Currently 30 active visual and media arts grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the US. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans annually select 30 fellows based on their potential to make significant contributions to American society, culture, and their chosen fields, across disciplines including the arts. WHAT YOU GET: up to USD 90,000 over two years in stipend and tuition support for graduate study beginning fall 2027, plus mentorship, community, all-expenses-paid attendance at the Fall Conference, and lifelong connection to a network of nearly 900 fellows. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be an immigrant or the child of immigrant(s), meet the program's age requirements, and be in the first two years of a graduate or professional program or applying to one during the admissions process; school selectivity, GPA, and test scores are not used to determine eligibility, and reapplying is allowed. APPLICATION: free, via the online portal, with a resume or CV, two essays (1,000 words max each), transcripts, any program-required test scores, and 3 to 5 recommendation letters. TIMELINE: finalists notified mid-January 2027, virtual interviews in February, winners notified in March. DEADLINE: 29 October 2026, 2:00 PM EDT.
Grants for large-scale interactive installation art shown at Black Rock City 2027; much of the funded work is creative-tech, light and kinetic. Two-stage process: a Letter of Intent now, with invited full proposals due mid-January 2027. FUNDING STRUCTURE: the official page publishes the overall picture rather than a per-award figure: a USD 1.5 million annual budget across roughly 75 projects, grants covering 40 to 60% of a project's proposed budget, and grants over USD 20,000 described as rare. ELIGIBILITY: open internationally, individuals and collectives; attending the event is recommended but not required. DEADLINE: Letter of Intent due 29 October 2026, 5pm PDT; late LOIs are not accepted.
The City of Los Angeles' residency-based grant line for socially engaged art. Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residencies (NEAR, USD 12,000) fund individual teaching-artists to run participatory, multi-session residency projects in self-selected non-arts venues (community organizations, civic spaces) across LA's Council Districts, reaching audiences with little exposure to arts programming. Creative Optimism-Uplifting Promises (CO-UP, USD 15,000) funds collaborations between social-justice nonprofits and artists for community-driven arts projects and public events. Both lines run on one autumn application cycle for the 2027-28 framework. ELIGIBILITY: Los Angeles-based artists and host or partner organizations; projects must take place in the City of Los Angeles. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026, 11:59 PM via the DCA grants portal.
The Netherland-America Foundation funds professional artistic and cultural projects that show a clear exchange between Dutch and American artists, institutions or audiences, such as exhibitions, performances and other cultural initiatives that promote dialogue and collaboration. Both emerging artists and established organisations may apply. NOT FUNDED: applicants who are not working cultural professionals, seminar attendance, degree tuition, residencies, research, projects without a Dutch-American connection (these are not forwarded to the committee), and projects already underway or finished at the time of review. TIMING: apply at least 6 months before the money is needed; a letter of intent is optional and encouraged for projects 9 or more months out, after which the committee may invite a full application. Recent grantees must wait three years before reapplying. Letter and budget in English, addressed to the NAF Cultural Committee; include visuals where relevant. QUARTERLY CUT-OFFS: 1 February (window 2 Nov-1 Feb, results mid-March), 1 May (results mid-June), 1 August (results mid-September) and 1 November (window 2 Aug-1 Nov, results mid-December). Submit via Submittable.
The American-Scandinavian Foundation's award program for study and research abroad is its longest-standing commitment to educational exchange: over the past 100 years, more than 4,000 fellowships and grants have gone to Americans working in the Nordic region and Scandinavians in the US engaged in study, research, or creative arts projects. Fellowships for Americans in the Nordic Countries support projects in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Sapmi. AMOUNTS: long-term fellowships of up to USD 23,000 for 4 to 12 months, and short-term grants of up to USD 5,000 for 1 to 3 months; awards are given in all fields, with graduate students (preferably dissertation-related), academic professionals, and creative artists eligible. In 2026, 31 American Fellows were granted over USD 277,390 in total. REPORTING: fellows abroad more than six months submit an interim report mid-project, and all fellows submit a final narrative report within 60 days of the fellowship period's end. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026 for the 2027-28 cycle. See ASF's Program Guidelines for full requirements and apply via the ASF application portal.
