Grants, Residences and Call for Art
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Deadline: Rolling basis
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
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 (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
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.
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity – Visual Arts Thematic Residencies
Develop your work in a Visual Arts residency at Banff Centre. Access exceptional studios, mentorship from leading faculty, and a vibrant artistic community in the Canadian Rockies. The application fee is $65 ($35 for applicants who identify as Indigenous).
Deadlines: May 6, 2026 (Visual Arts Thematic – On Other Archives), June 3, 2026 (Visual Arts Thematic – Future Figurations)
Public Ceramics Summer 2026 BIPOC Fellowship
The PCF seeks to make ceramics classes accessible to people from marginalized identities that have been historically underrepresented in American studios. PCF Fellows are offered a paid semester of classes at the placement studio, along with opportunities to connect with other ceramicists of color and build community. Applications will be due April 14 EOD
Deadline: April 14th, 2026
Textile Society of America Research Travel Grants
The TSA Textile Research Travel Grant supports TSA members traveling to conduct textile-focused research. This may include visiting museum collections, engaging with artists or weavers in their local environments, studying special exhibitions, or other research opportunities centered on the study of actual textiles. Applicants may request $500 to $1,000, depending on the scope of travel.
Deadline: April 15, 2026
Neurodiverse Entrepreneur Program
The goal of the Neurodiverse Entrepreneur Program (NDEP) is to increase business leadership opportunities for people with developmental and/or cognitive differences such as autism, dyslexia, learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD and other related diagnoses. Companies with neurodiverse leaders serve as role models for future entrepreneurs while illustrating that neurodiversity can be a strength and an asset for other firms.
We firmly believe that brain differences drive innovation and company success, and we want to encourage inclusive leadership teams across all business sectors. The Neurodiverse Entrepreneurship Program celebrates and invests in the success of startups and small companies that have neurodiverse leaders in their C-Suite (e.g., CEO, COO, CIO, CFO, Directors, founders, or cofounders).
Deadline: April 15th, 2026
Eastside Arts Initiative Grant
The Eastside Arts Initiative (EAI) strengthens the arts in Eastern Los Angeles County by supporting local artists and nonprofit arts organizations whose creative work brings innovative, long-lasting, community-rooted programming.
Fund artist-led and nonprofit arts programming
Support the implementation of innovative creative work
Advance programming with lasting value
Open pathways to opportunities in the arts and creative industries
Deadline: April 16th, 2026
The Baldwin Fellowship Program
Exclusively devoted to people of the Global Majority, Baldwin for the Arts is committed to cultivating creative liberation for literary, visual, performing, and interdisciplinary artists. Baldwin Fellowships cover all residency costs for accepted artists including transportation, living accommodations, a private workspace, and daily meals prepared by a local chef.
Deadline: April 18th, 2026
GHOSTMACHINE Gallery - Annual Open Call 2026
Curated by MoMA Curatorial Associate Dominika Tylcz, this open call offers winners a two- or three-person show in Chinatown, New York City, this summer. 10 finalists will receive studio visits, and submissions will be considered for future projects. There is a $25 application fee.
Deadline: April 19, 2026
Cannonball is Philly’s home for independent artists. If your work doesn’t fit elsewhere, it probably belongs here. The Cannonball model relies on artists who bring full length (45-60 minute) works that can load-in/out of the performance space in 15 minutes. For those of you with shorter or longer works, we may be able to accommodate you!
Deadline: April 19th, 2026
The Global Arts Prize for Innovation
The Global Arts Prize celebrates artists and creative ventures spearheading an innovative approach to the relevance of arts in our time. Each year, $60,000 USD is awarded between two winners — regardless of size, location, or focus area — for their contributions to the future of culture.
Deadline: April 20th, 2026
Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS - Open Call for Proposals
Artists and collectives are invited to submit projects that propose speculative infrastructures for care, refusal, joy, and mutual recognition to be presented at the outdoor visual and performance art festival along 14th Street in Manhattan.
