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Here are the upcoming opportunities for July 2024. Best of luck!
The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (BICA) is awarding $300 good-faith microgrants for artists and curators who are realizing a project in the greater Buffalo, NY area. Exhibitions, performances, and other projects that contribute to the visual arts in Buffalo are eligible for funding.
Buffalo, New York
July 1, 2024
The PLAYA Residency in Summer Lake, Oregon, is awarded to people actively working to promote dialogue and positive environmental change. Applicants may choose a 12- or 26-day session. There is a $30 application fee.
Global
July 1, 2024
Two Trees' Cultural Space Subsidy Program awards below-market rent to applicants that best demonstrate their capabilities and intent to provide a social benefit to the DUMBO neighborhood and the broader Brooklyn community. Emerging and mid-career artists with a strong exhibition history or community-focused practice, along with organizations that concentrate on arts, education, or community advocacy and programming, are eligible to apply.
DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York
July 1, 2024
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking's Residency Program provides a dedicated studio for artists to produce a body of work using traditional as well as innovative printmaking techniques. There is a $35 application fee.
Global
July 1, 2024
The Embracing Our Differences exhibit features 50 billboard-size images, each created by local, national, and international artists reflecting their interpretation of the theme "embracing our differences." There is no submission or entry fee and there is no limit on the number of submissions.
Global
July 1, 2024
The City of West Hollywood, California, invites and encourages artists and organizations representing diverse populations and diverse artistic disciplines to apply for its Arts Grant Program. The categories are: the Arts Project Grant; the Community Arts Grant; the Transgender, Gender Diverse, Intersex + Arts Grant; and the WeHo Artist Grant.
West Hollywood, California
July 1, 2024
The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation is pleased to announce a national $50,000 award to a contemporary choreographer. This award is an effort to bolster the field, incubate new ideas, and bring more dance to the state of Maine.
United States
July 1, 2024
SaveArtSpace and Paradice Palase is proud to present Don't Ask, Just Manifest, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York City. The open call seeks artworks that respond to the theme of "real-topia." There is a $10 donation per image submission to participate.
Global
July 1, 2024
Peters Valley School of Craft in the Delaware Water Gap is offering fully-funded guest artist residencies. The program currently seeks artists who work in blacksmithing, ceramics, fibers, jewelry/fine metals, wood, painting/collage, or printmaking. The program includes a $500 stipend for two-week stays and a $1,000 stipend for month-long stays. There is a $10 application fee.
Global
July 1, 2024
Penland's Resident Artist Program is designed for professional craft artists who are at a pivotal moment in their creative practice or career. Interested candidates can choose between a one-year project-based residency and a 3-year career transition residency. All media taught at Penland are considered appropriate for the program: books, clay, drawing/painting, glass, letterpress, iron, metals, papermaking, photography, printmaking, textiles, and wood. There is a $30 application fee.
Global
July 2, 2024
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is holding an open call for Sight/Geist, a series that supports emerging NYC-based film and performance artists. Participating artists are awarded $300 for a one-night group screening and $1,000 for a one-night solo performance.
New York City
July 2, 2024
Franklin Furnace's XENO Prize for Artists' Books awards $5,000 to publish one artist's book on the topic of book banning/burning in an edition of at least 100 copies.
Global
July 4, 2024
The VH Award supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia through an online residency program and exhibitions of commissioned works across various global platforms. Artists from the Asian region, as well as individuals or collectives of Asian descent and diasporas from all over the world, working in audiovisual screen-based art are eligible to apply. The award includes a $25,000 grant.
Global
July 5, 2024
NewFest and Concord Originals invites QTBIPOC filmmakers to select an eligible song and creatively amplify the music in an original short film. Final recipients will receive $20,000 to make their short film and have it premiere at NewFest Pride 2025.
United States
July 5, 2024
Terrain is an annual multimedia art and music event celebrating artists in the Spokane, Washington area. Artists can submit up to 5 artworks for free.
Spokane, Washington
July 7, 2024
Through financial grants that typically range between $10,000 and $25,000, the Americana Foundation supports projects and partner nonprofit organizations that positively impact people's lives by creating systematic and/or structural change.
United States
July 8, 2024
Zoo Labs, in partnership with Center for Cultural Innovation and Intersection for the Arts, empowers Black, Indigenous, and people of color to own and amplify their music businesses through entrepreneurial training, resource exchange, focused mentorship, and community building. Bay Area BIPOC and BIPOC-led artist teams are eligible to apply.
Bay Area, California
July 10, 2024
Banff Centre's Visual Arts Thematic Residency - The System and Other Universes welcomes participants to consider new, unique, or radical paradigms for being an artist in shifting, uncertain times. There is a $65 application fee.
