Resources & Grants for Creatives
The Studios at MASS MoCA
Situated within the museum’s factory campus in the Berkshire Mountains, the year-round program hosts up to 10 artists at a time for two- or four-week stays. The fee is $650 per week; financial aid and fellowships are available.
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Black Ambition Prize provides funding and mentorship for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs who can receive up to $100,000 to grow their business.
Deadline: May 2nd, 2025
The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative (USWAI)
USWAI is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. Applicants must be professional writers based in the US.
Deadline: May 2, 2025
ArtPort Kingston – Emerging Hudson Valley Filmmakers Open Call
Selected applicants from the Hudson Valley or the NYC area will have their short films screened as part of ArtPort’s Summer Film Series — a community-driven, donation-based event co-produced with Cellar Door Cinema Club and supported by Radio Kingston.
Deadline: May 4, 2025
Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
The program supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts. Open to any art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or a writer in an outside field who is strongly engaged with contemporary visual arts.
Deadline: May 7, 2025
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity | Indigenous Arts
The Banff Centre’s Aknumustiǂis: Ecological Engagement Through the Seasons 2025 is a five-week hybrid residency for 12 visual artists focusing on land-based themes, environmental sustainability, Indigenous narratives, and natural materials. The program runs online from September 2–6, 2025, and in person from September 8–October 3, 2025, offering self-directed studio time, workshops, on-the-land engagement, and access to Visual Arts facilities.
Deadline: May 7, 2025
The Creative Business Boost Initiative: $5K Grants
The Creative Business Boost Initiative, presented by Hello Alice and the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), with support from Etsy's Uplift Fund! 100 creative entrepreneurs will be selected from eligible entrants to receive a $5,000 grant and access to an exclusive Boost Camp coaching program, helping them access capital and resources they need to foster growth and success.
Deadline: May 9th, 2025
Martin House Creative Residency
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House is the site of this two- to four-week residency that offers two tracks: the artist program supports the development of a new work, while the researcher program is geared toward projects that will result in published writing. Residents deliver a public program and are offered a $5,000 stipend and up to $1,000 in travel expenses.
Deadline: May 9, 2025
Hopper Prize
The Hopper Prize provides unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe. We view the field of visual art in its broadest and most inclusive sense and therefore make awards available to artists working in any media. Fee: $40.
Deadline: May 13, 2025
2025 Thirdspace: Emerging Artist Summer Intensive Program
This month-long residency at OCAD University brings together interdisciplinary emerging artists to develop a new body of work with mentorship from artist Van Maltese. There is a $4,600 CAD program fee.
Deadline: May 13, 2025
Josephine Sculpture Park’s Artist-in-Residence
Two artists will receive 10-week residencies to create a new large-scale, outdoor work. Stipends include $1,000 for a site visit stipend, $2,000 per week for the residency, $500 per week for lodging, and up to $2,500 for materials. Residents also receive studio space, mentorship, and an exhibition.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. MT on May 14, 2025
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, New Jersey – 40 Under 40
US artists ages 18–40 can submit 2D work to this exhibition curated and juried by Jennie Goldstein, curator at the Whitney Museum. Eligible mediums include drawing, painting, prints, photography, video, digital, and more. The application fee is $35 for up to four entries.
Deadline: May 15, 2025
Sawtooth 2025-2026 Artist-in-Residence Programs in Ceramics, Printmaking, and Woodworking
For 80 years, Sawtooth has been a creative hub for the central North Carolina region, fostering an energetic craft school environment in downtown Winston-Salem, NC. This year-long Artist-in-Residence programs encourage the development of new skills, connections, and bodies of work while assisting with operations. Residencies in ceramics, printmaking, and woodworking offer 24/7 access to studio space, material stipends, and the chance to gain valuable teaching experience, among other opportunities.
Deadline: May 15, 2025
Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest
The Emerging Writer’s Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. One winner in each of the three genres is awarded publication, $2,000, review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a 1-year subscription.
Deadline: May 15, 2025
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
This $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. The prize includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to hundreds of Academy of American Poets members.
Deadline: May 15, 2025
Academy of American Poets – James Laughlin Award
The winning poet receives $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency in Miami Beach, and distribution of their book to approximately 1,000 Academy of American Poets members.
Deadline: May 15, 2025
The Studios of Key West Residencies
Approximately 40 visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists are accepted each year for these month-long residencies. Chosen applicants receive lodging.
Deadline: May 15, 2025
Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency
The Adirondack Center for Writing offers a free, two-week residency annually in autumn to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Six residents will be chosen, with three from the Adirondack region (“The North Country.”) The Residency is from September 21 to October 5, 2025.
Deadline: May 19, 2025
Center for Craft – 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship
Six $5,000 fellowships will be awarded to support archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the United States.
Deadline: May 20, 2025
Portraits of Pride and Resilience
For Pride Month 2025, Councilmember Rue Landau and Creative Philadelphia issue a Call for Art, an invitation to LGBTQ+ artists to submit work for a special Art In City Hall exhibition in Creative Philadelphia’s Art Gallery and the Councilmember's office.
Deadline: May 25th 2025
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a place-based, durational award that aims to support visionary arts practitioners. Awardees will each receive a total stipend of $150,000 paid over three years, along with other support from 2026 to 2028.
Deadline: May 29, 2025
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
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.
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.
2026 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion & Design and Fashion & Culture
The Vilcek Foundation will award six Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in the amount of $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
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
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 roundtrip flight, a private bedroom, and $800 to supplement meals and local transportation.
Deadline: July 15, 2025.
