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 2024. Best of luck!
In Cahoots Residency
In Cahoots Residency in Sonoma County, California, provides housing and studio space to both emerging and professional artists in a variety of mediums, with a focus on artists books, letterpress, printmaking, writing, and collaboration. As an additional option, artists may choose to come for a collaborative residency session. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2024
Artadia Awards: San Francisco Bay Area
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the $15,000 in funds in any way they choose. Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
San Francisco Bay Area, California
Deadline
June 1, 2024
Polycopies Call for Projects
Polycopies & Co.'s call for support for publishing and photography projects is now open. Professional photographers are eligible to apply. The sum awarded will be €2,500, €5,000, or €10,000 depending on the project's budget.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2024
Jazz Road Tours
South Arts' Jazz Road Tours program offers 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.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 1, 2024
Mesa Refuge Residency
Mesa Refuge in Point Reyes Station, California, welcomes a diverse community of writers—both emerging and established—who define and/or offer solutions to the pressing issues of our time. Writers of nonfiction books, long-form journalism, audio, and documentary film are especially encouraged to apply. There is a $50 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2024
Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency
Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency offers visual artists working in all mediums focused time and a uniquely supportive environment on a small island off the coast of Massachusetts to develop their work. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2024
Anolic Family Awards
The Anolic Family Awards have two awards with an early June deadline to apply. The Naomi Anolic Early Career Jewish Visual Arts Award is an award of $1,000 towards the completion of a specific project by an active early career Jewish visual artist between the ages of 25 and 35, working in the medium of painting, drawing, sculpture, or mixed media. The Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts Award is an award of $1,500 towards the creative 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, 2024
Mira Fellowship
Each year the Mira Fellowship accepts a small cohort from across the globe with visions of our cultural future. Selected mid-career applicants will work individually and gather several times during the fellowship to share their research and build on each other's ideas. An Early Bird deadline of May 1 requires no application. There is a $10 application fee for submissions between May 1 and 15. There is a $20 application fee between May 15 and the deadline.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 1, 2024
Craft Innovation Jumpstarter
The goal of the Society of Arts + Crafts' Craft Innovation Jumpstarter program is to financially support New England-based craft artists who are pursuing ideas in their studio practice that represent something new for them. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Deadline
June 1, 2024
The Six Foot Platform
Presented by the Dumbo Improvement District in partnership with Brooklyn Arts Council, the Six Foot Platform is an experimental art & performance program presenting work by Brooklyn-based artists, working in all mediums, on a 6x6 platform at the intersection of Washington and Water Streets. There is a $1,250 honorarium included.
Geographic Focus
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline
June 3, 2024
Venturous Capital Grant
The goal of Venturous Theater Fund's Capital Grants program is to support writers of bold, experimental, and/or large-scale new plays by giving not-for-profits theaters the ability to say "yes" instead of "no" to writer-driven projects perceived as especially challenging. Support is limited to small- and medium-sized theaters located within the United States.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 3, 2024 [Letter of Intent]
Colony Emerging Design Studio Residency
The Colony Emerging Design Studio Residency works to introduce the international design market to emerging American talent through an 8-month incubator program.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
June 3, 2024
Specific Cultural Projects
The Florida Division of Arts & Culture's Specific Cultural Projects grant is designed to fund a single cultural project, program, exhibition, or series taking place within July 1 and June 30. The grant activities must support of the mission of the organization or artist and further the state's cultural objectives. Organizations and individuals are both eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
Florida
Deadline
June 3, 2024
California Arts Council Grant Season
The California Arts Council (CAC) is opening eight different funding opportunities for application submissions from eligible California arts organizations: Arts & Cultural Organizations General Operating Support, Arts Education Exposure, Arts Integration Training, Creative Youth Development, Impact Projects, State-Local Partners, State-Local Partner Mentorship, and Statewide and Regional Networks.
Geographic Focus
California
Deadline
June 6, 2024
Dance & Movement Award
The Gerbode Foundation supports the creation and development of new dance and movement-based projects by California choreographers, culture bearers, traditional and tradition-based artists, and movement-based artists. The new dance works will be commissioned and produced by Bay Area nonprofit artist-centered organizations that can apply for grants of $50,000 each.