The MIT Museum seeks proposals for compelling digital content exploring humanity's relationship with the BRAIN, the museum's thematic focus from April to September 2027 bringing together art, science, technology and design on cognition, neurotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, mental health and the boundaries of ability. Selected proposals run as ambient content on the two-story digital screen (3840x3024, 80:63 aspect ratio, 20'3" x 16'2") in the museum's central Exchange amphitheater. The museum wants immersive, non-linear, experimental, non-didactic work, such as artful visualizations of data or scientific phenomena; interactivity (touchscreens, QR codes) is out of scope and content-critical audio is discouraged. Content must run on the museum's existing hardware (Windows PC with RTX 3090, NEC LED wall with Analog Way 4K system). WHO CAN APPLY: artists, scientists, engineers, designers and other creative practitioners, from MIT or the broader community. SUPPORT: flat honorarium of USD 2,500-5,000 per selected proposal; no additional development funding. Applications reviewed from 2 November, accepted list finalized January 2027. Deadline: 1 November 2026.
The Rome Prize supports roughly 30 artists and scholars a year with a residential fellowship at the American Academy in Rome; disciplines include Design and Visual Arts, where media and new-genre work is regularly funded. Fellows receive a USD 16,000 (half-term) or USD 30,000 (full-term) stipend plus housing, workspace and weekday meals on the Academy's Janiculum campus. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens for most categories; foreign nationals who have lived in the US for the three years preceding the deadline may apply in Environmental Arts and Humanities and certain postdoctoral categories. FEES: USD 50 (one category) or USD 60 (multiple) by 1 November 2026; a late window runs to 15 November at USD 80/90. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026.
Companion call to the BRAIN Digital Content Open Call: the MIT Museum seeks public programs exploring humanity's relationship with the BRAIN, its thematic focus from April to September 2027 spanning cognition, neurotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, mental health and the boundaries of ability. FORMATS: talks, demonstrations, performances, workshops, films, master classes, music, VR/XR, LARP and maker programs; art-and-science projects especially encouraged. NOT eligible: installations and exhibitions, including temporary ones (screen-based work goes through the separate BRAIN Digital Content call). VENUES: the Exchange amphitheater (capacity 100), Phillip Sharp Room (80), two Learning Labs classrooms (30 each), open areas and roving carts; target audience is curious adults and teens. FUNDING: up to USD 1,000 total per program, covering all costs including speaker/performer fees, travel, materials and equipment rental. WHO CAN APPLY: artists, scientists, engineers, designers and other creative practitioners aged 18+, from MIT or the broader community; proposals need not relate to MIT research; multiple proposals allowed. APPLY via the Fillout form with event name, program description, intended audience, practical considerations, budget, and marketing plans. TIMELINE: review from 2 November 2026, accepted programs finalized by 15 December 2026, programs run April to September 2027. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026, 11:59 PM EST. Questions: mitmuseum-opencall@mit.edu.
Inciter Art, the Fractured Atlas blog, runs themed quarterly open calls for short essays by artists and arts workers, and this season's theme is 'tending to the hearth': generosity, solidarity and collective investment in the invisible infrastructure behind creative work. Pitch an idea through the form; selected writers are notified one week after the deadline, get four weeks to write a first draft, then one round of edits with the final due a week later, with the Fractured Atlas editorial specialist available for support. Published pieces run 750 to 900 words. Editors look for pitches grounded in your own experience as an artist or arts worker that say something new or a familiar thing in a new way. AI may be used only in a supporting role for writing (research, structure, grammar) and AI-generated images are not accepted; every pitch is read by a human. Writers keep all rights and copyright; Fractured Atlas may use the final piece in promotion with credit. Everyone who submits hears back. ELIGIBILITY: artists and arts workers; payment requires a W-9, so it is set up for US taxpayers. Pitches outside the themed call are also accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. DEADLINE: Monday 2 November 2026, 11:59PM ET; later submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis.
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin awards research fellowships for on-site work in its collections spanning literature, photography, film, art, performing arts, music and cultural history, supporting scholarly articles, dissertations, creative works, digital humanities projects and exhibition proposals. FELLOWSHIP TYPES: Postdoctoral Fellowships of USD 3,500 per month for one or two months, open to holders of a PhD or terminal degree (MFA, MLIS), current or former faculty, and similarly qualified researchers without institutional affiliation; Dissertation Fellowships of USD 2,500 for graduate students with doctoral dissertations in progress; and Travel Stipends of USD 2,000 open to graduate students, current or former faculty and independent researchers including journalists and artists (not combinable with other Ransom Center fellowships). International recipients in all categories receive an additional one-time USD 500 stipend toward visa and travel costs. Fellows spend most days in the Reading Room consulting the collections, with access to a shared office, during a residency period between 1 June 2027 and 31 August 2028. APPLY with a three-page proposal PDF and letters of recommendation; recommendation letters are also due by the deadline. DEADLINE: 6 November 2026, 5:00 PM CST.
