Resources & Grants for Creatives
Oak Spring Garden Foundation – 2026 Interdisciplinary Residency
Open to all creative practitioners working on projects that address plants, landscapes, or gardens. The award includes a $2,000 or $800 grant and a five- or two-week stay at OSGF in Northern Virginia.
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
This annual award offers one early-career artist developing new works addressing plants, gardens, or landscapes $10,000 and a two- to five-week stay at Oak Spring. Visual artists, writers, dancers, and musicians are eligible.
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation – 2025 Grant for Sculpture
In 2025, the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation, committed to supporting the field of sculpture, will award a $20,000 grant to a sculptor who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to sculpture and an imaginative engagement with its materials, histories, and situation.
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Summer 2025 Residency + Solo Exhibition
Blah Blah Gallery is accepting applications for our Summer 2025 Residency + Solo Exhibition. This opportunity is open to emerging and mid-career women and non-binary artists working in any medium. Artists will be provided a dedicated studio space for July and present a solo exhibition in August 2025 at Blah Blah Gallery.
During the residency period, the selected artist will meet with guest artists and curators from Philadelphia for studio visits and receive feedback on their work. Artists are invited to create a new body of work or continue an existing body of work that they would like to present in a solo exhibition after the residency. This opportunity will provide an artist with the time and space to make work and connect with the Philadelphia arts community, and conclude with a solo show at Philadelphia’s only commercial gallery dedicated to women and non-binary artists.
Deadline: May 31st, 2025
THE 2026 DVAA Residency + Fellowship Open Call
About the Residency + Fellowship Program: The DVAA Fellowship & Residency was created in 2018 as an opportunity for DVAA to serve Greater Philadelphia based underserved artists at pivotal stages within their personal and collective practices. The program serves as a peer mentorship program between cohort members, DVAA Staff and artists, and partnering spaces leading to innovative exhibitions and related community-centered events.
The DVAA Fellowship, a year-long partnership between DVAA and selected artists, offers 5 Exhibition and Programming Tracks specializing in DIY Collectives, Printmaking, LGBTQ+ Narratives, Marginalized Narratives, and Social Justice.
The DVAA Residency, a month-long studio residency + year-long development program, supports underrepresented artists from a diverse range of backgrounds, ages, and experience levels at pivotal stages in their artistic practices
Applications are due Saturday, May 31st, 2025, at 11:59 PM, and all applicants will be notified by Monday, September 1st, 2025.
Headlands Center for the Arts Opportunities
The Artist in Residence (AIR) program is at the heart of Headlands. It offers fully sponsored residencies and studios to local, national, and international artists working in all disciplines.
Deadline: June 2, 2025
The Farm Margaret River Residency
This five- to eight-week residency is geared toward site-responsive projects and engagement with the land. Residents receive a $7,500 stipend, studio space, accommodations, and travel assistance.
Deadline: 5 p.m. AWST on June 2, 2025.
Artville Public Art Open Call
Artists are welcome to submit proposals for temporary, site-specific public art projects to be showcased throughout Nashville during the Artville festival weekend, September 26 to 28, 2025. Selected artists will be invited to accept a grant to bring their creative visions to life, plus the chance for a cash prize. Total cash prizes equal $10,000.
Deadline: June 4, 2025
Banff Centre Early Career Writers of Young Adult and Children’s Books
This self-directed writing residency supports new writers of young adult and children’s books at varying levels of accomplishment—from not-yet-published writers to those with one published book—to improve their writing skills and expand their practice, taking it to the next level. This two-week residency has a flexible format and caters to any new writer of young adult or children’s books interested in mentorship, public reading opportunities, and feedback from faculty and fellow participants.
Deadline: June 4, 2025
The Chamberlain Award
This fully sponsored artist residency and $10,000 prize will support an artist working in the social practice discipline. The award supports artists employing non-traditional media to creatively engage with social concerns of the day.
Deadline: June 5, 2025
The Chiaro Award
This fully sponsored artist residency and $15,000 prize will support a mid-career painter residing in the United States. The residency includes a private studio, and inclusion in a dynamic network of Headlands’ creative practitioners and thinkers.
Deadline: June 5, 2025
Art Fluent Evolution Grant
Art Fluent awards a $1,000 grant to one visual artist each cycle. The unrestricted funds may be applied toward any expense to enhance the artist’s ability to create work. There is a $35 entry fee.
Deadline: June 6, 2025.
2025 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award
Booooooom and Bookmobile are teaming up for this popular open call supporting artist publishing. Nine artists, illustrators, or photographers will be selected to create a book or zine featuring a cohesive body of work at no cost. Zine applications are free to all, while book applications are free to Booooooom members or $15.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on June 6, 2025.
