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Upcoming Artist Grants and Opportunities: November 2022 Deadlines

Grants | Opportunities

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.

If you are new to grant-seeking, check out our introduction to grants! If you’re not already fiscally-sponsored, fiscal sponsorship can give you access to a wider pool of grant opportunities as well as other tools and resources. Learn more about our fiscal sponsorship program here

If you are fiscally sponsored, be sure to review our grant application process as you apply for these grants or any others. To keep up with future opportunities as well as other tips for artists and arts organizations, sign up to receive our weekly blog newsletter.

Here are the upcoming opportunities for November 2022. Best of luck!

 


 

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National Sculpture Society Grants & Awards

National Sculpture Society is awarding two prizes at the beginning of the month. The Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant is a prize of $5,000 awarded to a sculptor who has demonstrated outstanding ability and created a body of work inspired by nature which includes works of sculpture in bas-relief and in the round. This grant is for a mature body of work. The Henry Hering Art and Architecture Award is presented for outstanding collaboration between architect, owner, and sculptor in the distinguished use of sculpture in an architectural project. The use of figurative or realist sculpture is of greatest interest.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Fusion Art’s Grant for Artistic Excellence

Fusion Art’s Grant for Artistic Excellence is open to new emerging and professional artists worldwide who show exceptional creative ability in their chosen craft. These unrestricted monetary grants of $500 will be given to up to three artists each quarter to help with expenses involved with the creation of their art and to help advance their careers. Visual artists working in any media, style, genre and/or subject matter are invited to apply, with the exception of video/film.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Artist at Sea Residency

Sitka’s Artist at Sea Residency provides the opportunity for a visual artist, writer or musician to spend 14 days on an oceanic research vessel interacting with a scientific team gathering data on the dynamics of mesozooplankton food webs at different depths and during different seasonal currents off the Oregon and California coasts. A $1,500 artist stipend and optional 2-week stay at Sitka’s main campus afterwards are included.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Moving Image Media Art Prequalified List

The City of West Hollywood, through its Arts Division, requests qualifications from applicants working in the moving image field, to create a Prequalified List for the Moving Image Media Program (MIMA). Selected artists, curators, and/or nonprofit arts organizations from the Prequalified List will be invited to exhibit their work in the MIMA Program. Artists who live in West Hollywood, California, and artists of color, women, artists with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ artists are encouraged to apply.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Shearing Fellowship

Black Mountain Institute’s Shearing Fellowship is open to emerging and distinguished writers who have published at least one book with a trade or literary press. This fellowship includes compensation of $20,000 paid over a four-month period, a semester-long letter of appointment, office space, and housing in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Artadia Awards: Houston

The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose. In addition to financial support, awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context.

 

Geographic Focus

Houston, Texas

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Fellowships in American Art

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) invites scholars from any discipline who are researching the art, craft, and visual culture of the United States to apply to its fellowship program. Fellowships are residential and support full-time research in the Smithsonian collections. These opportunities are available for graduate students, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars. The stipend of a one-year fellowship is $42,000 for predoctoral scholars and $55,000 for postdoctoral and senior scholars. Graduate student fellowships are available for ten-week terms and are awarded a stipend of $8,000.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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NYFA Awards & Grants

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is administering two opportunities at the beginning of the month. The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre provides grants to encourage and support the creation of digital, film, music, television, and live or online theater content that reflects the voices and perspectives of all who identify as women. 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.

 

Geographic Focus

New York City (for NYC Women’s Fund)
New York State excluding NYC (for Artists with Disabilities Grant)

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Southern Prize & State Fellowships

The South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellowships is open to visual artists in the nine state region of the American South to support, expose, and celebrate the breadth, depth and diversity of artistic excellence. The State Fellowship is a state-specific prize of $5,000 to each of the nine winners, who will then compete for one of the two Southern Prizes of $25,000 and $10,000. Both Southern Prize winners will also receive a two-week residency at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences.