Global
July 10, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts' Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) program provides expansive funding opportunities for arts projects in a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Applicants may request cost share/matching grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. Nonprofit organizations, units of state or local government, and federally recognized tribal communities or tribes are eligible to apply.
United States
July 11, 2024 [Grants.gov deadline]
The Artadia Awards, in partnership with 21c Museum Hotels, will hold an open call for Cincinnati-based contemporary visual artists, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context. Awardees will receive unrestricted funds of $15,000.
Cincinnati, Ohio
July 15, 2024
Watershed invites artists to apply for its first winter season residency program. While its equipment and space is designed for ceramic practices, any artists are welcome to apply. There is no application fee.
Global
July 15, 2024
FST StudioProjects Fund was created to fund studio rents for visual artists in New York City. There is no application fee.
New York City
July 15, 2024
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop's Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project (SIP) Fellowship is designed to introduce artists from multiple disciplines to printmaking. Selected artists are each provided access to a community and professional printmaking workspace, a $2,000 stipend, three printmaking workshops, and assistance from EFA staff. There is no application fee.
New York State
July 15, 2024
Ucross provides residencies that range from two weeks to six weeks in length. The program is open to visual artists, writers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, performance artists, and collaborative teams. There is a $40 application fee. Ucross also offers two fellowships, one for Native American visual artists and one for Native American writers. There is no application fee for these fellowships.
Global
July 15, 2024
Loghaven Artist Residency's mission is to serve artists by providing them with a residency experience and continued post-residency support. Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency, which takes place in Knoxville, Tennessee. There is a $20 application fee.
United States
July 15, 2024
The Grand Canyon Artist in Residence program offers artists the opportunity to practice and share their discipline with park visitors. Contemporary artists focused on site-specific community engagement, social practice, and immersive or interactive artworks are encouraged to apply.
Global
July 15, 2024
SaveArtSpace and Alphachanneling presents Erotic Nature - Wild Joy, a public art exhibition on billboard ad spaces throughout the US. This open call is an invitation for artists to submit their wildest works that explore the deep, primal connection between erotic desire and the natural world. There is a $10 donation per image submission to participate.
Global
July 15, 2024
The NEH's Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program advances scholarship, education, and public engagement in the humanities by helping libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country steward important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. This is a funding opportunity for organizations.
United States
July 16, 2024
Banff Centre offers two opportunities for writers this month. The Mountain Writers Intensive is a three-week residency for nine writers working in any genre (fiction, nonfiction, journalism, or poetry), on mountain narratives, environmental journalism, stories of adventure, or projects with a theme of the human relationship to landscape. The Literary Journalism residency encourages the explorations of new ideas in literary journalism and experimentation in writing. There is a $65 application fee for each opportunity.
Global
July 17, 2024
Crosstown Arts offers multidisciplinary residencies in Memphis, Tennessee, to visiting and Memphis-based artists and curators working in any creative discipline including visual arts, music, film, and writing in all genres. There is a $20 application fee.
Global
July 20, 2024
The Sunroom Project Space provides an opportunity for New York City-area artists at the early stages of their career to develop and present a site-specific solo project at Wave Hill. Five artists will be selected for solo exhibitions and will receive an honorarium of $2,000 each. One artist will be selected to present a site-specific project or a series of performances with an honorarium of $6,000.
Bronx, New York
July 21, 2024
Huntington Arts Council's Community Impact Micro Grant program provides year-long funding opportunities to arts-centered programs and projects that have a demonstrable impact on their community. All chosen grants will be funded at $1,000.
Nassau and Suffolk counties, New York
July 26, 2024
Lee Ufan Arles and Maison Guerlain present the Art & Environment Prize in support of artistic productions that are resolutely altruistic and responsible, opening up new dialogues with nature. The winner with receive a six- to eight-week residency in Arles, France, followed by a summer exhibition.
Global
July 30, 2024
Virginia Humanities grants support projects that explore the stories of Virginia—its history, people, communities, and cultural traditions—as well as issues and questions that impact the lives of Virginians in the present day. Regular grants range from $5,000 to $20,000. Rapid grants award up to $5,000.
Virginia
July 31, 2024
With the support of San Antonio Area Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts presents the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program to San Antonio-based artists from all disciplines. Accepted participants receive a $200 stipend and have the opportunity to participate in an exhibition.
San Antonio, Texas
July 31, 2024
EFA Project Space's SHIFT Residency provides peer support, mentoring, and studio space for artists who work in arts organizations in New York City to advance the artists' creative practices in balance with their careers.
New York City
July 31, 2024
AXS Film Fund supports documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators of color with disabilities. Five creators will be awarded with grants of up to $10,000 to assist them in finishing their projects in any stage of production.
Global
July 31, 2024
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