency.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 10, 2024
Innovate Grant
Innovate Grant supports visual artists and photographers through quarterly $1,800 grants. There is a $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 12, 2024
Arts Grants for Queens
Flushing Town Hall's Arts Grants for Queens program 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.
Geographic Focus
Queens, New York
Deadline
December 12, 2024
SU-CASA
The Bronx Council on the Arts' SU-CASA program connects artists with older adults in their local communities with the goal of positively impacting their well-being through multidisciplinary arts activities. The program provides selected artists with a stipend of $6,000 in exchange for creating and delivering arts programming for seniors.
Geographic Focus
Bronx, New York
Deadline
December 13, 2024
Luminary Residency
The Luminary Residency in St. Louis, Missouri, supports creative practitioners who engage with the pressing issues of our time. Artists, curators, writers, designers, educators, and arts administrators are welcome to apply. There is a $15 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 14, 2024
Folger Long-Term Fellowships
The Folger offers four long-term fellowships at $70,000, designed to support full-time scholarly work on significant research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger's collections and programs.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 15, 2024
Roman J. Witt Residency
The University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art & Design is accepting applications for the Roman J. Witt Residency, specifically themed to explore the upcoming United States Semiquincentennial. Social practice, performing, and performance artists with an interest in issues of national identity, commemorative practices and memory, and the history and future of the United States, are encouraged to apply. There is a $15 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 15, 2024
Newberry Artists-in-Residence Fellowships
Through the Artist-in-Residence program, artists and writers are able to create work that engages with the Newberry's collection. There are three different fellowships: the Jan and Frank Cicero Artist-in-Residence Fellowship for visual and performing artists, the Arthur and Lila Weinberg Artist-in-Residence Fellowship for Independent Researchers, and the Historical Fiction Writing Artist-in-Residence Fellowship.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 15, 2024
Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency
The Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (JTHAR) invites artists from around the world to create work amidst the beauty of Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. Artists selected for this program are at all stages of their careers and work in all media. There is a $45 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 15, 2024
Call for Papers: Katrina's America
Southern Cultures, the quarterly journal from the University of North Carolina's Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Katrina's America. The journal seeks scholarly articles, personal essays, interviews, photography, and art that make sense of Katrina's significance, and how its meaning has changed over time.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 16, 2024
Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellowship
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, offers seven-month residencies to 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 an application fee dependent upon the date of submission.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 16, 2024
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
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. This cycle will accept the following disciplines/categories: architecture/environmental structures/design, choreography, music/sound, photography, and playwriting/screenwriting. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
December 17, 2024
GO Queens Grant
The Flushing Town Hall GO Queens Grant program will fund Queens-based performing arts and culture organizations to support their mission and work in the community. The program awards $10,000 in unrestricted funds.
Geographic Focus
Queens, New York
Deadline
December 19, 2024
Wolfsonian Research Fellowship
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.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 31, 2024
AlterWork Residency
The AlterWork Residency program in Long Island City, New York, is designed to allow emerging contemporary artists time and space to create new work exploring their practice.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 31, 2024
Stories of Inspiration
Kinsman Quarterly seeks nonfiction essays of inspiration that highlight the struggle and resilience of the human spirit, a cultural figure and/or tradition, or celebrate an art form especially related to cultures of marginalized communities. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 31, 2024
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 31, 2024
Art in Makerpark
Makerspace NYC's Art in Makerpark program is a four-month residency that culminates in an outdoor public art piece installed at Makerpark in Staten Island, New York. Selected artists and artist teams receive a $750 materials stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
December 31, 2024
Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation Grant
The Brooks and Joan Fortune Foundation provides funds to support education, art, and outreach programs and projects. While the foundation activities have historically been located in Indiana and Florida, requests from around the country will be considered.
Geographic Focus
Indiana and Florida
Deadline
December 31, 2024
Poetry Society of America Awards
The Poetry Society of America presents a number of awards and award programs each year, including the Annual Awards, the Four Quartets Prize, and the Chapbook Fellowship.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 31, 2024
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence serves to enhance the visibility of emerging African-American fiction writers while also expanding the audience for this literature. The award consists of a $15,000 cash prize.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
December 31, 2024
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