 

Geographic Focus

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website, and aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers. The winning writers each receive a $2,000 cash prize and will be published by Catapult in their annual anthology, Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize. Stories must be submitted by editors of literary magazines, journals, or cultural websites. Publications may be based and/or distributed anywhere in the world, so long as the story submitted was originally written in and published in English.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

California Humanities

California Documentary Project Grants

California Humanities’ competitive grant program, the California Documentary Project, supports documentary film, audio, and digital media productions that explore California in all its complexity and tell stories from every corner of the state. Research and Development Grants up to $15,000 and Production Grants up to $50,000 are available. Eligible applicants must be nonprofit organizations or municipal/public agencies. Individuals may apply through an eligible tax-exempt fiscal sponsor.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Fellowship for Americans in the Nordic Countries

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) offers year-long fellowships of up to $23,000 and short term (1-3 months) fellowships of up to $5,000 to graduate students and academic professionals interested in pursuing research or creative-arts projects in the Nordic region. Priority is given to candidates at the graduate level for dissertation-related research.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Engaging Artists Fellowship

More Art’s year-long Engaging Artists Fellowship is designed to help emerging NYC artists and community organizers develop and sustain a socially engaged and public art practice. The program includes mentorship, peer networking, access to programming opportunities in New York City, and workshops and artist talks tailored to the interests/needs of the cohort. This year’s thematic focus is on concepts related to gates and borders, physical and imaginary. Fellows receive a small stipend of at least $250 each to be used for expenses related to their practice.

 

Geographic Focus

New York City

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Marjorie Strider Foundation Grant

The Marjorie Strider Foundation grant supports the creation and production of new artistic work by emerging artists and contributes to the professional advancement of those artists. $5,000 grants will each be awarded to two artists.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 1, 2022

 


 

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Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Artist in Residence

The National Parks Arts Foundation is accepting applications for its Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park residencies. The program includes a $3,000 stipend, free housing, a studio, an electronic baby grand piano, sound booth, event(s), publicity, and a dolphin & manta ray excursion. This opportunity is open to individual artists, families, artist couples, artist collectives, and arts troupes.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 2, 2022

 


 

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Artist Entrepreneurial Grant

The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts’ Artist Entrepreneurial Grants support opportunities that will benefit New Hampshire artists’ careers and small businesses, including the development of business skills, participation in programs to raise the level and quality of their art, and participation in programs that will bring their art to the widest possible markets. Funding requests may be made for $250 - $1,000. Individual professional New Hampshire artists, makers and creatives, 18 years of age or over, who devote a majority of their time to practicing, performing and/or teaching an arts discipline, are eligible to apply.

 

Geographic Focus

New Hampshire

 

Deadline

November 4, 2022

 


 

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BigCi Environmental Awards

Australian and international artists from various fields – visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, filmmaking, curating – are invited to submit entries for the BigCi Environmental Awards. Two winners will each receive four free weeks of BigCi residency and $4,000 prize money.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 4, 2022

 


 

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The Met Fellowship Program

The Met annually awards over 50 fellowships to scholars from around the world. Met fellowships are awarded to junior scholars, postdoctoral and senior academics, and museum professionals for independent study or research. Each fellow is paired with a supervisor or primary contact in their host department who can help them navigate the Museum and facilitate access to resources. Financial support is also included.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 4, 2022

 


 

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Moving Artist Residencies

The GALLIM Moving Artist Residencies provide artists time and space to explore their creative ideas and invite them to identify what would most nurture their growth in creation research, training, and development. The residencies are process-based NYC studio residencies for Black, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic, Latino/a/e, and people of global majority movement artists who are women, non-binary, transgender, and gender-nonconforming, ages 18-30. The programs are open to, but not limited to, choreographers, dance filmmakers, educators, and performers. The Moving Artist Parent Residency is similarly designed to holistically support movement artists who are parents.

 

Geographic Focus

New York City

 

Deadline

November 4, 2022

 


 

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SFFILM Festival: Short Films

Submissions for the 2023 SFFILM Festival are now being accepted, with the final deadline for short film entries approaching. Bay Area filmmakers are eligible for entry fee discounts and additional Bay Area awards given in recognition of the rich variety of work that has established Northern California as a center of independent production.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 4, 2022

 


 

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Beam Center NYC

Beam Center seeks design proposals for ambitious public artworks that will be brought to life through collaborations between youth and creative big thinkers. Selected artists receive a $5,000 award and selected projects have an approximate $15,000 fabrication budget.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 7, 2022

 


 

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City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Grant Programs

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs are accepting applications for three grant programs this month. The City of Los Angeles Individual Master Artist Project (COLA IMAP) Grant Program allows accomplished artists to create a new mid-career solo work with the freedom to re-focus on themselves and their core impulses. The Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR) Grant Program supports freelance teaching artists, social-activation artists, and social practice artists in providing community-based, participatory projects in self-selected non-arts venues within Los Angeles. The Creative Opportunities – Optimizing Promise (CO-OP) Grant Program supports collaborations between any nonprofit social justice organization and a creative teaching artist.

