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Here are the upcoming opportunities for January 2024. Best of luck!
NOT REAL ART Grant for Artists
The NOT REAL ART Grant for Artists is an annual award designed to empower the practice of six contemporary artists, each of whom receive $2,000. Eligible applicants must be a practicing visual artist in a two or three dimensional medium.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 1, 2024
Art Omi Residencies
Art Omi has two residency programs that are currently accepting applications. Art Omi: Dance brings together ten dance artists for three weeks of creative exchange. Art Omi: Music invites approximately a dozen musicians and composers to come together for two and a half weeks for a collaborative music making residency. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 2, 2024
FASPE Fellowships
Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) offers fellowships to students pursuing professional degrees in journalism and design & technology, as well as to early-career professionals in these fields.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 2, 2024
Skowhegan Summer Residency
Skowhegan offers artists the opportunity to engage fully with their studio practice, with their peers, and with faculty and mentors in its nine-week intensive and residential program. Artists working in any media are eligible to apply. A one-time application fee amount is determined by the date of application submission.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 5, 2024
Aviário Studio Printmaking Residency
The Aviário Studio Printmaking Residency aims to promote the exploration and production in the printmaking field. Artists can develop projects using a wide range of techniques, from relief to intaglio, screen printing, transfer, and monotype, among others. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 7, 2024
MAD Artist Studios
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Artists Studios program invites museum visitors to ask questions, view works in progress, and gain firsthand exposure to the creative process of resident artists and designers working on site at the Museum. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 7, 2024
Saltonstall Residency
Saltonstall offers free residencies to artists and writers who are year-round residents of New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations location therein. Program categories include: poetry; fiction & creative nonfiction; photographer (film or digital) & filmmaking; and painting, sculpture & visual arts. The program includes a $100/wk stipend, plus additional stipend support based on financial need. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
January 7, 2024
What Can We Do?
What Can We Do?, presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4), is a grant opportunity for artists looking to support the Asian and AAPI communities in NYC with engaging, creative projects rooted in care. Each artist will receive $1,500 to create and carry out ideas to engage, aid, and care for the Asian New Yorker community with a focus on Chinatown, Manhattan; Flushing, Queens; and Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
January 7, 2024
Tusen Takk Visual Arts Residency
The Tusen Takk Visual Arts Residency in Leland, Michigan, includes a $625/week honorarium, housing, and 24/7 access to the studios. There is a $20 application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 7, 2024
UCLA Film & Television Archive Artist-in-Residence
The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Artist-in-Residence program will host an emerging artist for two weeks to activate the Archive's collection in their artistic practice. The program includes an honorarium of $8,000.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 8, 2023
Urban Video Project (UVP) Residential Commission
Light Work's UVP Open Commission is an opportunity for media artists to come to Syracuse, New York, and make new video/electronic work for public exhibition on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art. Commission artists are in-residence for 2-4 consecutive weeks and receive a commission fee of $10,000. There is a $10 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 8, 2024
OCF Community Grants Program
The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) Community Grants Program aims to provide equitable access to flexible funding for organizations serving communities’ most pressing needs throughout Oregon. Funding for this upcoming spring cycle will prioritize small rural organizations, culturally specific organizations, and culturally responsive organizations.
Geographic Focus
Oregon
Deadline
January 8, 2024
Loeb Fellowship
The Loeb Fellowship is designed for civic leaders, journalists, architects, technologists, urban planners and designers, activists, landscape architects, policy makers, and public artists. The program is for people in mid-career, with a minimum of 5-10 years of experience in the field. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 8, 2024
Good Hart Artist Residency
The Good Hart Artist Residency offers 10-21 day residency stays to visual artists, writers, and composers at any stage of their career. Each artist is housed in a private residence with a detached studio and provided with a $500 stipend in a quiet setting along the shores of Lake Michigan. Parent artists can apply for a childcare grant of $1,000. An additional residency opportunity, Lakeshore Writer Friends, welcomes two writer friends to the same property. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 8, 2024
Anderson Center Residencies
The Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, Minnesota, provides residencies of two to four weeks’ duration from May through October each year to enable artists, writers, musicians, and performers to create, advance, or complete work. The program supports artists representing a wide range of disciplines. Residencies include the Artist Residency Program ($30 application fee), the Deaf Artists Residency Program (no application fee), and the Early Career Artist Residency Program (no application fee).
