Collage on Screen Artist Residency 2026
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline: August 2, 2026
Collage on Screen Artist Residency is a five-week program designed to support artists who want to develop a practice that includes motion in their artmaking. In five virtual meetings over five weeks and through ongoing, online discussion, we will explore the history of collage on screen and the various ways that collage makes its way to the screen and how collage artists operate in the space of moving images and sound. Unlike two-dimensional art, collage on screen is temporal art, meaning it moves through time. Because of this, viewers experience Collage on Screen not as a linear series of images but as an immersive experience. This residency asks, How do we, as collage artists, make artwork that speaks to that?
This call has a $600 fee. No artist will be turned away for lack of funds.
ACA Residency #198
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Deadline: August 5, 2026
Atlantic Center for the Arts offers immersive, inter-disciplinary, three-week Mentorship residencies several times a year with our upcoming Residency #198 taking place October 4-24, 2026. There are scholarships available, and the residency features the following artists: Will Cotton (painter), Hanah Drake (author, activist, poet, podcaster), and Dani Howard (composer and orchestrator).
This call has a $25 application fee.
Call for Entries: 2026 Incentive Prize for Art Critics
International, Online
Deadline: August 6, 2026
The International Association of Art Critics (AICA) invites art critics (writing from anywhere, newspapers, magazines, television, radio, internet) to submit a 2,000-3,000 essay on the theme, “Art criticism and eco-socially engaged practices: new writing, new challenges?”. Three winners will receive cash prizes between 2,000 and 500 euros. Essayists do not have to be AICA members.
Calls for Entries: Artspace FRESH Exhibition
Raleigh, North Carolina
Deadline: August 7, 2026
FRESH is Artspace’s biennial open survey exhibition, juried competition, and fundraiser featuring new work by North Carolina artists. Unlike a traditional juried exhibition, every eligible submission will first be exhibited in the FRESH Open Survey before juror Lia Newman makes selections for the FRESH Juried Exhibition.
This call has a $25 application fee for Artspace Members, and $35 for non-members.
Seeds Annual Juried Exhibition
Augusta, Georgia
Deadline: August 9, 2026
Seeds is Westobou Gallery’s annual juried exhibition of small works priced at $300 or less. Each year, a new juror selects 10-12 artists to show their work at the Gallery during the holidays from November through December.
Wassaic Project 2027 Residency Program
Wassaic, New York
Deadline: August 10, 2026
The Wassaic Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, uses art and arts education to foster positive social change. The Wassaic Project nurtures connections between its artists and its neighbors facilitating a mutual broadening of perspectives and respect across economic and cultural boundaries. Partnerships between artists and the community improve the reach and quality of the Wassaic Project’s work and inspire new ways of looking at art and the world. The organization accepts proposals for its 2027 Residency program, which includes the Winter Residency program (Jan – April 2027) and the Summer Residency program (June – September 2027). This call is for individual artists, collaborative teams, groups of two or more individual artists, and artists applying through the Family Residency program.
This call has a $25 application fee.
Call for Entries: Cape Fear Studios
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Deadline: August 10, 2026
Show your small works of art at Cape Fear Studios! The 6 by Exhibit caters to visual artists of any medium. One dimension of each creation must measure 6”. Each artist may submit up to three pieces of original work, no prints or mass produced work please.
2026 JRACraft Chrysalis Award in Ceramics
Washington D.C.
Deadline: August 23, 2026
The Chrysalis Award was created by the James Renwick Alliance for Craft to support and inspire emerging craft artists in the United States. Eligible applicants are those who are in the early stages of their professional artistic careers—regardless of age—and who have completed their training within the past five years. This includes academic programs such as a BFA or MFA, as well as self-directed or alternative forms of study. Artists who have already been curated into major institutional exhibitions (such as at the Renwick Gallery) are not eligible.
2027 Brightwork Fellowship
Raleigh, NC
Deadline: August 28, 2026
The Brightwork Fellowship is a studio-based residency providing a 500+ square-foot studio space at Anchorlight, a solo exhibition opportunity in our gallery, and an unrestricted financial award of $50,000.00 to one North Carolina based* artist per year who is at a pivotal moment in their career.
14th Annual Lighthouse ArtCenter Plein Air Festival
Tequesta, Florida
Deadline: August 28, 2026
The Lighthouse ArtCenter of Tequesta, Florida proudly presents its 14th annual Plein Air Festival, from February 28 to March 6, 2027. The juried event is a premiere gathering; the largest of its kind in South Florida. Artists are encouraged to bring up to four, never-before-exhibited paintings of their choice to be displayed as their preview paintings.
This call has a $45 entry fee.
Project Grants for Tennessee Artists
Knoxville, Tennessee
Deadline: August 31, 2026
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 fund, which annually disburses grants totaling $60,000, 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.
Call for Entries: VMFA Aaron Siskind Award for Outstanding Photographic Practice
Deadline: September 1, 2026
Richmond, Virginia
The Aaron Siskind Award celebrates the artistic legacy of Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), advances the practice of photography as a vital means of creative expression and honors the role that the Aaron Siskind Foundation played in supporting photographers through the Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, which was awarded for 28 years. The goal of VMFA’s Aaron Siskind Award for Photography is to provide material support that enables photographers to complete a meaningful body of work — whether the continuation or finalization of a photographic series; the development of an exhibition, monograph or book project; or another major creative endeavor. The VMFA Aaron Siskind Award for Photography is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents for whom photography is their primary vocation. The award is designed to support early- to mid-career artists as well as established photographers who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to their practice and who may not yet have received significant critical recognition.
Arts in Community Grants
American South
Deadline: September 1, 2026
South Arts’ Arts in Community Grants (up to $10,000) are designed to support deeper engagements between Southern communities and artists. Through these grants supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, we aim to increase access to the arts, expand audiences for artists, and broaden our reach. Eligible projects require a Southern artist/company visiting another Southern state for public activities, offering access to arts programming by professional artists. Funding supports Southern film directors, traditional artists, visual artists, performing artists, or writers.
Arkansas Heritage Grant
Little Rock, Arkansas
Deadline: September 1, 2026
Arkansas Heritage is awarding up to $5,000 to support projects that promote awareness and enjoyment of Arkansas’ heritage, increase community-based and non-profit groups’ abilities to create Arkansas heritage related programs, and make heritage related programs possible where they would otherwise not occur. Proposals should identify Arkansas Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery, preservation, and presentation of the state’s cultural, historic and natural resources.
Sandhill Crane Studio Artist-in-Residence Program
Micanopy, Florida
Deadline: Rolling
The Sandhill Crane Studio Artist-in-Residence Program offers artists the opportunity to immerse themselves in the landscapes protected by the Alachua Conservation Trust (ACT). This residency is designed to foster a meaningful connection between art, conservation, and community, encouraging artists to draw inspiration from North Central Florida’s unique ecosystems.
