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Here are the upcoming opportunities for May 2024. Best of luck!
Cleveland Arts Prize: Discipline Prize
Cleveland Arts Prize promotes creativity in northeast Ohio by honoring artists for artistic excellence and recognizes community leaders who help regional arts flourish. Artists with a connection or contribution to the region are encouraged to apply for a Discipline Prize of $10,000.
Geographic Focus
Northeast Ohio
Deadline
May 1, 2024
Constellations Folk Arts & Cultural Stewardship Grant
The Center for Cultural Power invites California-based organizations who are led by cultural bearers and who are working through traditional and tradition-based forms and practices to apply for one-year, flexible, general operating support regrants. The anticipated grant award range is $25,000 to $150,000 for one year.
Geographic Focus
California
Deadline
May 1, 2024
Curatorial Advancement Grant
The Tremaine Foundation's Curatorial Advancement Grant program is made up to two sections. Peer Network Grant requests support network opportunities that advance curatorial knowledge and strengthen US curatorial practices. Innovation Grant requests are designed to support a project, initiative, or opportunity not previously explored in the local curatorial space, or an emerging trend that is under-resourced. The Foundation's focus is contemporary art. Funding ranges from $500 to $10,000.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 1, 2024 [Letter of Intent]
Cascade Canyon Artist in Residence
The Cascade Canyon Artist in Residence program at O'Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California, provides artists of all disciplines the opportunity to explore, create, and reflect on the creative process. There is a $45 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 1, 2024
Visitor Center Artist Camp
Visitor Center Artist Camp in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is an annual residency session for independent art mediums, and immersive workshops in wild-clay harvesting and processing for pottery.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 1, 2024
Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund
The Laundromat Project's Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund is a hyperlocal micro-grant program that seeds and supports the creative ideas or civic actions of artists, cultural practitioners, community organizers, activists, and neighbors whose proposals aim to enrich community life in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The Fund provides $1,000 grants toward each funded project.
Geographic Focus
Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York
Deadline
May 1, 2024
OAC Grant Opportunities for Individual Artists
The Ohio Arts Council (OAC) offers awards that recognize excellence, preserve cultural traditions, and offer development support. The Artist Opportunities grants support Ohio artists who have opportunities that will significantly impact their professional growth or have projects that will contribute to the vitality of their community. The Artists with Disabilities Access Program (ADAP) provides funding that gives individual artists with disabilities the resources they need to further their artistic development.
Geographic Focus
Ohio
Deadline
May 1, 2024
Braiding Seeds Fellowship
The Braiding Seeds Fellowship, a project of Soul Fire Farm Institute in collaboration with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, provides beginning farmers with resources, professional development, and mentorship to support their livelihood on land. Fellows receive a $50,000 stipend. This program is for Black, Indigenous, and people of color farmers based in the northeast and southeast of the United States, including all states and territories that touch the Atlantic Ocean and its tidal arms.
Geographic Focus
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, District of Columbia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Vermont
Deadline
May 1, 2024
Lillstreet Art Center Residencies
Lillstreet Art Center offers year-long residencies in the departments of ceramics and metasmithing, and 9-month residencies in textiles, drawing & painting, and printmaking & book arts. There is a $20 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 1, 2024
Vanguard Arts Fund
Olney Theatre Center's Vanguard Arts Fund provides developmental support to diverse teams of artists interested in creating theatrical works. A successful proposal for new work will bring together more than one generative artist in an interdisciplinary fashion to explore new and classic stories.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 1, 2024
Processing Foundation Fellowship
The Processing Foundation Fellowship, themed "Sustaining Community: Expansion & Access," seeks to support innovative projects from artists, designers, activists, educators, engineers, researchers, coders, collectives, and many more, who are working at the intersection of creative technology, art, and open-source software. The program includes a $10,000 stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 2, 2024
NHSCA Grants
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts (NHSCA) offers two application opportunities in early May. The Arts in Health Project Grant supports arts experiences and artist residencies in health-based settings, or arts activities that deepen public health awareness and practice in New Hampshire communities. The Artist Entrepreneurial Grant supports the development of business skills, increase the level and quality of work, and bring work to the widest possible markets.
Geographic Focus
New Hampshire
Deadline
May 3, 2024
Tournesol Award
Headlands Center for the Arts' Tournesol Award recognizes an emerging Bay Area painter in support of establishing and maintaining a career in the region. The award supports a full year of artistic development and includes a $10,000 stipend, a private studio, and a culminating exhibition or project of the artist's choice.