Geographic Focus
Global [Artist Residency Program]
United States [Deaf Artist Residency Program]
Minnesota and New York City [Early Career Artist Residency Program]
Deadline
January 9, 2024
Lower East Side Young Artists of Color Fellowship
FABnyc's Lower East Side (LES) Young Artists of Color Fellowship invites artists of any discipline to apply. Each fellow will receive a $500 stipend.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
January 9, 2024
NEA Big Read
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read is a program, in partnership with Arts Midwest, that awards grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 to organizations. These grants support community reading programs around a single book. Programming for this grant cycle will center around the theme WHERE WE LIVE.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 10, 2024 [Intent to Apply]
Banff Artist in Residence
The Banff Artist in Residence program is designed for visual artists to focus on their practice in a supportive learning environment. Visual artists who have completed formal education or training at the post-secondary level, or who have equivalent experience and recognition from their peers, are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 10, 2024
Yaddo Residency
Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists 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
January 10, 2024
Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency
The Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (JTHAR) at Joshua Tree National Park is a nonprofit artist residency that fosters creativity through opportunities for exploring, experimenting, quiet reflection, engagement, and cross-cultural exchange with the local artist community. Artists selected are at all stages of their careers and work in all media. There is a $45 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 10, 2024
Pilchuck Glass School Programs
Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, has two artist opportunities this month. The Emerging Artist in Residence program supports knowledgeable artists who are making a transition in their professional lives, providing space and the time to develop an idea, project, or new body of work in glass. The Pilchuck Fellowship Program is a professional development and educational program designed to serve as a stepping stone for emerging artists who are struggling to take that first step in their career.
Geographic Focus
Global [Emerging Artist in Residence]
United States [Pilchuck Fellowship Program]
Deadline
January 12, 2024
Earth & Fire
Stifel Fine Arts Center of Oglebay Institute is holding an open call for its national exhibition of ceramic art, open to visual artists 18 years and older residing and working in the United States. There is a $35 entry fee for up to two works.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 12, 2024
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts’ Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 12, 2024
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
The National Endowment for the Humanities aims to preserve humanities collections for future generations through environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies to reduce energy consumption and costs as well as to strengthen institutional resiliency in the face of a changing climate. Three levels of funding are available for institutions, determined by size and goal.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 12, 2024
Make-a-Mag
Make-a-Mag is a contest by Hemlock Printers and Paper Chase Press that will award one winner the chance to launch their magazine idea with a first print run of 250 copies provided free of charge. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 12, 2024
Longwood Art Gallery Open Calls for Artists and Curators
The Bronx Council on the Arts invites Bronx artists and NYC-based curators to submit their proposals for the Longwood Art Gallery exhibition season. This season's theme is The World We Want to Live In.
Geographic Focus
Bronx, New York [Open Call for Artists]
New York City [Open Call for Curators]
Deadline
January 14, 2024
Mentor Artist-in-Residence
Atlantic Center for the Arts’ Mentor Artist-in-Residence program is a three-week, process-based interdisciplinary residency program that provides artists with an opportunity to be mentored by, work and collaborate with distinguished artists in literary, performing, visual arts, environmental arts and social practice. This cycle’s mentors are painter Angela Dufresne, composer/musician Kahil El’Zabar, and performance maker Okwui Okpokwasili. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 14, 2024
Monson Arts Residency
Monson Arts' residency program supports emerging and established visual artists and writers by providing 2-week and 4-week residencies at the edge of Maine's North Woods. The program includes a $1,000 stipend ($500 for 2-week programs, including the Abbott Watts Residency for Photography). There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program
The StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (TIMA) offers residency opportunities to visual artists to deepen and develop their practice within a community setting. Residencies include a financial stipend, housing, access to museum and research collections, and can include access to printmaking/letterpress equipment. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Curatorial Research Fellowships
Independent Curators International (ICI) is accepting fellows as part of four fellowship opportunities: for curators of African descent based anywhere in the world, for BIPOC curators based in the U.S., the Indigenous Curatorial Research Fellowship, and the Mississippi River Basin Curatorial Research Fellowship. All fellowships include $10,000 in financial support.
