Currently 202 active paid visual and media arts grants, fellowships and residencies. 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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Wave Hill, in partnership with AnkhLave Arts Alliance, invites NYC-based artists who identify as BIPOC to apply for the 2027 Van Lier Fellowship as part of the 9th Annual AnkhLave Garden Project at Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center in the Bronx. The project supports artists who draw on research, scholarship and lived knowledge to present site-responsive work at the intersection of nature, culture and place, engaging with Wave Hill's plant collections, history, design and architecture. The Van Lier Fellowship (funded by the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund through the New York Community Trust) will be awarded to two NYC-based visual artists aged 30 or younger. FELLOWSHIP: participation in the Winter Workspace residency (23 February - 18 April 2027); a $10,435 stipend including an $8,000 honorarium and transportation stipend; a solo exhibition in the Sunroom or Sun Porch (15 May - 4 July 2027); public engagement through Winter Workspace programming and a Meet the Artist program; mentorship with Wave Hill curatorial staff, working artists and arts professionals; and AnkhLave Alumni Network benefits. ELIGIBILITY: emerging artists 30 or younger (born 1997 or after) from historically underrepresented communities; live in one of the five NYC boroughs; demonstrate financial need; have completed college and not be enrolled in a degree-granting program during the residency; not represented by a commercial gallery; available for both programs; cannot have been a Van Lier Fellow elsewhere or have previously done a Winter Workspace residency or exhibited at Wave Hill or with AnkhLave. Works may not include nudity, depictions of violence or profanity. Artists may apply to only one of the two 2027 AnkhLave Garden Project opportunities. Questions: visualarts@wavehill.org with '2027 Van Lier-Ankhlave' in the subject. DEADLINE: 10 August 2026. Apply via SlideRoom.
The Wassaic Project is holding its annual Open Call for the 2027 Summer Exhibition, for artists of all mediums, including 2D work, sculpture, video, new media, site-specific installation, performance, text, poems, essays, and publication-specific work. Selected work is showcased alongside a diverse range of pieces and performances in and around historic Wassaic and Maxon Mills; the 2027 Summer Exhibition will be free and open to the public every weekend from 1 May to 12 September 2027. In an effort toward W.A.G.E. certification, all accepted artists receive a modest honorarium to participate. Artists interested in creating a site-specific installation are also eligible for an Exhibitions Fellowship to help realize their work; Fellows are offered a no-fee residency for 1-4 weeks in April or May 2027 (artists interested in making site-specific work should still apply regardless of whether they are interested in or able to be in residence). The Wassaic Project cultivates and supports community for emerging and professional contemporary artists, writers, and other creatives, with a residency program housed in historic landmark buildings that hosts 10 artists each month in the heart of a rural community. APPLICATION: requires application forms, a CV, and an artwork/portfolio; submitted via SlideRoom. Application fee: USD 25 (no participation fee or additional fees). Deadline 10 August 2026.
Residency for Minnesota-based BIPOC artists (Native American/American Indian/Native Alaskan, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino/Chicano/Latinx, Middle Eastern/North African, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, SWANA) and their families, run by Lanesboro Arts in rural southeastern MN. NO OUTPUT OR PRODUCT REQUIRED: the residency provides whatever the artist needs (restoration, family getaway, connection to nature, access to rural community, artistic practice) within the context of the community; only one community share-back event is required (workshop, school visit, small gathering, or blog post; arranged with Lanesboro Arts staff after selection). HOUSING: private bedroom + bath in either the St. Mane Theatre Artist Residency Center (sleeps 1-4) or the Art Loft above the Gallery (sleeps 1-5); kitchenette/full kitchen, studio space, laundry, Wi-Fi; neither space is currently ADA-accessible. COHORT OPTION: solo, OR apply with a specific BIPOC artist collaborator, OR apply open to being matched with another BIPOC resident at the same time (both receive the stipend; lodging split between St. Mane and the Art Loft). Spouses/partners only get a stipend if they themselves are applying as artists in the cohort model. SELECTION: lottery process (no traditional artistic-merit gatekeeping); 6-12 residents chosen depending on session lengths; lottery is recorded and shared with applicants for transparency. ELIGIBILITY: BIPOC artists currently based in Minnesota. APPLY via the Lanesboro Arts website. TIMELINE: initial deadline 11:59pm Monday 10 August 2026; lottery the week of 10 August 2026; rolling applications thereafter if slots remain, until 1 April 2027 or until full. Lanesboro Liaison (staff or vetted community member) optionally available for tours, grocery delivery, and outdoor recreation (biking, kayaking, hiking, state parks, etc.).
Pee Workshop is looking for 16 performers to take part in a two-day research practice led by Nica Roses and Eris Kyriakides as part of the dance and performance event Matter Out of Place. The workshop uses drinking, holding, and releasing liquid as a starting point for choreographic research, paying attention to the body's internal timing: what we consume, how liquid moves through the body, what the bladder signals, and how the organs produce movements that often go unnoticed. This cycle becomes the structure of the research, opening into dance, somatic exercises, choreographic tasks, group compositions, and experiments with collective energy. The material develops through urination but also through the shared experience of moving, waiting, responding, and performing together. Performers, dancers, movement practitioners, and artists interested in somatic research, experimental choreography, and collective performance-making are welcome; professional dance training is not required, but applicants should feel comfortable working physically and collaboratively. All exercises are approached through clear consent, respect for personal boundaries, and collective care. The workshop takes place Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 August 2026 from 10:00 to 17:00 at The Dirty Art Foundation, culminating in an optional 60-minute public showing on Wednesday 19 August. Each performer receives a fee of EUR 200. To apply, send a short introduction about yourself, your movement or performance experience, and why you are interested in the workshop to nicaxroses@gmail.com by 10 August 2026.
Sea Change is a seven-month professional development programme from Screen Argyll for six UK-based women and marginalised gender animators developing animated feature film projects, with environmental storytelling at the centre of the brief. It runs a project from concept toward screen: online workshops in early September 2026, a residential lab on the Isle of Tiree from 15 to 22 September 2026, monthly mentoring from October 2026 to February 2027, a project showcase at MOVE Summit in February 2027, and final submissions in March 2027. WHAT PARTICIPANTS GET: GBP 150 per day for 20 days of participation, which comes to GBP 3,000; accommodation covered during the residential lab; travel support; and industry passes for MOVE Summit and Glasgow Film Festival 2027. ELIGIBILITY: UK resident, over 18, a woman or marginalised gender animator, not in full-time education when the programme begins, with prior experience making short-form or longer animation, and a feature project at early-to-mid development stage. NOTE THE TIMING: the deadline is 10 August 2026 and selected projects are notified on 17 August 2026, so this is a short-turnaround application.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture awards Artists and Architects in Residence scholarships (the MAK Schindler Scholarship) to independent projects exploring the relation between art and architecture. Projects are chosen for their ability to critically examine current trends in art, architecture and society; to make a compelling connection with Los Angeles as the place of implementing or continuing the applicant's own work; and to demonstrate a conceptual and experimental approach. Emphasis is placed on the L.A. location, and residents' projects often reflect, incorporate and address specific facets of the city and its social fabric. Recipients are encouraged to take part in the MAK Center's activities and to attend meetings, workshops and project discussions with other artists and students. ELIGIBILITY: freelance artists; fine arts or architecture students at a university who have completed the '2. Studienabschnitt'; or architects or artists who have recently graduated. Teams of up to three are eligible if all members practice together as an artist group or collective of architects, are all present in L.A. for the six months, and name a contact responsible for the team. HOUSING: the Mackey Apartments are made available to scholarship holders only; family members, relatives and friends may be accommodated for a maximum of two weeks during the term, permitted in advance by Beth Stryker, Director of the MAK Center. Eligibility is excluded if the applicant has been or will be granted another scholarship in the USA immediately before or after the MAK scholarship, or if the data form is incomplete or the required portfolio is missing. Residency terms run October to March and April to September. Deadline 12 August 2026. Apply: https://www.makcenter.org/apply-mackey
GLINA3 is an Amsterdam clay 3D printing and digital design studio, and it is looking for one collaborator to join a new research project at the intersection of typography, language, technology and material culture. They want an artist, writer, poet, anthropologist or artistic researcher whose existing practice already engages with type design, typography, writing systems, visual language, fonts and letterforms, language technologies, or the tools that shape how language is produced, read or translated. This is an unusually good fit for anyone working on the machine-readable side of language: the brief explicitly names language technologies and translation tooling alongside classical type design. ELIGIBILITY: individual practitioners with demonstrable work in one or more of the listed areas. HOW TO APPLY: the studio asks for relevant work, research, publications or projects connected to type, fonts, writing systems, visual language or the tools that shape them, and nothing else. Because the deadline is tight they say Instagram DM is the fastest route; you can also email a short introduction and one relevant project to office@glina3.nl. NOTE: the fee is confirmed only if the project's own funding comes through, so clarify terms before committing time.