The A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists, established in 1993 by artist Stephanie Bernheim, annually awards six emerging artists based in New York City their first solo exhibition in NYC with the support of the A.I.R. community; more than 130 artists have come through the program. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 3,000 stipend, a solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in spring/summer 2028, 4 to 5 professional development workshops, an assigned artist-mentor, a one-on-one studio visit with a review panelist, and curatorial and staff support across the 12-month fellowship (September 2027 to August 2028). WHO IS ELIGIBLE: women and non-binary visual artists working in any media, 18 or older, resident in the five boroughs of New York City for the full fellowship; you must not have had a solo exhibition at a permanent NYC venue in the last 10 years, must not be enrolled in a degree-granting program during the fellowship, must not be in a comparable development program, and must not be an A.I.R. staff/board member or fellowship alum. SELECTION PANEL for this cycle: Ada Potter, Jo-ey Tang and Mindy Seu. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 11:59pm ET. TO APPLY: via Submittable, linked from the program page.
The Asian Cultural Council's New York Fellowship brings artists, scholars and arts professionals from Asia to New York City for a six-month immersive cultural exchange. SUPPORT: USD 38,000 for the six-month fellowship. ELIGIBILITY: non-US citizens/residents from ACC-eligible Asian countries (including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, among others); age 21+; at least five years of professional experience in an eligible discipline (architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art); English proficiency (J-1 visa requirement); fellows cannot work or pursue coursework during the fellowship. COHORTS: January-June 2028 or July-December 2028. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply platform; applications open 1 October 2026. Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026. No application fee. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026 at 9:59 AM ET.
The Asian Cultural Council's Individual Fellowship supports self-directed exploration and cultural exchange experiences in a new or less familiar environment, fostering exchange between the United States and Asia and within Asia. SUPPORT: up to USD 35,000 for a 1-to-6-month program (minimum 30 days; two or more months preferred); single or joint applications with up to 3 participants. ELIGIBILITY: citizens or permanent residents of ACC-eligible countries (the US and countries across Asia, from Afghanistan to Vietnam); age 21+; at least five years of professional experience in an eligible discipline (architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art); English proficiency if traveling to the US; no coursework or teaching during the fellowship. Grant activities must take place between 1 August 2027 and 31 December 2028. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply platform; applications open 1 October 2026. Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026. No application fee. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026 at 9:59 AM ET.
The Asian Cultural Council's Graduate Fellowship supports Asian graduate students in an eligible arts or culture discipline at a US university. SUPPORT: USD 15,000 for one academic year of full-time coursework; a second year may be renewed at ACC's discretion. ELIGIBILITY: citizens or legal permanent residents of an ACC-eligible country, territory or region in Asia (US citizens and permanent residents are not eligible); enrolled in, or admitted by 1 April 2027 to, a full-time in-residence graduate degree in the US in an eligible discipline (architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art); must be in the coursework phase, not the research or thesis phase. The five-year experience requirement for other ACC fellowships does not apply. Applicants need a valid US student visa (ACC does not sponsor student visas). Applicants may apply to only one ACC programme per cycle. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply portal with an Individual Account (https://goapply2.akoyago.com/acc/application/GRAD2027). Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET. Questions: the ACC office matching your citizenship (Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines and Taiwan have their own offices; all others application@accny.org). DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET.
The Asian Cultural Council's Organization Grant funds arts and culture organisations to send participants on cultural exchange between the US and Asia or within Asia. SUPPORT: up to USD 50,000. ELIGIBILITY: nonprofit organisations, government-affiliated or sponsored arts and culture institutions, or academic institutions, legally registered and based in an ACC-eligible location (the US and countries across Asia) with at least five years of artistic or cultural programming. The activity lead and all participants must be citizens or legal permanent residents of an eligible location, though not necessarily the organisation's own. Eligible disciplines: architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art. ACC does not sponsor visas. Applicants may apply to only one ACC programme per cycle. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply portal with an Organization Account (https://goapply2.akoyago.com/acc/application/ORG2027). Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET. Questions: the ACC office matching your location (Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines and Taiwan have their own offices; all others application@accny.org). DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET.
