Penland School of Craft Resident Artist Program
Penland, North Carolina
Deadline: July 2, 2025
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.
This call has a fee of $30.
Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
National and Online
Deadline: July 2, 2025
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists is an annual $10,000 grant awarded to provide critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized in the visual art field. Now in its 5th year, the Illuminations Grant was developed and named in partnership with Mariette Pathy Allen, Aaryn Lang, and Serena Jara. Winning artists and finalists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development in the field.
Walker Youngbird Foundation—Emerging Native Arts Grant
National and Online
Deadline: July 10, 2025
This grant supports early-career Native artists who are honoring tradition while shaping the future of contemporary Indigenous art. Awarded twice annually, the $15,000 grant provides funding, mentorship, and a curated showcase to artists at a critical stage in their development.
Open to Indigenous artists across the U.S., its territories, and Canada, the grant supports the completion of a proposed project and can be used toward studio practice, exhibitions, research, or creative exploration. Eligible disciplines include 2D and 3D visual arts, time-based media, multi-disciplinary arts, and contemporary takes on traditional arts.
The Jim Henson Foundation Puppetry Residency
International
Deadline: July 14, 2025
The Jim Henson Foundation and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center partner for this annual residency, providing space and support to an artist/company working on the final stages of a new work of puppet theater. Residencies are two to three weeks and can support up to 12 participants. Projects must take place in the U.S., and the lead artist must be American, but international applications are welcome. In addition to the residency, artists will receive a $5,000 grant to help cover expenses.
Loghaven Artist Residency
Knoxville, Tennessee
Deadline: July 15, 2025
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.
Women’s Studio Workshop Artist’s Book Residency Grant
Ulster County, New York
Deadline: July 15, 2025
The Artist’s Book Grant is an eight- to ten-week residency for artists to produce a limited-edition book work. The grant includes a stipend of $350 per week, up to $1,000 for materials, up to $250 for travel within the continental U.S., free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access.
Polar STEAM Antarctic Artists & Writers Program
Antartica
Deadline: July 15, 2025
This program embeds artists and writers within a science team during deployment in Antarctica or the Southern Ocean for the 2026 to 2027 summer season. Chosen applicants receive a $2,000 stipend.
Ucross Residency
Clearmont, WY
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Open to emerging and established visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, performance artists, and collaborative teams, this program offers a $1,500 stipend, accommodations, meals, a private work space, and uninterrupted time.
First Peoples Fund 2026 Cultural Capital Fellowship
U.S.
Deadline: July 16, 2025
This fellowship offers $10,000 grants to artists and culture bearers dedicated to community outreach and cultural preservation through the arts. All applicants must be active within and connected to their Native or Tribal community.
Homegrown Criminals – Renegade Art Show
Knoxville, Tennessee
Deadline: July 19, 2025
Presented by KAANP x Hellmouth Mag and supported by Indivisible Tennessee, Homegrown Criminals is a one-night-only renegade art show in Knoxville, TN, calling for works that confront and resist the actions of the federal government. This open call invites artists to express dissent, frustration, and defiance through their art—whether it’s protesting neglected infrastructure, attacks on civil rights, or military aggression funded by taxpayer dollars. With no entry fee and a focus on raw, unapologetic expression, this show is a platform to exercise your First Amendment rights while you still can. The theme is resistance.
16th Epson International Pano Awards
International
Deadline: July 21, 2025
This panoramic photography contest is open for entries and offering more than $50,000 in cash and prizes. There is an $18 entry fee.
AMPLIFY Mural Open Call
Dunwoody, Georgia
Deadline: July 28, 2025
Each year, the Spruill Gallery in Dunwoody, Georgia, accepts nationwide submissions for its AMPLIFY mural competition. The winning artist will receive a $10,000 prize, and their mural will be installed on the side of the Spruill Smoke House outside the gallery for the coming year.
Locust Projects Project Room Open Call
Miami, Florida
Deadline: July 28, 2025
Locust Projects invites local, national, and international artists to propose ambitious, installation-based solo exhibitions for its 625 sq. ft. Project Room in Miami. Selected artists receive a $5,000 production budget, $3,100 artist fee, curatorial guidance, documentation, promotional support, and optional accommodations for out-of-town artists. Proposals must be for new work that pushes the artist’s practice forward and is uniquely suited to Locust’s experimental, non-commercial space. Applications are reviewed by a rotating jury of past exhibiting artists and a local curator.
AXS Film Fund
International
Deadline: July 31, 2025
Each year, the AXS Film Fund awards up to five creators with grants up to $10,000 to assist in completing projects at any stage of production. The program is for creators in documentary filmmaking or nonfiction new media who identify as living with a disability, particularly those from underserved communities. All filmmakers may apply regardless of background.
Anchorlight Brightwork Program – Fellowship & New Artist Grants
North Carolina
Deadline: August 18, 2015
Anchorlight is thrilled to expand its Brightwork program, reaffirming our commitment to supporting artists across North Carolina. Beginning in 2026, in addition to the $50,000 Brightwork Fellowship—offering a yearlong studio residency, solo exhibition, and unrestricted funding—we will introduce two new grants for visual artists living in Wake, Durham, Orange, Chatham, Lee, Harnett, Johnston, Nash, Franklin, Granville, Vance, or Wilson counties. One artist will be selected for each grant. Applications for both the Fellowship and the new Brightwork Grants will be open from July 7 to August 18, 2025.
Azule Artist Residency Mountain Retreat
Hot Springs, North Carolina
Deadline: Rolling
As an emerging community-based organization, Azule has developed a residency program for performers, writers, architects, builders, musicians, and artists of all types. Located on 35 rural acres in Western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Azule’s facility is the result of decades of work by local craftsmen, using predominantly locally harvested or reused materials and constructed with traditional techniques. Artists must be 18 years old or older to apply, with international applicants eligible to participate in the residency.
A.I.R. Studio Paducah Residencies
Paducah, Kentucky
Deadline: Rolling
These residencies are open to visual artists, composers, architects, improvisational dancers, poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Residents are provided with a private efficiency apartment and studio space, located in the Lower Town Arts District of Paducah, Kentucky, six blocks from the Ohio River. The cost of the residency is $700 for two weeks and $1,000 per month. Admissions are made on a rolling basis.
