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Here are the upcoming opportunities for March 2024. Best of luck!
apexart's International Open Call is an opportunity for artists, curators, and other professionals to turn their curatorial idea into an apexart exhibition. Winning proposals receive $10,000 in funding as well as staff support. There is no submission fee.
Global (outside New York City)
March 1, 2024
South Arts offers two opportunities with a March 1st deadline. Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country. The Presentation Grant awards up to $9,500 for organizations to present a Southern artist for a performing arts, literary arts, visual arts, or film engagement.
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
March 1, 2024
CitizensNYC awards micro-grants up to $3,000 to community building projects carried out by resident-led groups to improve neighborhood life, strengthen local leadership, and scale community partnerships. Nonprofit or grassroots volunteer community groups with budgets under $150,000 are eligible to apply.
New York City
March 1, 2024
Established/emerging artists and creative professionals in the fields of literary arts, visual arts, design, music, architecture, multidisciplinary, and other arts are encouraged to apply to the Woodward Guest Residency, a three-month workspace residency in Ridgewood, New York.
Global
March 1, 2024
The month-long residency at Surel's Place in Garden City, Idaho, is open to professional artists who need a place to focus. The program includes a $100/week living stipend and a $300 travel stipend.
Global
March 1, 2024
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the $15,000 funding 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.
Chicago, Illinois
March 1, 2024
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts awards residencies to established and emerging visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Residencies are available for 2 to 8-week stays. Each resident receives a $175/week stipend, free housing, and a private studio. There is a $35 application fee.
Global
March 1, 2024
The Artist Residency Program at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is designed to offer time and space for craft artists to focus on their creative work and interact with the public. The program includes a $1,000 monthly stipend. There is no application fee.
Global
March 1, 2024
The Millay Arts Core Residency features a creative cohort of 6-7 multidisciplinary artists in the Hudson Valley of New York. Residencies can be two weeks or month-long and is fully subsidized. There is a $45 application fee.
Global
March 1, 2024
Bard Graduate Center (BGC) invites scholars from university, museum, and independent backgrounds with a PhD or equivalent professional experience to apply for a non-stipendiary visiting fellowship. Fellowships may be award for two months to the full academic year.
Global
March 1, 2024
The New England Foundation for the Arts' NEST Grant funds performances, readings, and screenings of work by regional, national, and international artists presented by New England-based nonprofit organizations.
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
March 1, 2024
The Keyholder Residency program at Lower East Side Printshop offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. The six-month program is open to artists from all disciplines.
New York City
March 1, 2024
Sculpture artists are invited to participate in the Village of Beverly Hills' Sculptures in the Park exhibit. Selected works will demonstrate the connections between art and the natural environment. Selected artists will receive a $1,000 stipend. There is no entry fee.
United States
March 1, 2024
The Jim Henson Foundation awards grants for the creation of innovative new works of contemporary puppet theater. There are three grants: workshop grants ($3,000), production grants ($7,000), and family grants ($4,000). Individual artists must apply through a fiscal sponsor.
United States
March 4, 2024 [Letter of Intent Deadline]
Onassis AiR is dedicated to fostering artistic process by providing space and time to arts professionals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, enabling them to delve deeper into their practice without the pressure of presenting a final work. There are three different programs: the Onassis AiR Extended Research Residency, the Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowship, and the Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowship.
Global
March 4, 2024
Interlude Artist Residency in Livingston, New York, is dedicated to supporting a flourishing practice for visual artists who are actively parenting. There is a $25 application fee.
Global
March 4, 2024
National Sculpture Society's Augusta Savage Grant is an unrestricted prize of $2,500 awarded to an emerging sculptor who self-identifies as Black or African American. Works inspired by nature are preferred.
United States
March 4, 2024
CERF+'s Get Ready program provides individual craft artists grants up to $1,000 to conduct activities that will help safeguard their studios, protect their careers, and prepare for emergencies. Priority will be given to applications from people who identify in the global majority or as BIPOC and folk and traditional artists.
United States
March 5, 2024
ArtsFund's Community Accelerator Grant will provide unrestricted grants for cultural nonprofit organizations across Washington state. Funding will provide essential capital to Washington's cultural organizations whose primary mission is to produce or support arts and cultural activities.
Washington State
March 5, 2024
Mid Atlantic Arts' ArtsCONNECT program supports performing arts touring projects collaboratively developed by presenters working together in the mid-Atlantic region. Mid-Atlantic 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, unit of state or local governments, and Federally recognized Indian tribal governments are eligible to apply.
Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Native nations that share this geography
March 7, 2024
The Laura Jane Musser Fund hopes to assist nonprofit arts organizations in rural communities to develop, implement or sustain exceptional artistic opportunities for adults and children in the areas of literary, visual, music, and performing arts.
Rural communities in Colorado, Hawaii, Wyoming, New York, and Texas
March 7, 2024
Each year collectives and individuals take up residence at The Watermill Center to develop works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of artistic practice. There is a $12 application fee.
Global
March 8, 2024
The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust's Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat in Laceyville, Pennsylvania offers visual artists, writers, composers, and instrumentalists a quiet country setting for residencies to focus on their creative endeavors. Applicants are encouraged to apply as a group, but individual applications are also welcome. There is no application fee.
Global
March 10, 2024
The Institute for Electronic Arts' Experimental Projects Residencies for print and electronic media artists are supported with an artist stipend, travel funds, lodging, technology access, materials, and technical assistance.