Deadline: April 21, 2026
3pts Artists & Makers Impact Fund
The 3pts Artists & Makers Impact Fund is a $3,500 award supporting U.S.-based artists and makers who create tangible objects or goods and are working to sustain and grow a business. Funding may be used for materials, equipment, workspace costs, professional development, production expenses, or other needs that strengthen an artist or maker’s practice.
Deadline: April 27th, 2026
The Impact Award for Native American Art
Harpo Foundation offers a $25,000 fellowship to amplify the contributions of under-recognized Native American contemporary visual artists. The Impact Award for Native American Art aims to further the Foundation’s mission to expand creative inquiry through inclusivity and equitable representation in visual arts.
Deadline: April 27th, 2026
Perelman Performing Arts Center x Civis Foundation – The Democracy Cycle 2026
Artists creating new work in theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance can apply for this commissioning program, which provides $60,000 in support to each awarded project.
Deadline: April 28, 2026 (5pm ET)
South Arts – Artist Creative Practice Grants
Artists in the Southeastern United States can apply for up to $3,000 in grant funding to support them as they pursue a variety of professional development opportunities that end on or before June 30, 2026.
Deadline: April 30, 2026
Art Omi: Artists Critics/Curators-in-Residence program
Art Omi: Artists invites artists, critics, and curators from around the world–representing a wide diversity of artistic styles and practices–to gather in rural New York to experiment, collaborate, and share ideas. Concentrated time for creative work is balanced with the stimulation of cultural exchange and critical appraisal.
The Art Omi: Artists Residency nurtures deep creative and professional connections in a vibrant social setting. Each session, 23 artists and 2 critics are invited to the program.
Deadline: April 30th, 2026
Recess - Critical Writing Open Call 2026
Critical Writing at Recess initiates meaningful exchange between artists and writers and supports the mutual production of new work. Participants receive a $4,000 stipend that includes compensation for the writing, collaborative work, and participation in cohort sessions.
Deadline: April 30, 2026
Open Call for Art: Take Care (of Us)
As artists, we imagine what could be different, sometimes what could be better. This exhibition invites engagement with that impulse while confronting the tensions that arise when our imaginings meet flawed reality. Take Care (of Us) explores how we shape (and are shaped by) ecosystems, environments, and one another, even as we remain vulnerable to forces beyond our control.
Artists working in all visual media are invited to apply to this year’s Open Call, guest juried by Natasha Zeta, CFEVA Visual Artist Fellowship Alum. Please find the submission form below. Accepted Submissions will be notified in early May for a July drop off date to Philadelphia, PA, 19104. The exhibition will be on view from July-September 2026.
Deadline: April 30th, 2026
The Vilcek Foundation – 2026 Open Call for Grants
US-based nonprofits that celebrate immigrants in the arts, sciences, education, or through the provision of social services are invited to apply for grants of $5,000 to $20,000.
Deadline: April 30, 2026
2026-2027 Rooted + Relational Hybrid Fellows
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies invites applications for the 2026-2027 cohort of the CENTRO Rooted & Relational Research Initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation. This program convenes scholars, writers, artists, and faculty in a cohort model fellowship program that responds to CENTRO’s annual theme. The fellowships run for one year (August 2026-July 2027). Fellows will spend their time at CENTRO working on their specific research projects and will be given a shared office space and access to CENTRO research resources and support.
The 2026-2027 theme, Black Cuerpas: Race, Body Politics & Culture, invites researchers who engage in the study of the ways that race, sex, gender, and body politics shape the histories and lived experiences of Boricuas across both the diaspora and the archipelago. We underscore this iteration of bodies, cuerpas, in order to pay close attention to the interplay of bodies, sex, race, and gendered language. Because Black Puerto Rican women and Afro-descendant communities face an exacerbating set of economic, ecological, educational, medical, laborial, penal, and femicide crises that are overlapping and interconnected and which impact individuals and communities in increasingly disconcerting and often life-threatening ways. This theme asks: What structures of power created these dynamics and what incisive and creative inroads have Afro-Puerto Rican communities accrossthe archipelago and diaspora made to address and transform these conditions?
