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Upcoming Artist Grants and Opportunities: January 2025 Deadlines

Written by Geo Ong | December 3, 2024

Every month, Fractured Atlas provides a list of upcoming grants and opportunities for artists and arts-based projects so that you can discover more opportunities to get financial support and other resources for your work. As a fiscal sponsor of over 3,500 artistic projects, we provide access to grants for artists in every discipline.

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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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