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 June 2023. Best of luck!
Visitor Center Artist Camp
Visitor Center Artist Camp is an annual outdoor arts program, acting as a residency session for independent art mediums, and as a host for directed workshops in wild clay and woodworking. Adults of all creative backgrounds, experience levels, and fields of practice are encouraged to apply.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2023
On::View Artist Residency
Located at ARTS Southeast's flagship project, Sulfur Studios, the On::View Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The program supports artists from across the globe, working in all media.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2023
The Hollyhock Foundation Request for Proposals
The Hollyhock Foundation will consider multi-year grants of up to $750,000/year to fund culinary arts or digital media programs for teens. Grants will support staff, equipment, and facility costs for NYC-based programming delivered by organizations and entrepreneurs interested in providing teen programs in a new space.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
June 1, 2023
Take Notice Fund
The National Performance Network’s Take Notice Fund provides $5,000 project grants to artists of color living and working in Louisiana. Louisiana-based artists at any career stage, as well as ensembles/collectives/collaboratives, may apply.
Geographic Focus
Louisiana
Deadline
June 1, 2023
Mesa Refuge Residency
The Mesa Refuge residency program gives priority to writers focusing on nature, the human economy, and social equity. The program welcomes both emerging and established writers, especially writers of nonfiction books, longform journalism, audio, and documentary film.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2023
Venturous Capital Grant
Venturous Theater Fund’s Capital Grants program supports not-for-profit theaters producing text-based, author-driven new plays that are bold, experimental, and/or large-scale. Support is limited to small- and medium-sized theaters with an annual budget of $5 million (pre-COVID). They must be not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organizations or be fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) organization.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 1, 2023
Cuttyhunk Island Fall Artists’ Residency
On a small island off the coast of Massachusetts, the Cuttyhunk Island Residency will host a group of twelve artists to create work inspired by their coastal surroundings. The program accepts visual artists working in all mediums.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2023
Mira Fellowship
The Mira Fellowship offers its mid-career fellows one year to research, design, and produce a simple actionable plan for change. The fellowship is cohort-based and remotely collaborates monthly as well as meeting in person several times a year. Each fellow receives a $5,000 research grant along with ongoing coaching, support, and access to expertise.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2023
Anolic Family Awards
The Anolic Family Awards are given to Jewish artists to further their artistic practice, Jewish cultural knowledge, and to advance their careers. The Naomi Anolic Early Career Jewish Visual Arts Award awards $1,000 to an active early career artist between the ages of 25 and 35. The Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts Award awards $1,500 towards the creation of a unique, one-of-a-kind, or limited edition, work of art in the field of Jewish book arts.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2023
Catskills Creative Residency
Arts & Ecology Incorporated’s Catskills Creative Residency invites two playwrights for a fully funded week-long stay in the Sullivan County Catskills of upstate New York. Each playwright receives a $200 travel and food stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2023
ToftH School Cohort III
The third iteration of ToftH School, a ten-month program running from September to June, invites people who wish to learn how to practice technology as an experimental philosophy. Admitted candidates are expected to live in the San Francisco Bay Area throughout the program’s duration, which is free to attend and comes with need-based assistance in the form of stipend funds (up to $50,000).
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 1, 2023
Evolution Grant
Art Fluent’s Evolution Grant will provide $1,000 in unrestricted funding to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art. The open call is open to all fine art mediums, now including film and video.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 2, 2023
California Arts Council's Individual Artist Fellowship
In partnership with California Arts Council (CAC), Los Angeles Performance Practice will serve as the Administering Organization for the Individual Artist Fellowships in Los Angeles County for artists practicing any art form. Fellowship awards are as follows: $5,000 for Emerging Artist Fellows, $10,000 for Established Artist Fellows, and $50,000 for Legacy Artist Fellows. These awards are unrestricted funds.
Geographic Focus
Los Angeles, CA
Deadline
June 2, 2023
GRAMMY Museum Grants Program
The GRAMMY Museum Grants Program awards grants each year to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservations of the music and recorded sound heritage of North America, and research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition. The program is comprised of two categories: scientific research projects and preservation projects.
Geographic Focus
United States and Canada
Deadline
June 2, 2023
Disruptors Fellowship
The Disruptors is an annual fellowship for emerging television writers of color who identify as undocumented/formerly undocumented immigrants, trans, nonbinary, or disabled. During the three-month program, fellows are provided with mentorship, professional development, master classes and opportunities to build community with other writers of color. The program includes a $10,000 stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 2, 2023
Headlands Center for the Arts Awards
Headlands Center for the Arts offers two awards for fully sponsored artist residencies. The Chamberlain Award is a fully sponsored artist residency and $10,000 prize to support an artist working in the social practice discipline. The Chiaro Award is a fully sponsored artist residency and $15,000 prize for a mid-career painter residing in the United States.