Deadline: April 30th, 2026
Call for Writers Afrique Noire Magazine
In collaboration with The Creative Writing Hour, Afrique Noire Magazine is now accepting writing pitches. The theme is "Childhood joys that echo in our work". We invite writers to reflect on the sounds, textures, rituals and memories of childhood that continue to shape your creative expression today.
Open to all nationalities. Shortlisted writers will be spotlighted on our social media platforms and website.
Submit your pitch in any medium (short personal essays, poetry, interviews etc) that feels true to your work to submissions@afriquenoirmagazine.com
Deadline: April 30th, 2026
2026–2027 Rooted + Relational Community Micro-Grant
Applications are open for the 2026–2027 Rooted + Relational Community Micro-Grant program from the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.
Up to 12 grants of up to $5,000 will support community-based projects led by organizers, artists, creatives, writers, agricultural workers, activists and cultural workers in Puerto Rico and across the United States and its territories.
This year’s theme, “Black Cuerpas: Race, Body Politics & Culture,” invites projects that examine how race, gender, sexuality and body politics shape the histories and everyday lives of Boricuas across the archipelago and diaspora.
Applicants must be community-based individuals or organizations not affiliated with a college or university and must be 18 years or older.
Deadline: April 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.
The ESSENCE Film Festival (EFF), in collaboration with Essence Studios, showcases exceptional original projects in film, television, music, and new media created by Black storytellers across the African diaspora. Anchored in the belief that Black stories deserve to be told in their full truth with intent to disrupt mainstream narrative, and that Black storytellers should feel entitled in their right to do so, the Essence Film Festival has built a movement that uplifts and normalized the Black global worldview in Hollywood by championing and empowering the artists at the forefront of this storytelling.
Deadline: April 30th, 2026
The Laundromat Project Create & Connect
The Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund is a hyperlocal micro-grant program offered annually and managed by The LP. The Fund seeds and supports the creative ideas or civic actions of artists, cultural practitioners, community organizers, activists, and neighbors whose proposals aim to enrich community life in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
During the 2026 cycle, we will provide up to 20 grants in the amount of $1500 in support of project proposals. We are looking for creative initiatives or civic projects that are rooted in community and foster meaningful connections (please see examples below). In other words, we aim to support community building amongst neighbors through community-led action.
Deadline: May 1st, 2026
Gracia Artist Residency Program
Located in Antigua Guatemala, our residency hosts and collaborates with international & local creatives across all fields to support research, creation and connection surrounding creative work, process and purpose. Our residency program is focused on your creative practice and all the ways it can manifest. Residents work independently on proposed project or research. Residents are also encouraged to do nothing, to rest, to not work. To read one book slowly. Or go into town everyday and explore. You may design this residency however you wish.
Deadlines: May 2nd, 2026 (for Sepetember to December 2026 session)
Vox Populi Annual Juried Exhibition
For Vox’s 21st Annual Juried Exhibition, "here where the body knows it can hurt", we invite artwork in conversation with labor histories/ ritual gathering/ agriculture/ gastronomy/ sensory heritage/ beekeepers/ hospitality trades/ industry/ Reinvigoration/ the shape of stamina/ Open to the Book of Genesis/ make some edits/ What does inheritance taste like?/ biological ceremony/ The absurdity (perhaps) of ordering a latte at a time such as this one.
***personal artistry may include demonstrations, recipe design, tasting menus, brewing ceremonies, performance, satellite proposals, etc. Application Fee: $25.00
Deadline: May 2nd, 2026
A Cinematic Point of View Presented by Media Arts Council and the Lansdowne Arts Committee
In collaboration with the Media Arts Council, the Lansdowne Arts Committee invites regional artists to submit work for consideration for A Cinematic Point of View, a visual arts exhibition that explores how the language of cinematography is translated and adapted beyond the realm of filmmaking. Included artworks will showcase how visual artists, particularly photographers, reference, adapt, and reject this vocabulary in their own storytelling. Artists working in mediums beyond photography are welcome to apply.