Geographic Focus
California
Deadline
June 6, 2024
72 Hour Shootout
Film Lab's 72 Hour Shootout filmmaking competition creates a valuable opportunity for filmmakers of color—focusing on Asian American filmmakers—and women, as well as other underrepresented groups, to demonstrate their talent, gain exposure in the entertainment industry and impact the visibility of diverse stories and characters in film. Filmmaking teams are given a common theme at the start of the Shootout and then have 72 hours to write, shoot, edit, and complete short films up to five minutes in length. There is a $55 fee to register before the end of May, and a $65 fee to register in June before the deadline.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 6, 2024
Artist Professional Development Grant
Great Meadows Foundation's Artist Professional Development Grants promote the growth and development of visual art in Kentucky by helping improve the critical skills, resources, knowledge, and connections of fine artists. Grants range between $500 and $6,000.
Geographic Focus
Kentucky
Deadline
June 9, 2024
Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Visual Arts and Curatorial Work
The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant visual artists and three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant curators who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 10, 2024
Headlands Residency & Awards
Headlands Center for the Arts is accepting applications for its Artist in Residence program and two artist awards. The Artist in Residence program offers fully sponsored residencies and studios to local, national, and international artists working in all disciplines. There is a $35 application fee. 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 two mid-career painters residing in the United States. There is a $25 application fee for each award.
Geographic Focus
Global [Residency and Chamberlain Award]
United States [Chiaro Award]
Deadline
June 10, 2024
Generations of Multitude
SaveArtSpace and PLAYGROUND DETROIT announce an open call for immigrant and first-generation artists to submit new or previously shown artwork that demonstrates the beauty and struggles of holding many contrasting priorities close and the challenge of finding one's whole in a world that asks for concise oneness and the quick read. There is a $10 donation per submission.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 10, 2024
Stove Works Artist Residency
Stove Works' Artist Residency invites eight artists to live/work for one to three months at a time. There is $10-$20-$30 staggered application fee based on when an application is submitted.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 15, 2024
Orbitals
Mophradat's Orbitals program takes four curators and arts researchers to an international location to learn about a different artistic context in the Global South and share this knowledge with their communities. This year's edition will take place in Indonesia and will focus on the question of the economy of art. Applicants must be from or living in the Arab world.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 15, 2024
Innovate Grant
Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly $1,800 grants. All media and genres are accepted. There is a $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 20, 2024
Evolution Grant
Art Fluent's Evolution Grant provides unrestricted funding of $1,000 to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art. There is a $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 21, 2024
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP)
Artist Trust's Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) are unrestricted project-based grants of $1,500 awarded to 65 artists working in all disciplines across Washington State.
Geographic Focus
Washington State
Deadline
June 21, 2024
Imagine 2200
Grist is accepting submissions for its "Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors" short story contest. Writers are invited to imagine a future in which solutions to the climate crisis flourish and help bring about radical improvements to the world. The winning writer will be awarded $3,000 and the opportunity to participate in Spring Creek Project's Environmental Writing Fellowship and Residency. All winners and finalists will have their story published on Grist's website. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 24, 2024
Hide Tanning and Parfleche Residency
Banff Centre's three-week visual arts residency focuses on hide scraping, bone tool making, and working with parfleche. Indigenous visual artists with traditional and/or contemporary arts practices interested in hide-tanning processes and working with parfleche are eligible to apply. There is a $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
June 26, 2024
Queer | Art | Awards
Queer | Art | Awards is an initiative of grants, prizes, and residencies that includes a spectrum of support—monetary and otherwise—for LGBTQ+ artists. The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists awards $10,000 to an existing body of work, shedding light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provides critical support to their continuing work. The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers supports the creation of work by emerging LGBTQ+ photographers whose projects address issues of sexuality, gender, or LGBTQ+ identity.
Geographic Focus
United States [Illuminations Grant]
Global [Giard Grant]
Deadline
June 30, 2024
Centrum Artist Residencies
The Centrum Artists-in-Residence program welcomes writers, artists, and creative thinkers to Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington. The program includes different residencies: In the Making residencies, the Emerging Artist & Writer Residency, Self-Directed residencies, and the Local Artist Studio Space Residency.
Geographic Focus
Pacific Northwest
Deadline
June 30, 2024
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