K3 in Hamburg is one of the better-funded choreography residencies in Europe, and it is aimed squarely at people who want research time rather than a production deadline. Three choreographers are selected for eight months at Kampnagel with a monthly scholarship, studio access, a production budget, and dramaturgical, technical and PR support, plus outreach work and a public presentation at the end. Selection runs in two stages. ELIGIBILITY: individual choreographers at an emerging to early mid-career stage who have already produced independent choreographic work outside an educational context. Open internationally; formal dance training is not required. Teams and ensembles are not eligible, only individuals. Applications close 12 August 2026 at 16:00 CEST.
The Surface Design Association's Artist in Residence programme is built to develop skills, open up relationships and support fiber and textile artists through a studio project that pushes their practice. The residency is entirely virtual and runs across a full year, which is the point: it removes the travel, housing and time-away barriers that keep many practitioners out of in-person residencies. One artist is selected annually by a panel of SDA staff, board members and committee volunteers. WHAT IT INVOLVES: studio visits across the year, social media programming, and meetings with the SDA community, plus further programming shaped around the resident's own skills and interests, which can include teaching online workshops, contributing to SDA publications, jurying exhibitions or joining panels. FUNDING: a $2,000 studio stipend for the project, plus up to $2,000 in additional compensation for programming work, targeting about $4,000 total. ELIGIBILITY: emerging, mid-career and established artists; US-based and international applicants welcome; students and professionals may apply; applicants must hold current SDA membership (from $85 per year, $60 for students). APPLICATION: a portfolio of 10 images with full artwork information (title, year, materials, technique, dimensions, photo credit), a detailed CV, essay responses on artistic goals, programming interests and professional development, and demographic information. No application fee. The 2026-27 cycle closes 14 August 2026.
The Beinecke Library Fellowship Program offers competitive short-term fellowships to support research projects that substantively engage with Yale Library Special Collections materials. WHO CAN APPLY: academic and independent scholars, locally and globally, with or without an institutional affiliation; the library explicitly welcomes applicants regardless of institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender or socioeconomic status. Applications using traditional archival and bibliographic research methods are encouraged, and so are creative, interdisciplinary and non-traditional approaches to working with the collections, which makes this a live option for artists and writers whose practice is research-driven. WHAT YOU GET: USD 5,000 per month for an onsite research visit of between two weeks and two months, paid at the start of the fellowship whenever possible (international fellows should expect payment to take several weeks); fellows pay their own taxes on the award. TIMELINE: applications for the 2027-2028 awards opened 1 June 2026 and close 15 August 2026, via Interfolio; all decisions are notified by 31 January 2027; research must be conducted between 1 July 2027 and 30 June 2028, and awards cannot be deferred.
A one-year award enabling an emerging Indian visual artist to pursue independent practice, with a stipulation to attend a recognised art residency programme in India for four weeks during the year. ELIGIBILITY IS RESTRICTED: Indian citizens currently living in India, born on or after 1 January 1996, who are either recent graduates, postgraduates or final-year students of a leading Indian visual arts institute, or artists without those formal credentials but with a record of exhibition participation. First-year MA students are not eligible. Awardees submit progress reports at six months and on completion, plus documentation of the residency. Applications close 15 August 2026 at 23:59 IST via Submittable. Shortlisting is expected in late October 2026 with interviews in early November.
A skill-enhancement award for emerging Indian theatre practitioners, supporting participation in recognised training workshops, residencies and similar programmes rather than the production of a specific work. ELIGIBILITY IS RESTRICTED: Indian citizens born after 1 January 1991, with preference given to holders of a theatre degree from a leading Indian institution. Recipients report at the six-month mark and on completion. Applications close 15 August 2026 at 23:59 IST via Submittable. The foundation runs several other awards on adjacent deadlines, including the Inlaks-Attakkalari Dance Studentship (30 August 2026) and a two-month Inlaks Residency at the International Center of Photography in the USA for emerging Indian photographic practitioners (31 August 2026).
A one-year teaching appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen, covering courses across the BA in Arts, Culture and Media and the Popular Music and Sonic Cultures master's track. Teaching spans audiovisual arts, popular music and arts management at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. This is a teaching-weighted post rather than a research one, so it suits practitioners who want a formal academic foothold in audiovisual and sonic culture without committing to a research track. REQUIREMENTS: a research master's in an appropriate arts discipline, undergraduate teaching experience, and English at C1 (CEFR). PREFERRED: a PhD in an appropriate arts discipline, a BKO or UTQ teaching qualification, postgraduate teaching experience, musicology expertise, Dutch at B2, and familiarity with the Dutch higher education system. Apply through the AcademicTransfer posting (vacancy ID V26.2320-EN). Closes 15 August 2026; appointment starts 1 September 2026.
NEW FEARS is a Berlin gallery set up as a hybrid space for artists working across choreography and visual art, with a focus on body-based practice, and this award extends that to artists working outside conventional theatre and institutional structures. A jury of Bryana Fritz, Jacopo Lanteri and Burcu Bilgic shortlists six projects, each of which performs live at the gallery on 16 or 17 October 2026; three winners are then chosen and celebrated at Panke Club on 18 October. The application is unusually light: name, email, an optional text of up to 500 words about your work, and up to six links to video documentation with passwords where needed. No CV, no written proposal, no budget, which means the video documentation carries the whole application, so lead with work that shows immediately how it operates live in a gallery. ELIGIBILITY: Berlin-based artists, duos and groups working across performance, choreography, visual art or body-based practice. You must be in Berlin for setup the week before and for the presentations on 16-17 October 2026, and be able to issue an invoice for the award payment. Existing or new work is fine, with no stated duration limits. AVAILABLE EQUIPMENT: sound system, speakers, mixer, LED lights, projector, wind machine, smoke machine, microphone and basic cables; check the venue PDF before proposing anything that depends on a particular room, access route or technical setup. NOTE: the organisers describe this as a DIY, near-zero-budget initiative. There is no production budget and nothing beyond the grant, so a group splitting EUR 1,300 should go in with eyes open. TIMELINE: applications close 15 August 2026 (no time or timezone given); shortlist announced 15 September 2026. Apply through the JotForm at form.jotform.com/261674665583066.
Open call to participate in LPM (Live Performers Meeting), described as the biggest worldwide event dedicated to audiovisual performing arts, returning to Rome for its 27th edition. Artists can take part with AV performances, VJ sets and live mapping (a 30-minute slot to perform); workshops, lectures and project showcases; interactive AV installations; and the Live Immersive Contest (competing for prizes from technical partners). NOTE: this is a participation call rather than a funding opportunity - it requires a paid subscription (EUR 20 as artist or guest) which includes a festival pass, a 30-minute slot, a T-shirt and a daily drink, plus a 20% discount on workshops; there is also a volunteer option. Deadline to submit a proposal is 16 August 2026. Enquiries: subscriptions@liveperformersmeeting.net.
