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Here are the upcoming opportunities for February 2025. Best of luck!
Artadia Awards: Los Angeles
The Artadia Awards provide financial support of $15,000 in unrestricted funds, exposure, and recognition to contemporary visual artists. The Los Angeles Awards cycle includes a third award of $25,000.
Geographic Focus
Los Angeles, California
Deadline
February 1, 2025
Renée Fleming NeuroArts Investigator Award
The Renée Fleming NeuroArts Investigator Award supports innovative and collaborative research by early career researchers. Awards amount up to $25,000.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 1, 2025
Mophradat Open Calls
Mophradat is holding two open calls for artists from the Arab world. The Writing Sabbaticals program supports emerging creative writers working in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The Art Time Residency: Performance is a three-week residency in Belgium for a performing artist to finalize a new performance.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 1, 2025
Watershed Summer Residency
Watershed's summer residency sessions offer artists uninterrupted time to focus on their practices in its ceramics studio in Edgecomb, Maine. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 1, 2025
Wave Farm Residency and Fellowship Program
Wave Farm in Acra, New York, welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, tinkerers, and writers, from a variety of disciplines who will embrace the opportunity to create work for a terrestrial radio station that celebrates risk-taking work and prioritizes the radio medium.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 1, 2025
Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant
The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant was established so that ceramic sculpture artists or sculptors of diverse mediums may have the opportunity to devote a substantial period of time to the development of their own work. There is a $7 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 1, 2025
Under the Influence
The LUX Center for the Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska, invites artists to submit their work for an upcoming group show titled "Under the Influence," exploring the impact that artists have on one another. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 1, 2025
HCCC Residency
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) awards three-to-twelve month residencies, including 24/7 studio access, a $1,000 monthly stipend, and the opportunity to give an artist talk, to artists working with wood, glass, metal, fiber, and clay. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 1, 2025
Tikkun Olam: An Exhibition on Healing Our World
The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art at Rodeph Shalom invites artists to reflect upon and give expression to the theme of "Tikkun Olam," our duty to confront the challenges of repairing our world. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 1, 2025
Kala Residencies
Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California offers three programs that eligible artists can apply to using just one application: Fellowship, Artist-in-Residence, and Veterans Residency. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 2, 2025
Cultural Memory Lab
Gray Area's Cultural Memory Lab is an incubator empowering community-based archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural organizations to explore decentralized strategies for preserving collective memory. Selected projects receive up to $5,000 in funding.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 2, 2025
Call for Papers: Country Music's Mythology
Southern Cultures encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Country Music's Mythology. Submissions can explore any topic or theme.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 3, 2025
Temporary Street Mural on 14th Street in Union Square
Union Square Partnership is seeking a professional working artist to design and install a temporary street mural on 14th Street between University Place and Broadway in Manhattan, New York.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
February 3, 2025
Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship: Visual Art
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, offers seven-month residencies to emerging visual artists. The program includes housing and a studio, a monthly stipend of $1,250, and an exit stipend of $1,000. There is a $65 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 3, 2025
AIRIE Residency
AIRIE's residency program provides artists the opportunity to live and work inside Everglades National Park. The program includes a $4,000 fellowship grant, a one-month residency, and a $1,500 travel/food stipend. There is a $20 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 3, 2025
Café Royal Visual Grant
Café Royal Cultural Foundation will award an exhibition/project grant of up to $10,000 to New York City artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs. Artists in all genres of visual arts are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
February 3, 2025
New America Fellows Program
New America's Fellows Program invests in thinkers—journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts—who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 3, 2025
Native American Library Services: Basic Grants
The Institute of Museum and Library Services' Native American Basic Grants program assists Native American Tribes in establishing, sustaining, and improving library services and operations within their communities.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 4, 2025
Cultural Sustainability
Open to arts nonprofit organizations, fiscally sponsored groups, private entities, and state/federally recognized tribes, South Arts' Cultural Sustainability program offers general operating funds to organizations rooted in communities of color.
Geographic Focus
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Deadline
February 5, 2025
The Mudflat Cup Show
Artists are invited to submit functional mugs and cups to the Mudflat Cup Show in Somerville, Massachusetts. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
United States and Canada
Deadline
February 5, 2025
Accessibility Grant
South Arts offers micro-funding to supplement the efforts of arts organizations throughout the Southeast to include audiences and artists with disabilities.
Geographic Focus
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Deadline
February 7, 2025
Community Leaders Grant
CitizensNYC awards microgrants of up to $5,000 to community-building projects carried out by resident-led groups to improve neighborhood life, strengthen local leadership, and scale community partnerships.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
February 7, 2025
Artist Entrepreneurial Grant
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts' Artist Entrepreneurial Grant program 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
February 7, 2025
Cole Fellowship
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is now accepting applications for the Cole Fellowship, a one-year residential fellowship. Fellows participate in the research and interpretation of the artist's work, home, studios, landscape, and the continued relevance of the Site today. Fellows receive free on-site housing and a $700 monthly stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 7, 2025
Etant donnés
Albertine Foundation's Etant donnés program focuses on introducing French and American visual artists whose works have rarely, if ever, been shown in the United States or in France. The program consists of two directions: creative grants to support nonprofit institutions to organize exhibition or production projects, and curatorial fellowships to assist American curators who wish to conduct research in France.