Artists of all ages are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: May 4th, 2026
The Curatorial Program for Research - CPR 2026: HELLO NEW YORK!
The Curatorial Program for Research (CPR) is pleased to announce its open call for HELLO NEW YORK 2026! The program will take place from June 15 to June 27 and select participants will receive a stipend of $400. The application fee is $45. Our upcoming artist program in New York is a free-of-charge professional development and networking program that aims to assist resident and non-resident artists in getting to know the complex and vibrant art scene that exists in New York City. HNY 2026 will take place from June 15th to 27th, 2026.
Deadline: May 4, 2026
The 2026 Arts Writers Grant Application
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in four categories—articles, books, short-form writing, and translation—the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.
Deadline: May 6th, 2026
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa Artist Fellowship offers three years of funding, housing, and studio space to create meaningful work in Tulsa’s vibrant arts community. Grounded in the George Kaiser Family Foundation’s vision for social change, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship is committed to cultivating an environment where artists and arts workers invested in community can thrive.
Through sustained financial support, access to resources, and opportunities for connection, the Fellowship enables awardees to focus deeply on their artistic practice while engaging meaningfully with Tulsa
Deadline: May 7, 2026, at 6pm (CT)
Call for Artists: 2026 AFH Artists Fellowship
Artists for Humanity (AFH) is excited to open applications for the 2026 Artists Fellowship program. This 6-month fellowship offers a transformative opportunity for five emerging to mid-career level local artists to work directly with a prominent professional Mentor and AFH Fellowship Program Director to refine their artistic research process while developing a meaningful body of work that culminates in a final exhibition.
Deadline: May 8th, 2026
Open Call: Writings on Diasporican Visual Artists
CENTRO invites art critics, curators, scholars, and students to submit original essays on contemporary diasporic Puerto Rican visual artists for the Diasporican Art in Motion initiative to be published in our online magazine, RicanWritings. They especially welcome work aligned with CENTRO’s 2026 themes “Boricuas in Relation” and “Black Cuerpas: Race, Body Politics & Culture”
Deadline: May 10th, 2026
Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington Call for Curators
Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington is accepting proposals from independent curators for Assembly 2026, the fourth iteration of its national biennial.
With an eye towards the 250th birthday of the United States, MoCA Arlington’s 2026 biennial will focus on the current practices of contemporary artists who live and work in the regions that made up the original thirteen colonies. The museum is seeking proposals from independent curators based in these states for exhibitions that explore current material and conceptual trends within contemporary art.
Deadline: May 15th, 2026
Queer Barbie Show: Open Call
For Pride Month, The Jane Gallery invites artists to crack open the Dream House and reinvent one of the most recognizable cultural icons of the last sixty years. Because Barbie knows better than anyone: That You Can Be Anything You Want To Be.
2D • 3D • Altered Dolls • Mixed Media
$20 submission fee (supports exhibition programming)
Submit images + artwork details to Alison@thejanegallery.com. Venmo for submissions- Please include email in description.
Deadline: May 15th 2026
2027 Marble House Project Residency
Artists of all disciplines are invited to apply, including musicians, visual artists, writers, performers and culinary artists, as well as others working on projects that would benefit from contemplative time and interactions with creatives, including scientists, architects, organizers, academics and curators.
This is a space for deep focus and unexpected exchange, where ideas are tested over family-style meals and in the studio and outcomes stretch beyond their intended forms. Special themed residencies for families and on the topic of ecology broadly defined are available in 2027.
Deadline: May 17, 2026.
Center for Craft – 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship
Four $5,000 awards will be offered to fellows conducting research on underrepresented craft histories. The fellowship will culminate with a featured article on Hyperallergic,and a virtual program hosted by the Center for Craft.
Deadline: May 20, 2026
The 2026 Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator
Creative entrepreneurs power our region’s innovation, culture, and economy — and this program is here to help you grow. Eligible for-profit micro businesses (under $200K in revenue) in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties can receive:
$2,000 in funding
Small business consulting support
If you work in marketing, design, visual arts, film, music, architecture, digital media, publishing, or another creative field — this opportunity is for you.
