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Each week, we gather a collection of opportunities posted on ArtConnect that we think deserve more attention.
Hello everyone! This spring, Region Norrbotten, KKV Luleå (one of Sweden's largest artist collective studios) and Loosenart Magazine will invite photographers to Scandinavia for a six-week residency in Luleå, a vibrant city in Arctic northern Sweden, just below the Arctic Circle and part of the Sápmi region.
Artists receive grants of SEK 20,000 (about 1749€), up to SEK 15,000 in production and travel support, accommodation in central Luleå and a chance to showcase some of the works produced during the residency at Millepiani space in Rome (Italy) in Autumn 2025.
The un/fund is an international platform focused on promoting & rewarding exceptional un/der-represented visual artists. Awards of up to €10,000 are available to release a project, and can include production support, financial guidance, press and exhibition.
Keramikkünstlerhaus Neumünster
The Keramikkünstlerhaus Neumünster is offering six residency grants as part of the international ºCeramic Artist Exchange – Tandem Program. Two artists, one emerging and one established, will share living and fully equipped working spaces with all basic materials provided for seven weeks. Artists also receive a 700€ stipend and regular studio visits throughout the residency and a five-day exhibition at the conclusion of the seven weeks.
Revela’t Contemporary Analog Photography Festival
The Revela’t Contemporary Analog Photography Festival invites analog photographers to take part in an exhibition during the 2025 Revela’t Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
Rewards: Three winning artists will receive a 500-1500€ production (or project transport) budget, 100-150€ in travel support and accommodation during the Main Weekend of Revela’t, plus lots of other fun festival extras.
Fotodoks invites lens-based artists from Germany, Europe and beyond to submit work to this year’s group exhibition in Munich, Germany.
Rewards: Participating artists receive a 500-1200€ artist fee, a 150-500€ travel budget and accommodation during the Festival’s four-day opening week.
Hi folks! Chateau d'Orquevaux invites 24 to 48 artists from around the world to the French countryside for 2- and 3-week residencies. Private bedrooms, studios and meals are provided, and partial funding options are available.
Yale’s Committee for Art Recognizing Enslavement (CARE) seeks artists to create permanent and ephemeral interventions to address Yale’s historical roles and associations with slavery and the slave trade.
Rewards: For temporary interventions, artist(s) will receive a production budget and artist stipend. For long-term or permanent works, the artist(s) will receive an artist stipend and a residency for up to 4 months, including a studio/workspace in the city of New Haven, CT.
Atelier 34zero Muzeum invites textile artists to participate in the upcoming 'Between Fibres and Forms: When Textiles Become Art' exhibition taking place in Jette, Belgium, and then in Katowice, Poland.
Rewards: Atelier will provide support with transport, set-up/dismantling and insurance for both shows. The exhibition will run from mid-December to the end of March and then be exported to Poland, to the Centre for Contemporary Art in Katowice.
Olbrich Botanical Gardens invites proposals for temporary light-based installations for GLEAM, a public art exhibition situated within a 16-acre Midwest landscape and 10,000 sq ft tropical conservatory.
Rewards: The Gardens will consider installation budgets of $5,000-$30,000 and anticipates featuring 9-11 installations.
ZKM | Center of Art and Media Karlsruhe
The BBBank Award in Projection Mapping invites artists to submit ideas for the projection mapping of the 170-metre-wide façade of Karlsruhe Palace during SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE 2025.
Rewards: Three finalists will receive 15,000€ to produce their idea and the winner of the public vote will get another 5,000€. The ZKM | Karlsruhe will provide curatorial and technical assistance during production.
Chicago’s Newberry Library offers three one-month funded fellowships:
1.) The Jan and Frank Cicero Artist-in-Residence Fellowship for visual and performing arts
2.) The Arthur and Lila Weinberg Artist-in-Residence Fellowship for Independent Researchers
3.) The Newberry Historical Fiction Artist-in-Residence Writing Fellowship.
Rewards: Each fellow receives a $3,000 stipend.
Boomer Gallery invites visual artists to display their work in the heart of London’s Tower Bridge District during the next “The Dark Side” exhibition.
Rewards: Participating artists receive administrative and graphic design services throughout the exhibition, plus a hosted opening event with refreshments and printed exhibition ephemera.
Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens
Evergreen Arboretum is seeking an artist to provide an interactive/kinetic sculpture that encourages participation and exploration, shaping the artistic experience through movement, and engaging viewers and children.