Geographic Focus
Bay Area, California
Deadline
May 3, 2024
Fireline Fellowship
The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx) at Oregon State University's Fireline Fellowship invites writers, artists, and thought leaders in the humanities to become part of a thinking community that will explore issues related to wildfire at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (the Andrews). Fellows will receive a stipend, opportunities to learn alongside scientists in the field, and up to four weeks of residency time at the Andrews.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 3, 2024
Fundación Botín Art Grant
The Fundación Botín offers six Art Grants to artists of any nationality with an expected duration of nine months and an endowment of 23,000 euros each, to aid both training and the development of personal and research projects directly linked to artistic creation.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 3, 2024
The Sistas Uprising Fund
Sista Creatives Rising's Sistas Uprising Fund is a charity project to help marginalized artists, primarily focusing on supporting marginalized women and femme-expressing visual artists of color through the distribution of $200 grants. There is a $10 suggested application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States and Canada
Deadline
May 5, 2024
Beautifying the Park Row Connection to Chinatown
NYC DOT Art is commissioning temporary site-responsive art for Beautifying the Park Row Connection to Chinatown to reinforce the connection between Lower Manhattan and Chinatown and reflect the rich cultural identity of the area. Selected artists will receive up to $20,000 towards direct project costs.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 5, 2024
Café Royal Visual Arts Grant
Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award an exhibition/project grant to NYC artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs. Artists in all genres of visual arts are eligible to receive up to $10,000 in funding.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
May 6, 2024
Howard County Rising Star Award
Emerging performing artists and ensembles, ages 18-35, with roots in Howard County, Maryland, are eligible to apply for the Howard County Arts Council's Rising Star Award. The winner receives a $5,000 prize, and finalists each receive a $500 honorarium.
Geographic Focus
Howard County, Maryland
Deadline
May 6, 2024
Staten Island Arts Grant Cycle
Staten Island Arts' grant cycle consists of two opportunities. The Howard Gilman Performing Arts Residency Cohort supports the creative practice of 10 performing artists living and working in Staten Island through a 6-month residency cohort. The Mertz Gilmore Dance Research Grant program supports the research and development of a new dance work by dance artists, dance collectives, or dance nonprofits at any stage of their careers.
Geographic Focus
Staten Island, New York
Deadline
May 6, 2024
CALI Catalyst
The Center for Cultural Innovation's CALI Catalyst program provides unrestricted grants of up to $7,500 to California changemakers who are creating tangible impact within the arts and culture sector, shifting power and influence to historically underrepresented voices.
Geographic Focus
California
Deadline
May 6, 2024
Wassaic Project Open Calls
The Wassaic Project is holding two open calls through early May. The Winter Residency offers studio space, accommodations, and access to the wood shop. The Haunted Mill is the Wassaic Project's annual Halloween event, accepting site-specific installations, outdoor installations, and performances. There is a $25 application fee for each open call.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 6, 2024
Marble House Project Residency
Marble House Project's residency project accommodates approximately eight artists and is specifically curated to bring together a diverse group of creative works to maximize potential for collaboration and dialogue while in residence and beyond. Applications are accepted in all creative fields. There is a $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 6, 2024
Performing Arts Technology Lab
The Doris Duke Foundation's Performing Arts Technologies Lab is both a grant and a support system designed to expand access to and nurture new methods for creating, sharing and experiencing the performing arts. The program seeks innovative ideas from individuals, partnerships, and organizations, in jazz, contemporary dance, and theater that make use of new digital tools and production methods.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 6, 2024
Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant
South Arts' Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant supports a milestone opportunity in an artist's career that will likely lead to substantial career advancement. Grants of up to $2,000 are available for opportunities taking place between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. Artists working in the following disciplines are eligible to apply: visual arts, craft, traditional arts/folklife, photography, performing arts, literary arts, media arts, interdisciplinary arts, or multimedia arts.