Geographic Focus
Global [for curators of African descent based anywhere in the world]
United States [for BIPOC curators based in the U.S., Indigenous Curatorial Research Fellowship, Mississippi River Basin Curatorial Research Fellowship]
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Black Rock Senegal
Black Rock Senegal is a multidisciplinary artist-in-residence program that brings together international artists to live and work in Dakar, Senegal, for 1 to 3 month stays. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
ArtsLink International Fellowship
The ArtsLink International Fellowships program supports pioneering artists, curators, and arts leaders from CEC ArtsLink's network countries in developing their community-engaged practices in the U.S. and transnationally. The multi-phase fellowship offers an online research residency and supports a subsequent in-person immersive residency in the U.S., which may result in a follow-up project in the artist's home country.
Geographic Focus
Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
Deadline
January 15, 2024 [Letter of Inquiry]
ChaNorth International Writers & Artists-in-Residence
ChaNorth, Chashama's international upstate artist residency in Pine Plains, New York, offers the opportunity for emerging and mid-career artists to work and live in the Hudson Valley for four weeks. ChaNorth accepts applications in all creative fields. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Ucross Residencies
Ucross Foundation in Sheridan, Wyoming, is accepting applications for two residency programs. The Ucross Residency ranges from two to six weeks, with up to ten residents at a time, typically four writers, four visual artists, and two composers. The Ford Family Foundation Fellowship at Ucross is dedicated to mid-career visual artists from Oregon. There is a $40 application for each program.
Geographic Focus
Global [Ucross Residency]
Oregon [Ford Family Foundation Fellowship]
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Kala Artist-in-Residence Program
Artists working in various printmaking techniques, photo processes, book arts, and digital media including video production can apply to Kala's Artist-in-Residence Program in Berkeley, California. There is a $10 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
The Luminary Residency
The Luminary Residency will provide two cohorts of individuals, small collectives, and collaborations with the space and time to rest, reflect, and relate around a line of inquiry. The program welcomes creative practitioners of all backgrounds. There is a $15 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residency
UC Davis is inviting applications for two visiting professors in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies. Artists who work in all disciplines, traditional or non-traditional, are encouraged to apply. Applicants must have a minimum of three years teaching experience at the university level. The program provides funding for salary and benefits, as well as travel and academic creative enrichment funds.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Saltonstall x Circus Culture Hupstate Residency
The Saltonstall x Circus Culture Hupstate Residency is an all-expenses paid opportunity for individual circus artists. It is designed to provide a spacious environment for the development of the circus arts in New York State and/or Indian Nations based therein.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowship
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships are open to all artists whose work would benefit from significant primary research related to the histories, concepts, art, and objects of the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and its legacies. Applicants may apply for one, two, or three months of research support, with a stipend of $4,000 per month.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) for Artists
For individual New York-based artists, Wave Farm's Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Applicants may apply for up to $7,500.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Sculpture Space Residency
Sculpture Space, located in Utica, New York, invites artists whose focus is sculpture to apply for a two-month residency. The program includes a $750 stipend to offset travel and expenses. There is an application/administration fee of $35.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
VCCA Residency at Mt. San Angelo
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts' Mt. San Angelo location in Amherst encourages applications from emerging and established artists in the following disciplines: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting and screenwriting, performance, film and video, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, music composition, and cross-disciplinary art. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
ZEKE Awards
Social Documentary Network (SDN) will be giving two ZEKE Awards: the ZEKE Award for Systemic Change and the ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography. Each awardee will receive $2,500. Professional and amateur photographers are eligible to enter. The entry fee is $25 through December 31, 2023, and $30 from January 1, 2024 through the deadline.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Hambidge Residency
The Hambidge Center in north Georgia provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent. Creative professionals of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Science History Institute Fellowships
The Science History Institute offers a variety of fellowships: curatorial fellowships, the NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship, postdoctoral research fellowships, dissertation fellowships, and short-term and distinguished fellowships.
