Welcome in the New Year with fresh artist opportunities in the form of grants, residencies, and more! From performance residencies to sculpture open calls, read the list below for new opportunities to further your artistic practice.
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
Deadline: December 31, 2024
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Pen America U.S. Writers Aid Initiative
Deadline: January 1, 2025
The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative (USWAI) is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. To be eligible, applicants must be professional writers based in the United States, and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping address a short-term emergency situation. Grant decisions are made on a quarterly basis by a volunteer committee of literary peers in consultation with PEN America staff.
McColl Center Artists-in-Residence Programs
Charlotte, NC
Deadline: January 3, 2025
McColl Center Fall 2025 Artists-in-Residence
McColl Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program for Fall 2025 sparks artistic growth for emerging and mid-career artists. Residents enjoy private housing, a large-scale studio, guidance, marketing support, and a stipend. They have the freedom to focus on artistic exploration and engage with the local creative community. Access to shared labs: 3D, ceramics, media, and woodshop. The program runs from September 9 to December 15, 2025.
McColl Center Fall 2025 Artists-in-Residence in Partnership with Atrium Health
McColl Center invites local Charlotte and regional artists to apply for the Fall 2025 Artist-in-Residence program, with a focus on healthcare and healing. Artists may work in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, or interdisciplinary practices. Successful proposals should engage Atrium patients and/or staff. Residency includes private housing, a large-scale studio, curatorial guidance, marketing support, and a stipend. Access to shared labs: 3D, ceramics, media, and woodshop. The program runs from September 9 to December 15, 2025.
Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency
Deadline: January 5, 2025
Each year, the Saltonstall Foundation awards free, stipend-supported, accessible residencies to artists and writers who are residents of New York State and Indian Nations therein. They support artists and writers working in the following disciplines: Poetry, Playwriting & Screenwriting, Photography (film or digital) & Filmmaking, and Visual Arts (Painting, Sculpture).
2025–2027 Vera List Center Focus Theme Matter of Intelligence and Open Call
Deadline: January 6, 2025
These fellowships support the development and presentation of outstanding art and research projects by international, emerging artists, writers, scholars, and activists. Fellowship project proposals must creatively and rigorously approach the Focus Theme “Matter of Intelligence” in content and form and make an intellectual and artistic contribution that advances the understanding of intelligence. Four two-year, non-residential fellowships will be awarded to commission and support scholarly and creative work that critically engages with the theme. The stipend is $25,000.
Bethany Arts Community 2025 Poetry Residency
Ossining, New York
Deadline: January 6, 2025
Bethany Arts Community designs its residencies to provide an environment where artists can work near each other, creating opportunities for cross-pollination, collaboration, and connection. As part of a residency, each artist develops and facilitates a Community Program related to their residency plan. The residency runs from March 31 to April 7, 2025, and provides room & board, a private studio, 3 basic meals a day, and a $225 stipend upon completion of the residency.
2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize
Deadline: January 10, 2025
The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an international competition that aims to identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition. The first-prize winner will be published in Aperture magazine and will receive a $5,000 cash prize, a $1,000 gift card to shop for gear at Mpb.com,and a presentation organized by Aperture in New York City.
The Saltonstall X Circus Culture Hupstate Residency
Deadline: January 10, 2025
This residency is designed to provide a generous and spacious environment for the development of the circus arts in NY State and/or Indian Nations based therein, and provides housing for 7 nights/8 days (Sunday April 7th- Sunday April 14th) with a private room, $100 travel stipend, access to up to 6 hours per day of shared circus studio time at Circus Culture, pantry staples, local vegetables for breakfast and lunch, and communal dinners provided by a private chef.
Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellowship Open Call
Chicago, Illinois
Deadline: January 10, 2025
Luminarts provides opportunities for emerging artists in the disciplines of Classical Music, Visual Arts, Jazz, and Creative Writing. Applicants must be between 18 and 30 and live or reside within 150 miles of the Chicago Loop. Fellowship opportunities include project grants, workshops, mentorship, and facilitated conversations.
2025 Artist in Residence Recology King County
King County, Washington
Deadline: January 13, 2025
RecologyKC AIR is a unique opportunity for King County artists to expand their existing studio practice by working with reusable resources to create a new and impactful body of work. Applicants must be a current resident of King County, WA. Two King County artists will be selected for a four-month residency, providing artists with a $1,300 monthly stipend, administrative support, studio visits and access to the Recology recovery facility in South Seattle, Recology Stores, and the City of Seattle’s North Transfer Station.
Bronx Council on the Arts Bronx Recognizes Its Own
Deadline: January 13, 2025
Each year, BRIO provides direct support to individual Bronx artists who create works in the literary, media, visual, and performing arts with awards of $5,000.