LMCC's flagship regrant line (NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and NYSCA funds) for Manhattan-based individual artists, artist collectives and small nonprofits presenting public-facing arts events in the borough: exhibitions, performances, screenings, festivals, workshops and public art across all disciplines. WHAT YOU GET: USD 1,000 to 20,000 toward a public event taking place in Manhattan between January and December 2027; the related Creative Learning and UMEZ Arts Engagement lines run on the same deadline for arts-education and Upper Manhattan projects. ELIGIBILITY: Manhattan-based artists, collectives and nonprofit organizations (nonprofits with budgets under USD 250,000 for some lines); work must be presented publicly in Manhattan. DEADLINE: 12 November 2026, 6 PM EST, via LMCC's application portal; info sessions run through October.
The NYC track of Eyebeam's AGENCY residency cycle supports New York City-based artists exploring questions of agency at a moment when AI systems increasingly act, decide and carry out tasks on our behalf: how to preserve human agency as these systems shape human behavior, how to assert agency in imagining and building the societies we inhabit, and what agency becomes when understood as collective, relational, entangled and more-than-human. Projects might engage AI directly but do not have to; critical and creative approaches to power, autonomy, technological systems, collective action, human and nonhuman relationships, and the social and material structures of agency are all welcome, including reimagining AI through collective governance, repair, rehearsal or mischief, and repurposing AI systems toward new tools, methods and models for the public good. Residents receive a USD 5,000 stipend, mentorship, and access to tools and technical expertise through Eyebeam's network. ELIGIBILITY: individuals only (no collectives this cycle); not enrolled in a full-time degree program; not committed to another residency during the term; must live in New York City within the five boroughs and be able to work on site at Eyebeam at least one day a week for the full term. TIMELINE: deadline Sunday 15 November 2026, 11:59 PM ET; interviews 7-10 December; notifications 14 December; residency 15 March to 11 June 2027. Info session Monday 19 October 2026, 1 PM ET. Apply via Submittable, free.
Data Through Design, the annual exhibition of artworks that creatively analyze, interpret and interrogate data from New York City's Open Data portal, opens its 10th anniversary call, held in conjunction with NYC Open Data Week. THEME: reflections, reverberations and the arc of data over time; the evidence of time (footprints, traces, scars, markers of change), temporal mirrors and kaleidoscopes, messages from the past and future, fractals of time and visuals of scale. Artists may also respond to a previous DxD theme in light of time, and alumni artists are particularly encouraged to apply, including by revisiting past projects. FORMATS: digital, analog, physical, performance, sound works, walks, installations, creative coding, participatory mapping, drawings and more; the organizers highlight participatory data collection, radical and cognitive mapping, and data experienced through time, sound and the senses. REQUIREMENT: projects must reference or use at least one NYC Open Data dataset; other data, including novel and experimental collection systems, is welcome alongside it. WHAT YOU GET: USD 900 stipend, half before and half after the exhibition, plus inclusion in the multi-media group show in New York City, tentatively 26 March to 11 April 2027. Work must be installation-ready by 19 March 2027 and delivered to the venue 22 to 24 March. ELIGIBILITY: open to artists, civic technologists, data enthusiasts, city dwellers and creative practitioners; applicants must be approved to work in the US to be paid the stipend. The submission process has been revamped for this edition, with a new rubric and submission materials to review. APPLICATION: free, via the submission form on the DxD website. DEADLINE: 15 November 2026 at 23:59 EST.
Code:ART is the City of Palo Alto's digital art festival celebrating creative technology in public space, returning 13 to 16 October 2027. This call commissions one artist or team to create a signature interactive installation for Lytton Plaza with a USD 20,000 budget. ELIGIBILITY: open to individual artists and teams based in the US or internationally; individuals must be over 18, and for teams at least one member must be over 18 and able to contract with the City; applicants in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are particularly encouraged. You may also apply to the parallel Interactive Media Installations call, but can receive only one commission across both. APPLICATION: via SlideRoom. DEADLINE: Monday 16 November 2026, 23:59 Pacific Time.