Geographic Focus
United States and France
Deadline
February 8, 2025
MacDowell Fellowship
A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and meals for up to six weeks. Applications are accepted from artists working in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theater, and visual arts. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 10, 2025
Mother's Milk Residency
Mother's Milk in Newton, Kansas, is a 2, 4, or 6 week interdisciplinary residency designed to support visual artists, composers/sound artists, creative writers, dancers/choreographers, and other creatives. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 10, 2025
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, due to the loss or lack of recent/current live performance work because of circumstances outside their control.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 11, 2025
Grants for Arts Projects
The National Endowment for the Arts' Grants for Arts Projects program provides funding for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 13, 2025
New Voices Filmmaker Grant
NewFest's New Voices Filmmaker Grant supports emerging LGBTQ+ directors by providing $25,000 in funding to make new work, assisting in getting their work more widely shared, and propelling their careers forward through mentorship, networking, and professional development opportunities.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 13, 2025
Furious Flower Poetry Prize
James Madison University's Furious Flower Poetry Center invites submissions from emerging writers for its annual poetry prize. Poets with no more than one published book are invited to submit up to three poems for consideration. There is a $15 submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 15, 2025
Keyholder Residency
Lower East Side Printshop's Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. The program includes a $1,000 stipend. Artists from all disciplines are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 15, 2025
CLBS Indigenous Writer in Residence
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry's Cranberry Lake Biological Station Writer in Residence program seeks to provide Indigenous writers with the space, time, and place to explore their creative endeavors. The three-week residency takes place in Adirondack Park and includes housing, meals, a workspace, and a $1,000 travel stipend.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 15, 2025
Forge Project Fellowship
The Forge Project Fellowship for Indigenous artists, scholars, organizers, cultural workers, researchers, and educators is now accepting applications. Fellows receive $25,000 toward their practice.
Geographic Focus
United States and Canada
Deadline
February 15, 2025
Long Meadow Art Residency
Long Meadow Art Residency in the Berkshires offers a solo residency designed to provide artists with uninterrupted time to engage with their practice. The program a $3,000 monthly stipend and a supply budget of up to $2,500. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 15, 2025
Cannonball Arts Open Call
Cannonball Arts seeks submissions and proposals from West Coast artists and curators across mediums and disciplines. There are eight prompts: Elevator Installation, Curated Group Exhibitions, Mini Fridge Sculptures, Electronics Department, Indigenous Canoe Carving, Figure Drawing Models, Garden of Letters and Confessions, and K12 Contemporary.
Geographic Focus
West Coast
Deadline
February 15, 2025
Edward T. Cone Composition Institute
The New Jersey Symphony is accepting applications for the Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, a tuition-free opportunity in Princeton, New Jersey, designed to promote contemporary orchestral music by enhancing the careers of four emerging composers.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 16, 2025
Anderson Ranch Artists-in-Residence Program
Anderson Ranch's Artists-in-Residence Program fosters creative, intellectual, and professional growth for emerging and established visual artists. Residencies are offered in ceramics, new media, photography, furniture design, woodworking, painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Artists with families can apply to the Parent Artist-in-Residence Program. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 17, 2025
BAC Emerging Artist Fellowship
Bethany Arts Community's Emerging Artist Fellowship is designed to offer a creative home in Ossining, New York, to emerging artists as they transition and deepen their professional careers and artistic practice. The 16-week program includes a $250 weekly stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 19, 2025
CUNY Dance Initiative
New York City choreographers and dance companies are invited to apply for residencies via the CUNY Dance Initiative. The program includes minimums of 25 hours of rehearsal space, $1,000 in residency honorarium, and $3,000 in performance fee.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
February 20, 2025
Asian Women Giving Circle Request for Proposals
The Asian Women Giving Circle is reviewing proposals for projects led by Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) women or gender-expansive people that incorporate the arts and demonstrate a commitment to New York City-based communities. 501(c)(3) organizations and individual artists are eligible to apply, and all artistic disciplines will be considered.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
February 21, 2025
ON::VIEW Artist Residency
ARTS Southeast's ON::VIEW Artist Residency in Savannah, Georgia, provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist working in any medium. There is a $50 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 23, 2025
ArtsCONNECT
Mid Atlantic Arts' ArtsCONNECT program supports performing arts touring projects collaboratively developed by presenters working together in the mid-Atlantic region.
Geographic Focus
Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Virginia, and West Virginia
Deadline
February 25, 2025
Bader + Simon Empowerment Grant
The Bader + Simon Empowerment Grant awards a one-time stipend of $7,500 to US-based individuals and emerging artists without higher education and extensive exhibition experience.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 25, 2025
Early Career Banff Artist in Residence
The Early Career Banff Artist in Residence program in Alberta, Canada, is open to visual artists and curators working in all visual arts mediums. The program combines the artistic freedom of a self-directed residency with the benefits of technical and faculty support. There is a $65 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 26, 2025
USArtists International
Mid Atlantic Arts' USArtists International program supports in-person performances by artists from any state or territory in the US at engagements at international festivals, global presenting arts markets, and other eligible engagements outside of the US. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 26, 2025
Winds of Asia Award
Kinsman Quarterly's upcoming anthology, Winds of Asia, seeks Asian authors and poets to submit original, unpublished work for prizes up to $500. Submissions should feature themes related to Asian/Southeast Asian culture or subculture.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 28, 2025
AOOA Farm Artist in Residence Program
All One One All (AOOA) Farm in Goshen, New York, invites artists to apply for its Artist in Residence Program. All identities, talents, and abilities are encouraged to apply.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 28, 2025
Rubin Foundation Curatorial Open Call
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation's open call gives curators, academics, and art historians a platform to stage an exhibition at its gallery and event space in New York City. The selected curator will receive an honorarium of $3,000 for their work on the exhibition and $2,000 for their essay in the accompanying catalog. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
February 28, 2025
Arts/Industry
The John Michael Kohler Art Center's Arts/Industry program selects up to twelve artists from all disciplines for residencies in the Pottery or Foundry areas of the Kohler Co. factory in Kohler, Wisconsin. Residents receive a weekly stipend of $160.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
February 28, 2025
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