Rewards: $25,000 Installation Fee, $500 Shortlist Fee, Public Installation
This Week’s Round-up
Hi everyone! We’ve collected another round of unique no-fee open calls we’ve seen published on the site recently with deadlines ending soon (and one not so soon). Daydreaming of a specific type of opportunity, region or call for artform? Leave your wishes in the comments and we’ll see what we can find in the next round. 🙃
1️⃣ National Sculpture Society: The $5,000 Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant is awarded annually to a US sculptor with a mature body of sculpture work inspired by nature. The grant will be awarded in June 2025 and recipients will have their work archived on the Society’s website.
2️⃣ Artadia: The next round of Artadia Awards will provide unrestricted financial support of $15,000 and virtual studio visits to six contemporary artists based in Houston, Texas.
3️⃣ Leica Camera USA: The 2025 Leica Women Foto Project Award will provide a $10,000 USD grant, a Leica SL3 camera and a Leica Vario Elmarit-SL 24-70mm lens to four photographers to complete a personal photo project with a feminine point of view.
4️⃣ Atelier 34zero Muzeum: Atelier 34zero Muzeum invites textile artists to participate in the upcoming ‘Between Fibres and Forms: When Textiles Become Art’ exhibition taking place in Jette, Belgium, and then in Katowice, Poland.
5️⃣ MØRNING: The MØRNING People Fund provides £4,000 grants to artists with a dream project to complete. Grantees are matched with a team member for a personalized mentorship session and interviewed about their practice for social media.
There’s still a few days left to submit your work to the Holy Art Gallery’s upcoming “Art On Loop: London & Athens” dual city digital exhibition. Artists from all countries are welcome to submit works in any medium.
Rewards: Digital Exhibition and Promotion
Each year the Marion Ermer Foundation awards four visual and performing artists based in Germany outside the city of Berlin with a cash prize and a group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig with an accompanying publication.
Rewards: 5,000€ and a group exhibition, and publication.
The Puchi Award is looking for the most unique publication proposals in the field of comics, graphic novels and illustrated books.
Rewards: The winner receives a 10,000€ production grant and will have their work published and distributed by the organization.
Austrian Cultural Forum London - Photography Prize
ACF London invites submissions by emerging photographers on the theme of “All the world’s a stage”.
Rewards: Two winners will receive a 10-day funded residency in London or Vienna/Salzburg. In addition to the residency, both artists will receive a €500 cash prize and participate in exhibitions in both London and Salzburg.
The SURF AiR program provides opportunities for artists to create work inspired by the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), which is set in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota.
Rewards: The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) AiR Program covers travel expenses, housing, a per diem and $5,000 stipend. Artists may also apply for up to $5,000 in additional funds as a project budget.
The Toyota Foundation invites research proposals for projects taking place in 2025.
Rewards: Funding for joint projects is up to 10 million yen (~61.000€) and up to 2 million yen (~12.000€) per project for individual projects.
VIA Art Fund’s Artistic Production Grants are awarded twice annually to individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions to support new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments.
Rewards: Funding ranges from $25,000 to $100,000 per project
Struts Gallery - Artist Residency
Struts Gallery welcomes applications from professional visual and media artists at all career levels to participate in their annual Open Studio Residency Program.
Rewards: Struts Gallery provides Open Studio resident artists with a furnished apartment above the gallery, as well as a $3250 artist fee, $30 per diem, travel costs up to $800 and $200 materials budget.
Vocatio Grants
Each year Vocatio offers individual scholarships to young artists who need financial help to achieve their goal. The call for proposals for the next round of funding is up!
Rewards: €10,000 Grant
City of Raleigh - Wayfinding Artist-in-Residence
The City of Raleigh invites artists to participate in the year-long Wayfinding Residency to create artful signage to help visitors navigate their way around downtown.
Rewards: Collaborators receive a $75,000 production budget and a $1500 monthly stipend.
The MØRNING People Fund provides grants to artists with a dream project to complete. Grantees are matched with a team member for a personalized mentorship session and interviewed about their practice for social media.
Rewards: £4,000 grant, mentorship session and interview
The Artadia Awards 2024 - Houston
The next round of Artadia Awards will provide unrestricted financial support and virtual studio visits to six contemporary artists based in Houston, Texas.
Rewards: $15,000 unrestricted grant
Mucem / Iméra: Residency 2025–2026
The Mucem / Iméra Residency facilitates collaborative five-month projects focused on museum collections, artist participation, or creating site-specific works at Fort Saint-Jean.
Rewards: Artists receive a 2,000 € monthly stipend, travel expense coverage and free accommodation on the Iméra site.
Science Gallery Melbourne: Emergence(y)
Science Gallery Melbourne has opened the call for artists to participate in the 2026 EMERGENCE(Y) exhibition with interactive, interdisciplinary projects that “entertain people first and then educate them.”