Geographic Focus
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Deadline
May 7, 2024
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Artists Residency
The National Parks Art Foundation's Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Artists Residency is open to all artists, writers, musicians, or performance artists. The program includes a $4,000 stipend and is open to individual artists, couples, families, collectives, and troupes. There is a $60 application fee for individual artists.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 10, 2024
National Book Foundation Capacity-Building Grant Program
Through the National Book Foundation Capacity-Building Grant Program, nonprofit literary arts organizations may apply for grants of $5,000 or $10,000 to support projects that aim to create a sustainable and effective organization.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 10, 2024
CLMP Capacity-Building Grant Program
Similar to the National Book Foundation's grant program, the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Capacity-Building Grant Program is an opportunity for nonprofit literary magazines and presses to apply for grants to support projects that aim to create a sustainable and effective organization.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 10, 2024
Berkeley FILM Foundation Grant
The Berkeley FILM Foundation supports East-Bay based emerging and established independent filmmakers whose work combines intellectual clarity with creative use of the medium. This grant supports documentary works that have a social consciousness and addresses complex issues. Grants range between $2,500 and $15,000.
Geographic Focus
East Bay area of California
Deadline
May 13, 2024
Call for Entries: "Vote for Democracy"
SaveArtSpace invites artists of all ages and talents to submit their artwork to be placed on billboard ad space in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the Republican National Convention. The overarching theme of the exhibit is the "preservation of democracy." There is a $10 donation per image submission.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 13, 2024
Nicholson Project Artist Residency
The Nicholson Project's Artist Residency program explores the positive roles that art and design can play in strengthening the community. The 10-week program includes a $5,000 artist stipend and up to $2,000 to develop and implement a residency project. The program is open is all artists, with a focus on BIPOC artists and those who live in or have ties to Southeast Washington, D.C. There is a $15 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 13, 2024
The Hopper Prize
The Hopper Prize seeks to advance the careers of visual artists by providing unrestricted financial support in the form of individual artist grants. The award is open to all artists. There is a $40 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 14, 2024
Kala Artist-in-Residence Program
Artists working in various printmaking techniques, photo processes, book arts, and digital media including video production can apply to become an artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute. Artists may apply for 1-, 2-, or 3-month residencies.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2024
Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women's History
The National Archives Foundation's Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women's History will support up to three fellowships for emerging and established historians, journalists, authors, or graduate students who perform and publish new research to elevate women's history using the records held by the National Archives. The program awards up to $12,500.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 15, 2024
Sawtooth Residencies
Sawtooth in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, offers two year-long artist-in-residence programs. The Ceramics Artist in Residence Program is designed to encourage and enhance the creative, intellectual, professional, and personal growth of emerging studio artists. The Gondring Residency in Woodworking offers emerging woodworkers the opportunity to develop their skills and gain valuable teaching experience.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2024
Self Organizations
Mophradat's Self Organizations program 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 ways to share or develop it. The program supports projects across two different categories: informal co-ops and topical assemblies. Arts practitioners groups from all disciplines and stages of their careers are welcome to apply, with priority given to proposals taking place within the Arab world.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2024
VCCA Residencies and Fully-Funded Fellowships
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is accepting applications for two opportunities through mid-May. The residency program at Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, Virginia is open to emerging and established artists in the following disciplines: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting and screenwriting, performance, film and video, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, music composition, and cross-disciplinary art. There is a $30 application fee. The Wachtmeister Award is a fully-funded fellowship open to established composers/sound artists using acoustic sources. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2024
Monson Arts Residency Program
Monson Arts' residency program in Maine's North Woods supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing them time and space to devote to their creative practices. 2-week residencies include a $500 stipend and 4-week residencies include a $1,000 stipend. Photographers can apply for the Abbott Watts Residency for Photography, which offers access to Monson's photography studio and darkroom.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2024
WSW Opportunities
Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, is accepting applications through mid-May for three opportunities. The Studio Workspace Residency invites artists to work in any one or more of WSW's studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, darkroom photography, and ceramics. The Art-in-Education Workspace Residency is for artists interested in working with local school students while creating their own work. The Parent Residency Grant is a 4-week residency for an artist with at least one dependent child under the age of 18.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2024
New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Submissions for the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, presented by NewFest, are now being accepted. Films should be inclusive of—and of interest to—the LGBTQ+ community. The festival is seeking narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated features and shorts. There is a regular deadline submission fee of $50 for feature films and $35 for shorts and episodic series.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2024
Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest
The Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who hae yet to publish or self-publish a book. The contest awards publication, $2,000, review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a 1-year subscription. There is a $30 submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2024
Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 15, 2024
American Poets Prizes
The Academy of American Poets is accepting submissions for two poetry prizes. The James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The winning poet receives $5,000 and a weeklong residency in Miami Beach, Florida. There is no submission fee. The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. There is a $75 submission fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 15, 2024
Peyton Evans Artist Residency (PEAR) Program
The Studios of Key West (TSKW) offers a residency program for emerging and established artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists from around the world. There is a $45 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2024
Legacy Playwright Grant
The AGE Legacy Playwright Grant invests in artists who have been underrepresented and underserved because of age, race and gender. The program awards individual unrestricted grants of $10,000 each to three BIPOC playwrights over the age of 40 that identify as a person of marginalized gender or gender-diverse.