New York State
March 11, 2024
Trillium Arts' North Carolina Choreographic Fellowship in dance provides immersive creative time and space to select North Carolina based dance artists. The program includes a $1,500 honorarium, private lodging for up to six artists in Mars Hill, North Carolina, rehearsal space, and mileage reimbursement, among other benefits. There is no application fee.
North Carolina
March 11, 2024
South Arts' Traditional Arts Touring Grant increases the public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the traditional arts in the South. The program supports in-person or live virtual residencies by Southern traditional artists in Southern communities. Grants are available for requests from $1,000 to $5,000. Organizations in South Arts' nine-state region are eligible to apply.
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
March 13, 2024
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center's Vita Paper Arts Residency offers a competitive opportunity for emerging and seasoned artists alike who hope to gain more knowledge, improve their skills, and explore new techniques in papermaking. There is a $35 application fee.
Global
March 13, 2024
A Studio in the Woods' Replenish Residencies provides 1-2 week restorative visioning retreats to New Orleans-based BIPOC artists and culture bearers who have not attended a residency before. The program includes a $1,600 stipend.
New Orleans, Louisiana
March 13, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.
United States
March 13, 2024
BRIClab is a multidisciplinary residency program in Brooklyn, New York, created to advance opportunities for visual artists and media makers. Each of the three tracks (Contemporary Art, Film + TV, and Video Art) includes a $2,500 stipend.
New York City
March 14, 2024
The College Art Association (CAA) is accepting applications for the Millard Meiss Publication Fund. The program supports book-length scholarly manuscripts in art history, visual studies, and related subjects which have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. Applications are submitted by the publisher.
Global
March 15, 2024
The School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University's New Work Development Artist Residency program incubates new works of art in an environment of creative reciprocity between scholars and artists that crosses, blurs and erases disciplinary lines. The program includes a $10,000 stipend for living expenses and project materials.
Global
March 15, 2024
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.
United States
March 15, 2024
This special issue of the Feminist Press's Women's Studies Quarterly is an unthemed open call that asks: Who is missing from WSQ's discourse and how can the journal remove barriers to those already actively reworlding feminisms? Submissions are accepted in all printable media.
Global
March 15, 2024
Kala Art Institute provides space and equipment to artists working in and across the fields of printmaking, photography, performance, installation, and media arts through its residence and fellowship programs. The Parent Artist Residency Program offers Bay Area artists an individual residency plan with up to $1,000 worth of Kala services. The Fellowship Program is an artist residency award for local, national, and international artists. The award includes a $3,000 stipend. There is a $20 application fee.
Global [Fellowship Program]
Bay Area, California [Parent Artist Residency Program]
March 15, 2024
Watershed's annual Salad Days fundraiser draws art appreciators to its campus for a summer celebration of handmade ceramic work and local food. In preparation for the event, a Salad Days Artist-in-Residence spends seven months at Watershed, producing 475 plates or shallow bowls that serve as the primary feature of the event. The artist is also commissioned to create approximately 30 small functional or decorative pieces. The program includes housing, meals, studio space, materials, and a $4,000 stipend.
United States
March 15, 2024
Persea Books' Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award competition is open to any poet who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. The winner receives an advance of $2,000 and publication of their collection by Persea. There is a $30 application fee.
United States
March 15, 2024
The Roswell Artist-in-Residence (RAiR) Program provides studio-based visual artists with the opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive, collegial environment in Roswell, New Mexico, for an entire year. Professional visual artists involved in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, digital media, and installation are invited to apply. The program includes a $1,100 monthly stipend and a $250 monthly materials stipend.
Global
March 15, 2024
The Alex Brown Residency is designed to provide emerging and established artists with an opportunity to focus entirely on their work for an extended period of time at Mainframe Studios in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The program includes a monthly expense allowance of $1,000 and up to $1,000 in airfare/travel reimbursement. Applications will be accepted from artists working in any medium. There is a $10 application fee that increases to $20 from March 8th until the deadline.
Global
March 15, 2024
ArtPort Kingston is holding an open call for site-specific public art for its annual edition of ArtStream Kingston. Public exhibition space, installation, and travel support is provided for selected artists. There is a $15 application fee.
Global
March 15, 2024
The Democracy Center will award two emerging writers of color who write critically about theater, dance, and/or performance art for $5,000 unrestricted awards.
United States
March 17, 2024
The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation Residency Program supports emerging and mid-career artists and curators working across all disciplines through three, six, and twelve-month residencies in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. There is a $35 application fee.
Global
March 18, 2024
Innovate Grant distributes two $1,800 grants each quarter, to one visual artist and one photographer. There is a $35 application fee.
Global
March 21, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) program, Research Grants in the Arts, support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the US arts ecosystem or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Grants will range from $20,000 to $100,000. Nonprofit organizations, state or local governments, and federally recognized tribal communities are eligible to apply.
United States
March 25, 2024
Mid Atlantic Arts' USArtists International program supports in-person and virtual performances by US artists at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines. Grants range up to $15,000 toward eligible travel expenses.
United States
March 27, 2024
The New York Public Library's Picture Collection Artist Fellowship supports artists or scholars engaged in the research, development, and/or execution of a new creative or scholarly work based on the Picture Collection's holdings. Fellowship stipends are awarded on a sliding scale from $2,000 to $5,000.
United States
March 29, 2024
The Decorative Arts Trust will allocating funding to two separate grant lines within its publishing program: Publishing grants for dissertations and first-time authors and publishing grants for collections, exhibitions, and conferences.
Global
March 31, 2024
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