Grants, Residences and Call for Art

The Black Hippie Art Resource Hub is a curated collection of the best grants, workshops, residencies, and opportunities designed to support artists at every stage of their creative journey. Each listing is intentionally selected to help artists access funding, expand their practice, deepen their skills, and connect with communities that nurture growth. This hub reflects Black Hippie Art’s commitment to making opportunity accessible, transparent, and empowering—ensuring artists have what they need to thrive.

Workshops and Creative Cohorts

4 Week Series: Professionalizing Your Art Practice / Workshop

Start Date / Time: July 15, 2026 5:30 pm

End Date / Time: August 5, 2026 7:30 pm

In this 4-week workshop, Program Manager Anna Teiche will guide participants in developing their careers as artists. The program focuses on identifying career goals and provides resources, tips, and strategies for achieving them. Through discussions, writing activities, and presentations, participants will learn about opportunities for artists, application tips, and networking strategies. Attendees will gain the knowledge to build a sustainable and fulfilling art career aligned with their personal goals.

69&Sunny Summer School for Creatives

Feel inspired again in an artist business community. Meet other creatives and learn the technical skills of business, build a marketing system, and go from idea to action in as few, sustainable steps as possible.

*Intentionally designed for ease & flexibility, get support on building your brand, product, or service based business.

For: Young, creative professionals, Philly+

Timeline: July 23rd - Sep 6th

Registration closes: July 17th 11:59pm

Grants / Opportunities on Rolling Basis

The Vice Creator Fund

VICE is funding bold ideas from real creators. If that's you, let's talk.

Deadline: Rolling basis

Quarantine
Dubbed “purgatory for artists,” Quarantine is a week-long intensive art program on an 18th-century quarantine island off the coast of Menorca, Spain. The program is open to beginners and professionals alike and offers three 45-minute private mentorships throughout the week, with activities lasting 12+ hours per day. Phones are banned.
Deadline: Rolling.

Call to Artists: Kolaj Institute Solo Residencies

The mission of Kolaj Institute is to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, and disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. We operate a number of initiatives meant to bring together community, investigate critical issues, and raise collage’s standing in the art world.

Kolaj Institute’s solo residencies in New Orleans are designed to provide artists, curators, and writers with dedicated time and space to work on a project.

Deadline: Rolling Basis

Prairie Ronde Artist Residency

We’re looking for individuals who are highly independent, engaged and curious. We do not limit our residency to any specific medium but rather are looking for diverse artists who can creatively interact with The Mill.

We host three sessions annually and accept 2 – 4 residents per session. Accepted residents receive a stipend of $2,000 for 5 – 6 weeks, a $500 travel grant and private housing. We work with residents to share their work with the community (a gallery show, public workshop or other).

Deadline: Rolling Submissions

Prospect Street Writers House

Individual writers seeking freedom from distraction and hassle-free accommodations will find Prospect Street ideal.

Residencies include a private bedroom/studio with ensuite full bath, nightly dinners prepared by Chef Amy, and access to the library, and other spaces of the house, plus on-site laundry, wi-fi, and printer. Residents also enjoy access to the terraces, porches and gardens on the house grounds as well as the village, local trails, and the Bennington College campus all within walking distance.

Deadline: Rolling Basis

NEST Art Residency

NEST Art Residency (ICA Yerevan) is developed as an open cross-functional network of people, ideas, and desires. Its Education, Project, and Theory Labs provide a comprehensive set of resources, facilities, and tools for understanding and operating in the contemporary art scene in Armenia and the wider global art contexts. Offering on-demand services in all stages of multiscale and multi-format project production Project Lab delivers consulting, guidance, creative management assistance, and production.

Deadline: Rolling Basis

NoName Gallery 2026/2027 Submission

We’re building our 2026/2027 lineup and looking for artists, makers, and creatives who want to do more than just hang their work on a wall!