 

Geographic Focus

Los Angeles, California

 

Deadline

November 7, 2022

 


 

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Art Remediating Campus Histories Open Call

Bryn Mawr College's Art Remediating Campus Histories (ARCH) Project, in partnership with Monument Lab, is a multiyear collaboration to design a process and commission a campus public artwork that responds to the legacy of exclusionary practices at the College. On behalf of the College, Monument Lab and a circle of campus collaborators have extended an open call to artists to propose a lasting campus public artwork in response to the question, "What stories are missing from Bryn Mawr College?" The budget for the final selected project is $560,000 with an artist fee at $112,000.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 8, 2022

 


 

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Performance AIRspace Residency

A cohort of three early career performing artists are invited to participate in Abrons Arts Center's Performance AIRspace Residency. Residents are provided with a monetary commission, premium access to studios, and theaters for rehearsals towards the development of a live performance. This season, Abrons seeks projects that engage with the concept of sanctuary and its personal, cultural, and political implications. Applicants who identify as early career artists working in dance, live music, and/or theater are encouraged to apply.

 

Geographic Focus

New York City

 

Deadline

November 9, 2022

 


 

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Velvetpark Writers Residency

The Velvetpark Writers Residency welcomes LGBTQ+ writers at any stage in their career to apply. Writers in any creative genre are invited to apply. The awardee will have 24/7 access to their private studio for a six month period. The residency is housed within Crown Studios, an artist building on a floor of eleven working arts professionals in the Crown and Prospect Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 11, 2022

 


 

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Integrity Artist Mini-Grant

Integrity Artist Mini-Grants generally average $250 and are intended to assist with such things as: artistic supplies, recordings, studio time, exhibits, performances, project related expenses, residences, etc. Given the pandemic, funding requests for remote programs and projects are most welcome.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 12, 2022

 


 

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DGARTES / AiR 351 Open Call

AiR 351 invites applications for the DGARTES / AiR 351 residency cycle, comprising three fully sponsored grants, aiming for four-month long residencies especially targeted for artists and curators who, independently of where they are currently based, derive from the PALOP countries, Portuguese-speaking African countries. Artists and curators at any stage of practice are invited to apply.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 12, 2022

 


 

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Café Royal Visual Arts Grant

Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award an exhibition/project grant to artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs. Artists in all genres of visual arts are eligible to apply. Grants amount up to $10,000.

 

Geographic Focus

New York City

 

Deadline

November 14, 2022

 


 

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Harry Ransom Center Fellowships

The Harry Ransom Center will award 10 dissertation fellowships and up to 60 postdoctoral fellowships for its 2023-2024 program. These fellowships encourage and support research in all areas of the humanities including literature, photography, film, art, performing arts, music, cultural history, and interdisciplinary studies. One- to three-month fellowships, along with travel stipends and dissertation fellowships, are available.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 14, 2022

 


 

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Wherewithal Grant

Wherewithal Grants are intended to support a wide range of experimental and multidisciplinary practices, particularly those that emphasize collaboration and discourse. DC-area artists and collectives can apply for either a $5,000 Research Grant or a $5,000 Project Grant. Applicants must be visual artists, or artists with a history of presenting their work in visual arts contexts/venues.

 

Geographic Focus

Greater Washington DC area (DC, Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Montgomery, or Prince George's counties)

 

Deadline

November 14, 2022

 


 

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Lenore G. Tawney Fellowship

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center's Lenore G. Tawney Fellowship is open to scholars, writers, curators, and artists at all educational levels with demonstrated engagement in research, study, or other activities relevant to the study of institution's collection. The fellowship includes a stipend of $30,000 and funds for travel, accommodation, research materials, and translation up to $10,000 for the entire fellowship period.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 14, 2022

 


 

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Community Engagement Grants

The Bronx Council on the Arts is accepting applications to three Community Engagement Grants. New Work supports individual Bronx-based artists through a commissioning grant in the amount of $2,500 for the creation of a new work in a community setting. Arts Fund supports Bronx-based individual artists, artist collectives and 501(c)(3) arts organizations with an organizational budget below $100,000. Community Arts supports local arts projects and activities that enable Bronx communities to experience and engage with the performing, literary, media, and visual arts.

