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Here are the upcoming opportunities for January 2025. Best of luck!
BICA Microgrant
The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (BICA) Microgrant is a $300 good-faith grant for artists and curators who are realizing a project in the greater Buffalo, New York area.
Geographic Focus
Buffalo, New York
Deadline
January 1, 2025
CCP Artist-in-Residence Program
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking's Artist-in-Residence Program offers artists the opportunity to produce a body of work in a supportive atmosphere using traditional as well as innovative printmaking techniques. There is a $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 1, 2025
Art Omi Residencies: Dance and Music
Art Omi in Columbia County, New York, offers residencies in dance and music. Art Omi: Dance brings together ten dance artists for three weeks of creative exchange. Art Omi: Music invites a dozen musicians and composers for two and a half weeks. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 2, 2025
FASPE Fellowships
Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) awards fellowships to graduate students and early-career professional in various categories, including Design & Technology and Journalism.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 2, 2025
Artists & Mothers Grant
Artists & Mothers is committed to supporting New York City-based artists who identify as mothers with children under the age of three with grants for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses. Visual artists, performing artists, and artists practicing in socially-engaged forms are invited to apply.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
January 2, 2025
Smith College Special Collections Research Fellowships
Smith College Special Collections is offering a research support program of fellowships and awards, available to both Smith College students as well as outside researchers wishing to visit Smith College for their research.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 3, 2025
Helene Emergency Artist Residency (HEAR)
Western North Carolina artists of all disciplines substantially impacted by Hurricane Helene are invited to apply for Trillium Arts' Helene Emergency Artist Residencies (HEAR). This opportunity provides a variety of relief benefits, including a $700 relief stipend, to arts professionals working in literary, media, performing, visual, and interdisciplinary arts. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Western North Carolina
Deadline
January 3, 2025
Archives Research Residency
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Residency supports continued scholarly and investigative use of the Foundation's materials by supporting individuals that demonstrate a compelling need to use the archives.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 3, 2025
Sony World Photography Awards: Open Competition
World Photography Organisation's open competition rewards the best single images in ten categories: architecture, creative, motion, landscape, lifestyle, natural world & wildlife, object, portraiture, street photography, and travel. There is no entry fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 3, 2025
Harlem River Artist in Residence
The Hudson River Foundation is administering a call for artists to participate in a residency on the Harlem River, a pilot initiative intended to demonstrate how arts and culture can help address critical water quality challenges.
Geographic Focus
Bronx, New York
Deadline
January 3, 2025
Newberry Short-Term Fellowships
The Newberry offers various short-term fellowships, allowing researchers to spend one to two months investigating specific collection items that are essential to their scholarship.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 3, 2025
Moab Arts: Call for Art
Moab Arts invites local artists to submit their works to be displayed at the 2025 Canyonlands Field Airport Gallery, with additional pieces to be displayed at Moab City Hall and the Moab Arts Center.
Geographic Focus
Moab, Utah
Deadline
January 3, 2025
Ann Friedman Weekly Fellowship
The Ann Friedman Weekly Fellowship is a program for nonfiction writers who are not yet established in their careers. It includes mentorship and editing, a $5,000 stipend, regular check-ins to provide structure and accountability, and space in the Ann Friedman newsletter where fellows can publish and promote their work.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 3, 2025
McColl Center Artist-in-Residence Program
McColl Center's Artist-in-Residence Program provides private housing, a large-scale private studio in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a $6,000 stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 3, 2025
Saltonstall Residencies
Saltonstall in Ithaca, New York, offers free residencies to artists and writers who are looking for a quiet environment in which to focus on their craft. Categories include poetry, playwriting & screenwriting, photography & filmmaking, and painting/sculpture/visual arts. This program includes a $100/week stipend. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
January 5, 2025
Loeb Fellowship
Loeb fellows are practitioners whose work is advancing positive social outcomes in the US and around the world. The program includes the opportunity to audit classes throughout Harvard and MIT for free, as well as a $57,000 stipend for the academic year.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 6, 2025
UCLA Film & Television Archive Artist-in-Residence Program
The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Artist-in-Residence Program hosts an emerging artist for two weeks to activate the Archive's collection in their artistic practice. The program includes a $10,750 honorarium.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 6, 2025
BAC Poetry Residency
Bethany Arts Community (BAC) in Ossining, New York, is offering a poetry residency for one week that includes room and board, a private studio, meals, and a $225 stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 6, 2025
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 $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 6, 2025
UVP Residential Commission
Light Work's Urban Video Project (UVP) Residential Commission is an opportunity for media artists to come to Syracuse, New York, and make new video/electronic work for public exhibition at the projection site on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art. The commission fee is $10,000. There is a $10 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 6, 2025
American Gurl: home — land
SaveArtSpace and Womxn in Windows invites artists of all ages and talents are invited to submit their artwork for American Gurl: home — land, a group public art exhibition on billboard ad space in Los Angeles, California. There is a $10 donation per image submission to participate.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 6, 2025
What Can We Do?