Whether you:

  • Make original work and want to be part of a group or solo exhibition

  • Sell prints, zines, candles, jewelry, or other small items, and want to stock them in our shop

  • Want to teach a small, intimate art class or creative workshop

  • Love vending and want to be part of our pop-up markets and community events

  • There are opportunities at the gallery and off-site

Touch Magazine Open Call to Black Women Writers

Torch Magazine is open to submissions from Black women writers. Whether you’re into Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, or Scripts (plays or screenplays), we’d love to read your work! Selected submissions will receive $150 and be showcased in our Friday Feature. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis year-round—no deadline

Deadline: Rolling Basis

2026 Contributing Writer Naya Magazine

Naya Magazine is accepting submissions from writers for regular online contributions. Naya Magazine is committed to amplifying AAPI voices in literature, journalism, community, and the arts.

They are looking for complete works, works in progress and pitches! These include:

  • Personal Essays

  • Interviews

  • Features (Community/Historic/Academic included)

  • Reviews and Commentary (music, film, literature, art)

  • Experimental work

Email submissions to:
nicolenayamagazine@gmail.com

Residencia Corazón
Residencia Corazón is an independent, artist-run residency in La
Plata, Argentina—a home for artists since 2006. The program welcomes visual
artists, writers, curators, and creative researchers from around the
world for one- to three-month residencies. Each stay is fully personalized, and fees range from $800 to $1,500 per month.
Deadline: Rolling

Hangar / Center of Artistic Research

The Residency program at Hangar encourages dialogue, exchange and experimentation. The program is non-prescriptive and process-based, allowing visiting artists to develop projects in response to their new environment or to conduct research benefiting from Lisbon’s resources.

The Residencies Program is firmly established in the Lisbon arts scene, promoting diverse cultures and practices through international and experimental projects.

Hamilton Arts 2026 Open Call for Programs

Our 2026 Open Call for Programs invites proposals for artist-led workshops, gatherings, and activations. Selected applicants will have the opportunity to use Hamiltonian Artists’ gallery space, receive marketing support, access gallery inventory, and benefit from on-site assistance from Hamiltonian Artists staff.'

Deadline: Rolling Basis

My Big Idea Scholarships for Women

These Scholarships are designed for women who have a BIG IDEA and need seed funding to develop, test, or validate it. It is known how hard it is to get a new business or social enterprise off the ground. Often, what makes the difference is having the time, resources, and support to bring an idea to life. Global Sisters wants to back you at this pivotal moment — the moment that can make or break a brilliant idea. At the end of 2026, all Scholars will have the opportunity to showcase their BIG IDEAS to Global Sisters funders and corporate partners — opening doors to further support, investment, and visibility. An untied $10,000 grant to use in any way that helps bring your idea to life will be awarded.

Deadline: Rolling

CERF+ Emergency Relief Grants

The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) offers $3,000 Emergency Relief Grants to craft artists who experienced a recent and substantially disruptive emergency or disaster.

The CERF+ emergency relief grant focuses on materials-based craft and folk/traditional artists who have experienced a recent, career or practice threatening emergency, such as an illness, injury, theft, fire or climate related disaster and/or incurred significant medical expenses related to treatment and recovery from COVID-19.

Due to the high demand for emergency relief assistance and limited funding, cases based solely on economic losses due to COVID-19 are not eligible.

Musicares Disaster Relief Support

MusiCares is a resource to the music community impacted by recent natural disasters, including the fires in the Los Angeles area. MusiCares provides disaster relief intended to cover short-term costs from evacuating (hotel, food, supplies). MusiCares is also able to provide additional support for individuals with considerable impact, including medical issues, damaged music equipment or longer-term relocation needs.

Requirements

Individuals are eligible for MusiCares disaster relief support after three years employment in music in any capacity or credit on six commercially released recordings.

Application Instructions

If you would like to request support from MusiCares, please reach out to help@musicares.org.


2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists with Deadlines

PA Cultural Exchange Fellowship

This statewide fellowship will bring together practitioners from across Pennsylvania for immersive learning exchanges, peer connection, leadership development, and community-based project support. Selected fellows will receive a $10,000 fellowship award and participate in cultural exchange weekends in Pittsburgh, the PA Wilds, and York.

Deadline: July 14th, 2026

Artist Grant - July

Artist Grant awards an unrestricted $1200 USD grant to one visual artist three times each year. They showcase grantees on their website, social media, and marketing materials. They also feature selected applicants (with permission) on their social media to celebrate and promote artists. They hope this provides insight into the wide range of creative efforts they consider. Artists retain their copyrights. Entry fee is $30.