Prospect Art invites visual artists worldwide to apply for the 2027 NEW WORK commission, a USD 1,500 project grant supporting the creation of a new, conceptually driven work responding to the curatorial theme "We Come in Pieces," developed by 2026-2027 Curatorial Fellow Alma Sammel. Through a single application, artists are also considered for ONE WORK (an online series featuring an in-depth conversation centered on a single completed artwork) and BROADCAST (a curated online program of screenings, artist talks, and discussions). THEME: "We Come in Pieces" proposes the Alien as a method for shifting perspective, approaching alienness as a practice of estrangement to encounter the world beyond familiar human-centered narratives. It explores relationships between human and more-than-human worlds, speculative cosmologies, ecological systems, technologies, landscapes, histories, infrastructures, and nonhuman forms of intelligence (satellites and orbital debris, fungal networks, oceans, atmospheric systems, algorithmic intelligences), inviting works that displace the point of listening, seeing, sensing, or knowing. Research-based and conceptually driven practices are especially encouraged. WHAT'S OFFERED: NEW WORK, USD 1,500 to one artist plus a featured website section and social promotion (project completed within 12 months); ONE WORK, a published article and social promotion; BROADCAST, a USD 125 screening or speaking fee and inclusion in a themed program. ELIGIBILITY: professional visual artists working in any medium at any career stage, except those currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate studio art programs; collectives may apply. Media welcomed include moving image, installation, sculpture, photography, performance, sound, digital media, social practice, and interdisciplinary forms. APPLICATION: submit via the official Google Form with contact information, a project description (250 words), a sketch/visualization (1-3 images), up to 3 links to completed work samples, a statement relating the project to the theme (200 words), a short bio and exhibition history (500 words), and a budget breakdown of the USD 1,500. A USD 10 administrative fee is paid via PayPal (include PayPal name and transaction ID); a fee waiver is available with no explanation by emailing submissions@prospectart.org before the deadline. Writers may email gioj@prospectart.org with samples. DEADLINE: 16 August 2026; results for the NEW WORK grant notified by end of September. INFO SESSION: 5 August 2026 at noon PST.
Liveline is a national risk-sharing fund rebuilding grassroots touring, programming and local music scenes across the UK, delivered by Music Venue Trust with Save Our Scene and the Association of Independent Promoters, alongside the LIVE Trust and the industry's voluntary levy on stadium and arena tickets. The premise is that good shows are not happening because the downside risk is too high, so rather than a traditional subsidy it is an incentive-led model that only pays out when things go wrong. FOUR FUNDS: (1) GUARANTORSHIP SCHEME covers up to 80 percent of losses on an individual show or tour, for promoters, in-house bookers, artists or their representatives; break even and nothing is paid, turn a profit and you keep it. (2) LOCAL SCENE DEVELOPMENT FUND covers venue hire costs and local promoter training to build regular programming, for independent promoters or venues developing an in-house programme. (3) TOUR EXTENSION AND REGIONAL ACCESS FUND covers the long travel, fuel, accommodation and ferry costs that stop tours reaching remote parts of the UK, for promoters, agents, management and artists. (4) GENRE SPECIFIC SAFETY AND ACCESS FUND covers extra security, licensing and structural costs for genres and scenes that face additional barriers, for venues, promoters, artists or collectives. ELIGIBILITY: grassroots venues (Music Venue Alliance member venues), independent promoters including AIP members, in-house venue programmers, and artists, agents and teams building sustainable tours. Guarantorship shows must be at MVA subscribed venues, and for a full tour at least 70 percent of dates must be at subscribed MVT venues. TWO CATCHES WORTH KNOWING: tours must NOT already be announced, and Liveline funds a headline artist only once. Applications for Round 1 close Tuesday 18 August 2026. Start with the eligibility checker at livelinefund.uk, or contact info@livelinefund.uk.
Fucina Futura is an artist residency in Marostica, a small town about an hour from Venice, offering a peaceful setting to develop research in close contact with nature and the local community. The project spans two locations: the home designed by internationally renowned illustrator Elena Xausa near the historic centre, and the atelier Fucina Ai Gorghi by beloved local painter Daniele Marcon, ideal for large-scale installations. Led by visual artist Lavinia and curator Sofia (Futura Association), the program invites residents to develop projects that engage with the community and the working location, and encourages artists of any discipline to make full use of the large atelier. The central goal is the 'restitution' to citizens, fostering cultural exchange and community inclusion: this final phase is tailored to each artist and can take the form of an exhibition, performance, workshop, screening, talk or informal sharing session, prioritising direct dialogue with the public and the contemporary renewal of local tradition. THREE residents are hosted together from 12 April to 12 May 2027 and share a spacious house; they receive a daily fee to cover living expenses, and travel expenses are also covered. Made possible by Culture Moves Europe. ELIGIBILITY: only artists residing in one of the Creative Europe countries EXCEPT ITALY may apply. Creative Europe covers the 27 EU member states (other than Italy), plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine, and includes the EU's Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions (Greenland; French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Reunion, Saint Barthelemy, Saint-Martin, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna; Azores, Madeira; Canary Islands; Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius). TIMELINE: apply via the Google Form by 20 August 2026; selected artists informed by 30 August and must confirm participation by 8 September 2026.
A $5,000 fellowship to spend six weeks turning a very large Canadian public archive into something new. THE MATERIAL: Internet Archive Canada's Government Publications collection, part of the Democracy's Library project, holding over 104,000 text items, roughly 22.1 million scanned pages and about 48.25 TB of Canadian public-record material, browsable at archive.org/details/governmentpublications. WHAT TO BUILD: deliberately open-ended. The call names a search tool that answers a real question with page-level citations, a timeline tracing one policy across decades of government language, and a sonic or visual piece built from archival material, but explicitly invites work nobody has thought of yet. The requirements are that it is useful, that it is imaginative, and that the code is open source when it is done. ORIGIN: the fellowship came out of conversations between BC + AI's Kris Kruger and IAC executive director Andrea Mills about treating a public archive as material for new work rather than only something to preserve. IAC brings the archive, BC + AI brings a community of builders used to working in public. ELIGIBILITY: anyone, anywhere in the world; one builder is selected. APPLICATION: a specific project description grounded in the collection, a phase-by-phase work plan for the six weeks, and a success metric, submitted at bc-ai.ca/fellowship/apply. KEY DATES: applications close 21 August 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific; fellow selected by 31 August; build runs 1 September to mid-October; showcase at Futureproof Festival in Vancouver on 28 October 2026 if the project is ready.
The Fondation Francois Schneider's Contemporary Talents competition, themed The Earth for this edition, awards EUR 15,000 per laureate (including acquisition of the work; EUR 8,000 for editioned works) plus an exhibition at the foundation's centre in Wattwiller. ELIGIBILITY: professional artists internationally, in SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION only (video or digital work alone does not qualify). NOTE: the 23 August 2026 deadline is from a listing site; the organizer page only states the call runs June to August, so verify the exact date before applying.
CPR's year-long Artist-in-Residence programme supports six New York City-based artists working across contemporary dance, performance and time-based art. The organisation values experimental approaches to content, form and aesthetics and explicitly encourages risk-taking, interdisciplinarity and the unexpected, so process-led and hard-to-categorise work is in scope rather than a liability. WHAT RESIDENTS RECEIVE: a $2,000 stipend; 20 free hours of rehearsal space plus up to 150 further subsidised hours in CPR's two studios, with priority and advance calendar access; participation in OPEN LAB (facilitated embodied workshops and feedback showings) and OPEN AiR (solo or shared presentations of current work); and access to technical equipment and production support. ELIGIBILITY: artists must be based in New York City and remain so throughout the cycle (no visa sponsorship); must have had work publicly presented before; must not have held a CPR residency in the last five years; and current undergraduates are not eligible. Individuals, companies, collaboratives and collectives may all apply, each counting as a single residency. CPR strongly encourages applications from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, immigrant and disabled artists and from artists across generations. APPLICATION: a Google Form with narrative answers on the artist's central research focus and its alignment with CPR's values; drafting answers in a separate document first is recommended. Selection is by an independent panel of artists, curators and arts leaders. Deadline: Monday 24 August 2026 at 5pm ET; late submissions are not accepted. Notifications November 2026. Questions: applications@cprnyc.org.