 

Geographic Focus

Bronx, New York City

 

Deadline

November 14, 2022

 


 

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Future Art Awards: WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM.

Mozaik's Future Art Awards will honor outstanding contemporary artworks for creative excellence across the following categories: originality, personality, quality of composition, creativity, skills, concepts of activism, justice or representation, overall emotional impression, and adherence to the awards' interpretive theme: WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM. All artists and art forms are welcome to apply.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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BE-SPOKE Artist Designed Bike Rack Project

The Newburgh Arts & Cultural Commission's Artist-Designed Bike Rack Project is a public art project to create six artist-designed sculptural bike racks sited around the city of Newburgh, NY. All artists age 18 or older living or working in the thirteen counties along the Hudson River from Brooklyn to Albany are invited to apply. Each artist selected will be awarded $5,000.

 

Geographic Focus

New York counties of Albany, Rensselear, Greene, Columbia, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, Bronx, New York, Kings

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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A.I.R. Fellowship Program

The A.I.R. Fellowship Program supports underrepresented and emerging women and non-binary artists in New York City. Each year, six artists are awarded a year-long fellowship to develop and exhibit a project at A.I.R. Gallery. Essential to this process are a series of professional development workshops, close collaboration with an A.I.R. artist-mentor, and scheduled studio visits through the year, including one with a selection panelist.

 

Geographic Focus

New York City, adjoining counties, and the Hudson Valley

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022 (extended from November 1)

 


 

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Recording Program Preliminary Round

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program's objectives are to document and provide wider exposure for the music of contemporary American composers, to develop audiences for contemporary American music through record distribution and other retail markets, and to support the release and dissemination of recordings of previously unreleased contemporary American music and the reissuance of recordings that are no longer available. Proposals may be submitted by nonprofit professional performance ensembles, presenting institutions, and nonprofit or commercial recording companies. Fiscally sponsored professional ensembles, presenters, and individuals may also apply.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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Chaco Culture National Historical Park Artist-in-Residence

The National Parks Arts Foundation is accepting applications for residencies at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, located in the open plains of Northwestern New Mexico, sharing borders with the Navajo Nation and BLM land. The program is open to all artists and includes a $2,000 artist stipend.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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Nightboat Books Poetry Prize

The Nightboat Books Poetry Prize awards the winning poet(s) a $1,000 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 25 free copies of the published book. Any poet writing in English is eligible to apply. Poems published in print or on-line periodicals, anthologies, or chapbooks may be included, but the manuscript itself must be unpublished.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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The Hopper Prize

The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a biannual basis. The prize provides unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe. All artists, age 18 or older, working in any media, are encouraged to apply.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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Center/YCBA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

The National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Yale Center for British Art jointly offer two postdoctoral fellowships for two consecutive years each. The program supports research for recent or soon-to-be PhDs in the history, theory, and criticism of modern and contemporary visual arts who are from historically marginalized or disadvantaged groups and who seek to expand their ability to serve as curators and scholars in fields beyond those for which they received (or are about to receive) their doctoral degrees. Applicants must have received their PhD between November 1, 2017, and November 1, 2022, and must have less than three years of previous postdoctoral experience. The fellowship award is $58,000-$60,000 per year, and each fellow shall also receive allowances for travel and housing.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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Studio & Research Residency Program

Amant's Studio & Research Residency Program awards artists from around the world with research-oriented residencies in its campus in Brooklyn, NY. The program welcomes experimental practices in visual arts, cultural theory, performance, filmmaking, and writing. The three-month residency includes a monthly allowance of $3,000. Artists currently based in New York are ineligible to apply.