Deadline: July 15th, 2026

Loghaven Artist Residency

Located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee, this program provides lodging in five historic log cabins, access to new, purpose-built studio spaces, and awards artists with stipends to support the creation of new work.

Deadline: July 15, 2026

Call for Art Botanical Dreamscapes

Anthology Gallery X Poetic Tiger Gallery Present:Botanical Dreamscapes.  An online exhibition inviting artists into the lush, liminal space where the natural world slips into reverie. This exhibition celebrates flora not as still life but as living mythology: flowers that bloom in impossible colors, gardens that keep secrets, vines and roots that twist through memory, longing, and transformation.

We’re drawn to work that treats the botanical as a portal, where a single petal or tangled thicket can hold an entire interior world. Whether tender or strange, cultivated or wild, we want the plant kingdom rendered as a place you could step into and lose yourself.

Deadline: July 15th, 2026

Ucross – Spring 2027 Artist Fellowships
General Studio Fellows and Native American Fellowship recipients enjoy uninterrupted time and space, private studios, meals, and a $1,500 stipend on a 20,000-acre ranch in Wyoming. The application fee is $40; this is waived for NAF applicants.
Deadline: July 15, 2026

21c ARTADIA AWARD

Launched in Louisville, KY in 2021, the 21c Artadia Award marked the beginning of a long-term partnership, which annually provides $15,000 in unrestricted funds to one artist living and working in the unique creative communities where 21c Museum Hotels are located. The 21c Artadia Award is designed to provide essential funding and recognition to artists at pivotal points in their careers, strengthen arts communities, and spur new levels of career achievement.

Deadline: July 15th, 2026

Grand Canyon Conservancy Artist in Residence

The Grand Canyon Artist in Residence Program elevates the cultural legacy of the park through innovative artwork and compelling programs that create emotional and intellectual ties between the public and this precious natural resource. Annually, five Artists in Residence are selected to live onsite and provide unique opportunities for visitors to engage with the land, cultures, and histories of the region through emotional and intellectually stimulating contemporary art – including exhibitions, films, performances, workshops, and unique participatory projects.

Deadline: July 15th, 2026

The Kyoto Retreat

Now in its 2nd year, The Kyoto Retreat offers artists, curators, and writers from around the world the opportunity to spend four weeks in Kyoto for research, exploration, and inspiration. Selected participants receive a roundtrip flight, private accommodation, and $800 USD to supplement meals and local transportation. There is a $95 application fee. The program welcomes applicants at all career stages working in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, and interdisciplinary and social practice. Applicants must be 21 and older.

Deadline: July 17, 2026

Colored Girls for Colored Girls Call for Art

Opening August 19, 2026, Colored Girls for Colored Girls—Evolution of Expression serves as ARTE NOIR's flagship visual arts contribution to the 50th anniversary commemoration of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. The exhibition brings together women artists whose works move between tenderness and rupture, memory and invention. Drawing from Shange's formal and emotional architecture, the exhibition uses the figures of lady in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, brown, and purple as a curatorial framework through which questions of identity, embodiment, environment, and remembrance come into view. Through painting, collage, light, gesture, and color, the exhibition considers Black womanhood as both lived experience and artistic method. ARTE NOIR invites visitors into a space shaped by resonance, reflection, and possibility—one that honors the imaginative and critical force of Black women artists.

Deadline: July 18th,2026

Held Together – Open Call

hall pass is seeking work which centers activation: completed by interaction, collaboration, or participation, with particular interest in site-specific and temporal works. Held Together: Multidisciplinary Art Show invites viewers to indulge all of their senses, experience live performances, and maybe even leave their own mark. We invite all creatives, and particularly anyone who hasn’t shown work before. This call is not only open to visual art, but also performance, written work, audio, culinary, participatory experiential work, and more.

Deadline: July 19th, 2026

Hyundai Motor Group–The 7th VH AWARD

A global award for emerging media artists engaging with the context of Asia, featuring production grants, an online residency with Ars Electronica, and global exhibitions. This 7th edition introduces a new “Honorary Mention” category and awards the Grand Prix winner an additional $30,000 grant.

Deadline: July 21, 2026.