Rewards: Selected projects will receive funding up to $8000 AUD, which includes all fees, materials, freight and other project costs.
2025 Leica Women Foto Project Award
Rewards: The 2025 Leica Women Foto Project Award will provide $10,000 USD grants to four photographers to complete a personal photo project with a feminine point of view. In addition to the financial award, each winner will receive a Leica SL3 camera and a Leica Vario Elmarit-SL 24-70mm lens.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
t is an educational priority to make The Met a laboratory for art and ideas. As a result, they support academic investigations of the Museum’s collection spanning more than 5,000 years from every corner of the world and contribute to broader scholarly discourses.
Rewards: Met fellowships are awarded to junior scholars, postdoctoral and senior academics, and museum professionals for independent study or research.
Hey all! New & Abstract is looking to fill 13 spots in their GROUP SHOW #4 from 31 October to 28 November 2024 in the New & Abstract Pop-up Showroom (Mollstr. 1, 10178 Berlin). They are looking for abstract works on canvas, paper, as wall objects. Deadline is fast approaching, so don’t miss out!
Rewards: The first 13 winners will take part in a group show and be featured in the New & Abstract online gallery for the 4 week duration of the exhibition. Additionally, they will be announced with a feed post on the New & Abstract Instagram account. Participating artists will receive professional photographs of the exhibition.
Artist Residencies Enschede (ARE) invites international artists to apply for the 2025 funded visual arts residency in Enschede, Netherlands. Six spots are available between January and November, with three time slots to choose from.
Rewards: ARE provides free housing, studio space with wifi and basic tools, a bicycle (!) and a materials budget, as well as the opportunity to have a solo exhibition or presentation at the end of their stay.
Rhodes Truse: Art for Global Impact Residency
Hey everyone! The Rhodes Trust seeks a UK or international artist with a practice rooted in social justice for a one-year non-residential intellectual exchange project culminating in an exhibition at Rhodes House under the theme “Radical Joy.”
Rewards: The artist will receive a £15,000 stipend (paid in installments) and reimbursement for travel and project materials up to £3,000. Although this is a non-residential programme, the artist will have accommodation at Rhodes House in Oxford and travel provided for two visits: one week at the beginning of the residency, January 2025, and one around the launch of the exhibition, September 2025.
The Arctic Art Festival is an international snow-ice sculpture competition that originated in Lapland in the early ‘80s and now takes place in Rovaniemi, Finland. This year, the Festival will invite eight two-person teams from around the world to northern Finland to take part!
Rewards: The Competition covers travel expenses up to 600€ per team for roundtrip airfare to/from Helsinki, plus the night train from Helsinki to Rovaniemi. Each team gets a 500€ stipend after completing the sculpture, and four cash prizes from 300€ - 1,500€ will be awarded.
Participants will stay in the guest house near the Arctic Snow Hotel, with three meals daily served at Arctic Snow Hotel Restaurants.
Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant is awarded annually to a US sculptor with a mature body of sculpture work inspired by nature in the round and in bas-relief.
The grant will be awarded in June 2025, and grant recipients will have their work archived on the Society’s website.
Rewards: $5,000
This Week’s Round-up
Hey all! Open calls without application fees are probably one of our favorite things, so here’s a few unique no-fee listings we’ve seen published to our site recently. Daydreaming of a specific type of opportunity, region or call for artform? Leave your wishes in the comments and we’ll see what we can find in the next round. 🙃
1️⃣: The Loewe Foundation has opened applications for the next edition of the Foundation’s International Craft Prize for excellence in craftsmanship within applied arts. The winning piece gets the artist 50.000€, with a special mention and 5,000€ awarded to as many special mentions as the Foundation chooses to dish out.
2️⃣: ARTCRY supports political artworks in the UK’s public realm and makes funding decisions on a weekly basis. One grant of £5,000 is available, while other projects have a maximum budget of £2,500 - but if artists need a few bucks to buy paint, hire a van, or hire a helping hand to complete a project, they’re encouraged to apply for any amount.
3️⃣: Buffalo NY’s Squeaky Wheel offers short-term workspace residencies to US artists that include accommodation, a $900 stipend, $300 artist fee, up to $400 in travel support and up to $900 in childcare or disability support if needed.
4️⃣: Rotterdam Photo invites emerging Dutch photographers to explore and express the theme of “Shared/Connected” with projects destined for inclusion in a group exhibition at Rotterdam Photo Festival 2025. Selected photographers receive a stipend of €3,000 and collaborate with curator Mira Matic to develop a unique group exhibition.