Code:ART is the City of Palo Alto's digital art festival celebrating creative technology in public space, returning 13 to 16 October 2027. This call selects up to five interactive media installations for the festival, each with a budget of up to USD 9,000. ELIGIBILITY: open to artists nationally and internationally, individuals and teams. You may also apply to the parallel Lytton Plaza Installation call (USD 20,000), but can receive only one commission across both. APPLICATION: via SlideRoom. DEADLINE: Monday 16 November 2026, 23:59 Pacific Time.
The Kennedy Center's Access/VSA Emerging Young Artists Program (2027 theme: Thrive) awards 15 young disabled visual artists a USD 3,000 stipend, an all-expenses-paid career development week in Washington DC (14 to 18 June 2027) and exhibition of one work. ELIGIBILITY: aged 16 to 25 on the deadline date; US-based with the right to work in the US; have a disability as defined by the ADA and be willing to disclose it publicly; submitted work made in the last three years and after the onset of disability; no generative-AI work; previous winners ineligible. OBLIGATIONS: attend three virtual workshops (April to June 2027) and the DC week to receive the stipend. APPLICATION: free, via CaFE (artist.callforentry.org); accommodation and alternative-format requests by 30 October 2026. Winners notified by 13 January 2027. Questions: vsainfo@kennedy-center.org. DEADLINE: 19 November 2026, 23:59 ET.
Small project grants for socially engaged art; the 2027 cycle covers film/video and theater projects, a fit for experimental film and video work with a social edge. Two-step process: mail in an application request form first, then submit the full proposal via the portal. ELIGIBILITY: US residents with a Social Security number, or US-based nonprofits and fiscally sponsored projects. TIMELINE: request forms accepted 14 September through 20 November 2026 (postmark by 25 November); completed proposals due 16 December 2026, 5pm EST.
Annual design commission for an ambitious, technically challenging large-scale public artwork or structure, built over summer 2027 by more than 100 young people working with Beam staff. The selected designer collaborates through bi-weekly remote planning meetings and may visit the build with travel reimbursed, making this genuinely remote-friendly for a physical commission. A strong fit for creative-technology and installation practices. AWARD: USD 5,000 to the proposer plus roughly USD 15,000 in fabrication budget. ELIGIBILITY: open worldwide, any age, individuals or teams. DEADLINE: 30 November 2026, 11:59pm EST.
Wave Farm, the Warhol Foundation-backed transmission arts center in Acra, NY, opens one application covering all its 2027 opportunities: the Transmission Art Residency, the Spatial Sound Residency, and two Radio Art Fellowship tracks (Research, and Community Engagement) connected to Wave Farm's WGXC radio station. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 1,000 stipend for each 10-day residency and USD 2,000 for each two-month fellowship, with access to Wave Farm's research library, transmitter and receiver equipment, and on-site staff support to develop a new transmission artwork. ELIGIBILITY: international; collaborations allowed; full-time students are ineligible except rare post-graduate cases; past residents and fellows may reapply; applicants may apply to as many opportunities as they wish but will be offered at most one; DJ sets are explicitly ineligible. A strong fit for signal-based, broadcast, spatial sound and radio-adjacent work. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026 at 11:59 pm EST. Finalists are interviewed by Zoom, with notifications in late February 2027 and residencies during 2027.
CURRENTS presents one of the leading art and technology festivals in the United States, held every summer in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 2010, bringing together established and emerging new media artists from the USA and worldwide. The 2027 edition (11-20 June 2027) accepts submissions in: installations (interactive and non-interactive); audio experiences; virtual, augmented and mixed reality environments; robotics, kinetic and electro-mechanical objects and installations; multimedia performance; fabrication, 2D/3D printing and wearables; and experimental single channel video, documentary and animation. The festival is a collaboration between the non-profit Parallel Studios, partners throughout the city, and interns and volunteers. SUPPORT: selected artists may be eligible for travel, lodging and shipping support, though the festival warns it may not be able to cover international shipping given costs and risks, and may instead be able to supply needed equipment; no artist fee is published. SUBMISSION FEE: USD 30 single, USD 25 each for multiple. DEADLINE: 8 December 2026; participating artists announced March 2027. Questions to connect@currentsnewmedia.org.