 

Geographic Focus

Global (excluding New York)

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency

The Paul Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency supports Northern California artists who are actively exploring new aesthetic premises and pushing the boundaries of conventional art forms and media. The program provides early to mid-career artists free studio space and up-to-date equipment to create new work in the time-based arts such as theater/performance, dance/movement, music/sound art/instrument invention, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary work. The program provides a production stipend of up to $1,500.

 

Geographic Focus

Northern California

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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Women’s Studio Workshop Residency Grants

Women’s Studio Workshop offers multiple residency grants this month: Studio Residency Grant, Legacy Residency Grant, Art-in-Education Artist’s Book Residency Grant, Artist’s Book Residency Grant, BIMA Artist’s Book Residency Grant for Indigenous Artists, and Research Publication Residency Grant.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 15, 2022

 


 

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Baxter St Residency Program

The Baxter St Residency Program offers emerging lens-based artists living in New York City much-needed workspace as well as access to the Baxter St at CCNY community and programs. Residents receive a stipend of $1,000 per month during their three months of workspace access, as well as donated material support. Each resident will also be granted a solo exhibition.

 

Geographic Focus

New York City

 

Deadline

November 17, 2022

 


 

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Support Program for Translation and Publication

The Japan Foundation, New York’s Support Program for Translation and Publication provides support for foreign publishers to translate and/or publish Japanese works to promote Japanese studies and a better understanding of Japan. This program encourages the publication of books that are difficult to publish commercially. Publishing companies outside of Japan are eligible to apply.

 

Geographic Focus

Global (excluding Japan)

 

Deadline

November 17, 2022

 


 

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Salt Lake City Arts Council Project Support Grant

The Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Project Support Grant Program is designed to fund individuals, groups, and nonprofit organizations for specific arts projects and programs taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah. Concerts, performances, festivals, workshops, symposiums, exhibitions, and readings are examples of projects eligible for funding through this program. Grants between $500 to $8,000 will be distributed. All projects and programs must occur within Salt Lake City.

 

Geographic Focus

Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Deadline

November 18, 2022

 


 

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Keyholder Residency

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center's Keyholder Residency is a competitive opportunity for emerging to mid-career artists who want to have unlimited access to the studios in exchange for working 4 hours a week for Pyramid Atlantic. The residency is award to artists who hope to gain more knowledge and improve their skills in the printmaking, papermaking, or book arts studios.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 18, 2022

 


 

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1492/1619 American Aftermaths Grant

The Aftermath Project's 1492/1619 American Aftermaths Grant is open to working photographers worldwide who are interested in creating work that helps illuminate aftermath issues of colonialism and enslavement in the United States. Eligible topics are open to wide interpretation of America's original sins – the 1492 "discovery" of this land by Christopher Columbus, and the 1619 arrival of the first enslaved Africans.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 18, 2022

 


 

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Print Public Municipal Artist Residency

Print Public, Kala Art Institute's public art residency, will select two Bay Area artists or artist teams to work as cultural strategists within the City of Berkeley's Planning Department. Selected artists receive $9,000 (and an additional $1,000 for materials) and a 16-month residency at Kala.

 

Geographic Focus

Bay Area, California

 

Deadline

November 18, 2022

 


 

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MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute Visiting Fellowship

The MDOCS Storytellers' Institute is a nonfiction arts residency on the Skidmore College campus that offers fellows time to work on personal nonfiction arts projects, networking opportunities, access to a creative community of critique and nurture, a platform to publicly display work, and an intellectual community to engage with this year's theme, "Off the Beaten Path: Outside the Hero's Journey." The fellowship includes a $2,500 honorarium and a travel stipend of up to $500. Applicants must have a nonfiction-based practice and propose a nonfiction-based project as well as an interest in teaching and learning.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 20, 2022

 


 

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Bronx Dance Fund

The Bronx Council on the Arts is accepting applications for the Bronx Dance Fund, which seeks to nurture the development of artists and organizations that comprise the field of dance in the Bronx. This program supports individual Bronx-based dancers, choreographs, and dance organizations with grants of up to $7,500 for general operating or project-based support. Priority will be given to talented early career dance artists and BIPOC led organizations.

