Artist Opportunities featured on Instagram
Each week, we gather a collection of opportunities posted on ArtConnect that we think deserve more attention.
January 20 - 26
Jester invites emerging and international artists working in wood, metal, ceramics or digital media to Genk, Belgium for a 5-month production residency. Residents receive accommodation, a €3,000 honorarium and a €5,000 production budget, with higher honorariums for duos and collectives. Additional perks include professional photo and video documentation, studio visits, and participation in a collective showcase.
In 2025 the Edith Russ Haus for Media Art will award three media art grants of €12,500 each. Beyond the grant itself, there is the possibility of using one of the guest apartments of the Edith Russ Haus for the duration of the project.
Bosch Parade is a floating parade created in the spirit of Hieronymus Bosch taking place each summer on the waters of Den Bosch, Netherlands. The call for project proposals is up! Full support is available, including artist fees starting at €4950, materials and production budgets up to €4000, travel for international artists and shared accommodation if needed.
Bushwick Gallery seeks visual artists for the upcoming “Love and Heartbreak: A Duality” group exhibition in Brooklyn, NYC. Artists from all countries are welcome to submit works and the theme of the exhibition is open.
De Structura invites emerging artists to participate in “Unframed,” a cross-disciplinary project intertwining contemporary art and augmented reality. Selected artists will receive a one-time fee of €200. The exhibition will be displayed in at least five locations across Estonia, Italy, Sweden and Finland between March and November 2025.
Photoszene Köln calls for photographers to take part in a group exhibition on the theme of “Feelings & Photography.” Selected artists receive a €500 exhibition fee to take part in a group exhibition during the 2025 Photoszene Festival in Cologne, Germany in May 2025.
Boomer Gallery invites visual artists to display their work in the heart of London’s Tower Bridge District during the 5th edition of the gallery’s “Dreams and Nightmares” group exhibition series. Participating artists receive administrative and graphic design services throughout the exhibition, plus a hosted opening event with refreshments and printed exhibition ephemera.
January 13 - 19
The Baobab Foundation funds projects led by Black and Global Majority individuals and groups dismantling racial injustice in the UK. The Baobab Community Fund grants range from £5,000 - £30,000 per year for up to 5 years, with a five-year cap at £150,000. A £500 Access Pot is available for disabled applicants, and a contribution of £150 to all final stage applicants is provided.
Rothko Museum has invited artists from around the world to take part in the Valdis Bušs 2025 International Painting Plein Air competition. Six artists will be selected for the Plein Air exhibition in Rīga, Latvia and receive accommodation, workspace, catering, travel from Rīga to Viļaka and back and basic materials (canvases, paints).
Van Doesburghuis welcomes proposals from designers, architects and digital artists for a four-month working residency in the southwest suburbs of Paris. Artists receive a subsidy of €2,000 (max. €8,000) to put toward travel, materials, transport and accommodation costs. Accommodation (rent) for the studio house is paid directly to the organizer.
Another PleinAir Salon award session is right around the corner. Competitions take place monthly and award winning artists with $200-$600 USD. One annual winner is then chosen from among the group of finalists at the Plein Air Convention and awarded a grand prize of $15,000. All winners receive a spread in PleinAir Magazine and the grand prize receives a cover feature.
GenF has launched the international open call for artistic duos to create a memorable exhibition with the theme of “raising the next generation of women” in 2025. Both artist duos or artists working on a single project together are encouraged to apply - multiple teams will be selected to exhibit with support in Bucharest, Romania.
The Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grants support UK-based artists undertaking research projects focused on collections and exhibitions. Small grants of up to £2,000 are accepted on a rolling basis (with decisions made every eight weeks) and the next call for funding over £2,000 will close in the early spring.
January 06 - 12
Artists, designers and researchers working in textiles are invited to participate in the Textile Art Biennial BIEN 2025 taking place in the Slovenian cities of Kranj, Nova Gorica, Jesenice, Idrija, and Škofja Loka. Selected artists will take part in the exhibition during the Biennial and be considered for the ETA Award for exceptional textile handicraft techniques.
The CEC ArtsLink has opened the call for the multi-phase Artslink International Fellowships taking place in both an online and immersive in-person format. CEC ArtsLink offers a stipend for the online residency portion and fully covers all the costs associated with the in-person residency in the US.
The Kohila Symposium is an international event focused on wood-fired ceramics that takes place annually in Raplamaa, Estonia. The next season is the 25th anniversary and Kohila is looking for a performance artist to celebrate! Kohila will provide accommodation, meals and media coverage in addition to the chance to perform within the unique collaborative field of wood-fired ceramics for a large audience within Estonia.