Geographic Focus
Global (Chamberlain Award)
United States (Chiaro Award)
Deadline
June 5, 2023
Craft Innovation Jumpstarter
The goal of the Society of Arts + Crafts' Craft Innovation Jumpstarter Program is to financially support craft artists who are pursuing ideas in their studio practice that represent something new for them.Four grants of $3,000 will be awarded.
Geographic Focus
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Deadline
June 5, 2023
Arts on the Block
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) Arts on the Block is a grassroots initiative designed to support small local organizations and block associations to increase attendance to their neighborhood block parties and/or single block festivals. Grants of up to $750 are available to Bronx-based block associations and nonprofit arts and community organizations.
Geographic Focus
Bronx, New York City
Deadline
June 5, 2023
NYSCA/NYFA Artists with Disabilities Grant
The NYSCA/NYFA Artists with Disabilities Grant program will distribute one-time cash grants of $1,000 to artists with a disability who have experienced financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis to cover art related expenses. The grant is open to visual, media, music, performing, literary, and multidisciplinary artists who live in New York State.
Geographic Focus
New York
Deadline
June 6, 2023
SCI Artist-Innovator Fund
Center for Cultural Innovation's SCI Artist-Innovator Fund will offer ten grants of up to $8,500 to individual artist-entrepreneurs with spinal cord injuries who are inspired to innovate by the possibilities and benefits that are offered through the experience of pursuing a creative practice and living with spinal cord injury.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 6, 2023
William Greaves Research and Development Fund
Firelight Media's William Greaves Research and Development Fund resources mid-career nonfiction storytellers from racially and ethnically underrepresented communities in the United States, as well as filmmakers from Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Colombia with a particular interest in those who identify as being of Indigenous and/or of African descent. Grants range up to $40,000 to support research and development on a feature-length nonfiction film and any essential need grantees have, including healthcare and childcare costs.
Geographic Focus
United States, Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Colombia
Deadline
June 6, 2023
California Arts Council Grants
The California Arts Council grant opportunities fund arts engagement and infrastructure to bolster wellbeing, resilience, and vitality of California's arts workforce. The six grant programs are as follows:
- Arts & Cultural Organizations General Operating Relief – Up to $30,000 each year for two years of direct funding to arts and cultural organizations in support of ongoing operations, prioritizing small organizations.
- Administering Organization: Folk and Traditional Arts – Up to $1,000,000 in funding for one more more Administering Organizations with a demonstrated capacity for statewide and regional reach that will regrant funds, provide technical assistance, and/or build capacity with artists and arts organizations in support of folk and traditional arts expressions.
- Impact Projects – Up to $25,000 in support collaborative projects that center artists and artistic practice in responding to issues experienced by California's historically and systemically under-resourced communities.
- State-Local Partners – Up to $75,000 for support and technical assistance for county-designated local arts agencies.
- State-Local Partner Mentorship – Up to $50,000 in support for the establishment by an existing State-Local Partner of a county-designated local arts agency in counties in which no such agency has currently been identified.
- Statewide and Regional Networks – Up to $50,000 in support for arts service organizations providing practical resources for the communities they serve.
Geographic Focus
California
Deadline
June 6, 2023
WORTHLESSSTUDIOS Artist in Residence
WORTHLESSSTUDIOS' Artist in Residence program is production focused, supporting underserved sculptors and installations artists at pivotal moments in their careers. The program includes a $3,000 material stipend and $1,500 artist stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 7, 2023
Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Design
The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant designers who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in design. Applicants must be born outside the United States to non-American parents, have lived in the United states for at least four years, and are not more than 38 years of age. Eligible categories include digital design, graphic design, product design, and social design.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 12, 2023
JGS Fellowship for Photography
New York Foundation for the Arts’ JGS Fellowship for Photography is a $7,000 cash grant open to New York State photography artists living and working outside of New York City. The fellowship is awarded to five artists working in traditional and experimental photography or any form in which photographic techniques are pivotal.