Mondriaan Fund-supported working period at London's Delfina Foundation, one of the UK's best known artist-in-residence programmes, housed at 29-31 Catherine Place near Buckingham Palace with space for 6 to 8 international residents (own room, shared kitchen and facilities). Delfina promotes artistic exchange and experiment, offering visual artists and curators a platform to carry out research, develop ideas and position their practice within the global discourse, with introductions to the London art scene and Delfina's international network. The programme includes visits to museums, galleries and non-profit platforms, discussions with London-based artists, portfolio reviews with curators and regular networking lunches; residents are expected to take part. Applicants are not asked for a concrete project proposal but must submit a clear motivation: why they wish to take part, what research they want to conduct, and how it can contribute to Delfina's ongoing programme. WHO: visual artists and curators based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom; duo applications not possible; application must be in English. One work period available: 27 September to 17 December 2027. Selection by an advisory committee with a Delfina representative; processing may exceed three months. DEADLINE: Thursday 27 August 2026, before 16:00 Dutch time / 11:00 Caribbean time.
Mondriaan Fund-supported working period at Inside-Out Art Museum (IOAM) in Beijing, one of China's leading independent platforms for contemporary art and research. The museum combines exhibitions, critical inquiry and public programmes, giving residents room for in-depth research, experimentation and exchange within a Chinese art scene that is otherwise hard to access from Europe. The residency is framed as cultural exchange rather than production to deadline: IOAM works with a flexible model that takes the resident's other obligations into account and sets the exact start date in consultation with the selected candidate. WHO: visual artists, curators and critics based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Duos and collaborations may apply (two artists, two curators/critics, or a combination who structurally make work together, submitting a joint plan for the work period that leads to a single result, and who live and work together in the same space during the residency), but each individual must submit a separate application; the apartment is well suited to duos or partnerships. WORK PERIOD: one period of three months, 1 March to 30 May 2027, with room for one artist or duo; you can state a preference for the work period in the application form. Selection is by advisory committee; read the Mondriaan Fund Residency explanation for the conditions, assessment and checklist, plus the fund's general terms and conditions, before applying. DEADLINE: Thursday 27 August 2026, before 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time.
The Mondriaan Fund's Residency grant supports professional visual artists, curators, and art observers who want to deepen their practice through a residency in the Netherlands or abroad. It contributes to the costs of a self-arranged residency that offers meaningful development for the applicant's work. WHO CAN APPLY: visual artists, curators, and art observers who have been professionally active for at least one year and are based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. AMOUNT: the grant amount varies depending on the residency's location and duration; applicants must contribute at least 10% of the costs themselves, through personal investment, third-party contributions, an interest-free loan, or crowdfunding. APPLYING: submitted through the Mondriaan Fund's online application portal, which requires a pre-created account (allow several working days). DEADLINE: 27 August 2026, 16:00 Dutch time (11:00 Caribbean time).
The annual DARC PhD/Research Workshop, organised by the Digital Aesthetics Research Center at Aarhus University with transmediale, responds to transmediale's 2027 thematic framework. THEME: 'Interstices: Research (in) the gaps'. An interstice is the small space between objects set closely together, the cords in a rope or the atoms in a crystal lattice: an emptiness produced by the structure it belongs to, and without which that structure could not be what it is. In crystallography, interstitial sites are the spaces a lattice and its basis generate but do not fill, and interstitial diffusion, the movement of small atoms through the gaps of a host lattice, is the mechanism by which materials transform. The call asks what the equivalent sites are in social, cultural and computational structures: where are the gaps these combinations generate but do not fill, what moves through them, and do they carry transformative power? It works through Yancey Strickler's dark forest theory of the internet (the withdrawal of meaningful exchange from the open, surveilled, indexed web into private channels), the Dark Forest Collective's anthology and its 'cozyweb' of small sheltered spaces, dark nets, miniverses and moving castles as interstitial spaces produced by and defined against the dominant web, and Bogna Konior's extension of the dark forest metaphor to the opacity of AI systems, where silence is refusal rather than absence and the forest is increasingly inhabited by other-than-human intelligences that opt out of engagement with people. Where big tech pursues efficiency through the automation of human perception, cognition, identification and aesthetics, artists and researchers explore the non/more-than-human, glitchy, noisy, machinic, datafied and dark to build new expression and critique of data-ism and what is marketed as artificial intelligence, including the dangers and potentials inside badly curated data models, between polluting data centres, and in skeuomorphic interfaces. WHAT THEY WANT: proposals from artists, researchers and practitioners for work that occupies and moves through gaps that are social as well as structural, ontological and material. The gaps are physical too: the heat of data centres and their thirst for water, latency in the cables, unindexed nodes. The call invites speculations, practical interventions and inferences that fill the gaps and expand the diversity of possible communications and communities that can inhabit dark forests, including those built on, against and beneath the infrastructures underlying them, and welcomes work on the (dis-)continuous histories of technological exploration of computational infrastructures over the last 30 years or longer, and on how current artistic, theoretical and technical explorations repeat or break from them. WHO: PhD candidates and early-career researchers, with submissions welcome from researchers inside and outside the academy, including artists, designers and curators. PARTICIPANT EXPECTATIONS: participants write a paper and present it at the workshop, and on the basis of that peer review shorten the research into a newspaper-length article for distribution at the transmediale festival. The workshop is led by scholars from DARC at Aarhus University. DEADLINE: 28 August 2026, 23:59 CEST, via the application link on the call page. Queries to Pablo Velasco, pvelasco[at]cc.au.dk.
Brazil's longest-running artist residency, on the island of Itaparica across the bay from Salvador, hosting six to eight artists per session for roughly eight weeks. Open to all creative disciplines and, unusually for this region, to all nationalities, which makes it one of the few genuinely international residencies in Latin America. Sacatar provides full hosting (private room, three meals daily, individual studio, laundry, local logistics and connections) but explicitly does NOT provide a stipend, airfare to Salvador, art materials or discretionary local expenses, so applicants must fund their own travel. Individual artists only; group proposals are not accepted and former Sacatar Fellows may not reapply. COVID vaccination is required. NOTE: there is a USD 25 application fee. Apply through SlideRoom by 28 August 2026. Contact info@sacatar.org.
The James Castle House in Boise, Idaho (the preserved home of self-taught artist James Castle) opens applications for its 2027 residency terms from 16 July to 28 August 2026. TWO-MONTH RESIDENCY: an immersive focus on a project or body of work responding to the history and legacy of James Castle or the site; open to artists, scholars, creators and professionals in any field; $4,000 stipend; residents share their practice through public events (workshops, open studios, presentations) and donate a selected piece to the City of Boise collection. Terms: 1 March - 30 April, 1 June - 31 July, or 1 September - 31 October 2027. TWO-WEEK RESIDENCY: time and space for a single site-responsive project; $1,000 stipend; one public event. Terms: 11-25 January or 1-15 December 2027. A rolling PROJECT RESIDENCY also considers proposals case by case (email jamescastlehouse@cityofboise.org). ELIGIBILITY: 18+, legally able to work in the United States, able to pass a background check; emerging and mid-career practitioners in any field, though the property cannot accommodate loud or especially messy processes. Residents live alone on site. Selection by committee on strength of proposal, application, work samples and references. Virtual information session 21 July 2026, 1pm MT. Applicants notified September 2026. DEADLINE: 28 August 2026.
