Artist Resources

Anonymous Was a Woman Environmental Art Grants

• The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) provides grants of up to $20,000 to environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.

• Deadline: April 15, 2025

Mudflat Clay Artist Residency | Somerville, MA

• In 1996 Mudflat began offering a one-year residency position to clay artists. This highly competitive program provides a private studio space at no cost with access to Mudflat’s facility, a monthly materials stipend, a monthly housing stipend, and opportunities to teach and sell work.

• Deadline: April 16, 2025

Sozo Fellowship

• SOZO Fellowship is a groundbreaking coaching program designed to equip full-time working, mid-career independent artists with sustainability and entrepreneurship training to reach new heights in their livelihood and creative endeavors.

• Deadline: April 18, 2025

McColl Center: The John O. Calmore Creative Activism Artist Residency

• The John O. Calmore Creative Activism Artist Residency at McColl Center is seeking citizen-artists dedicated to addressing social justice issues through their creative practice. This residency highlights the powerful role of art and artists as catalysts for social action, problem-solving, and relationship building.The residency will culminate in an exhibition in Toronto, Canada, showcasing the role of art in activism and community transformation.

• Deadline: April 21, 2025

Field Projects Solo Exhibition & Residency Fellowship | VT & NY

• In collaboration with In Situ Polyculture Commons, Field projects invites you to apply for their Solo Show & Residency Fellowship. This opportunity includes up to a four week residency in Southern Vermont at In Situ Polyculture Commons, a five week exhibition at Field Projects Gallery, and a $1000 stipend.

• Deadline: April 21, 2025

AIGA DC Design Continuum Fund | Washington DC*

• This fund awards scholarships ranging from $500 to $3,500+ to students at colleges and universities in DC, maryland, and Virginia who are passionate about diversity, equity, and social change in the design industry

• Deadline: April 21, 2025

Washington Sculptors Group Annual Members’ Image Show 2025

• Presented by Washington Sculptors Group at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. WSG will be presenting the Annual Members’ Image Show at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street, NW, Washington DC, on Sunday, April 27, from 2-5 PM.

• WSG members may submit up to five (5) jpeg images OR one (1) video of their work for the Annual Members’ Image Show. Please carefully review the instructions below for preparing media. If you need assistance, please contact wsgimageshow@gmail.com. WSG members are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to show their work. DC area gallerists, curators, collectors, and art representatives will be invited to attend. Only pictures/videos of the work will be presented; you do not need to bring work to the venue. But you must be at the show in person to present your work. 

• Deadline: April 23, 2025

Situation As Site: Public Social Performance and Interventions | The Art Students League of New York / 215 West 57th Street

• A one-of-a-kind workshop with public artist Ed Woodham

• Public space is where we gather to discuss and fuel social change regardless of our economic status, gender identity, age, culture, religion, or beliefs.  As martial law slithers into our present circumstances, artists’ voices in civic spaces are crucial – right this very minute.

• Like a laboratory, participants explore methods from a variety of art forms, social engagement, and performance practice to cultivate innovative approaches to the construction of new public work in our quickly changing social landscape.

• Wednesday, Thursday, Friday – April 23, 24, 25, 2025

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

• The program 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.

• Deadline: May 7, 2025

Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity | Indigenous Arts

• ​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.

• Deadline: May 7, 2025

Martin House Creative Residency Program | Buffalo, New York

• 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.

• Deadline: May 9, 2025

Josephine Sculpture Park Artists in Residence | Franklin County, KY

• The AiR program will welcome up to 2 artists for a site planning visit in 2025 and a residency period of up to 10 weeks in 2026. The goal is to provide 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.

• Deadline: May 14, 2025

Call for Applications: 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship | Washington DC*

• The Center for Craft is accepting applications for the 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship, offering six $5,000 awards to support research on underrepresented craft histories in the U.S. The fellowship is open to scholars, researchers, and artists at all career stages, culminating in a featured article and virtual program in September 2026.

