Currently 9 active visual and media arts grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the US. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Every entry is funded, no exposure-only calls. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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Annual paid virtual residency for one emerging visual artist with skills in digital illustration and light animation, supporting Third Wave Fund's gender-justice and liberation visibility, fundraising and donor mobilisation. Deliverables in 2026: two digital illustrations and one short-form animated reel for storytelling and fundraising. Five-month residency with a $10,000 stipend, mentorship and guidance from long-time movement artists, feedback sessions, experience and portfolio building, and social-media spotlight opportunities. Eligibility: 18+; valid SSN or EIN; currently residing in the US or US Territories; emerging visual artist (early career, generally up to 10 years of practice; no degree-granting art-school enrolment); skilled in digital illustration and light animation; available for the full schedule. Schedule: orientation 14 July 2026; project meetings 21 July, 16 September, 4 November; mentoring session 14 October; debrief 10 December 2026. TWF is a fully remote organisation operating a 4-day work week (Monday to Thursday); all communications and meetings happen Mon-Thu via Zoom and email. Deadline 13 May 2026 at 17:00 CST. Notifications go out in the first week of June 2026. Questions: comms@thirdwavefund.org (response within ~3 Mon-Thu business days).
Two-track residency program for artists experimenting with emerging technologies (telepresence, VR/AR, AI, robotics, creative coding, live web, game design, etc.) in search of new artistic forms. One application form; pick one track. LA TRACK: 3 residents get 1 to 2 weeks at the LA studio (5.1 Kalio audio surround, modular configuration, flexible exhibition space). LA proposals favoured: immersive audio environments, installations, experimental spatial design, tech-infused textiles/sculpture, sensory/physical exploration. Themes of particular interest: ecological responsibility, tech ethics, integration of old and new tech, localised networks, human connection, sustainability. Applicants must be based in LA. NY TRACK: 3 residents (one per international partner) get 1 week at the NYC studio + 1 week at the international partner with a thematic focus: Space + Algorithms at DOCKdigital (Berlin); Hybridization of Spaces & Telematic Installation at Société des arts technologiques (Montréal); Data, Narrative, and Performance at La MaMa Umbria (Spoleto). Applicants must be based in NY. Both tracks: $2,000 stipend, public offering during residency (work-in-progress showing, talk, workshop, etc.), marketing and documentation support, access to the residency cohort and network of past residents. Application closes 20 May 2026, 11:59 PM PT.
Open call for digital and new-media artists to submit existing works for consideration on transit-center screens (video, film, animation, augmented reality, net art, game engines, generative art). Multi-channel installation experience encouraged. Finalists develop site-specific proposals with a $1,000 honorarium; selected artists oversee production and installation with project management from MTA Arts & Design. Sites have no audio. Valid U.S. Taxpayer ID required. Submit up to 5 works (.mov/.mp4) and 10 stills (.jpg/.png) plus bio, CV and artist statement. Deadline 23:59 EST Thursday 28 May 2026.
Open call for the 2027 cohort of the Headlands Artist in Residence (AIR) program, one of the longer-running fully-sponsored residencies on the US West Coast. Approximately 50 local, national and international artists are selected each year for a residency of 4 to 10 weeks at the Headlands' Marin Headlands campus (former military buildings inside the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, just north of San Francisco). Residents receive a private studio, chef-prepared meals, on-site housing, travel costs, and a living-expense stipend, fully sponsored by the program. Open to artists at all career stages working in any medium: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, dance, music, interdisciplinary practice, social practice, and architecture. Strong fit for new-media / interdisciplinary / research-driven practices. Application opens 1 April 2026 and closes 1 June 2026 via SlideRoom; applicants are notified of decisions by 11 December 2026. Free to apply.
Residency welcoming local, national and international artists at all career stages and disciplines (visual arts, writing, music, dance, interdisciplinary). Approximately 50 artists selected annually. Applications open 1 April 2026.
Residency for working artists in choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video and visual arts. Applications open 1 June. Application fee $35 (waivers available). Two cycles per year (winter deadline ~20 December for May to March residencies; summer deadline ~1 July for November to June residencies).
Residency for artists across seven disciplines (architecture, film/video, interdisciplinary, literature, music composition, theatre, visual arts). Sole selection criterion is artistic excellence. Applications open 15 August 2026. February deadline of the following year covers the Fall/Winter cycle.
$75,000 prize for women figurative realist painters, awarded by a five-member jury. The winner receives $37,500 each year for two years to create a solo exhibition that travels nationally; one finalist additionally receives $10,000. Open to emerging artists who have not yet achieved full professional recognition.
Six-week fellowship for cultural producers at any career stage working in the vanguard of their creative fields. Five cycles run March to December. Fellows commit to an Artist Talk and Open Studio bookending the residency. 2026 application window has closed (Sep 15 to Oct 15, 2025); 2027 round expected Sep 15 to Oct 15, 2026 via Slideroom. Selection notifications mid-January.