Anderson Center Opportunities
Deadline: January 14, 2025
2025 Anderson Center Residency
The Anderson Center at Tower View’s Artist Residency Program is an opportunity in August and October 2025 for early career, 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. Selected artists receive live/work space, fellowship & exchange within a 5-artist cohort, chef-prepared meals, and more. Fee: $30.00
2025 Early Career Artist Residency
The Early Career Artist Residency Program is an opportunity for early-career artists living within the state of Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City in need of focused time and dedicated space in an inspiring residency work environment that empowers them take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving. A month-long cohort of five artists will each receive a $625/week stipend, a travel honorarium, documentation support, and more.
2025-2026 Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships
Deadline: January 15, 2025
Fellowships are open to all artists whose work would benefit from significant primary research related to the histories, concepts, art, and objects of the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and its legacies. Artistic applicants are not required to hold a formal degree, but should describe their training and level of industry-specific experience in their CV. Applicants may apply for one, two, or three months of research support, with a stipend of $4,000 per month, taken any time between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026. Fellows have the option to take their residence fully onsite at the Folger, fully virtual, or a combination of the two.
Ucross Artist Residency
Clearmont, Wyoming
Deadline: January 15, 2025
Ucross invites visual artists, writers, choreographers, composers, interdisciplinary artists, and performance artists to apply for a fall 2025 artist residency program in the majestic High Plains of Wyoming. Artists-in-residence receive dedicated time and space to focus on their work, supported by private studio spaces, living accommodations, a stipend, chef-prepared meals, and the serene beauty of our historic 20,000-acre ranch. Application fee: $40
Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists and Writers
Clearmont, Wyoming
Deadline: January 15, 2025
Native American visual artists and writers, at any stage of their careers, are invited to apply for a fall 2025 residency program in the majestic High Plains of Wyoming. Artists-in-residence receive dedicated time and space to focus on their work, supported by private studio spaces, accommodations, chef-prepared meals, a stipend, and the serene beauty of our historic 20,000-acre ranch.
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation 2025 Individual Support Grants
Deadline: January 15, 2025
These grants are available to individual painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have worked in a mature phase of art for 20 years or more.
The Jentel Artist Residency Program
Banner, Wyoming
Deadline: January 15, 2025
This residency provides professional development opportunities for visual artists in all creative disciplines, writers in non-fiction, fiction, and poetry as well as composers across musical genres. Proposals for self-directed, creative residencies must be compatible with available working studio spaces, facilities, and resources. Artistic merit and promise are the basis for selections. Mature as well as emerging artists are encouraged to apply. Residencies run from May 15–December 7, 2025
The Watermill Center Artist Residency Program
Deadline: January 15, 2025
The Watermill Center provides artists with the time, space, and freedom to develop their practice in a communal environment that encourages experimentation. Artists-in-Residence share their creative process with the community through open rehearsals, workshops, and artist talks. The Artist Residency Program is process-based, without the expectation or promise of a final exhibition of the work.
Kresge Artist Fellowships
Deadline: January 16, 2025
Kresge Artist Fellowships are $50,000 no-strings-attached awards (up from $40,000) for emerging and established artists at any stage of their careers.
The Institute for Public Architecture 2025 Summer/Fall Independent Project Residency
Deadline: January 18, 2025
The IPA Independent Project Residency program invites emerging and mid-career practitioners – whose work focuses on the public realm – to live and work during an eleven week live-in Residency at the IPA Block House on Governors Island. The Residency program is open to local and global applicants from diverse backgrounds, educations, experiences, and aspirations at any stage of their career.
The Sculpture Center 2026 Revealed Emerging Artists Open Call
Greater Ohio region
Deadline: January 27, 2025
Emerging artists of the greater Ohio region (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, western New York, or Ontario, Canada by birth, residency, or education, but need not be currently residing in the area) whose practice includes sculpture, installation, mixed and expanded media, relational aesthetics, and performance are eligible to apply. Revealed awards artists in the first ten years of their career the opportunity to create work for a solo show. This is a funded exhibition. An artist stipend will be provided in addition to gallery support.
The Hatchery 2025 Open Call
Portland, Oregon
Deadline: January 31, 2025
Produced by Portland, Oregon theater company Many Hats Collaboration, The Hatchery is a short-term, paid performance residency program and public facing new play festival supporting works that center music and movement.
Taft Museum of Art Duncanson Artist-in-Residence
Cincinnati, Ohio
Deadline: January 31, 2025
This residency engages the Cincinnati community for two weeks in Spring 2026. The ideal candidate will not only be an outstanding visual artist who uses paint as their primary medium, but also a dynamic educator who is comfortable working with a variety of audiences including students ranging from grades K-12, families, and adults.
Woodstock AIR 2025
Deadline: January 31, 2025
This one-month residency will allow ten photographers the time and space to break new ground. Woodstock AIR invites US-based BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American) who are working with photography, especially those expanding the dialogue around diversity, race, and identity in the context of social justice are invited to submit.
LUX Center for the Arts Call for Artists: “Under the Influence”
Lincoln, Nebraska
Deadline: February 1, 2025
LUX Center invites artists to submit their work for our upcoming group show titled “Under the Influence,” which will explore the profound impact that artists have on one another.