 

Geographic Focus

Bronx, New York City

 

Deadline

November 21, 2022

 


 

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Dexter Jones Award

Named in honor of Dexter Jones, a fellow of National Sculpture Society, the Dexter Jones award is given to one recipient based on an outstanding work of sculpture in bas-relief. The use of figurative or realist sculpture, or sculpture that is inspired by nature, is of greatest interest. Applicants must have been born between 1983 and 2004.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 21, 2022

 


 

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Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program

The Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program provides six eligible artists working in all visual arts media a free private studio space accessible 24/7 and a fellowship (dependent on funding). The program primarily supports emerging and early career artists who would benefit from the opportunities provided by the program, such as regular studio visits with New York City curators, public open studio events, and free studio space.

 

Geographic Focus

New York City

 

Deadline

November 23, 2022

 


 

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Bernheim's Artist in Residence Program

Up to four artists are selected for residencies at Bernheim in Clermont, KY, on an annual basis, each with a stipend of $2,500. One residency is always dedicated to a regional artist currently living in Kentucky or in Clark and Floyd counties of Southern Indiana. One residency is dedicated to an artist whose work addresses environmental issues and climate change. Visual artists of all mediums, with the broadest range of diverse perspectives and experiences, are encouraged to submit.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 28, 2022

 


 

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Columbia Land Conservancy Request for Proposals

The Columbia Land Conservancy seeks partnership with artists to complete the following activities at Greenport Conservation Area in Greenport, New York: 1) replace a kiosk along the Access for All Trail, 2) replace a gazebo at the terminus of the Access for All Trail, and 3) create and install a river-themed art trail along the Dogwood Trail/Hickory Lane Loop.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 30, 2022

 


 

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Actors’ Equity Foundation Theatre Grant

The Actors' Equity Foundation's Theatre Grants are awarded to theaters which have a current 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, an established artistic and administrative track record, a history of fiscal responsibility, and have worked to improve the state of the theater. Modest grants from a limited fund are awarded by the end of the year.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 30, 2022

 


 

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Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research

M+ is currently accepting proposals for the Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research, supporting new research on Chinese art, in dialogue with the M+ Collections. Applicants should either hold a postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline or an undergraduate degree with a minimum of three years of relevant professional work or academic research experience. Preference is given to entirely new research projects.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 30, 2022

 


 

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Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry

Philadelphia Stories' Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, celebrbating risk, innovation, and emotional engagement, features a first place $1,000 cash award. Poets from underrepresented groups and backgrounds are especially encouraged to send their work.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 30, 2022

 


 

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Moab Arts Re-Use Residency

The Moab Arts Re-Use Residency's mission is to challenge the perception of waste culture by providing a unique platform for artists at the intersection of art, community, and waste systems. The program encourages resident artists to consider their studio practice through the lens of sustainability and to thoughtfully re-assess their processes of material sourcing and waste disposal. Artists selected for this program are in all stages of their careers and work in all media.

 

Geographic Focus

Global

 

Deadline

November 30, 2022

 


 

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Teaching Artist Cohort

The Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort will award a group of 21 mid-career craft artists a one-time, unrestricted grant of $10,000 as well as an 8-month cohort experience where they will be guided through training that encourages and sustains a generative practice as both artists and educators. Proposals are welcome from US-based mid-career craft artists who teach.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 30, 2022

 


 

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USArtists International

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's USArtists International program supports in-person and virtual performances by American artists at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States. This program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines, providing grants of up to $18,000 toward eligible expenses. Applicants without 501(c)(3) nonprofit status must apply using a US-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit fiscal sponsor.

 

Geographic Focus

United States

 

Deadline

November 30, 2022

 

 


 

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The Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists

The Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston's Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists supports the professional careers of visual artists through a solo exhibition or alternative presentation of work and curatorial and professional development support. This fellowship is open to artists who have yet to have their first commercial or institutional solo exhibition and who work in any two-dimensional media (excluding photography). Social practice and performance-based artists are also welcome to apply, so long as there is a 2-D aspect to their practice.

 

Geographic Focus

New England

 

Deadline

November 30, 2022

 



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About Geo Ong

Geo Ong is a Los Angeles native who now lives in Kingston, NY, with his family. He is a lifelong urbanite who is learning how to seek solace in the natural world. Prior to joining Fractured Atlas, he spent twelve years working for independent bookstores. He reads whenever he gets the opportunity, gives his dog Carl loving belly rubs, and attempts to veganize his mother's Filipino recipes to varying degrees of success.