The Committee for Craft and Design Project Funding is open to artists promoting craft and design in Denmark and Danish craft and design abroad. Grants of up to DKK 100,000 (about 13,400 EUR) are available for projects lasting under six months, and more (paid in installments) for those lasting longer than six months.
The Homiens Art Prize is an international award open to artists from any country working in any medium. The open call is up for the next round of funding! Six winning artists receive an unrestricted $500 grant and have their work exhibited online. Exhibiting artists also have the opportunity to take part in an artist interview for future print/digital publication.
The Cachan Contemporary Art Biennale invites textile artists from around the world to take part in the upcoming “Stretching the Thread” textiles showcase. Two winning artists will benefit from an exhibition, either at L'Orangerie or at the theatre gallery. The first prize also receives a financial endowment of €1,500.
The Holy Art Gallery invites artists to take part in the upcoming group exhibition in West London. Artists from all countries are welcome to submit works in any medium and the theme of the exhibition is open.
January 01 - 05
The Diriyah Art Futures Mazra’ah Media Arts Residency is a year-long programme supporting innovation within new media and digital art. DAF invites artists from around the world, while maintaining a focus on those from the Middle East and North Africa. The DAF hub will provide comfortable and inspiring living spaces, world-class studios and an exhibition production budget while creating opportunities for participants to connect with a diverse network of peers and professionals from across Saudi Arabia and the world.
The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Grant is designed for Minnesota artists with a project that has the potential to help them overcome a barrier to success and benefit their career. Project grants up to $6,000 USD are available!
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has launched Community Arts Initiative: The Artist Project to facilitate collaborations between artists and twelve after-school community organizations in the Boston area. The completed project will be exhibited in the Edward H. Linde Gallery at the MFA, with the Museum providing the selected artist with a stipend of $50,000 and a budget of $5,000 for materials.
FluxusMuseum calls for video art ranging from 1 to 15 minutes in length for the Summer 2025 Experimental Video Exhibition in Paros, Greece. 20-40 artists will be awarded €600 each to assist in executing their proposal. The finished works will then be featured in the gallery space from June – September 2025 as well as online.
Mophradat has partnered once more with Kunstencentrum BUDA and NEXT Festival in Belgium to offer a three-week residency for a performing artist from the Arab world. The selected artist (working with a maximum of three collaborators, i.e. up to four individuals in total) will have their travel and visa costs, per diem, and honoraria covered, in addition to receiving a contribution to their project’s production costs, and a presentation fee for the performance at NEXT Festival.
The Observer’s Anthony Burgess Foundation Prize for Arts Journalism awards cash prizes for authors with work that provides commentary on or review of a wide range of traditional and new arts media, projects and exhibitions. The winning piece is published in the Observer newspaper and awarded £3000, with two runners-up also receiving £500 each.
December 09 - 15
Conundrum Press has opened submissions for the next Mini-Comic Bursary! The annual bursary, aimed to support the under-represented voices in Canada’s comics industry, provides a $1000 to a Black or Indigenous person living in Canada for the creation and production of a mini-comic. This bursary is limited to developing and emerging creators but all ages and genders are welcome.
If you’re a US artist with a project the world needs to see, NYC’s Brooklyn Brewery would like to consider it for one of five upcoming project funding opportunities.
Selected artists receive a $10,000 project grant, a trip to NYC and a feature of their work on Brooklyn Brewery’s platforms in 2025.
Barcelona’s Sónar Festival invites artists to exhibit projects and prototypes at Project Area 2025, where it will be on display for over 25,000 attendees as part of Sónar by Day 2025.
Selected artists will receive a fee of €1,000 for the exhibition in addition to full exhibition support and many other perks during the festival.
The New York Botanical Gardens invites artists to spend nine months focused on gardens and landscapes during the 2025 Larry Lederman Photography Fellowship.
Fellows receive a $20,000 grant, access to NYBG’s 250-acre landscape and historic collections, and an additional stipend to cover the cost of printing and preparing the final portfolio. The fellow will take part in an exhibition arranged by NYBG and a portfolio of at least 20 prints from the Fellow's body of work will be added to the Garden’s Library.
Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa
Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa invites individual textile artists and artists groups from around the world to submit a collection of work for the 2025 International Triennial of Textiles.
Selected works aligning with the theme of “deconstruction/reconstruction” will form a group exhibition taking place during the Triennial in Łódź, Poland. Round-trip transport costs of the qualifying works will be covered by the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź.
VisArts invites emerging curators to work with an experienced mentoring curator to develop and present a one-year exhibition at VisArts in the Kaplan Gallery in the fall of 2025.
