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Here are the upcoming opportunities for September 2023. Best of luck!
Month-Long Residency at Surel’s Place
Residencies at Surel’s Place in Garden City, Idaho, are open to professional visual, literary, and performance artists… any artist who needs a place to focus. The program includes a $100/wk living stipend and $300 travel stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Library Company of Philadelphia Innovation Award
The Library Company of Philadelphia's Innovation Award recognizes a project that creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship on the history and culture of the United States or the Atlantic World from the 17th to the late 19th century. The award carries a prize of $2,500.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 1, 2023
NAC Artist Fellowship
The National Arts Club (NAC) Artist Fellowship program provides a select number of established professional artists with twelve months of full membership. The chosen fellows can be working in any one (or more) of the disciplines reflected in the NAC's arts committees: archeology, architecture, art and technology, culinary arts, dance, decorative arts, fashion, film, fine arts, literature, music, photography, and theater.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Global Legacies of Arts and Crafts: Call for Papers
Global Legacies of Arts and Crafts invite 15-minute papers on any topic that expands the study of arts and crafts and its legacies, and are particularly interested in topics or geographies not represented in the literature on arts and crafts. Contributions from emerging scholars, curators and museum professionals, and craft practitioners are welcome. Selected contributions may be invited for publications in an edited volume and/or in the project online portal.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 1, 2023
8X5 Houston
SaveArtSpace and Art at a Time Like This (ATLT) have partnered to present the Houston, Texas, edition of 8X5, a nationwide public art campaign named for the size of an average prison cell. This public intervention presents the work of artists responding to mass incarceration and inequalities in the justice system. Selected artworks will be displayed on billboards, kiosks, and digital trucks. Artists at all stages of their careers are encouraged to apply.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Breck Create Artist-in-Residence
Breck Create's Artist-in-Residence program offers regional and national artists of all disciplines an opportunity to focus on process rather than product while engaging with the local community in Breckenridge, Colorado. Artists receive a biweekly stipend of $600 to cover expenses and may take classes and open studios at no cost based on availability.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 1, 2023
FESTAC ’77: Witnesses, Art Histories, and Documents
The New Art School Modality’s Fall 2023 course, FESTAC ‘77, will explore the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, which took place in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977. The 10-week course is hybrid in format.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Arts in Society Colorado Artist Grant
Administered by RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Arts in Society is a grant program supporting cross-sector work through the arts across Colorado. The program provides grants ranging from $5,000-$35,000 to individuals and organizations seeking to implement projects that utilize the arts as an integral element in promoting social justice and community welfare.
Geographic Focus
Colorado
Deadline
September 1, 2023 [Letter of Intent Deadline]
WeHo Artist Grant
The WeHo Artist Grant aims to nurture and support the long-term development of an artist’s ideas by providing funds that increase the capacity for artists to realize work, advance the conditions of creation, and navigate the complexities of both making art and making a career. The grant awards up to $6,000.
Geographic Focus
West Hollywood, California
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Academy of American Poets First Book Award
The Academy of American Poets First Book Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winner also receives an all-expense paid, six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in the Umbrian region of Italy.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Bloedel Reserve Creative Residency
The mission of the Creative Residency program at Bloedel Reserve in Bainbridge Island, Washington, is to foster creative thinking that is inspired by nature and that explores the connection between humans and the environment. Domestic residents receive a $1,000 stipend, and international residents may submit up to $1,000 of expenses for reimbursement.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency
The Keyholder Residency program at Lower East Side Printshop in New York City offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are free and one year long. Artists from all disciplines are eligible to apply. The program includes a $1,000 stipend.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Helen M. Salzburg Visiting Artist Fellowship
The Helen M. Salzburg Visiting Artist Fellowship is a new initiative at Palm Beach State College that aims to provide support for contemporary visual artists in Palm Beach County, Florida. The selected artist receives an endowment of $6,000.
