Zion National Park Artist-in-Residence
Zion National Park, Utah
Deadline: August 1, 2025
The Artist-in-Residence Program at Zion National Park offers professional artists of various media the opportunity to pursue their artistic discipline while being surrounded by the park’s inspiring landscape. Three artists will be selected for three-month residencies in 2026. Each artist receives free housing and a $500 travel reimbursement. There is a $20 application fee.
Yaddo Residency
Saratogs Springs, New York
Deadline: August 1, 2025
Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Artists apply individually. Peer review is the keystone of our selection process, with different panelists each season. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board and a studio.
This call has a fee of $35.
Bemis Center Autumn Residencies
Omaha, Nebraska
Deadline: August 4, 2025
Selected artists-in-residence enjoy generously sized, private live/work studios in Omaha, a $1,250 monthly stipend, and a $750 travel stipend. Due to the limitations of B2 visas (touring/visiting), international artists-in-residence are ineligible for direct stipend payment but are eligible to receive reimbursement up to the total stipend amount of qualified expenses, such as airfare, ground transportation, and meals.
The Golden Foundation Residency
Chenango County, NY
Deadline: August 13, 2025
The Golden Artist focuses on providing space for artists working with paint. Artists are provided with materials, 24/7 access to an open studio space, a private apartment, and more. There is no fee to attend, but artists are responsible for their own food and travel expenses. There is a $30 application fee.
Broward Cultural Division’s 2025 Artist Innovation Grant
Broward County, Florida
Deadline: August 15, 2024
The Broward Cultural Division’s Artist Innovation Grant provides direct funds to professional and established artists of all disciplines for new and/or experimental art projects. The program is designed to encourage risk-taking, exploration of artistic pursuits, career advancement, interactivity, and sustained commitment to artistic work. Applicants must be a professional and established artist with at least three (3) years in their field as evidenced by their resume and work samples, and a current resident of Broward County and intends to maintain primary residence in Broward County for the duration of the grant term (exception for Artist Support Regional grantees).
Open Call for Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2026
Cottesloe, Australia
Deadline: August 18, 2025
Staged since 2005, the Cottesloe coastal exhibition features more than 70 sculptures and is enjoyed by 220,000 visitors, making the show a feature of Perth’s cultural calendar. All types, forms, sizes, and materials are eligible for entry, and submissions are open to established and emerging artists. Awards include the Mostyn Family Foundation Artist Subsidy of $5,000, the Pommery Champagne Artist Award of $5,000, and the Kids’ Choice Prize of $2,000.
Anchorlight Brightwork Program – Fellowship & New Artist Grants
North Carolina
Deadline: August 18, 2025
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.
Kolaj Magazine Photography and Collage Virtual Artist Residency
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline: August 19, 2025
The Photography & Collage Virtual Artist Residency is a month-long program inviting photographers and collage artists to come together in dialogue, learn from one another, and make artwork for a series of exhibitions that explore the intersection of collage and photography. The cost of the residency is $500 per artist, and a limited number of grants are available.
BigCi Environmental Awards 2025
Bilpin, Australia
Deadline: August 19, 2025
Artists from all fields are invited to submit entries for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2025. Two winners will each receive four free weeks at the BigCi residency and AUD$5,000 prize money. The winning artists will have an opportunity to explore the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Wollemi, Blue Mountains, and Gardens of Stone National Parks on guided walks and will be given research assistance relevant to their projects.
This call has a $40 application fee.
Liu Shiming Art Foundation’s Artist Grants
International
Deadline: August 21, 2025
Each year, the Liu Shiming Art Foundation selects up to five artists to receive a $5,000 grant. Visual artists working for at least two years (but not more than 10) are invited to apply for support for a current or new project.
NAAS Research & Curatorial Fellowship
International
Deadline: August 22, 2025
This program supports researchers, curators, and cultural practitioners from the Arabic-speaking region and its diasporas who critically engage with cinema, media, and visual culture. Fellows receive a stipend, mentorship, publishing opportunities, and more.
Current Art Fund & Project-Based Grants
Tennessee
Deadline: August 30, 2025
The Current Art Fund granting program is organized and administered by Tri-Star Arts as a partner in the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Current Art Fund seeks to support visual artists and artist collectives in creating independent, non-traditional, public-facing projects that contribute to the rich dialogue within contemporary visual art scenes across the state of Tennessee. The fund annually disburses grants totaling $60,000 to Tennessee-based artists 21 years of age and older in support of project expenses. Grantees will be selected by a jury panel composed of internationally recognized artists, collectors, and arts professionals. The Current Art Fund program tangibly illustrates the Tri-Star Arts mission of cultivating and spotlighting contemporary visual art in Tennessee, championing innovation within our local art communities, and supporting artists across the state. BIPOC and AAPI applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.
New Voices 2026 Open Call
New York, NY
Deadline: August 31, 2025
New Voices is Print Center New York’s annual open call program, which provides opportunities for six to eight artists to present their work and develop their practices through an exhibition, public programming, focused conversations, community-building, and individualized resources for artistic and professional development. Chosen artists receive $2,500, travel, and lodging.
“In an Instant”: The Polaroid Show
Wilton Manors, FL
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Space Untitled is excited to announce an open call for “In an Instant”, a group exhibition dedicated to the raw, nostalgic, and often magical qualities of Polaroid photography. This show will explore the beauty of immediacy and the stories captured in just one click — a flash of light, a frozen second, a memory made tangible.
We are seeking artists who work exclusively with Polaroid (at least as a starting point). Whether you’re using original Polaroid photographs, lifting emulsions, performing transfers, manipulating surfaces, or integrating Polaroids into mixed media — we want to see how you transform the instant into the unforgettable.
Corsicana Funded 2025 Artist and Writer Residency
Corsicana, Texas
Deadline: September 1, 2024
Corsicana Artist & Writer Residency offers the application below for fully-funded accommodations in live-work studio residencies at 100 West in historic downtown Corsicana, Texas. Two-month residency terms take place in Winter, Spring and Fall 2025. Applicants are notified by October 1, 2024 if their application has been accepted, waitlisted, or not accepted. Selected applicants who commit to a residency term in 2025 are responsible for a $200 program fee to the residency by November 1, 2024. Travel and meal stipends are not available. Residents are expected to participate in the following public and education programs: 1) Open Studio: hosted on the final Saturday of residency term from 12 – 4 PM. 2) Presentation: 20-minutes, artists deliver projected image / video / slideshow of past, current work. Writers deliver readings. Private artist studios at 100 West are 2,400 square feet and include complete living accommodations with personal bathroom sink and lavatory. The kitchen, dining, living room and shower room are shared between three residents on the second-floor.
This call has a $30 application fee.
1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art
American South
Deadline: September 7, 2025
The Gibbes Museum of Art in partnership with 1858 Society is accepting applications for this $10,000 prize. Eligible applicants must reside, work in, or be from one of the following southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia.
This call has a $35 application fee.
Innovate Grant
Deadline: September 10, 2025
Innovate Grant distributes (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists.
This call has an application fee of $35.