Deadline: May, 22nd, 2026
RESIDENCIES AT THE NICHOLSON PROJECT
The Nicholson Project was founded with a deep commitment to providing artists with the time, space, and support to create and further their practice. We want you to feel 100% supported during your time at Nicholson and beyond. Our flagship residency program is our 10-week In-House Residency. As part of the In-House Residency award, you will receive the following:
Time and space to create to include 10-weeks of on-site live and workspace at The Nicholson Project (2310 Nicholson St. SE)
$5,000 artist stipend
Private access to the Residency Suite which includes an apartment inside of a converted row-house, with an artist studio attached. The apartment includes a fully furnished bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. See more details about the Residency Suite below.
One-on-one support from staff
Studio visits with a guest curator throughout your residency
Deadline: May 27th, 2026
Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation – 2026 Grant for Writing on Sculpture
The foundation will award one $20,000 grant to a writer who demonstrates a serious commitment to writing about sculpture, through fresh thinking on the history, aesthetics, purposes, imagination and/or situation of sculpture.
Deadline: May 31, 2026
Open Call for Artists – Chianciano Biennale 2026
From 15 to 29 August 2026, the historic town of Chianciano Terme will host its ninth edition, bringing together international artists, collectors, and art lovers in a vibrant celebration of creativity. $47 submission fee.
Deadline: May 31st, 2026
2027 Artist Residency Open Call
Summer residents receive 24-hour access to an adaptable, semi-private, 200–300 square foot studios in the historic Luther Barn. Accommodations include a private bedroom in a shared house, complete with common spaces, 1–2 full bathrooms, and a kitchen (artists participating in our Family Residency will receive a private house). Artists-in-residence also have access to our print shop and wood shop. Monthly programming includes open studios, group studio visits with our embedded critics, Ghost of a Dream, and one-on-one studio visits and artist talks with 2–3 creative professionals, our Director of Artistic Programming, and WP staff.
Deadline: July 1st, 2026
Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program
The nonprofit photography organization invites 12–15 artists to Syracuse, New York, to devote one month to creative projects every year. The residency includes a $5,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to facilities, staff support, and more. The application fee is $10.
Deadline: July 1, 2026
Artist Resources
Career Documentation for the Visual Artist
This free educational workbook provides a breadth of information and perspectives about legacy planning for artists, along with practical tools that support engagement with this long-term, and sometimes challenging, process. The guide is part of the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) initiative, which for nearly 15 years has supported artists in their efforts to catalogue, manage, and preserve their life’s work.
POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT
Pollock-Krasner grants have enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials, and pay for studio rent, as well as their expenses. Past recipients of Pollock-Krasner grants acknowledge their critical impact in allowing concentrated time for studio work and in preparing for exhibitions and other professional opportunities, such as accepting a residency.
Brewerytown Paperboy Open for Proposals
Brewerytown Paperboy is seeking proposals from artists, community organizations, & beyond who are interested in hosting events with us! These events could include anything from exhibitions and workshops to talks, screenings, or gatherings that bring people together around art, history, and connection.
We’re interested in collaborating with our neighbors on projects that spark curiosity or showcase innovative approaches to community storytelling. Whether you’re looking to test an idea, showcase a body of work, or facilitate an engaging discussion, we’d love to hear from you.
Reach out to learn more about our space, available dates, and what’s possible for your project. Let’s imagine something great together. Contact us by reaching out at (610) 864-8714 or via email at brewerytownpaperboy@gmail.com
Creative Leadership Lab – STARZ #TakeTheLead x Alliance of Women Director
Alliance of Women Directors is an inclusive community committed to substantially increasing the number of working women and gender-expansive directors in film, television, commercials and new media.
Our application for one-time financial assistance grants is open to professional musicians across all genres. If you are a professional musician in a specific time of need, please explore below to see if you might qualify for a financial grant to pay an essential bill.