Geographic Focus
Florida
Deadline
September 1, 2023
KHN Residency
The Kimmel Harding Nelson (KHN) Center for the Arts in Nebraska City awards up to 70 residencies per year 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.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Corsicana Artist & Writer Residency
The Corsicana Artist & Writer Residency takes place fifty miles south of Dallas, Texas, hosting two artists and one writer per two-month term.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 1, 2023
Golden Foundation Exploratory Residency
The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts offers an exploratory residency in central New York for artists working in paint. The program is based on the exploration of innovative uses in waterborne materials, oil paint technology, and PanPastel.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 6, 2023
Display Europe – Democracy Runs on Screens
“Display Europe – Democracy Runs on Screens” is a European Cultural Foundation grant to produce journalistic content with European relevance, which will be made accessible through a new media platform called displ.eu. Selected proposals will receive a grant up to €12,000.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 6, 2023
Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Grants
The Library of Congress’s Connecting Communities Digital Initiative offers two grants this month. The CCDI Grant for Higher Education supports minority serving higher education institutions in the development of projects that use Library of Congress digital materials and that center one or more of the following groups: Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and/or other communities of color in the 50 US states, the District of Columbia, territories and commonwealths. The CCDI Grant for Libraries, Archives, Museums provides support to libraries, archives, and museums that use Library of Congress materials to create projects that center one or more of the aforementioned groups.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 7, 2023
Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts
South Arts’ Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts support, acknowledge, and celebrate writers in South Arts’ nine-state region. The genre for the 2024 cycle is Fiction. A national jury will select one winner per state, for a group of nine State Fellows based on artistic excellence that reflects the diversity of the region, each of whom will receive a $5,000 award. The $25,000 Southern Prize will be awarded to the literary artist whose work demonstrates the highest artistic excellence.
Geographic Focus
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Deadline
September 8, 2023
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts' Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant program will provide one-time grants of up to $3,000 to professional dancers in need, who are in dire financial emergency. Common circumstances include cancelled performances, cutbacks or cancellations of dance engagement contracts, loss of touring opportunities, and ongoing shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 8, 2023
New Voices Open Call
New Voices is Print Center New York’s annual open call program, which provides opportunities for a curator-selected cohort of six to eight printmaking artists to present their work and develop their practices through a group exhibition, artist-led public programming, focused conversation and community building, and individualized resources for artistic and professional development. Each artist will receive an unrestricted artist fee of $2,500.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 8, 2023
MacDowell Fellowship
The MacDowell Fellowship provides artists at any stage in their careers with exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for up to six weeks in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Artists working in the following disciplines are eligible: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theater, and visual arts.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 10, 2023
Erie Canal Museum Artist in Residence
The Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse, New York, is seeking three artists for a one-year lens-based residency. The program will focus on the Erie Canal, contemplating its current condition, activating the landscape and public spaces, and considering its potential future. Projects may be journalistic, documentary, or conceptual, and may include and/or be accompanied by text/writing. Each artist will receive a $10,000 artist stipend. Preference may be given to artists who have lived or worked in Canal communities.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 10, 2023
The Joyce Awards
The Joyce Awards is the only regional program dedicated to supporting artists of color in major Great Lakes cities. Each award supports an artist in the creation and production of a new work while providing the commissioning organization with the resources needed to engage audiences, new partners, and their surrounding communities at large.
Geographic Focus
Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Indianapolis, Indiana; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
Deadline
September 11, 2023 [Letter of Inquiry Deadline]
Beam Center Open Calls
Beam Center seeks design proposals for ambitious public artworks that will be brought to life through collaborations between youth and creative big thinkers. Projects are realized by a community of more than 100 young people at each of our project sites: New Hampshire and Governors Island in New York City. Selected project artists receive a $5,000 award and an approximately $15,000 fabrication budget.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 11, 2023
Manhattan Arts Grants
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Manhattan Arts Grants support Manhattan-based artists, arts groups, and community organizations in accessing public funds for the presentation of rich arts activities with the public. Creative Engagement provides grants for arts events and programming in any discipline anywhere in Manhattan. Creative Learning provides grants for community arts education and participatory art-making projects in any discipline anywhere in Manhattan. UMEZ Arts Engagement provides grants for arts presentations and programming in any discipline anywhere in Upper Manhattan.
Geographic Focus
Manhattan, New York City
Deadline
September 12, 2023
Photo Urbanism Fellowship
The Design Trust for Public Space is looking for photographers to apply for its Photo Urbanism Fellowship. This year's fellow will work with the Green Space Connections project, documenting community-designed green space at NYC public housing developments. The fellowship includes a $15,000 stipend and a solo exhibition.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
September 12, 2023
Monument Lab Artist Residency
Through the theme of exchange, Monument Lab’s Artist Residency program supports emerging public artists to evolve their practice and prepare for future large-scale monument commission opportunities while building stronger relationships within and across the neighborhoods of Philadelphia. Two Philadelphia emerging artists will be selected to create prototype projects, along with a $10,000 artist stipend, a $20,000 production budget, and $7,500 in support for neighborhood-based partners and programming.