CALI Futures supports artists and cultural workers across California, individually and in teams, who are meaningfully contributing to alternative efforts outside of conventional nonprofit and for-profit arts and culture systems. The Fund encourages work focused on income, ownership, and care, and uplifts the role of artists and cultural workers in shaping and sustaining alternative efforts that provide greater financial stability, strengthen creative ownership, and deepen mutual support across the broader arts ecosystem. Project-restricted grants of USD 5,000 are awarded through a competitive process. Competitive applicants present (a) a clear project request; (b) proof of an active, current artistic or cultural practice; (c) a description of their contribution to an alternative effort that improves financial sustainability, creative ownership, or mutual support and addresses challenges not sufficiently solved by conventional nonprofit or for-profit sectors; and (d) framing that ambitiously describes the larger implications of this work for transforming artists' lives and future cultural possibilities. The Fund supports individuals and teams at every stage, from initial ideas to research, implementation, experimentation, and reflection. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be individual artists or cultural workers (cultural producers, culture bearers, creatives, cultural practitioners); must reside full-time in California; must be contributing to an alternative effort improving financial sustainability, creative ownership, or mutualistic social support within the arts and culture sector; and that contribution must have occurred or begun on or after 1 January 2020. Teams are eligible, but all team members must meet the criteria and only one application is accepted per team (one member applies and is responsible for grant requirements). INELIGIBLE: individuals without an active practice; organizations seeking operating or program support; arts administrators; individuals living or working outside California; past CALI Catalyst grantees describing the same project funded in 2021-2025; incomplete applications; and those with a conflict of interest with CCI or Hewlett Foundation board, staff, or directors. The Fund is administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. TIMELINE: applications open 9 June 2026 at 9:00 a.m. PT; deadline 28 August 2026 at 11:59 a.m. PT; review September to November 2026; notifications by 17 November 2026. Submitted via Submittable. Questions: grants@cciarts.org (include CALI FUTURES in the subject line) or 415.288.0530.
The fifth iteration of transmediale's Digital Art Residency, run with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, awarded to one individual or collective working in digital art practices at the intersection of media arts, performance, sound and moving image. THEME: the 2027 programme sits under transmediale's 40th-anniversary framework RFC 40, named after the early internet Request for Comments series, and treats the festival as a counter-infrastructure: the call asks how a network stays legible to itself while surrounding structures break down, and how technical paradigms can be reconfigured into new cultural protocols outside extractive logics, moving from critique to construction. Proposals should offer alternatives to how we understand, respond to and shape the technological conditions we inhabit. WHAT IS OFFERED: an artist fee of CHF 2,000 per month for two months; a CHF 15,000 production grant supporting a new work or the continuation of an existing project, open to all formats and building on the research begun during the residency (the project must be completed by December 2027 at the latest); travel and accommodation for the festival and the residency; a shared modular working space at transmediale studio; connections to Berlin institutions and stakeholders; a public presentation in transmediale's year-round studio programme; and the option of an online publication in transmediale's journal. STRUCTURE: kick-off with a presentation of the residency projects during transmediale 2027 (26 to 31 January 2027, attendance optional but strongly recommended); onboarding and the first hybrid stretch in May 2027; the mandatory on-site month in Berlin in June 2027; and a second hybrid stretch including reporting in July 2027. Availability for the festival week and for the whole of June in Berlin are treated as key prerequisites. TIMELINE: open call 16 July to 28 August 2026 (23:59 CEST); selected residents announced October 2026. Applications are only accepted via transmediale's submission forms. Contact: info[at]transmediale.de.
Youth Music's Trailblazer Fund gives GBP 2,000 to GBP 30,000 to organisations in England running projects that let children and young people aged 25 or under make, learn and earn in music. A project should do at least one of three things: trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme, or disrupt the status quo. Doing all three is welcome. THEMES: your work must meet one of these: early years; Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people; the youth justice system; young people facing barriers; young adults; or organisations and the workforce. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE, using Youth Music's own examples: a new CIC testing ways to help nurseries embed music-making into the day; a small grassroots music organisation sustaining a programme that already works; a Music Education Hub setting up a Youth Board with real budget and decision-making power over how the hub is run; or an established youth centre trying a music programme for the first time. ROUND 13: opened 31 July 2026, deadline 28 August 2026 at 5pm, notification 11 December 2026, for projects starting between January and March 2027. ROUND 14: opens 23 October 2026, deadline 20 November 2026 at 5pm, notification 19 March 2027, for projects starting between April and June 2027. All deadlines are 5pm. NOTE: this is a grant to ORGANISATIONS, not to individual musicians or composers.
Video Pool's Media Art + Technology Residency supports experimental, independent, technology-based work. The selected artist or artists develop a new project (or adapt and transform an existing one) in direct response to the intimate scale and specific character of the Poolside Gallery, culminating in an exhibition there. The call is deliberately open on medium: video, sound, installation, digital media, performance, interactive technologies, expanded cinema and interdisciplinary practices are all welcome. VP asks proposals to speak clearly to your practice, the questions, materials or ideas that drive the work, and how that work might grow, shift or take new form inside the gallery. It is explicitly interested in expansive proposals, work that pushes past the gallery's four walls to engage its surrounding spaces (hallways, windows, projection wall) or that reimagines what the gallery itself can hold, and in projects that engage technology as a creative, critical, aesthetic or socio-political tool. Priority is given to artists from equity-seeking communities whose practices contribute to the advancement of experimental media arts. Residents get full access to VP's available equipment, facilities and technical resources throughout the residency, and applicants are encouraged to review the equipment and facilities list before proposing. ELIGIBILITY: open to VP members (this is a member submission call); no nationality restriction is stated, but the residency and exhibition are in person in Winnipeg. APPLICATION: artist bio (1,500 characters), headshot, description of your artistic practice (3,000 characters), project proposal for MATR (3,000 characters), equipment and facility needs (750 characters), description of how you would use the space (750 characters), CV, up to five images (optional) and up to two video or documentation links. Submit via the online form at videopool.org/matr-2027-application/ by 30 August 2026; alternative submission formats can be arranged by contacting Emma (emma@videopool.org) or Iyunade (iyunade@videopool.org). General enquiries: info@videopool.org, 204-949-9134.
Water Bodies & Ecology 2026 is a 40-day multidisciplinary initiative from the Dot Line Space Art Foundation in Mumbai, bringing artists, researchers, collectives and communities together across research activities, installations and exhibitions at two venues. The premise is artistic engagement with water, ecology, climate, memory and environmental consciousness, and the programme is explicitly after research-based and site-responsive approaches rather than finished gallery objects, aiming for dialogue between contemporary practice and ecological concerns. WHO CAN APPLY: individual artists, artist groups, interdisciplinary practitioners, community-based initiatives, and collectives and collaborative practices, working across all mediums and disciplines. WHAT IS OFFERED: selected artists receive grants towards travel and production expenses. Be aware that the published call does not give amounts, does not mention an artist fee, and does not mention accommodation, so confirm the terms with the foundation (info@dotlinespace.co.in) before committing to travel. Applications go through a Google Form linked from the project page. ABOUT THE HOST: Dot Line Space was co-founded in 2015 by Gourmoni Das, Piyush Bavalia and Shruti Bhosle, all graduates of Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai.