Geographic Focus
United States [curatorial and NEH Postdoctoral fellowships]
Global [all other fellowships]
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Kundiman Retreat
In order to mentor and build community among AAPI writers, Kundiman sponsors an annual retreat in partnership with Fordham University in NYC. Anyone who self-identifies as AAPI can apply to the five-day retreat as a poet or a fiction writer.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2024
Emerging Leaders Program
New York Foundation for the Art's Emerging Leaders Program is a free year-long program that provides leadership training for manager-level arts administrators. Participants working in all disciplines are invited to apply.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
January 16, 2024
Van Lier Artist of Color Fellowship
The Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellowship program provides year-long creative research support, rehearsal space, mentorship, performance and related opportunities designed to support the individualized creative process of movement-based artists. NYC-based artists of color between 22 and 30 years of age are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
January 16, 2024
Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant is available to individual painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have worked in a mature phase of art for twenty years or more.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 17, 2024
Creative Forces
Mid-America Arts Alliance's Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant program aims to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military service members and veterans exposed to trauma as well as their families and caregivers through the experiences of art or art making. These grants are available to nonprofit organizations and state/local/tribal government entities that have at least three-years experience in presenting/producing arts-based projects and/or programming for military communities.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 17, 2024
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, offers three months of rent-free and utility-paid housing to people who specialize in the creative arts. Applications are accepted from painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, screenwriters, composers, photographers, and filmmakers. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 18, 2024
ArtsHERE
The U.S. Regional Arts Organizations' ArtsHERE initiative invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming, with the goal of increasing arts participation for underserved groups/communities, and sharing insights that may inform similar funding programs in the future.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 19, 2024 [Statement of Interest]
Montello Foundation Residency
The artist retreat at the Montello Foundation in Nevada aims to provide a new perspective for residents' work and give residents space and time for undisturbed experimentation and reflection for two weeks. Visual artists and curators are encouraged to apply. There is a $20 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 22, 2024
Wisconsin Special Project Grant
Ruth Arts' Wisconsin Special Project Grant is exclusively offered to Wisconsin arts and culture organizations with operating budgets under $2 million. This new initiative will award either $100,000 or $200,000 over two years. Small and mid-size nonprofit visual arts, performing arts, and arts education organizations, including Tribal Nations, are welcome to apply.
Geographic Focus
Wisconsin
Deadline
January 23, 2024
Shakespeare in American Communities
Arts Midwest's Shakespeare in American Communities is a theater program that provides grants to theater companies that produce Shakespeare's works in middle schools, high schools, and juvenile justice facilities throughout the United States.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 25, 2024 [Intent to Apply]
Charlton Oral History Research Grant
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites individual scholars with training and experience in oral history research who are conducting oral history interviews to apply for support of up to $3,000 for one year.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 26, 2024
En Foco Media Arts Fund: Work in Progress
En Foco's Media Arts Fund: Work in Progress Initiative is a grant to support New York City-based, early-career artists of color who engage with digital media technologies in their art-making processes. These $2,000 awards will focus on applicants needing support for the completion of a quality work in progress.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
January 27, 2024
Virginia Humanities Rapid Grant
The Virginia Humanities Rapid Grant awards up to $5,000 to support projects that explore the stories of Virginia as well as issues and questions that impact the lives of Virginians in the present day. Organizations with up-to-date nonprofit status are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
Virginia
Deadline
January 31, 2024
Humanities Policy Fellowship for Humanities, Arts, and Culture
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Policy Fellowship provides an opportunity for recent PhDs with training in the humanities or humanistic social sciences to learn about a career in public policy and administration.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 31, 2024
Staten Island Arts Fall Project Grants
Through Staten Island Arts' grants process, individual artists, art collectives, and small-budget nonprofit organizations are eligible to receive funding for cultural activities. Funding is available for artists who are both Staten Island residents and creating projects on Staten Island during the year grants are issued.
Geographic Focus
Staten Island, New York
Deadline
January 31, 2024
Hayama Artist Residency
The mission of Hayama Artist Residency is to introduce visual artists from around the world, working in any medium, to Japanese culture and offer them an opportunity to have their first gallery exhibition in Japan. Residents receive a week allotment of $200 for meals and local transportation. There is a $95 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 31, 2024
Just Tech Fellowship
The Social Science Research Council's Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures. Fellows receive two-year awards of $100,000 annually.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 31, 2024
Recharge New Surrealist Prize
New York Foundation for the Arts' Recharge New Surrealist Prize is a $7,000 award for painters who are working in the New Surrealist Style and living in the United States and/or US Territories.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 31, 2024
South Arts Opportunities
South Arts offers two opportunities with deadlines at the end of the month. The In These Mountains Infrastructure Grant supports organizations that promote sharing, teaching, learning, preserving, documenting, and supporting the continuity of the folk arts and traditional culture of Central Appalachia. Southern Circuit is a filmmaker touring program accepting film subimssions to tour and screen across South Arts' nine-state region for approximately two weeks.
Geographic Focus
Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee [In These Mountains]
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee [Southern Circuit]
Deadline
January 31, 2024
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