Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity Residency
Alberta, Canada
Deadline: May 7, 2025
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.
Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Deadline: May 7, 2024
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant 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.
Martin House Creative Residency Program
Buffalo, NY
Deadline: May 9, 2025
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House’s Creative Residency Program provides individuals from multiple disciplines a thought-provoking environment for two to four weeks in which to produce new works. The Artist Program supports the development and presentation of creative works as they relate to Martin House. The Researcher Program provides opportunities to conduct research that will lead to published texts or projects in various fields, again as they relate to Frank Lloyd Wright and Martin House. Residents will receive a stipend of $5,000. Travel expenses of up to $1,000 will also be provided to residents who are from outside the Buffalo-Niagara region.
Denver Public Art Open Call
Denver, CO
Deadline: May 12, 2025
Artists interested in creating a new project in Verbena Park in Denver are invited to apply. Proposals should reflect the area’s family-friendly culture, along with its international history and conversations about equity, access, and inclusion. Shade and seating are strongly encouraged. Budget of $54,000.
CultureHub Residency
New York, NY & Los Angeles, CA
Deadline: May 12, 2025
This open call offers residencies for artists experimenting with technology in CultureHub’s NYC and LA studios. These residencies offer at least 1 week of studio time, opportunities for a public showing, and a stipend to be used how the artist sees fit.
Hopper Prize
Deadline: May 13, 2025
The Hopper Prize provides unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe. They offer awards to artists working in any media.
This call has a fee of $40.
Josephine Sculpture Park (JSP) Call for Entry
Frankfort, KY
Deadline: May 14, 2025
This funded residency will begin with a site visit in 2025 and a residency period of up to 10 weeks in 2026. JSP will provide up to 2 artists a career-boosting opportunity to make new outdoor work on a large-scale, with the physical space and technical and financial support to succeed.
Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency
Cuttyhunk, MA
Deadline: May 15, 2025
On a small island off the coast of Massachusetts, CIAR offers visual artists focused time and a uniquely supportive environment to develop their work. Full and partial fellowships are available that cover or offset the cost to attend. This year, CIAR offers two, weeklong sessions in September.
James Laughlin Award
Miami Beach, Florida
Deadline: May 15, 2025
The James Laughlin Award recognizes and supports a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The winning poet receives $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.
The Studios of Key West Artist Residency
Key West, Florida
Deadline: May 15, 2025
The Studios of Key West, the premier arts organization at the Southernmost Point of the United States, offers a residency program for emerging and established artists and writers from around the world. Residencies are available to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists.
Sawtooth 2025-2026 Artist-in-Residence Programs in Ceramics, Printmaking, and Woodworking
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Deadline: May 15, 2025
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.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Deadline: May 28, 2025
For the 2026-2028 term, awardees will each receive a total stipend of $150,000 stipend paid over three-years for awarded project deliverables and general artistic practice costs, along with a $12,000 yearly housing stipend, $1,200 yearly health and wellness stipend, $1,200 yearly studio assistant stipend, $1,500 one-time studio move-in stipend, fully-subsidized studio spaces, and access to shared art-making facilities, and more.
Yadkinville Mural Project
North Carolina
Deadline: May 30, 2025
The Yadkinville Public Art Committee in partnership with the Yadkin Arts Council are seeking artists and artist teams to submit proposals for the installation of a permanent outdoor mural in downtown Yadkinville. Public Art themes suggested by the Yadkinville Public Art Committee include, but are not limited to: nature (plants, flowers, animals, etc.), music, and family. Artist/Artist team MUST be 18 years of age and older, and a resident of North Carolina. Artists Submit a detailed design proposal as well as examples of past work.
Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
Upperville, Virginia
Deadline: May 31, 2025
The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2–5 week stay at Oak Spring.
Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2025 Grant for Sculpture
Deadline: May 31, 2025
The grant program of the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation encourages and supports sculptors, whether emerging or established, and writers about sculpture. In 2025 the Foundation 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.
Florida Division of Arts and Culture Specific Cultural Projects
Deadline: June 1, 2025
The Specific Cultural Project grant is designed to fund a single cultural project, program, exhibition, or series. The grant activities must support the mission of the organization or artist and further the state’s cultural objectives. All applicants must be Florida-based.
The University of Tennessee – Knoxville: Assistant Professor of Photography Fall 2025
Knoxville, Tennessee
Deadline: Rolling
The University of Tennessee School of Art is hiring a full time, tenure track Assistant Professor of Photography. Responsibilities include teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, maintaining an active research agenda, and serving the university.
Azule Artist Residency Mountain Retreat
Hot Springs, NC
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.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Deadline: Rolling
These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work has a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply.
Nancy Norton Tomasko Scholarship
Deadline: Rolling
The Nancy Norton Tomasko Scholarship fund is dedicated to providing financial support for individuals wishing to learn more about the book arts. The Center will award scholarships covering the full tuition and materials for one course per individual. Awardees are selected based on financial need and proof of having satisfied the prerequisites for the desired course. Please fill out and submit the following form at least three weeks before the start date of the workshop to be considered for financial assistance.
Call for Submissions to Hellmouth Magazine
Appalachia
Deadline: Rolling
Hellmouth Magazine is a non-profit dedicated to publishing quality cultural commentary, literature, personal essays, and art. They aim to foster meaningful dialogue between multiple spheres of influence, encouraging cultural exchange through engaging and provocative compositions. Some categories of work include: commentary, theory, philosophy, exhibition reviews, visual analysis of art, short stories, poetry, personal essays, op-eds, thoroughly researched investigative or academic inquiries, personal gripes, outlandish claims, unfounded opinions, tall tales, and ancient soliloquies.