A new pilot residency from Art and Media Culture Agency M-Cult in Helsinki and Arte artists' association / Titanik gallery in Turku, sitting at the intersection of art, media and sonic practice, funded by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture from Nordic Culture Point. TWO ARTISTS will be selected. THE PREMISE: the programme treats technology as a situated practice and deliberately shifts attention away from the progress narratives promoted by large global technology companies, toward local, indigenous and community-oriented perspectives. It focuses on making vernacular and non-linear technological and sonic environments visible, foregrounding vibrant local histories and traditions across the Nordic and Baltic region, and asks what non-linear sonic and media practice might look like in the current social, political and cultural landscape. WHAT EACH ARTIST RECEIVES: EUR 3,500 artist fee; EUR 2,000 production budget; accommodation for two months divided between Helsinki and Turku, one month in each; travel costs for one return ticket from a Nordic-Baltic country; access to Titanik's residency studio space and a working desk at M-Cult's office during each stay; mentoring and curatorial support from both organisations' staff; and networking into the Finnish media art and contemporary art scenes. In return the artist develops in-depth or focused research and presents their practice and research at two public events, one in each city. WHO CAN APPLY: individual artists only, explicitly NOT collectives this round; artists from or based in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Aland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania; working in sound, media and/or digital arts, or the expanded field of vernacular technologies, all defined broadly by the organisers. Applicants must be available to travel to Finland for the full two-month period across February and March 2027. The organisers welcome applicants at all career stages and from all backgrounds. One submission per artist: if two are sent, only the later one is reviewed. HOW TO APPLY: submit via the form linked from the open call page with a brief letter of motivation including a research plan for the residency, how it connects with the programme's themes and what you would focus on (max 1-2 pages), your CV, and a link to your portfolio. Applications in English only. DEADLINE: 30 August 2026 at 23:59 UTC+3. Online interviews with shortlisted artists take place before 19 September 2026, and all applicants are notified by email by the end of September 2026. JURY: Jussi Koitela, Director of M-Cult, Helsinki, and Farbod Fakharzadeh, Director of Arte ry and Titanik, Turku. ACCOMMODATION AND ACCESSIBILITY: in Helsinki, the Vallila Residency hosted by M-Cult is a 30 sqm apartment in a small wooden house with one room, kitchen and bathroom with shower; it is NOT fully accessible, sitting on the first floor up stairs with no elevator (details from info@m-cult.org). In Turku, the Titanik A.i.R. apartment is 27 sqm on the top floor of a building with an elevator, but the space including the bathroom is not fully accessible (details from info@titanik.fi). A partner, friend or child may join, but their expenses are not covered. THE PARTNERS: M-Cult, founded in 2000, develops and presents art and media culture with a focus on the social and political dimensions of media and technology, working through art commissions, residencies and learning programmes. Titanik, established in Turku in 1988 by the artist-run organization Arte Ry, has since 2006 run Titanik A.i.R., the first artist residency in Finland with a focus on sound art and sonic practices. CONTACT: Jussi Koitela (jussi.koitela@m-cult.org) or Farbod Fakharzadeh (director@arte.fi).
Touch Some Grass is an open-call poster exhibition responding to the growing presence of AI-generated imagery and its impact on creative labour, authorship and visual culture. At a time when images can be produced instantly and consumed just as quickly, the exhibition reclaims the poster as a space for ideas, intention and public conversation, inviting artists to make work that questions, challenges or reflects on this changing landscape. As the organisers put it, the question is no longer whether machines can make images, they can; the question is what kind of world we build when speed matters more than thought. NOTE: this call offers exhibition and visibility only, with no artist fee or stipend. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: artwork size A3 (297 x 420 mm), portrait orientation, 300 DPI, CMYK recommended, print-quality PDF preferred, maximum file size 1 GB, one submission per artist. CAP: participation is limited to 60 artists and the submission form closes automatically once all slots are filled, so the effective deadline may fall well before 31 August 2026 (10 of 60 slots were taken at the time of listing). Inato Gallery is an artist-run space in Iligan City, Philippines, which began as a solo street exhibition by KaraTula and now runs concept-driven solo and group shows, open mics, talks and workshops built on openness, participation and the belief that art should exist where people already are.
The Liu Shiming Art Foundation's annual Artist Grants (fourth edition) award up to five grants of USD 5,000 each to early-career visual artists to create new work exploring connections between traditional, cultural, or historical influences and contemporary artistic practice. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists in the first decade of their career (two to ten years practicing professionally); applicants must have received a studio-arts degree between 2016 and 2024, or had their debut gallery or juried-exhibition show between 2016 and 2026. Open to artists of any country; the application and all supporting materials must be in English. TIMELINE: applications open 1 June 2026; close 31 August 2026; recipients notified by 2 December 2026. Apply via the Foundation's grants page.
The Societe des arts technologiques (SAT) and LAB7 (the research-creation lab of 7 Fingers / Les 7 Doigts) offer research-creation residencies at the intersection of performing arts and technology, on the theme of human movement. Each selected project receives a CAD 10,000 grant, roughly two weeks (about 10 days) of studio workspace at the 7 Fingers Creation Centre in Montreal, and personalised coaching from the SAT and LAB7 teams. Open to non-profit organisations, collectives and independent artists working between performing arts and technological arts; the call is effectively open internationally, with no nationality restriction stated. No application fee. Results are announced in early October 2026. Application deadline: 31 August 2026, 17:00. Apply via the official open-call page.
The OIF Support for Artist Mobility and Circulation of Cultural Goods programme provides grants of up to EUR 5,000 for mobility (travel, accommodation, visa fees, logistics) and up to EUR 2,500 for circulation of cultural goods (excess baggage, freight, customs) within the Francophone zone; both can be combined. ELIGIBILITY: professional artists and established artistic collectives with a demonstrated connection to the Francophone space (by nationality, working language, or artistic collaborations), residing in an OIF member state, with minimum 2 years of experience in the cultural or artistic sector; must directly manage the project (not act as intermediaries); one application per individual per call. ELIGIBLE DISCIPLINES: live performance (music, theatre, dance, comedy, storytelling), cinema/audiovisual, literature/publishing, and visual arts. PRIORITY given to projects promoting gender equality, women artists, creators under 35, and South-South mobility. Projects must take place between 25 March and 30 November 2026. Multiple selection sessions throughout the year; call open until 31 August 2026. Information webinars: 11 March, 13 May, and 8 July 2026 at 3 PM Paris time. Contact: culture.dlc@francophonie.org. Apply at https://appelsaprojets.francophonie.org/fr/applications/soutien-a-la-circulation-des-biens-et-mobilite-des-artistes.
Stiftung Künstler*dorf Schöppingen offers residency fellowships for professional visual artists, authors and composers; since 2023 applications from collectives are also accepted. The call is open to people of all nationalities and ages, and accommodation for partners, family members or assistance can be arranged upon agreement and availability (for physical, cognitive or sensory disabilities, contact the foundation to explain any barriers). Fellows reside and work at the Künstler*dorf for a period of their choosing between two and six months, using the premises and infrastructure on-site. The stipend is EUR 1,500 per month, minus roughly EUR 100-200 for rent and operating expenses; for collectives it is EUR 1,000 per person up to a maximum of EUR 3,000 per month, minus rent and operating costs. Travel, insurance or material costs are covered only in exceptional cases on request. The fellowship is not designed as a production residency and there is no obligation to present results, though exhibition and presentation facilities are available and the voluntary co-organization of events (lectures, readings, workshops or similar) is welcomed. A willingness to participate in events and to engage in exchange with other fellows is a prerequisite. Selection is made by expert juries on the quality of previous work, the quality and plausibility of the project for Schöppingen, and program contributions (interaction / community building). Applications for 2027 can be submitted from 27 June to 31 August 2026 (midnight CET) via the online application portal.