Wave Farm Transmission Art Residencies
Acra, New York
Deadline: February 1, 2025
This residency will emphasize “A Radio Art Hour.” During a 10-day residency at Wave Farm, artists will develop new transmission artworks informed by access to a research library, equipment, unique workspace resources, and on-site staff support. An artist fee of $1,000 will be provided to each resident artist.
2025-2026 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellowship
Deadline: February 3, 2025
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown has supported emerging writers and artists for over 50 years, granting 10 annual fellowships to visual artists and 10 annual fellowships to writers for a seven-month residency that runs from October 1 – April 30. Fellows are selected through a rigorous jury process. Visual Arts Fellows are provided with a private furnished apartment and a separate work studio of approximately 400 sq ft. Fellows are awarded a $1250 monthly stipend plus a $1000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship. Fee: $40.00
MacDowell Fellowship
Deadline: February 10, 2025
MacDowell encourages applications from artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theater, and visual arts. About 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence.
Furious Flower Poetry Prize
Opens: December 15, 2024
Deadline: February 15, 2025
Poets with no more than one published book are invited to submit up to three poems (no more than a total of 6 pages) for consideration for this prize. The winner and honorable mention receive $1500 and $750 respectively. Submission fee: $15.
Long Meadow Art Residency
Deadline: February 15, 2025
This residency is a six week to three month solo residency in the Berkshires. The residency provides a $3,000 monthly living stipend, a $2,500 supply budget, as well as access to a vehicle for transportation.
McKinney International Art and Design Residency 2027, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
Deadline: February 16, 2025
The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4–6-week residency between February 1–May 1, 2027. An established artist or designer will be selected whose primary country of residence is outside the United States. Applicants should be actively engaged in a contemporary artistic practice and show evidence of a national and international exhibition record. Applications from practitioners of studio disciplines, as well as criticism, are welcome.
Anderson Ranch Artists-in-Residence Program
Deadline: February 18, 2025
This residency 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. Residencies are offered in ceramics, new media, photography, furniture design, woodworking, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. A select group of the 32 residencies are fully funded fellowships awarded by the jury panel.
ON::View Artist Residency Program
Savannah, Georgia
Deadline: February 23, 2025
Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at Sulfur Studios, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The studio’s large windows look out onto Bull Street, the district’s main thoroughfare, allowing the artists’ work to be on view to the community at all times.
Mid Atlantic Arts USArtists International
Deadline: February 26, 2025
USArtists International® supports in-person performances by artists from any state or territory in the U.S. at engagements at international festivals, global presenting arts markets, and other eligible engagements outside of the U.S. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines. Grant support range: Matching grants of up to $11,000 toward eligible travel expenses.
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Curatorial Open Call
Deadline: February 28, 2025
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation seek applications from emerging researchers, curators, and cultural presenters to work with them to realize their pre-existing, and as-yet unrealized exhibition concept. The selected curator will be given an honorarium of $3,000 for their work on the exhibition and $2,000 for their essay in the accompanying catalog.
NXTHVN Fellowship
New Haven, Connecticut
Deadline: March 3, 2025
Each year NXTHVN welcomes up to seven artists and two curators to participate in its paid 10-month intensive Fellowship Program. Each Fellow will receive studio or office space, a stipend, and subsidized housing
Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Residency Program
Portland, Maine
Deadline: Rolling
This program brings together artists from diverse backgrounds of the African Diaspora to engage in their creative process, while building lasting relationships rooted in co-mentorship. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged (painting, sculpture, illustration, writing, dance, music, theater/performance, photography, fiber/textiles, etc). Currently accepting applications from the North Eastern region (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island).
Breck Creek Artist-in-Residence Program
Breckenridge, Colorado
Deadline: Rolling
Open to regional and national artists of all disciplines, Artists-in-Residence spend 2-4 months in a live/work studio in cozy downtown Breckenridge, Colorado. Artists receive a biweekly stipend of $600
Musicians Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Application for one-time financial assistance is open to professional musicians across all genres. You must be a professional music performer, composer/arranger, or educator in a specific time of need caused by an unexpected hardship (e.g., medical or dental situation, natural disaster, or certain housing crises).
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Deadline: Rolling
The Foundation welcomes applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses, and amounts range up to $50,000. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.
Employment Opportunities
The University of Tennessee – Knoxville: Assistant Professor of Photography Fall 2025
Deadline: Rolling
The University of Tennessee School of Art seeks candidates for a full-time, tenure-track position in Photography at the rank of Assistant Professor. Primary responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate instruction, an active creative research agenda, and service to the department, university, and profession.
The Luminary: Deputy Director
Deadline: Rolling
The Luminary, an independent space based in St. Louis, MO, seeks an experienced and passionate Deputy Director to support the organization’s operations and programs. This role will focus on grants writing and management, overseeing financial systems, and fostering cross-team collaboration to support public programs.
Thank you to the generous supporters of this month’s Artist Opportunities!
Helen Ashford
Doug Freeman
Lanie Gannon
Hadley Holliday
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Maria Nocik
Donald Williams