• Deadline: May 20, 2025

Tulsa Artist Fellowship | Tulsa, OK

• 2026-28 residency with fully subsidized independent studio space with access to shared facilities, $150,000 stipend paid over 3 years, and other associated stipends including housing, moving, health, and studio assistant.

• Deadline: May 28, 2025

Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence | Upperville, VA

• 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.

• Deadline: May 31, 2025

Silver Foundation Grant for Sculpture

• The sculpture grant ($20,000) is specifically for an artist who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to sculpture that includes an informed and imaginative engagement with its materials, histories, and situation.

• Deadline: May 31, 2025

Indigo Arts Alliance mentorship residency | Portland, ME

• Indigo Arts Alliance fosters mentorship by pairing two artists together during a residency period of 1-2 months to cultivate rich conversation, collaboration, and exchange experiences, knowledge, art industry information and technical skills. Housing, stipend, and 24-hour access to community studio provided. For Black and Brown artists.

• Deadline: Rolling 

Breck Create Artist in Residence Program | Breckendrige, CO

• Breck Create’s Artist-in-Residence program offers regional and national artists of all disciplines an opportunity to focus on process rather than product while engaging with the local community in a meaningful way. Artists-in-Residence spend 2-4 months in a live/work studio in the Breckenridge Arts District. Artists receive a biweekly stipend of $600 to cover expenses and may take classes and open studios at no cost based on availability.

• Deadline: Rolling

Alterwork Residency | Long Island City, NY

• This residency allows emerging contemporary artists time and space to create new work exploring their practice. The residency culminates in a solo closing reception that is promoted across an extensive network. Proposals should have a contemporary art focus showing experimentation and career reach for the artist. The program is especially interested in projects that involve conc

• eptual art, practice or theory, or involve the public in their creative process.

• Deadline: Rolling

ART14 Residency | Patton, Pennsylvania

• During their stay, artists’ objectives are self-prescribed. The program welcomes all types of artists, writers, musicians, etc. of all skill levels, welcomes creators to explore new media and techniques, and encourages collaboration but does not require it. Residents are encouraged to explore and engage with the local community. 

• Deadline: Rolling

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

• The Foundation welcomes applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses, and amounts range up to $50,000. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.

• Deadline: Rolling

DC Arts Center Call for Curators | Washington DC*

• Apply to curate and exhibition at the DC Arts Center, send your resume and cover letter/artist statement to info@dcartscenter.org

• Deadline: rolling basis, apply now!

Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant

• The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program provides interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident.

• The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000; an award of $5,000 is typical.

• Deadline: Rolling Basis

DC Arts Center Open Call For Artists | Washington DC*

• The DC Arts Center accepts applications to exhibit in their Main and Nano Galleries on a rolling basis.

• Deadline: Rolling Basis

MOCA Summer Positions | Arlington, VA*

• The Museum of Contemporary Art in Arlington is searching to fill four positions in their upcoming summer camp for kids and teens. The season runs from June 17- August 16.

• The positions available are Summer Education Assistant, Summer Team Lead, Summer Ceramics Education Assistant, and Art Instructor.

• Deadline: rolling basis, apply now!

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants

• Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is $1,900.

• Deadline: Rolling basis

The Awesome Foundation

• The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time. Each fully autonomous chapter supports projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. Projects include initiatives in a wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more. Many awesome projects are novel or experimental, and evoke surprise and delight.

• Deadline: Rolling

Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund

• The Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund provides support to creators during times of extraordinary hardship. Current Fund efforts are focused on supporting creators who have been directly impacted by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. If selected, you will receive $10,000 from the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund. 

• Deadline: Rolling

Awesome Foundation on the Water Grant

• This grant awards $1,000 per month to a water-focused project that brings creativity, culture, and inclusion to the water or provides a new way of thinking about the water. Applicants can be based anywhere in the world.

• Deadline: rolling basis

Artist Communities Alliance Job Postings

• ACA is hiring for a wide variety of positions. Apply ASAP!