Grand Marais Artist Colony Printmaking Residencies
Grand Marais Art Colony invites applications for two printmaking residencies that run concurrently from September 28 to October 10. A Printmaking Community Resident will provide printmaking art activities to area youth through school partnerships and drop-in events, and a Printmaking Teaching Resident will provide printmaking opportunities to the broader community through classes and a drop-in activity. Each residency includes a $2,500 stipend and free lodging if the artist is from outside the area. There is a $5 submission fee for each opportunity.
Deadline: July 21, 2026

NextFab’s Artisan Accelerator 2026

NextFab’s Artisan Accelerator is a 13-week program designed to provide current and aspiring creative entrepreneurs who make physical products with business education, access to resources, and community support to build viable businesses. This program will be accepting 15 applicants (priority given to historically disadvantaged communities) for the 2026 cohort.

Deadline: July 22nd, 2026

RestFest Film Festival 2027

RestFest Film Festival is an artist-run film and video art festival and online gathering space created by/for Disabled, Deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mentally ill, and or mad community.

Deadline: July 27th, 2026

The CFAT Media Art Scholarship

The CFAT Media Art Scholarship program is a rigorous six-month education and mentorship opportunity for five emerging artists who propose to make a media art project. Selected applicants are required to make a media art piece in a medium in which they have little to no previous experience. Scholars are responsible for learning the skills required for completing their piece within the parameters of the program. The Media Art Scholarship is open to any member of the public who does not currently have access to this type of focused education and skill development (current students are not eligible).

Deadline: July 27th, 2026

The Homiens Art Prize

Whether you are an emerging artist seeking a definitive career launchpad or an established professional, the Homiens Art Prize represents a meritocratic and prestigious gateway to significant industry recognition. As a premier international initiative awarding over $12,000 USD in annual unrestricted funding, our non-acquisitive (ownership retained by the artist) prize serves as a catalyst for measurable professional growth.

ELIGIBILITY

Open to all artists globally. Artist representatives may submit on behalf of artists:

We accept all artworks, mediums, and art forms, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, printmaking, installation, and audiovisual. Artworks completed in any year are eligible. There are no theme or size restrictions.

Deadline: July 29th, 2026

Liberty Art Award

The Liberty Speciality Markets Art Award elevates graduate artists through a comprehensive two-year programme. Selected participants receive funding, training, exhibition and sales opportunities. Artists exhibit their work in Liberty's London office and participate in professional development programming culminating in an award ceremony. The programme welcomes all media including moving image, sculpture, photography, print, painting, and textiles. Artists benefit from mentoring and real-world guidance to build sustainable artistic careers.

Deadline: July 29th,2026

The Residency at Casa Gracìa
Founded and developed by Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian, the Residency at Casa Gràcia is an opportunity for artists and writers to dedicate focused time to their own practice in an inspired setting in the historic city of Mahon. Three visual artists are invited for stays of up to three months and two writers for stays of up to six months. In addition to providing living accommodations, studio space, all utilities, and a weekly cleaning service, some residents will qualify for a modest stipend. The program reserves a residency for artists currently based in Menorca, the Balearic Islands, or mainland Spain.
Deadline: July 31, 2026.

CASA PIP Residency for Filmmakers
This residency program in Portugal is founded and run by filmmakers. CASA PIP encourages residents to slow down and play, providing filmmakers with the time, peace, space, and general “rulelessness” to move meaningfully forward on with their work, whether it’s a whole project or just the budding idea for one. The residency is free to attend. There’s a €35 application fee.
Deadline: July 31, 2026.

AXS Film Fund

AXS Film Fund supports filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators living with disabilities from a range of backgrounds, particularly those from historically underserved communities.

Deadline: July 31st, 2026

Peters Valley School of Craft Residency

This program is open to artists working in blacksmithing, ceramics, fibers, jewelry and fine metals, wood, and printmaking. Residents receive a $600 or $900 stipend to work in fully equipped studios for two or three weeks. Housing is included. There is a $10 application fee.

Deadline: July 31, 2026

Field Funds // Open call: Artist-led Gatherings

We believe all parts of the creative process are valuable—from seeding new ideas to sharing work with audiences and archiving fleeting experiences. So, we designed a process where all eligible applications have the same chance of being funded. For this reason, there is no need for applicants to make a case for why a project is deserving of support, instead we ask applicants to speak directly and concisely to how they will specifically use $500.