Geographic Focus
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Deadline
September 12, 2023
Lewis Center for the Arts Fellowships
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University offers two artist fellowship opportunities. The Princeton Arts Fellowship is open to early career artists who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working at Princeton. The Hodder Fellowship is for one academic year and provides the opportunity to pursue an independent project without a teaching requirement.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 12, 2023
Innovate Grant
Innovate Grant distributes two $1,800 grants each quarter to one visual artist and one photographer. In addition, six honorable mentions will be featured and promoted on the Innovate website. All media and genres are accepted.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 14, 2023
Radcliffe Fellowship in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Creative Arts
The Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University welcomes applications from scholars and artists proposing innovative work that confronts pressing social and policy issues and seeking to engage audiences beyond academia. The program provides an opportunity to develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions, and illuminate our past and our present.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 14, 2023
Artadia Awards: Boston
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists. In addition to unrestricted funds of $15,000, awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for 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: museum, galleries, arts nonprofit, the public art realm, etc.
Geographic Focus
Boston, Massachusetts
Deadline
September 15, 2023
OneBeat 13 & 14
OneBeat is accepting applications from 50 global artists (ages 19-35) from up to 54 eligible countries and territories from two month-long US-based music exchanges scheduled for the spring and fall of 2024. Each session begins with a residency followed by a tour.
Geographic Focus
Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela
Deadline
September 15, 2023
Amphion Grant Program
The Amphion Grant Program encourages the performance of contemporary concert music, particularly by American composers, through support to performing and presenting organizations that have demonstrated sustained artistic excellence, in addition to service organizations.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 15, 2023
Queer Voices of the World
The International Human Rights Art Festival (IHRAF) is now accepting submissions for Queer Voices of the World: An Anthology Responding to Worldwide LGBTQ+ Criminalization, a printed anthology of queer writers from around the world who have been impacted by anti-LGBTQ+ legislation or authoritarian movements over the past ten years. Each selected writer will receive a $25 stipend.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 15, 2023
Unbearable Being(s)
A special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, published by the Feminist Press, invites submissions that explore the literary, theoretical, and cultural lifeworlds created by and about unbearable being(s). This call for papers welcomes contributions that examine a wide array of literary and popular texts, films, performance, music, and other artistic expressions by and about marginalized “humans” who engage with histories of negative inheritances. Especially encouraged are scholars, artists, creative writers, and activists who themselves experience various forms of marginalization within nation-states in the Global North and Global South.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 15, 2023
Early Career Fellowship
The Academy for Teachers Early Career Fellowship addresses two critical problems in education: keeping new teachers in the classroom and the underrepresentation of teachers of color across the profession. This year's cycle supports K-12 STEAM and special education teachers with zero to five years of experience from public, charter, and private schools in the New York City metropolitan area.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
September 15, 2023
Uncommon Art Residency
Teton Artlab’s Uncommon Art Residency awards residents 1-2 weeks of complimentary accommodations at the Anvil Hotel in Jackson, Wyoming, as well as a $200/week cash stipend and $200 in dining credits. Residents have access to nearby shared studio spaces for ceramics, printmaking, photography, and more at the nearby Art Association of Jackson Hole.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 15, 2023
Peter Capell Award
The Peter Capell Award for Midwestern Creativity & Entrepreneurship recognizes Midwesterners working in the creative sector who demonstrate entrepreneurial thinking and business acumen. The award will be open to nominees from one of Arts Midwest’s nine member states each year. This year will be Wisconsin.
Geographic Focus
Wisconsin
Deadline
September 15, 2023
VCCA Residencies and International Exchanges
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) provides time and space for writers, visual artists, and composers in the form of residencies and international exchange programs. Residencies at Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, Virginia, and the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France, last anywhere from a week to two months. International Exchanges in Schwandorf, Germany, and Salzburg, Austria, offers the opportunity for artists to see their work within the context of a new culture. (Note: only fellows who have previously had a residency at Mt. San Angelo are eligible for the residency at the Moulin à Nef and the International Exchange programs.)
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 15, 2023
Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change
Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change is a showcase of original artistic works-in-progress with facilitated audience response. The theme is “Dance as Social Rescue & Healing.” Selected artists will present at up to 10-minute excerpt of a work-in-progress performed live from a location that they secure.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 15, 2023
CAA Publishing Grants
College Art Association of America (CAA) offers two grant opportunities for publishers. The Millard Meiss Publication Fund supports the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects. The Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant supports book length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art, visual studies, and related subjects. Applications for both are only for manuscripts that are under contract for publication.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 15, 2023
New England Dance Fund
Through the New England Dance Fund, the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) will award grants of $500 to $1,000 directly to choreographers who identify and articulate an important opportunity that will significantly impact aspects of their dance making or advance their role within the regional New England dance landscape.