The Asian American Arts Alliance's What Can We Do? is a grant opportunity for artists looking to support the Asian and AAPI communities in New York City with engaging, creative projects rooted in care. Each artist will receive $1,500.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
January 7, 2025
Denbo Fellowship
Pyramid Atlantic's Denbo Fellowship is designed to offer artists from a range of artistic disciplines an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. It provides the opportunity to complete a new body of work in the areas of papermaking, printmaking, and book arts. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 8, 2025
Horror Writing Residency
Banff Centre's Horror Writing Residency provides writers with a two-week residency with one-on-one mentorship opportunities with faculty, group discussions, and a community of artistic peers. There is a $65 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 8, 2025
Cultural Sustainability
Mid-America Arts Alliance is now accepting applications for Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations. This pilot program will offer operational grants, capacity building and cohort learning to small, culturally driven arts organizations.
Geographic Focus
Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas
Deadline
January 10, 2025
Sony World Photography Awards: Professional Competition
World Photography Organisation's professional competition rewards the best photo series in ten categories: architecture & design, creative, documentary projects, environment, landscape, perspectives, portraiture, wildlife & nature, still life and sport. There is no entry fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 10, 2025
Saltonstall x Circus Culture Residency
Hupstate Circus's Saltonstall x Circus Culture Residency in Ithaca, New York, is designed to provide a generous and spacious environment for the development of the circus arts in New York State.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
January 10, 2025
Luminarts Fellowship
The Luminarts Fellowship includes programs in visual arts, creative writing, classical music, and jazz. Each fellow receives $10,000 ($15,000 for voice musicians in the classical music category).
Geographic Focus
Chicago, Illinois
Deadline
January 10, 2025
Emerging Curator Program
VisArts' Emerging Curator Program offers the opportunity for an emerging curator to work with an experienced mentoring curator to develop and present an exhibition and assist in the presentation of the mentor's exhibition. The program includes an exhibition budget of $10,000.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 10, 2025
Pitch Call for "Vessels"
In its second issue, Ephemeral is collecting stories about things that can hold and carry and transport. Submissions should be based around the landscape of the Colorado Plateau and created by the people who live there.
Geographic Focus
Colorado
Deadline
January 13, 2025
Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO)
The Bronx Council on the Arts' BRIO program provides direct support to individual Bronx artists who create works in the literary, media, visual, and performing arts with awards of $5,000.
Geographic Focus
Bronx, New York
Deadline
January 13, 2025
Anderson Center Residencies
Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, Minnesota, provides residencies of two to four weeks to enable artists, writers, musicians, and performers to create, advance, or complete work. The Artist Residency Program is open to artists based anywhere in the world. There is a $30 application fee. The Early Career Artist Residency Program is for early-career artists living within the state of Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global [Artist Residency Program]
Minnesota and New York City [Early Career Artists Residency Program]
Deadline
January 14, 2025
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 14, 2025
Southern Prize and State Fellowships
The Southern Prize and State Fellowships is open to visual artists in South Arts' nine-state region to support, expose, and celebrate the breadth, depth, and diversity of artistic excellence. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Literary Journalism Residency
Banff Centre's Literary Journalism Residency encourages the exploration of new ideas in literary journalism (creative nonfiction) and experimentation in writing. There is a $65 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Immersion 6.0: VR Creation Lab
The School of Making Thinking's Immersion Lab is a combination of a virtual reality creation residency and an invitation for artists to engage the racial history of America within the context of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Philadelphia Stories General Submissions Window
Philadelphia Stories accepts fiction, poetry, and nonfiction submissions written by authors living in, or originally from, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or New Jersey. Authors receive a $50 honorarium. There is no reading fee.
Geographic Focus
Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Watermill Center Artist Residency Program
The Watermill Center's Artist Residency Program in Water Mill, New York, is a process-based residency for collectives and individuals to develop works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of artistic practice. There is a $12 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Monson Arts Residencies
Monson Arts' residency program supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing 2-week and 4-week residencies at the edge of Maine's North Woods. Applications are open to anyone working in visual arts, writing, and related fields. The Abbott Watts Residency for Photography supports imagination, innovation, and creative risk-taking for artists using the photographic medium.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Ucross Residency and Fellowships
Ucross residencies range from two weeks to six weeks in length and is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, performance artists, and collaborative teams. There is a $40 application fee. Ucross also offers two fellowships for Native American visual artists and Native American writers. Fellows receive a 4-week residency and a $2,000 stipend. There is no application fee for these fellowships.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Hambidge Residency
The Hambidge Center in North Georgia provides a self-directed program that includes a private studio and living space. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Les Paul Foundation Grant
The Les Paul Foundation awards grants to programs and projects that encourage innovation in music production and/or performance and to innovative STEM and STEAM programs for students and others in challenging situations. US-based tax-exempt organizations are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Sustainability Labs
PAM CUT's Sustainability Labs focuses on US-based creators, artists, directors, and producers looking to change their personal models of creative, financial, and business sustainability. Each artist receives a $3,000 stipend and assigned a mentor in line with their creative visions. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Ploughshares Regular Reading Period
Ploughshares welcomes unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction during its regular reading period. Contributors will receive an honorarium. There is a $3.75 service fee for online submissions.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Sculpture Space Residency
Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, invites artists whose focus is sculpture to apply for a two-month residency. Each selected artist receives $7,000 in support for their two-month stay. There is a $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Residency at Mt. San Angelo
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts' Mt. San Angelo location in Amherst, Virginia, hosts residencies for emerging and established artists. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Science History Institute Fellowships
The Science History Institute offers a variety of fellowships, including curatorial fellowships, postdoctoral fellowships, dissertation fellowships, short-term fellowships and distinguished fellowships.