The Gallery at Penn College (Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA) invites artists to apply for solo, two-person, or group exhibitions for its 2027-28 season. All entries are juried through a blind selection process by a gallery committee of faculty, staff, K-12 art educators, and community artists; review takes place during the Fall semester and artists receive notification in January. PROVIDED: housing, meals, a solo exhibition honorarium, and a shipping and travel stipend. Promotional support includes an annual gallery catalog, postcards, press releases, and web and social media. THE SPACE: the Gallery is 3,000 square feet with 82-250 running feet of linear wall space and an 11'4" ceiling. All exhibitions are installed by Gallery staff; site-specific installations requiring artist installation need a planning document approved before scheduling. Artists must have enough work for a solo exhibition unless applying for a two-person show. ENGAGEMENT: campus visits are an important part of programming (some exhibitions are scheduled without a visit). Penn College offers a B.S. in Graphic Design with foundation courses in drawing, 2D and 3D design, visual literacy, painting, ceramics, wood sculpture, printmaking, and computer graphics; artists are encouraged to propose class-specific programs and optional community workshops. Visiting artists give a 20-30 minute gallery talk during the public reception (held Tuesdays through Thursdays). TO APPLY: 10-15 digital images of work (JPG/JPEG only, max 4 MB each), an image list with dimensions and medium, a CV, and an artist statement. For two-person or group proposals, provide details in the comments; for video work, upload a PDF with video links and details. Deadline 31 August 2026 for the 2027-28 season.
The Gallery at Penn College is accepting proposals for solo, two-person and group exhibitions in its 2027-28 season. All entries are juried through a blind selection process by a gallery committee of faculty, staff, K-12 art educators and community artists. The space is 3,000 square feet with 82 to 250 running feet of linear wall depending on configuration and a ceiling height of 11 feet 4 inches, and all exhibitions are installed by gallery staff. Site-specific installations requiring artist installation need an approved planning document first. Campus visits are a valued part of programming though some exhibitions are scheduled without one; visiting artists give a 20 to 30 minute gallery talk at the public reception, and are encouraged to propose class-specific programmes or community workshops. Promotional support includes an annual gallery catalogue, postcards, press releases and web and social coverage. Applications require 10 to 15 digital images (JPG only, max 4 MB each), an image list with dimensions and medium, a CV and an artist statement.
Three Helpmann Fellowships of up to AUD 7,500 support ambitious, self-directed projects that advance the artistic and professional development of emerging creatives. Fellowships are open across all eligible disciplines, to individuals and to collectives, and funding can go to larger-scale creative projects, tailored professional development, or a combination of both. Previous fellowships have supported the creation of new work, exhibitions and performances, residencies and internships, touring and recording, specialised training, and long-term professional development; each fellowship is shaped by the recipient rather than a fixed programme. ELIGIBILITY IS NARROW AND GEOGRAPHIC: applicants must be current residents of South Australia and either final-year students or graduates within five years of a supported degree at Adelaide University, the University of Adelaide, Flinders University, or the University of South Australia. Honours students and graduates (up to five years after the final year of study) are eligible where honours was undertaken directly following the undergraduate degree. Masters and PhD candidates and graduates are not eligible unless they qualify through their undergraduate or honours study. Final-year students may apply provided the funded activity takes place after studies are completed and within the activity timeframe. Applications are assessed on artistic merit, alignment with career development, feasibility, commitment to learning, and level of ambition. The online application requires a CV (max two pages), an official academic transcript, a budget on the Helpmann template, a timeline, project confirmations, letters of support from an academic and an industry referee, and four to six images or one to two audio-visual work samples. An online information session runs 4 August 2026 at 6pm ACST, and the Program Manager, Toni Wills, takes online or in-person application chats (info@helpmannacademy.com.au). Applications opened 15 July 2026 and close 31 August 2026 at 11:59pm ACST, for activity occurring 1 January to 31 December 2027. Free to apply.
Senior leadership post at the Digital Creativity Institute, the joint venture between the Communication University of China Nanjing (CUCN) and UEA, sitting in UEA's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The Deputy Dean leads UEA's academic contribution to the Institute, covering curriculum and programme development, staffing and quality assurance across digital media, creative technology and related disciplines, and works with the CUCN partner leadership on strategy, recruitment and partnership growth. This is a rare senior role for someone who works across creative practice and digital technology rather than in a single discipline, and it involves regular engagement with the partner institution in China. Salary GBP 69,488 to 73,709. Advertised 3 August 2026 through jobs.ac.uk and the UEA vacancy portal; closes 31 August 2026. Check the UEA posting for the full person specification and whether the role requires periods based in Nanjing.
DRIFT (Dance and Research In The Future Time) is a four-year Creative Europe cooperation between ten European organisations, led by Theatre de Liege and Maison de la danse. The distinguishing feature is that it funds artistic research rather than production: you are expected to arrive with questions, not a finished piece you already intend to make, and reviewers read every section of the application through that lens. STRUCTURE: each of the ten partner organisations selects one choreographer from its own country, forming a cohort of ten. Over the programme you get an Onboarding Lab, two weeks of residency with your national partner, three collaborative Online Labs, a Festival Lab in Tunis, individual artistic and curatorial mentoring, and a work-in-progress showcase at the Biennale de la danse in Lyon, all backed by a EUR 20,000 research budget that covers your fees, travel, accommodation and any collaborators. SECOND PHASE: after a further evaluation, five of the ten artists may receive co-production support and touring across the DRIFT network. That phase is separate from this application and is not guaranteed. ELIGIBILITY: professional choreographers in contemporary dance or performance, at a mid-career stage, meaning an established national practice but not yet fully established internationally. You must be based in Belgium, France, Germany (Berlin region only), Greece, Norway, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Tunisia or Portugal, and you apply through the partner organisation representing your country of residence, not centrally. Good English and availability for all programme dates are required. The country list is strict, so check it before you start. TIMELINE: applications opened 1 July 2026 and close 31 August 2026; selection through September; results 9 October 2026; programme runs November 2026 to September 2027.
The International Conference on Live Coding is dedicated to practices and research focused on technologies and philosophies that interpret the use of computer code and the public writing of algorithms as performative gestures. The 10th edition runs 9 to 13 March 2027 in Antwerp, hosted by Lambdasonic (TOPLAP Belgium) with the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and De Singel. THEME: 'Dialogues', framing live coding as continuous improvisational exchange between coder, machine and audience, and across disciplines. Suggested topics include dialogues between live coding and acoustic musicians, dancers, theatre, classically trained musicians reading live-coded (or graphical) scores, band and jazz-combo settings, live-coder ensembles, ten-minute live-coded mini-operas, DMX lighting systems, graphics and shader live coding, robotics (pen plotters, textile-weaving robots), design-as-performance, community building, diversity/equity/inclusion, accessibility of live coding languages and interfaces, education, and algorave. The venues will facilitate collaborations with resident dancers, a jazz combo (back-line provided: drums, guitar amp, bass amp, piano), a string quartet reading scores a prima vista, visual artists, students and researchers where possible. FORMATS: short papers (2-4 pages) and long papers (5-12 pages) using the provided template; live performances (800-word abstract, max 150-word programme note, technical rider); workshops (short 2h or long 4h, max 700-word abstract, held in English or Dutch); installations (max 700-word abstract, technical questionnaire plus a measured plan or sketch, with the interactive aspect clearly defined); and satellite events. All contributors submit a max 150-word biography. Peer review is single-blind with at least two reviewers per submission. LANGUAGE: submissions must be in English, except that live performance, installation and workshop proposals may also be submitted in another language (workshops: English, Dutch or French) with a machine-translated English version, stated as such. Substantial use of generative AI in writing papers and performance abstracts must be disclosed; proofreading and translation are exempt. In-person presentation is encouraged, with remote proposals considered and sessions live-streamed where possible; the organisers ask attendees to minimise travel impact and to link up with nearby satellite events to turn a long trip into a mini-tour. The call notes attention to access needs, care responsibilities and other barriers to participation. SATELLITE EVENTS: live coding nodes, art schools and other organisations worldwide are invited to host their own events before or after ICLC 2027; submit a declaration of interest via Fourwaves before 1 February 2027 with a principal contact, city and any confirmed details, and join #iclc-satellite-events on the TOPLAP Discord. Hosts are asked to seek local funding for accommodation, travel and artist fees; the committee cannot fund or organise these but will coordinate dates and publish your event. TO APPLY: submit via Fourwaves at https://event.fourwaves.com/iclc2027/pages using the templates at https://codeberg.org/iclc/iclc-templates (read the README for full proposal instructions). Submission deadline extended to 1 September 2026; acceptance notification 1 November 2026. CALL FOR REVIEWERS: anyone active in a live-coding-related field can volunteer by emailing a short description and keywords of their expertise to iclc@lambdasonic.be, the same address for general questions.