VisArts will provide the curator with a $10,000 exhibition budget. Additional staff support for printing, promotions, and execution of exhibition programming is available.
December 02 - 08
Cubos Madrid has a rotating open call up for temporary mural designs destined for the city’s infamous Passage of the Plaza de los Cubos. Selected artists will receive a prize of €1,000.00 + VAT for each completed intervention, which lives in the public eye for three months before another mural is commissioned. A photographic record of each intervention will be made and shared on the Madrid Street Art Project social networks.
Blowhammer’s Unfast Fashion Contest invites fashion designers from around the world to rethink the way fashion is created and consumed in this global competition.
The winning designer receives 1,000 € (+VAT) and will have their work published in a printed zine and showcased on Blowhammer’s website and social channels. All finalists will be considered for future brand collaborations.
The Rijksmuseum Fellowship Programme will offer up to six fellowships during the 2025-2026 academic year across four fields of research within the Netherlands’ largest art history museum.
Fellows receive financial support, access to a world-class art collection and immersion in museum operations, workshops and field trips. Selected fellowships also include travel grants, and up to three fellows may stay at the historic Haga House, an Amsterdam School-style building near the museum.
Be Still Media invites artists to submit works in response and reflection to the 2024 Greg Kwedar film, “Sing Sing” with Colman Domingo. Four cash prizes will be awarded for works under five minutes: $6,000 (first), $4,000 (second), $3,000 (third) and $2,000 (people’s choice).
Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers by awarding two $1800 USD grants each quarter. The next open call for another round of funding will close in just over a week! All media and disciplines are accepted, and artists around the world can apply.
ArtX seeks works that question how technology is reshaping our understanding of identity and otherness for the “Synthetica and Alterica” International Contemporary Art Competition and Virtual Exhibition.
Winners receive promotion on media outlets across the UK, US and EU, and have the opportunity to take part in a 2025 group exhibition at ArtX Gallery in Silicon Valley, with 100% of commissions on sales going to the artist.
The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize calls for large-scale, site-specific installation land art to remain on permanent display outdoors.
The selected proposal will be awarded 30,000 € and the Foundation will cover the construction of the work, one return ticket to Crete and accommodation.
November 25 - December 01
The Culterim | Independent Class is a six-month class with an accompanying curriculum. The focus is on the development, experimentation and expansion of the 12-15 participants' own artistic practice. The Culterim | Independent Class plans, curates and produces its own class exhibition, accompanied by the head of class.
Fondazione Pescheria seeks unique digital artworks to display on Biosfera, the 4M-diameter LED sphere located in Piazza del Popolo in Pesaro. One winner and three special mentions will be awarded €4,000 and €500 cash prizes, respectively. Winning audiovisual works will be presented during the closing ceremony of Pesaro Capital of Italian Culture 2024 and included in the performance schedule within Biosfera in the following weeks.
The Copenhagen Municipality invites artists to submit designs for a temporary decoration in the city’s CIty Hall Square and Sønderbro district. Approximately 10 selected artists or artist groups will each receive a fee of DKK 2,500 (about 335€) to prepare a loose sketch proposal. The winner of the open call will be tasked with creating the exhibition and be provided with a NOK 50,000 budget (~ 31,920 DKK or 4280€).
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) seeks a curator from the BIPOC community with ties to the Chicago Metro area and Evanston to take part in the 2025/2026 Curatorial Fellowship. Fellows receive a $2,500 curatorial fee and an exhibition budget of $2,500.
Chulitna Lodge Wilderness Retreat
Chulitna Lodge Wilderness Retreat is inviting artists to Port Alsworth, Alaska this summer for one of three opportunities: a fully funded six-week fellowship, a self-funded artist residency, and a no-application honorary residency. Support varies across the three stay types and includes things like accommodation, travel, meals and more.
The Chicago Sculpture Exhibit invites professional 3D artists to create and install large-scale sculptures within dense urban settings. A $2,000 honorarium will be awarded for each selected work– half paid at contract signing and the remainder at installation. Artwork will remain on display for one calendar year and at least 40 sculptures will be included in the 2025 exhibition.
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The workshop will be in English, but feel free to ask questions in German during the Q&A.
Boomer Gallery invites visual artists to display their work in the heart of London’s Tower Bridge District during the first “Transcendence” exhibition. Participating artists receive administrative and graphic design services throughout the exhibition, plus a hosted opening event with refreshments and printed exhibition ephemera.
Divide Magazine has opened the call for the international publication’s 12th issue. Winning artists receive a full feature in the digital magazine and digital promotion across Divide’s newsletter and social media channels.