Geographic Focus
Global [postdoctoral research, dissertation, short-term, distinguished]
United States [curatorial, NEH postdoctoral]
Deadline
January 15, 2025
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 20 years or more. Selected artists receive $25,000.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant
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 experiences of art or art making. Nonprofit organizations and state/local/tribal government entities are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 15, 2025
StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program
The StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (TIMA) in Easport, Maine, offers residency opportunities to visual artists to deepen and develop their practice within a community setting. Application fees are determined by date of application submission.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
WSW Residency Grants
Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York, is accepting applications for four residency grants: the Studio Residency Grant, the Anita Wetzel Residency Grant, the Art-in-Education Artist's Book Residency Grant, and the Artist's Book Residency Grant.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 15, 2025
The Artist Project
The Artist Project is a collaboration between the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and twelve after-school community organizations in the Boston area. One artist with a passion for community arts will plan and lead a project with children between the ages of six and twelve. The program includes a $50,000 stipend and a $5,000 materials budget.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 17, 2025
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico is accepting applications from visual artists, literary artists, music composers, and songwriters for residencies. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 18, 2025
Montello Foundation Residency
The artist retreat at the Montello Foundation in Nevada gives residents space and time for undisturbed experimentation and reflection for two weeks. There is a $20 suggested application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 19, 2025
Growth - New Beginnings
SaveArtSpace's Growth - New Beginnings open call invites artists to explore themes of personal and societal transformation, renewal, and the endless possibilities that come with fresh starts. Selected artists will have their work placed on ad space in Washington, DC. There is a $10 donation for image submission.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 20, 2025
NEA Big Read
Arts Midwest and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) present the NEA Big Read, a program that awards grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 to organizations with community reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 23, 2025 [Intent to Apply]
Revealed Emerging Artist Series
The Sculpture Center is seeking applicants for its Revealed Emerging Artist Series. Emerging artists of the greater Ohio region whose practice includes sculpture, installation, mixed and expanded media, relational aesthetics, and performance are eligible to apply. There is a $40 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Greater Ohio region (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, western New York, and Ontario, Canada)
Deadline
January 27, 2025
Teiger Foundation Call for Proposals
Teiger Foundation offers grants for US-based, curator-led initiatives in contemporary visual art for the following categories: single projects, three years of programming, hosting exhibitions, and curatorial research and development.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 28, 2025
Shakespeare in American Communities
Shakespeare in American Communities is a theater program of Arts Midwest in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). It offers three grant opportunities for eligible nonprofit theater organizations: schools, juvenile justice, and apprenticeships.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
January 30, 2025 [Intent to Apply]
Staten Island Arts Grants
The Staten Island Arts grant cycle includes five opportunities: DCLA Premier Grants, DCLA Art Fund Grants, NYSCA Encore Grants, NYSCA Arts Bring Change (ABC) Regrants and SU-CASA.
Geographic Focus
Staten Island, NY
Deadline
January 31, 2025
Duncanson Artist-in-Residence
The Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, is seeking a visual artist specializing in painting with teaching experience and a commitment to social justice for the Duncanson Artist-in-Residence program. The program includes a $10,000 honorarium.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
January 31, 2025
Institute for Oral History Grants
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History offers two oral history grants. The Charlton Oral History Research Grant supports one scholar who is using oral history to address new questions and offer fresh perspectives on a subject area in which the research method has not yet been extensively applied. The Community Oral History Grant invites nonprofit organizations in Texas to apply for a grant to facilitate oral history research in their communities.
Geographic Focus
Global [Charlton Oral History Research Grant]
Texas [Community Oral History Grant]
Deadline
January 31, 2025
Virginia Humanities Rapid Grant
Virginia Humanities grants support projects from nonprofit organizations that explore the stories of Virginia as well as issues and questions that impact the lives of Virginians in the present day. Rapid grants award up to $5,000.
Geographic Focus
Virginia
Deadline
January 31, 2025
Artists and Creatives Grant
Community Engagement's Artists and Creatives Grant provides financial support, generally up to $2,500, to independent creatives making or presenting creative work relating to or encouraging community engagement. Applications from those who have been historically excluded from the mainstream art world are especially encouraged.
Geographic Focus
Southern California
Deadline
January 31, 2025
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