Deadline: July 31st, 2026

LFA 2026 Open Call CARTOGRAPHIES OF BELONGING

Cartographies of Belonging: Mapping Roots, Identity, and Healing explores the personal and collective landscapes that shape who we are. Through memory, migration, family histories, cultural inheritance, and lived experience, artists create visual maps that reveal the complex pathways of identity and belonging.

For many individuals, identity is not defined by a single place, culture, or experience. Rather, it is shaped by intersections—between countries, languages, generations, traditions, and personal journeys. These layered experiences create rich narratives of resilience, adaptation, and transformation.

Deadline: July 31st, 2026

Fou Gallery Fellowship Program

Fou is pleased to announce the launch of its inaugural Fellowship Program. This six-month fellowship offers an immersive, hands-on opportunity for emerging art professionals, curators, and creative practitioners to engage deeply with contemporary gallery operations, curatorial research, and community-driven arts programming. Based in the heart of New York City, fellows will work closely with our team to bridge the gap between academic research and commercial gallery practice, gaining invaluable insight into the NYC art ecosystem.

Application Instructions

  • Interested candidates should submit the following materials to [info@fougallery.com] with the subject line “Application: Fou Fellowship [Your Name]”:

  • Resume / CV

  • Cover Letter (detailing your interest in Fou and how this fellowship aligns with your career goals)

  • Portfolio or Writing Sample (relevant design/photography work or an English-Chinese translation/art writing sample)

Deadline: July 31st, 2026

OPEN CALL: "Solidarity" Short Film Series

The Solidarity Short Film Series will attempt to intervene mainstream, one-dimensional narratives of detachment, apathy, and severance by highlighting ways that individuals/groups of people have/can come together across race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, nationality, and other demarcations of fragmentation.

Whether through the lens of queer joy, pro-Palestine activism, class consciousness, police abolitionism, contraception and abortion access, racial justice movements, cultural phenomena, fantastical ideation, whimsical creation, all of the above, or others, this Short Film Series invites artists to ponder, confront, action, and represent (m)any dimension(s) of what “Solidarity” means.

Deadline: August 1st, 2026

BigCi Environmental Awards 2026
Australian and international artists working in visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, filmmaking, and curating are invited to submit entries for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2026. Two winning artists will each receive a free four-week residency at BigCi, where they will have the opportunity to explore the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Wollemi, Blue Mountains, and Gardens of Stone National Parks in Australia. The winners also receive an AUD$5,000 award. There is an AUD$40 application fee.
Deadline: August 2, 2026.

Leeway Foundation – Art and Change Grant
This grant provides up to $5,000 to fund art for social change projects by women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia.
Deadline: August 3, 2026

2026 AICA International Incentive Prize for Art Critics

Critics are invited to submit a 2000–3000 essay on the theme “Art criticism and eco-socially engaged practices: new writing, new challenges?” First place will receive €2000, second place €1000, and third place €500.

Deadline: August 6, 2026

Talking Textiles: Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize

Founded by Li Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano, the prize celebrates emerging voices in textile and fashion design whose work demonstrates sustainable thinking, material innovation, and a visionary approach to textiles. The competition is international and open to students currently enrolled in programs focused on textiles, fashion, interior, or lifestyle textiles. Graduates from 2025 and 2026 are also eligible to apply.

Deadline: August 7, 2026

Clotilda Memorial Alabama Historical Commission (International)

The Alabama Historical Commission is seeking proposals to honor the last known African captives trafficked to the United States through the transatlantic slave trade: the Clotilda survivors. The memorial will convey dimensions of the survivors’ lives and legacies—celebrating their resilient and determined spirits amidst violent dislocation, enslavement, and discrimination. Projects will be developed through a collaborative process that will engage the community founded by the Clotilda survivors and other formerly enslaved people: historic Africatown and the expansive diaspora. The total budget is $2,000,000.

Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CST on August 9, 2026

Wave Hill — 9th Annual AnkhLave Garden Project Fellowship
Now accepting applications from NYC-based, BIPOC artists. Applications are welcome from artists who work across media. Six artists will receive $1,800 stipends for the Winter Fellowship.
Deadline: August 10, 2026

Smack Mellon Open Call: Emerging Curators

Smack Mellon seeks proposals from Emerging Curators based in the New York City area for their annual Emerging Artists Summer Group Exhibition. The exhibition will take place across Smack Mellon’s two gallery spaces and is slated to open during the summer of 2027.

We define Emerging Curator as someone either independent or affiliated with an institution who is beginning their career as a curator. This exhibition will be curated by the selected Emerging Curator and should only include works by Emerging Artists. In addition to providing a curatorial framework, the curator will work in collaboration with Smack Mellon’s staff to develop an open call for artists that will be announced during fall 2026. Curators must select more than 70% of their artists from the open call, and exhibitions must include at least 60% artists who identify as women (inclusive of trans and nonbinary individuals) in accordance with Smack Mellon’s mission.

Deadline: August 15th, 2026

Liu Shiming Artist Grants

Designed to support the work of visual artists during the first decade of their careers, the Liu Shiming Artist Grants support the creation or completion of new projects that explore the interplay between traditional cultural or historical influences and contemporary artistic practice. Up to five artists will be selected to receive a $5,000 grant.

Deadline: August 31, 2026.

James Renwick Alliance for Craft – Chrysalis Award

An emerging artist in ceramics will receive a $5,000 unrestricted award, a one-year JRACraft membership, and the opportunity to present their work at a JRACraft event.

Deadline: August 23, 2026

2026 Chrysalis Award for Emerging Ceramic Artists (U.S.)

The Chrysalis Award was created by the James Renwick Alliance for Craft to support and inspire emerging craft artists in the United States. Eligible applicants are in the early stages of their professional artistic careers—regardless of age—and have completed their training within the past five years. This year’s award will recognize an emerging artist working in ceramics, who will receive a $5,000 unrestricted award, a one-year JRACraft membership, and the opportunity to present their work at a JRACraft event.

Deadline: August 23, 2026.

Descover Artists Natural Dye Retreat

6 selected participants will be invited to attend a 5-day fully funded natural dye retreat in Chios, Greece, from May 8–12, 2027, led by visual artist George Petsikopoulos. Rooted in traditional textile crafts and natural dye practices, the retreat offers an immersive experience centred around colour, material, process, and nature.

Set within the quiet landscape of Chios, the program combines hands-on workshops with communal meals, time by the sea, and space for rest, reflection, and creative exploration. Throughout the retreat, participants will experiment with plant-based dyes, fabric preparation, pigment extraction, colour layering, and textile processes using natural materials sourced from the island and surrounding environment.

Open to artists, designers, makers, and complete beginners alike, the retreat values curiosity, experimentation, and connection over technical experience or finished outcomes.

Deadline: September 1st, 2026

Hiding in Plain Site: International Public Art Short Film Festival (International)

HPS invites filmmakers, artists, and creative practitioners to submit short works between two and 20 minutes for consideration in this screening program, which will premiere on October 25 in Minneapolis. HPS seeks to bring together film, video art, experimental media, XR (extended reality), and other works that expand how public art is experienced and represented.

Deadline: September 10, 2026

Summer 2026 $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art & Photo

Innovate Grant awards two $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, 18 honorable mentions (nine in art and nine in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. Application fee $35

Deadline: September 17th, 2026

The Bennett Prize – 2026/2027 Award Cycle
For women figurative realist painters. The grand prize winner receives $75,000 and a solo exhibition. The first runner-up receives $10,000. A five-person jury will select 10 finalists to be featured in a group exhibition that will travel the US. The application fee is $50.

Deadline: September 19th, 2026

Paul & Daisy Soros — Fellowships for New Americans 2027

Up to $90,000 for immigrant & New American visual artists, architects & designers pursuing MFA, MA, PhD & other graduate degrees in any field at any accredited US institution.

Deadline: October 29, 2026

.ART Award Featured

Every artist who applies builds a working archive in the process: their bio, their work, the story behind it, gathered in one place on a .ART domain. The total prize value for the .ART Award exceeds $50,000, including a $15,000 Grand Prize, residencies at Château du Fresne in France and Anfitrion in Spain, an editorial feature in Whitewall Magazine, and a premium .ART domain valued at $10,000.

Deadline: November 1, 2026.