Geographic Focus
New York (excluding New York City)
Deadline
June 14, 2023
Jazz Road Tours
South Arts’ Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country. The program supports small, three- to six-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. Eligible artists are professional jazz artists, working solo or with a composer-led or collective jazz ensemble which consists of two to ten musicians.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 15, 2023
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Residency
The National Parks Arts Foundation residency at the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is open to artists, families, artist couples, artist collectives, and art troupes practicing any media and includes a $4,000 stipend, studio, housing, events, and publicity.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 15, 2023
Self Organizations
Mophradat’s Self Organizations is a program that offers support to projects where different arts practitioners take the initiative and join forces to define a mutual resource or interest that’s important for their work, and propose how to share or develop it. The program supports projects by informal groups or collectives across three different categories: informal co-ops, topical assemblies, and ideas that haven’t yet been considered but fall under the notion of self-organization and working together. Priority will be given to proposals taking place within the Arab world.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 15, 2023
Stove Works Residency
Stove Works’ Residency invites eight artists to live/work for one to three months at a time. Six of the studios are designed to accommodate artists who require significant space in their practice, while the remaining two accommodate non-object based practices, i.e. writers, curators, and academics.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 15, 2023
Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grant
The Architectural League of New York's Architecture + Design Independent Projects grant program awards grants for New York State-based individuals and teams to explore a design topic through creation or research. Grants of $10,000 will be awarded. Applicants must be professionals in their design field and the proposed work must be truly independent.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
June 16, 2023
This Place Meant
SaveArtSpace presents an open call for This Place Meant, a public art exhibition in New York City. The call is for third-culture kids, for the descendants of mass displacement, to have their work placed on ad space.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 19, 2023
BIPOC Filmmaker Grant
Filmed by Bike’s BIPOC Filmmaker Grant provides $1,500 grants to Black, Indigenous, and all people of color who are emerging filmmakers. Projects must have a strong central theme of bicycles. Final films should be 25 minutes or shorter.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 20, 2023
Rural Regenerator Fellowship
Springboard for the Arts' Rural Regenerator Fellowship brings together individual artists, makers, and culture bearers, grassroots organizers, community development workers, public sector workers and other rural changemakers who are committed to advancing the role of art, culture and creativity in rural development and community building. Fellows participate in two years of peer learning and exchange, and receive an unrestricted $10,000 stipend. Applicants must live, work or have a strong connection to a rural community.
Geographic Focus
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, and/or the Native Nations that share those geographies
Deadline
June 20, 2023
Innovate Grant
Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly $1,800 grants. Visual artists and photographers 18 years and older, from all around the world, are eligible to apply. All media and genres are accepted.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 22, 2023
Zoo Labs
In partnership with Center for Cultural Innovation and Intersection for the Arts, Zoo Labs empowers Black, Indigenous, and people of color to own and amplify their music businesses through entrepreneurial training, resource exchange, focused mentorship, and community building. The program will make unrestricted grants available to Bay Area BIPOC and BIPOC-led artist teams with a music business.
Geographic Focus
Bay Area, California
Deadline
June 28, 2023
CUE Open Calls
CUE’s annual open call provides emerging and underrepresented artists and curators the opportunity and necessary resources to realize an exhibition at CUE’s storefront gallery space in New York City. The open call for solo exhibitions is open to artists who practice any artistic discipline. The open call for curatorial projects is open to proposals that are conceptually innovative, challenging, and engaging.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 30, 2023
Dieu Donné Workspace Residency
Dieu Donné's Workspace Residency program provides emerging New York State-based visual artists with the opportunity to explore paper pulp as an artistic medium. The program encourages emerging visual artists to explore the creative possibilities inherent in the hand papermaking process, and to develop this medium as a contemporary art form. The program includes a $500 stipend.
Geographic Focus
New York
Deadline
June 30, 2023
Martin Duberman Visiting Fellowship
The Martin Duberman Visiting Fellowship at the New York Public Library promotes excellence in LGBTQ studies by supporting scholars engaged in original, archivally-based research. The fellowship is open to established and emerging scholars, both academic and independent scholars. The selected scholar will receive $25,000 to fund their research.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 30, 2023
Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts' Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grants help communities preserve their cultural heritage through the learning and passing on of traditional arts – including crafts, music, and dance – so that future generations can continue to benefits from them. These grants fund a traditional artist to teach an experienced apprentice in one-to-one sessions for a minimum of 65 hours over a period of six to ten months.
Geographic Focus
New Hampshire
Deadline
June 30, 2023
Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Playwright Award
New York Foundation for the Arts' Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Playwright Award is a $10,000 cash grant awarded to one New York State-based playwright who self-identifies as LGBTQ+. Applicants will need to be practicing playwrights and be able to demonstrate an ongoing commitment to their creative practice and career.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
June 30, 2023
Laura Patricia Calle Grant
Living Walls' Laura Patricia Calle Grant invites artists and art collectives to present proposals for a mural to be painted in the Metro Atlanta region. The mural should inform and promote awareness of the subject(s) of social equality, feminism, immigrants' rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and cultural diversity. The grant awards $20,000.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 30, 2023
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