Women in Watercolor International Juried Competition
This online-only competition is open to all women artists working in watercolor on paper, synthetic paper, watercolor board, Yupo, or other two-dimensional surfaces. Awards range from $2,500 to $150. There is a $35 entry fee.
Deadline: June 8, 2025
2026 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion & Design and Fashion & Culture
The Vilcek Foundation will award six Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise for $50,000 in two categories: Fashion & Design and Fashion & Culture. In each category, three young immigrant fashion professionals who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field will individually receive an unrestricted cash prize of $50,000.
Deadline: June 9, 2025
Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) Get Ready Grants
Get Ready Grants provide craft artists with up to $1,000 for activities to safeguard their studios, protect their practices, and prepare for emergencies. Priority is given to applicants who have been underrepresented in the craft community, including BIPOC and folk/traditional artists.
Deadline: June 10, 2025.
Banff Centre Artist in Residence – Winter 2026
Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) – Winter 2026 is designed for visual artists at any stage of their career to focus on their practice in a supportive learning environment. Over five weeks, participants are encouraged to self-direct their research and time, as well as cultivate new directions in their work. This residency is for individual artists and collaborative groups (of no more than two).
Deadline: June 11, 2025
Art Renewal Center Salon Competition
Dedicated to 21st-century realism, this competition offers $130,000+ in cash awards. Categories include figurative, portraiture, landscape, sculpture, and more. There is a $93 entry fee.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on June 12, 2025
Prospect Art: Open Call – In Flux
Prospect Art invites visual artists worldwide to apply for a $1,000 NEW WORK commission exploring the theme In Flux. This opportunity supports new conceptually driven, self-contained projects that examine the liminal space between analog and digital, physical and virtual, handmade and algorithmic. In addition to the commissioned artist, select applicants will be featured in the ONE WORK online publication series or the 2026 BROADCAST online events program curated by Julianna Heller—application fee: $10.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Prairie Ronde Artist Residency
Prairie Ronde Artist Residency offers 5–6 week residencies providing artists with a $2,000 stipend, $500 travel grant, private housing, and opportunities to engage with the historic 420,000-square-foot former Lee Paper Company mill and its 80-acre property. Three sessions are hosted annually, accepting 2–4 residents per session. Residents are encouraged to share their work with the community through exhibitions, workshops, or performances. Fee: $25.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Women’s Studio Workshop
Studio Workspace Residency
The Studio Workspace Residency is an opportunity for artists to create new work and fully immerse themselves in WSW’s supportive environment. We invite applications from artists at any stage of their careers. Artists may choose to work in any one or more studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, darkroom photography, or ceramics.
Art-in-Ed Workspace Residency
The Art-in-Education (AIE) Workspace Residency is for artists interested in working with local school students while creating their work in WSW’s supportive and immersive environment. This is an opportunity for artists with a range of teaching experience, from seasoned teachers and professors to those with minimal experience and an interest in gaining skills and knowledge.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Stove Works Residency
This residency invites eight artists to live and work for one to three months at a time in Chattanooga, TN. Six of the studios are designed to accommodate artists who require significant space in their practice, while the remaining two accommodate non-object based practices, i.e. writers, curators, and academics. Fee: $20–$30.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grants
Two funding rounds annually are open to individual artists working across disciplines who can apply for grants of up to AUD $15,000. This round funds travel or projects that commence after September 19, 2025.
Deadline: June 17, 2025
Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture Artist Residency
Artists, ecological scientists, and scholars wanting to explore connections to nature, land conservation, historic preservation, agriculture and community building projects are invited to PMRCAA’s Residency Program, which offers a space where cultural practitioners, scientists, and creative thinkers can immerse themselves in their work and research through access to studios, open spaces, and beautiful scenery. Residency theme: Adaptation.
Deadline: June 20, 2025
AAP Magazine #49 B&W Photography Open Call
The contest is open to any interpretation of black-and-white photography. Winners will receive $1,000 and their winning image(s) or full portfolio published in AAP Magazine, vol. 49, There is a $35 entry fee for the first three images, plus $5 for each additional image.
Deadline: June 24, 2025.
Banff Centre Indigenous Fashion Runway Residency 2025
The three-week Indigenous Fashion Runway Residency offers four Indigenous fashion designers the opportunity to build their portfolios and showcase their runway work in a professional setting. Participants will be supported by the faculty and Banff Centre’s production team as they explore working with models, photography, and fashion show preparation.