Geographic Focus
New England
Deadline
September 15, 2023
Hambidge Residency
The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent. Each resident is given their own private studio at the Hambidge Center in north Georgia which provides work and living space with a bathroom and full kitchen.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 15, 2023
Mentoring Artist-in-Residence
The Mentoring Artist-in-Residence program at Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida features three mentoring artists in different disciplines. The program includes studio time, advising, group discussions, critiques, and voluntary collaborations. Photographer/lecturer Renee Cox, cultural practitioner william cordova, and performing artist Sharon Bridgforth are the three mentoring artists for this cycle.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 17, 2023
Lab Artists Program
Chicago Dancemakers Forum’s Lab Artists Program supports individual dancemakers and choreographers working in the Chicagoland area with an open call process. Four local dancemakers will each receive a grant of $25,000 along with a year of tailored support.
Geographic Focus
Chicago, Illinois
Deadline
September 18, 2023
Jazz Road Tours
South Arts’ Jazz Road Tours supports small, three- to six-site tours at any array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. Grant amounts generally range from $5,000 to $15,000. Professional jazz artists, working solo or with a composer-led or collective jazz ensemble of 2-10 musicians, are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 19, 2023
Wavestock Film Festival
The Wavestock Film Festival is accepting short film submissions in the following categories: documentary, fictional narrative, and music video. Films must be between 1-21 minutes in length and be made after January 1, 2018.
Geographic Focus
New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut
Deadline
September 20, 2023 [Extended Deadline]
Visiting Senior Fellowship Program
The National Gallery of Art's Visiting Senior Fellowship Program supports full-time research. Lectures, colloquia, and informal discussions complement the program. Up to two Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellowships and up to five Paul Mellon and Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellowships will be awarded.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 21, 2023
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant
The 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.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 22, 2023
National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant
The New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant provides funds for creation and US touring of artist-led, ensemble, devised projects. The grants support the development of the project, costs, and incentives needed to establish a plan for touring, and subsidies for presentation of the work.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 27, 2023
Slamdance Film Festival
The Slamdance Film Festival accepts films in every genre, on any topic, from every country around the world. The festival spotlights low-budget narrative and documentary features by first-time directors, breakout features from non-first time directors, short films across genres, and episodes.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 29, 2023 [Extended Deadline]
Open Call: Youth Journalist
The Bronx Council on the Arts is seeking a Bronx-based youth journalist to be commissioned to write articles related tot he Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos exhibition themes, specific artists, or artworks. A stipend of $200 per 500-word piece will be provided. Journalists must be a Bronx resident between the ages of 18 to 24.
Geographic Focus
Bronx, New York
Deadline
September 29, 2023
Cullman Center Fellowship
The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center Fellowship awards fifteen fellowships a year to outstanding scholars and writers – academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers, translators, and visual artists. The program includes a stipend of up to $75,000.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 29, 2023
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. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines. Grants are up to $18,000 toward eligible expenses.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
September 29, 2023
A.I.R. CURRENTS: Call for Artists
A.I.R. Gallery is currently accepting submissions for the 2024 CURRENTS Exhibition, Free Expression and the Inexpressible. This exhibition invites work from artists working across all forms and disciplines who are interrogating the edges of free expression, mining its history, and positing new ways of thinking about what we can and cannot express.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 30, 2023
The Image Centre Research Fellowships
The Image Centre will offer six fellowships for research related to photography. Research fellows have the opportunity to study select areas of The Image Centre's photography collections first-hand.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 30, 2023
Dry Tortugas National Park Artist in Residence
The National Parks Art Foundation’s residency program at Dry Tortugas National Park provides artists a month in a historical lighthouse keeper’s house on Loggerhead Key. The program includes a $4,000 stipend and is open to all artists, writers, musicians, and performance artists.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 30, 2023
True/False Art Program
Aimed at emerging and mid-career artists, True/False Film Fest is offering a five-week virtual artist-in-residency program. Artists will receive a $1,000 artist stipend for each art installation at the festival, including additional shipping/travel and/or material costs up to $500. This year's theme is “the Human Paradox.”
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
September 30, 2023
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