There are a few days left to submit your work to the next “London Open Art” group exhibition at the Holy Art Gallery in London. Artists from all countries are welcome to submit works in any medium and the theme of the exhibition is open.
November 18 - 24
Media artists from all over the world can start entering their works for the European Media Art Festival 2025. Winning works will be part of a group exhibition during the festival in Osnabrück, Germany.
Winning films will receive 400€ in prize money, an artist fee of 80€ - 200€, and a 300€ exhibition grant.
Les Rencontres d'Arles has announced the launch of a new research fellowship for curators wishing to carry out an original image/photography project in Arles, France.
This is a two-stage project, with a maximum grant amount of 20,000€ divided between each phase.
Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen’s “Linocut Today” Competition will award three artists with prize money of 5000€, 3000€ and 2000€. The winning works and up to three additional works will be acquired for the Gallery’s linocut collection and exhibited in 2025. A full-color catalogue will also be published.
The 2024 FutureTense Awards are open to artists from Asia working in experimental, media and digital art.
Multiple winning artists will receive cash prizes of 5,000 to 15,000 HKD (~596€ to 1790€) and exhibition opportunities in Hong Kong, as well as production assistance.
The CIty of Olympia (WA, US) is seeking up to 18 sculptures from Washington and Oregon State for display on the popular waterfront boardwalk at Percival Landing.
Selected artists receive a $1,000 honorarium for the one-year loan of their work and are eligible for consideration for the Peoples’ Prize purchase award of up to $10,000, where one sculpture is selected for purchase by public vote and added to the City’s public art collection.
Divide Magazine has opened the call for the international publication’s 12th issue. Winning artists receive a full feature in the digital magazine and digital promotion across Divide’s newsletter and social media channels.
Our Jackson Home is seeking public installation proposals from US-based artists for Jackson, Tennessee’s Anderson Park. The selected design will receive a $18,850 project budget and an honorarium of $150 will be provided to the three finalists.
November 11 - 17
The ACT International Festival for Emerging Performance Artists provides participating artists with a wide range of support, from accommodation, meals and a presence at the 2025 Festival in Bilbao and Barakaldo, Spain, to a fully-funded 15-day residency including accommodation, travel, per diem, meals and cachet. Winners of the ACT-DURI Korea Award will also have the opportunity to present a performance at the DURI Dance Theater in Seoul, South Korea.
Villa Pérochon calls for applications from emerging international photographers for the Encounters of Young International Photography Residency in Niort, France. This opportunity comes with full support - accommodation, meals, travel, materials, a 500€ artist grant, 500€ exhibition grant, and two exhibitions.
Minnesota’s City of Chisholm (US) seeks large-scale public art proposals for an outdoor cinder block wall within its “Troll Park” location. An all-inclusive production budget ranging from $20,000 - $28,000 USD will be provided.
Hello everyone! The three-month Riddergade AiR for visual arts provides accommodation, workshop facilities at the Viborg Art Gallery, a monthly stipend of 5,000 DKK (~ 670€) and a travel grant of 3,000 DKK.
Speculative Literature's Gulliver Travel Grant awards writers with open-ended mobility funding of $1,000 USD to facilitate non-academic research, as well as promotion of the grant recipients on Speculative Literature’s website and mailing lists.
The Kindling Fund awards project grants ranging from $3000 - $7000 to Maine-based artists, curators and collectives with projects that engage the community.
Arteles Creative Center invites artists, writers and researchers to Finland for the 2024/2025 ‘Way Beyond’ Residency Program. Residents enjoy flexible time and space to freely develop creative projects at their own pace. The Foundation provides accommodation + workspaces and a publication opportunity.
November 4 - 10
Bernheim Forest will invite up to four artists living in Kentucky or Southern Indiana to participate in the eight-week artist residency in 2025. Cozy cabin accommodation, a $2,500 stipend and access to environmental and educational resources are provided.
The City of Upper Arlington (Ohio) invites local and US-based artists to share their work in one of two galleries committed to curating engaging, accessible exhibitions for residents and visitors. Exhibiting artists will receive promotion on the city’s website, across social media, in newsletters and on other channels, and the artist may host a reception if they’d like.
The Karlsruhe UNESCO City of Media Arts
+The Karlsruhe UNESCO City of Media Arts and ZKM invite artists to apply for the DM “Connecting Worlds” Award for projects that connect the digital and analog space with projection mappings.
In addition to a 10,000€ prize, Karlsruhe will cover production costs up to 20,000€, which may include fees and technical equipment, as well as travel expenses for the winner.
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.
October 28 - November 3
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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