Deadline: June 25, 2025
Spring $1,800 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo
Innovate Grant awards two $1,800 grants each quarter to one visual artist and one photographer. In addition, twelve applicants will receive honorable mentions, be featured on the website, and join a growing community. International artists and photographers working in any medium are eligible.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on June 26, 2025.
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) 2025
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) is thrilled to announce the 2025 Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST), offering free registration for 200 participating artists' studios through the generous support of the PNC Arts Alive initiative.
FREE ARTIST REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
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How and When to Register for POST:
Free Artist Registration Open April 1 - June 30, or until capacity is reached.
Deadline to Register and Complete Your Online Profile: June 30, 2025
Sign up at CFEVA.org/register
Terrain 16
TERRAIN is an annual, juried multimedia art and music event celebrating artists in the Spokane area. From painting to poetry to interactive art and film, the event aims to showcase a little of everything that’s happening to make the Inland Empire a more vibrant, cultural and beautiful place.
Deadline: July 1, 2025
Center for Contemporary Printmaking Residency Program
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking offers Artists-in-Residence the opportunity to live and work inside the specifically designed Helen Frankenthaler Printmaking Cottage. Within this space, artists can produce a body of work in a supportive atmosphere that fosters creative growth and development, for both traditional and innovative printmaking techniques. Fee: $35.
Deadline: July 1, 2025
Queer | Art Illuminations Grant
This $10,000 grant is designed to highlight an existing body of work by a Black trans woman visual artist. Four finalists will also receive $1,250.
Deadline: July 2, 2025.
Peters Valley School of Craft Residency
Located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Peters Valley offers fully funded guest artist residencies. A limited number of artists will be selected to spend two weeks or one month each in fully equipped studios immersing themselves in time dedicated to their craft. Fee: $10.
Deadline: July 2, 2025
Penland School of Craft
Penland’s Resident Artist Program is designed for professional craft artists who are at a pivotal moment in their creative practice or career. The residency is an opportunity for them to pursue objectives that will have a lasting effect on their work and their lives. Depending on the nature of an applicant’s goals, there are two options: a one-year project-based residency, and a three-year career transition residency.
Deadline: July 2, 2025
Loghaven Artist Residency
Artists working in Writing, Visual Arts, Dance, Theater, Music Composition, Architecture, and Interdisciplinary Work can apply to receive room and board and an $850 weekly living stipend to support the creation of new work during a residency. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space.
Application Closes: July 15, 2025
UCross Residency
Ranging from two to six weeks in length, the residency program is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, performance artists, and collaborative teams. Applicants must exhibit professional standing in their field; both established and emerging artists are encouraged to apply. There is no charge for a residency.
Deadline: July 15, 2025
The Kyoto Retreat
Artists, curators, and writers are eligible for this four-week retreat in Kyoto for research, exploration, and inspiration. Chosen applicants receive a round-trip flight, a private bedroom, and $800 to supplement meals and local transportation. Fee: $95.
Deadline: July 15, 2025.
Francis J. Myers Recreation Center Percent for Art Opportunity
Creative Philadelphia (formerly the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy) and Rebuild announce a competition to commission site-specific, permanent, public artworks to be installed at Francis J. Myers Recreation Center (5801 Kingsessing Ave), which is located in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia.
Deadline: July 15th 2025
Creative Philadelphia and Rebuild announce a competition to commission site-specific, permanent, public artworks to be installed at Francis J. Myers Recreation Center. This public art commission is possible through the City’s Percent for Art program and is part of a major Rebuild construction project that will include interior and exterior upgrades, a new addition to the recreation center building, and outdoor site improvements.
Deadline: July 17th 2025
16th Epson International Pano Awards
This panoramic photography contest is open for entries and offering more than $50,000 in cash and prizes. There is an $18 entry fee.
Deadline: July 21, 2025
AXS Film Fund
This program is for creators of color in documentary filmmaking or nonfiction new media who identify as living with a disability. While AXS prefers that a person of color living with a disability is a key contributor to the project, the fund welcomes diverse teams to apply. Each year up to five creators receive grants of up to $10,000 each to assist in finishing their projects in any stage of production.
Deadline: July 31, 2025
Liu Shiming Art Foundation’s Artist Grants
Each year, the Liu Shiming Art Foundation selects up to five artists to receive a $5,000 grant. Visual artists working for at least two years (but not more than 10) are invited to apply for a grant in support of a current or new project.
Deadline: August 21, 2025
Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grant 2025
Vital Impacts offers one $20,000 grant to an established environmental photographer, along with six $5,000 grants to emerging photographers from around the world. These funds are specifically earmarked for the development of documentary projects focusing on environmental stories.
Deadline: September 15, 2025.