Geographic Focus
United States and Puerto Rico
Deadline
May 15, 2024
VIA Art Fund Artistic Production Grant
VIA Art Fund's Artistic Production grants fund the production and exhibition of new artistic commissions, in amounts ranging between $25,000 and $100,000. Artists and organizations are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 16, 2024 [Letter of Inquiry]
Rauschenberg Emergency Grants
New York Foundation for the Arts, in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, offer two grant programs for artists in emergency situations. The 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. The Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant program provides one-time grants of up to $3,000 to dancers in need who have a dire financial emergency.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 17, 2024
McKnight Fellowship for Ceramic Artists
Northern Clay Center's McKnight Fellowship for Ceramic Artists supports outstanding Minnesota ceramic artists who identify with any methodology—whether it be functional, sculptural, or relational—all techniques are welcome. The program includes a $25,000 grant. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Minnesota
Deadline
May 17, 2024
Mentoring Artist-in-Residence
Atlantic Center for the Arts' Mentoring Artist-in-Residence is a three-week, process-based interdisciplinary residency program that provides artists with an opportunity to be mentored by, work, and collaborate with distinguished artists in literary, performing, visual arts, environmental arts, and social practice. This cycle's mentors are composter/musician Andy C, critic/poet Kwame Dawes, and visual artist Bob Faust.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 19, 2024
Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency
The Adirondack Center for Writing offers a free, two-week residency in autumn to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 19, 2024
Creation Fund
National Performance Network's Creation & Development Fund supports the creation, development, and mobility of new artistic work that advances racial and cultural justice and results in live experiential exchange between artists and community. Artists apply for the Creation phase of the Fund with a team consisting of at least two arts organizations (co-commissioners) led by an NPN National Partner.
Geographic Focus
United States and Mexico
Deadline
May 20, 2024
JGS Fellowship for Photography
New York Foundation for the Arts' JGS Fellowship for Photography is a $8,000 cash grant open to New York State photography artists living and working outside of New York City.
Geographic Focus
New York State (excl. New York City)
Deadline
May 21, 2024
Pyramid Atlantic Keyholder Residency
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center's Keyholder Residency is an opportunity for emerging to mid-career artists who want to have unlimited access to the studios in exchange for working 8 hours a week for Pyramid Atlantic. The residency is awarded to artists who hope to gain more knowledge and improve their skills in the printmaking, papermaking, or book arts studios. There is a $12 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 22, 2024
Independent Projects Grant
The Architectural League of New York's Independent Projects grant program awards grants of $10,000 for New York State-based individuals and teams to explore a design topic through creation or research.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
May 22, 2024
The Lumen Prize
The Lumen Prize champions the innovative possibilities of technology-driven creativity. Nine artists will receive cash awards ranging from $1,500 to $7,500. There is a $35 submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 25, 2024
Art in Odd Places – CARE
Art in Odd Places – CARE invites artists, performers, agitators, and caretakers to enact notions of care along 14th Street New York City. Proposals are requested for this annual outdoor public visual and performance art festival. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 26, 2024
ON::VIEW Artist Residency
Located in Savannah, Georgia's Starland District at ARTS Southeast's 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 working in all media. There is a $50 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 28, 2024
PLAYA Residency
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.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 30, 2024
Grant for Writing on Sculpture
The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation Grant for Writing on Sculpture seeks to encourage and support writers who generate fresh writing and thinking on the history, aesthetics, purposes, imagination, or situation of sculpture. The grant is $20,000.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 31, 2024
Oak Spring Garden Foundation Fellowships & Residencies
Oak Spring Garden Foundation offers various fellowships and residencies, including the Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence, the Stacy B. Lloyd III Fellowship for Bibliographic Studies, the Interdisciplinary Residency, and the Botanical Artist in Residency Program.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 31, 2024
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