The Adirondack Experience museum on Blue Mountain Lake offers four one-month artist residencies for June, July, August and September 2027. Residents work publicly on their own practice a minimum of six hours a day (roughly 10:00-16:00) three days a week in the museum's public areas, and spend two days a week (Fridays and Saturdays, 10:00-16:30) engaging visitors in the Art Lab makerspace. WHAT YOU GET: USD 5,000 stipend for the residency, USD 500 travel allowance, USD 250 Art Lab materials allowance, and free housing in a large bedroom on the second floor of the museum's Residence building with shared bathroom, kitchen and dining access, parking, utilities, wi-fi and laundry. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists with a portfolio of at least five works exhibited publicly (museums, public, university or private galleries) or sold to private collectors; digital and performance artists must explain how visitors will have an enriching experience watching them at work; open internationally, but ADKX cannot sponsor visas, so non-US artists arrange their own. CONDITIONS: artists provide their own materials outside the Art Lab allowance, and the museum retains first option to purchase one work created during the residency at fair market price. APPLICATION: email the completed application package to cbraunstein@theadkx.org. DEADLINE: 11 December 2026, 17:00 EST.
Matching grants supporting US-based performing artists and ensembles, all performing-arts practices including experimental music and performance, appearing at international festivals and significant presenting engagements outside the United States. GRANT: up to USD 11,000 toward eligible travel and engagement expenses, matched 1:1. ELIGIBILITY: artists/ensembles based in any US state or territory; not open to non-US-based artists. The portal opens early December 2026; the round covers projects between 1 July 2027 and 30 August 2028. DEADLINE: 24 February 2027, 11:59pm ET.
apexart's Open Calls turn a curatorial idea into a funded apexart exhibition, selected by a crowdsourced international jury of more than 600 people in 70 countries. WHO CAN SUBMIT: anyone, from anywhere, with no fees at any level: trained and student curators, artists, writers and creative people regardless of experience, background or location. HOW: a 500-word proposal for a focused, idea-driven, original group exhibition, submitted through the online form during the proposal window. TWO ANNUAL WINDOWS: every October for exhibitions in apexart's NYC space, and every February (to early March) for exhibitions taking place anywhere in the world except NYC; for the international call you must propose a location you have actually visited, with the specific venue settled after selection. SELECTION: jurors vote anonymously online (each proposal gets an equal number of views, submitter names hidden); proposals are judged on the strength of the idea and how well it is communicated, not on connections or CV. WHAT WINNERS GET: a USD 10,000 budget (USD 8,000 for expenses, up to USD 2,000 curator honorarium, plus up to USD 1,000 venue-rental match outside NYC), with apexart covering insurance, publicity, the printed brochure, the opening reception and most logistics including loan agreements and shipping, and staff working closely with the guest curator. Winning proposals become part of apexart's next exhibition season. Check the site for the current window's exact dates; submission forms only go live during the proposal periods.
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute's artist-in-residence program nurtures nature artists with a week in Jamestown, New York, and facilitated access to the Peterson Collection, inclusive of Roger Tory Peterson's original field guide art, fine art, films, slides, and personal papers. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 1,000 honorarium, with housing, per diem, and travel reimbursement for out-of-town artists. AFTERWARDS: residents create a body of work inspired by their time at RTPI, featured in a solo exhibition at the institute the following year. APPLICATION: rolling; applications are always accepted but residency slots are limited. Email the curator (rkosinski@rtpi.org) a statement of interest in Roger Tory Peterson, birds, or nature, a project proposal detailing research themes and planned artworks, and portfolio images representing your practice. DEADLINE: rolling.
Run by Seattle's Northwest Film Forum as part of the Warhol Foundation's Regional Regranting Program, the Collective Power Fund supports visionary new arts projects that incite public dialogue, push boundaries, explore genre fluidity, and are often non-traditional, anti-institutional, socially responsible or disruptive of existing structures. AWARDS: one USD 10,000 grant for an artist team or artist-run collective and ten USD 5,000 grants for individual artists, USD 60,000 in total. ELIGIBILITY: artists aged 21 or older living in incorporated or unincorporated King County, Washington (proof of residency at finalist status); work grounded in the visual arts or with a strong visual context; applicant must be the primary creator, able to receive income in the US, and hold creative control and rights; projects must include a publicly accessible component and be completed by 31 December 2027; one project per cycle. APPLICATION: via Submittable (nwfilmforum.submittable.com). DEADLINE: the 2026 application is open but the closing date was not published at the time of listing; the 2025 cycle closed mid-November, so apply early and confirm the deadline with grants manager jade@nwfilmforum.org.