5️⃣: Studiotopia invites artists to participate in one of 10 residencies across Belgium, Poland, Italy, Austria, Cyprus, Slovenia, and France starting in December 2024. The residencies provide accommodation, travel costs, artist funding and production budgets, plus opportunities to present at the Ars Electronica Festival and the New European Bauhaus Festival.
LAND Studio invites US artists to participate in PRISM: Seeing Beyond Mass Incarceration, a project aimed at facilitating expansive dialogue around the realities and societal shortcomings of mass incarceration.
Rewards: Four artists will each be given an all-inclusive $75,000 budget to design and install public artworks at one of four library campuses throughout Cleveland, Ohio.
The Adachi Contemporary Ukiyoe Award 2024
Adachi Contemporary invites illustrators from around the world to submit designs to be adapted into a 21st century ukiyo-e woodcut print.
Ukiyo-e is the iconic style of Japanese art popular during the 17th–19th centuries. The pieces were a collaboration between an artist, carver and printer, and they often featured cultural references, landscapes, and scenes from history and folktales.
Rewards: Winning artists receive 50,000¥, 150,000¥ or 300,000¥ (about $1,200 USD) and will collaborate with skilled carvers and printers to bring their designs to life.
This year, we aim to empower and celebrate women artists, highlighting their unique perspectives and contributions to contemporary art.The Prize invites entries from female artists who focus on the environment, sustainable living, and climate change in their work. Our goal is to showcase their talent to the general public.
Rewards: The winner of the 2024 prize will receive a HK$33,000 cash award.
Rotterdam Photo 2025 x Amarte
Rotterdam Photo invites emerging Dutch photographers to explore and express the theme of “Shared/Connected” with projects destined for inclusion in a group exhibition at Rotterdam Photo Festival 2025. Set to be a highlight of the festival, this exhibition will be open for 10 days in May. Rotterdam Photo will provide coaching throughout the artistic process, support technical needs, and organize the final presentations during the event.
Rewards: Selected photographers receive a stipend of €3,000 and collaborate with curator Mira Matic to develop a unique group exhibition taking place at Museumpark, located in the cultural heart of Rotterdam.
Public Art Open Call – Ocean & Environment
Creative Places West Cork Islands welcomes creative submissions from socially engaged artists, designers, craft-makers, or creative teams in relation to a new socially engaged commission that will respond to the seven inhabited islands of West Cork, Ireland.
This socially engaged commission will run from January 2025 to Summer 2026. The open call is looking for applicants to respond to the theme of Ocean and Environment by exploring concerns relating to the Islands (think: resilience of coastal communities in the context of the climate crisis, plastic (including microplastics and oceanic pollution), sustainability as a way of life on the islands, and island interconnectedness as a tool for climate action (among many others)).
Rewards: €35,000 Project Budget
Workspace Residency
Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency supports artists and researchers working on media arts projects, and their short-term residency is open to applicants from Buffalo and across the United States.
Rewards: Squeaky Wheel provides accommodation, a $900 stipend, $300 artist fee, up to $400 in travel support and up to $900 in childcare or disability support if needed.
Satellites 2025 - Call for Entries
In 2025, the Fumetto International Comics Festival will award the third PULSAR comic sponsorship prize to up-and-coming comic artists with projects aligning with the theme of “Light / Shadow.”
Rewards: PULSAR consists of a cash prize of CHF 2500, a solo exhibition at the Fumetto Comic Festival Luzern 2025 and a publication (300 copies - 30 copies will go to the artist). As a festival artist, awardees also receive a festival pass, an official festival T-shirt, food during the festival days and invitations to all events.
Green Box Artist in Residency Program
The Green Box Residency offers national and international artists the opportunity to create new works while living in and engaging with the community of Green Mountain Falls, Colorado.
2025’s residencies will be divided into installation, arts journalism, dance and open projects.
Rewards: Private accommodation and a stipend of $9000 (individuals), $12,000 (duos) or $15,000 (trios) will be provided.
ARTCRY Funding for Responsive, Political Artworks
ARTCRY supports responsive, political artworks in the public realm. They make funding decisions on a weekly basis, artists can apply at any time, and the program is especially focused on projects that engage with the UK’s immigration and asylum systems to fight for human rights and equality.
Works must be time-critical (start immediately) and happen for free, in a public space within the UK.
Rewards: One grant of £5,000 is available, while other projects have a maximum budget of £2,500. However, artists who need a few bucks to buy paint, hire a van, or hire a helping hand to complete their project are encouraged to apply for any amount.
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