WESTAF is thrilled to share the upcoming launch of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Artist Fund, a new fund designed in partnership with WESTAF’s Leaders of Color Network that provides resources to and for BIPOC artists living and working in the 16 states and jurisdictions in the WESTAF region to advance their own artistic practice and goals. WESTAF is investing in the wellbeing and safety of BIPOC artists, cultural practitioners, and collaboratives by providing no-strings-attached funding and support.
Deadline: February 12, 2023
The Springfield Art Museum is pleased to announce a call for entries for Watercolor USA 2023, highlighting the very best in contemporary American watermedia. This year’s exhibit will run from June 10 through September 3, 2023. Organized in 1962, this year marks the 62nd year of Watercolor USA. The nationally known exhibition is open to artists from all 50 states and U.S. territories, and seeks to discover what is new and what is next in the world of American watermedia.
Deadline: February 22, 2023
Hayama Artist Residency offers a roundtrip flight to Japan, shared accommodations with one other artist-in-residence for 4 weeks, and a weekly allotment of $200 USD for meals and local transportation. Open to visual artists over 21 years old, working in any medium. Application fee: $95.
Deadline: January 14, 2023
Media Art Xploration (MAX) invites storytellers, performers, and creative technologists to submit applications for projects that expand live performance through science and technology. Support includes funding up to $7500 and a 7 month project development period, which includes a workshop and final festival presentation.
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Sculpture Space in Utica, NY, invites artists whose focus is sculpture to apply for a two-month residency between February and November 2024. Studio space, housing, and a $500 stipend to offset travel and expenses are provided. Application fee: $35.
Deadline: January 15, 2023
The Anderson Center at Tower View's Artist Residency Program an opportunity for emerging, mid-career, and established artists working across all disciplines and based anywhere in the world. The program is interdisciplinary and the organization welcomes applications from a wide range of creative and intellectual genres, including those that don't fit neatly into one category.
Deadline: January 16, 2023
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts invites national and international writers, visual artists, and composers to apply for time and space to work in the rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Fellows are provided with a private individual studio, a private bedroom with en-suite bathroom, and three meals a day. Application fee: $30.
Deadline: January 15, 2023
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation invites painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, screenwriters, composers, photographers, and filmmakers of national and international origin can apply to stay in one of The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico’s eleven fully furnished artist casitas, or guest houses. Application fee: $30.
Deadline: January 18, 2023
Anderson Ranch’s Artists-in-Residence Program fosters creative, intellectual and professional growth for emerging and established visual artists. Residents have access to world-class facilities and studio time, free from everyday pressures. Residents can pursue interdisciplinary projects among a community of working artists, and gain feedback from prominent Visiting Artists and Critics.
Deadline: February 19, 2023
18th Street Arts Center’s visiting artist residency program has hosted more than 500 artists from dozens of countries around the world since it first began in 1992. There are four live/work artist studios at the center where artists are in residence from 1 to 3 months at a time (sometimes longer).
Deadline: Ongoing
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships are open to artists working in all media whose work would benefit from significant primary research. This includes, but is not limited to, visual artists, writers, dramaturgs, playwrights, performers, filmmakers, and composers. Artistic fellowships may be conducted either as a virtual fellowship for one month or as a residential fellowship at the Folger for one, two, or three months.
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant is open to painters, sculptors and printmakers who have been engaged in a mature phase of their art for at least 20 years and who are currently in financial need. Last year, they awarded grants of $25,000 each to 20 artists.
Deadline: January 18, 2023
The Right of Return Fellowship provides for formerly incarcerated artists with awards of $20,000 to support projects and new works that reflect the humanity of criminalized and incarcerated people. It is open to people working in all disciplines, including visual art, performance, poetry, sound, media, and design.
Deadline: January 20, 2023
Forge seeks to support artists with diverse backgrounds in taking the next steps with their work. Artists receive professional development assistance, networking opportunities, and much more.
Deadline: January 22, 2023
The Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund is intended to help those pursuing careers as artists or arts administrators whose income has been directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This fund is for those who self-identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). If you fit this description and you are in need of short-term, immediate financial assistance – we would like to help.
Deadline: Ongoing
Leveler is a tool for people with job security to help people whose work status has been impacted by COVID-19. The list includes freelancers, etc. in the arts, nightlife, production, hospitality, music, and other fields. Click the "receive" button if you're seeking assistance.
Deadline: Ongoing
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant is one of the most prestigious grants available to emerg, ing figurative artists, as well as one of the most substantial. It is one of the longest-standing foundations, with an illustrious history of recipients spanning more than half a century. It is also unique in its scope, in that it is available to students and artists around the world.
Deadline: Ongoing
A micro-granting organization, funding “awesome” ideas, The Awesome Foundation set up local chapters around the world to provide rolling grants of $1000 to “awesome projects.” Each chapter defines what is “awesome” for their local community, but most include arts initiatives and public or social practice art projects.
Deadline: Rolling
Created in 1993 to further Foundation for Contemporary Arts' mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:
- Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
- Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates
Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Each month FCA receives an average of 95 Emergency Grant applications and makes approximately 12-15 grants. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,700.
Deadline: Ongoing
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation - Up to $18,000 grants for young artists who are pursuing their studies or in the early or developmental stage of their career, working in a representational style of painting, drawing, sculpture, or printmaking.
NO DEADLINE
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists. They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.
ROLLING DEADLINE
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
NO DEADLINE
Springboard helps artists develop the business skills and frameworks that they need to become creative entrepreneurs, with programs to create new opportunities for professional development.
Art Prof provides equal access to visual arts education on a global scale, removing barriers that exist due to the cost of higher education and private classes.
Humble Arts Foundation - is committed to promoting and supporting new photography, and dedicated to the artistic and professional development of those who practice it. We accept submissions for our online group shows, blog features, Instagram Residencies and Instagram Group Shows on an ongoing basis.
NO DEADLINE
Doctor’s Hours [Brooklyn, New York] at New York Foundation for the Arts offers artists an opportunity for one-on-one consultations with a range of industry professionals in their creative field. Distance Consultations over Skype are available for artists located outside the both New York Metro Area.
ROLLING DEADLINE
