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Here are the upcoming opportunities for December 2024. Best of luck!
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.
Global
December 1, 2024
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.
New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
December 1, 2024
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.
United States
December 1, 2024
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.
United States
December 1, 2024
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.
New York City
December 1, 2024
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.
United States
December 1, 2024
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.
Global
December 1, 2024
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.
Global
December 1, 2024
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.
United States
December 2, 2024 [Letter of Inquiry deadline]
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.
Global
December 2, 2024
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.
Massachusetts
December 2, 2024
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.
Global
December 2, 2024
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.
United States
December 4, 2024
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.
United States
December 4, 2024
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.
United States
December 4, 2024
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.
United States
December 9, 2024
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.
Wisconsin
December 9, 2024
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.
Oregon
December 10, 2024
Innovate Grant supports visual artists and photographers through quarterly $1,800 grants. There is a $35 application fee.
Global
December 12, 2024
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.
Queens, New York
December 12, 2024
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.
Global
December 15, 2024
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.
Global
December 15, 2024
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.
Global
December 15, 2024
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.
Global
December 16, 2024
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.
Global
December 16, 2024
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.
New York State
December 17, 2024
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.
Queens, New York
December 19, 2024
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.
Global
December 31, 2024
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.
Global
December 31, 2024
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.
Global
December 31, 2024
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.
Indiana and Florida
December 31, 2024
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