Surel's Place is a residency in Garden City, Idaho with a two-fold mission: to give artists the time, shelter and professional support their work deserves, and to give the public accessible art experiences including performances, readings, exhibits and workshops. In exchange for the residency, artists offer art experiences back to the community. OPEN TO professional visual, literary and performance artists: painters, writers, musicians, architects, filmmakers, choreographers, any artist who needs a place to focus. LIMITS: because of the property's constraints and proximity to neighbours, it cannot accommodate loud or very messy processes such as welding or blacksmithing. The organisers also note that predominantly conceptual work, work that must be explained to attract a viewer, may not be met with as much enthusiasm by the jurors, and that they welcome artists who want to connect with an audience. Each cycle, one of the five residencies includes outreach to local schools through the PARTNER Schools Program. REQUIREMENTS: maintain residence at the home and studio (no studio-use-only residencies); use the residency in a focused way towards a stated goal with no other employment or work happening simultaneously; visual artists give a show of and/or lecture about their residency work, writers give a reading and discussion session; all artists offer at least one public workshop (2 to 3 hours, minimal lecturing); visual artists donate one piece of art to Surel's Place for future fundraising; writers allow Surel's Place to publish a free-standing excerpt of their residency work in books, broadsides, posters or similar. SALES COMMISSION applies as set out in the funding notes. HOUSE RULES: the non-smoking requirement is non-negotiable and any evidence of smoking is grounds for early termination. Partners are welcome but children and pets cannot be accommodated, no more than two adults may live there during a residency, and partners wanting concurrent residencies must apply and be accepted separately. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be 25 or older and non-smokers. APPLY by email to info@surelsplace.org with the online Artist in Residence application plus, for VISUAL ARTISTS, a cover letter introducing yourself and saying why you want to be at Surel's Place specifically, a proposal including a workshop outline, a CV, electronic images of 4 to 6 pieces of work and an image list (title, size, medium, year); for LITERARY applicants, cover letter, proposal with workshop outline, CV and PDF work samples with your name and page number in the top right corner (fiction, prose or script no more than 10 typed double-spaced pages; poetry no more than six poems and no more than 10 pages); for OTHER MEDIUMS, cover letter, proposal with workshop outline, CV and electronic samples (contact Surel's Place to discuss sample requirements for your medium). Applications are reviewed by juries of accomplished artists, writers and fine arts professionals, and all applicants are notified by email.
The LATITUDE Artist in Residence program (started in 2013) is a one-month production residency where 8-10 artists are granted full access to LATITUDE's facilities and community to develop their practice. Its focus is supporting artists who want to use LATITUDE's printing and scanning services to expand their practice, regardless of medium or experience; past residents include photographers, painters, performance artists, new media artists, and sculptors. WHAT RESIDENTS RECEIVE: a $1,000 printing stipend, unlimited scanning, a personal studio with a calibrated workstation and 24/7 access, training and guidance on tech from staff, an organised public event to present new work, and lifetime free lab access. LATITUDE does not offer a housing stipend but will help schedule studio visits during the month. PUBLIC PROGRAMMING: during the residency each artist puts on one community programming event (past examples include panel discussions, artist talks, performances, workshops, and critiques; a gallery space is available for curation) and is asked to act as a mentor to the community, sharing insights and creative methods. WHO SHOULD APPLY: artists interested in production, education, and tech experimentation; no prior printing experience, art education, or media specificity is required, though professionalism and communication are expected. 2027 PANEL COMMITTEE: Yechen Zhao, B. Ingrid Olson, Teri Carson. TIMELINE: applications open 1 August 2026 (free before 16 August, a $20 donation thereafter) and close 1 September 2026 at 12pm (noon) CST; the selection committee reviews in September, meets to decide finalists in October, and acceptances are sent early November 2026. Apply at latitudechicago.org/artist-in-residence.
Rotterdam's standing project fund for one-off artistic and cultural activity, and the most accessible municipal route for festivals, exhibitions and public programmes in the city. The discipline list names e-culture outright alongside moving image and artistic film, design and fashion, visual arts and photography, architecture, spoken word and all hybrid forms, so media-art and creative-technology programming is squarely in scope. Both non-profit legal entities and natural persons may apply, so individual artists are eligible. There is no published maximum per application; the real constraint is the EUR 272,000 available per round against roughly 130 competing applications. Six rounds run every year with fixed closing dates on the first of January, March, May, July, September and November. TIMING RULE: the activity may not start until eight weeks after the closing date of the round applied in, so a 1 September 2026 application supports activity from late October 2026 onward. Decisions normally arrive within eight weeks of the round deadline, extendable to 20 weeks. Associations and foundations apply via eHerkenning, individuals via DigiD. Organisations already receiving Rotterdamse Culturele Basis, Cultuurplan, Impulsregeling, national BIS, Lokale Culturele Programmering or a CBK Rotterdam practice contribution are excluded.
This is the Groningen scheme that actually funds festivals, and the correct counterpart to the Kunstraad's Projectenregeling, which explicitly excludes festivals and recurring programmes and redirects them here. It supports coherent, continuous public activity across 2027 and 2028 in all arts and heritage disciplines, naming recurring production series, festivals and programme lines as eligible, with no exclusion of media art, digital culture or experimental sound work. Annually recurring festivals with a year-round paid organisation are explicitly named as eligible applicants. Awards run from EUR 5,000 to 40,000 per year against an annual pot of EUR 325,000, capped at one third of total project costs, so two thirds must come from municipal funds, national funds, box office or own contribution. Unusually, the money may also be used to strengthen the organisation itself on the business side, not only to pay for programme content. The application window is 1 July to 1 September 2026, closing at 23:59, and only applications received on time are processed. Applications must be submitted in Dutch via the Mijn Kunstraad portal with fair-pay standards applied in the budget. Funding covers nothing before 1 January 2027. Professional non-profit organisations only; amateur associations and individual artists are directed elsewhere. Material investments, equipment purchases and housing costs are excluded.
Supports solo, two-person and thematic group exhibitions of contemporary visual art. The Foundation explicitly prioritises artists whose work is under-recognised and whose practices are experimental or hard to categorise, which makes it a genuine route for media arts, digital culture and art-and-science exhibitions rather than a blue-chip-only fund. Grants of USD 60,000 to 100,000 cover direct exhibition costs including artist fees, new commissions, catalogue production and artist-designed public programming, but not staff salaries. Applicants may request no more than 25 percent of total direct costs. The proposal is a roughly three-page curatorial letter plus detailed direct-cost budget, organisational budget and IRS documentation. Deadlines are 1 March and 1 September annually, with notifications 1 July and 1 January. IMPORTANT: this is a postmark or email-timestamp deadline, not a portal deadline. Fiscal sponsors are explicitly not accepted; the applicant must hold its own IRS ruling letter. The six-month-to-two-year timing rule is strict, so a September 2026 application suits exhibitions programmed from mid-2027 onward.
This is the closest thing in US foundation philanthropy to core support for an organisation running an ongoing public programme, as opposed to a single exhibition. It funds a two-year slate of exhibitions, residencies, public art, screenings, performances, lectures and publications, which means a recurring festival or convening series can be underwritten here. Grants are USD 60,000 to 100,000 over two years and may not exceed 25 percent of annual operating budget. The Foundation states a preference for organisations supporting artists with experimental, hard-to-categorise practices, putting digital culture, sound art and art-and-science programmers squarely in scope. Applications require a forward programme schedule covering at least the twelve months after the award, a three-page narrative focused specifically on how artists benefit (the stated central evaluation criterion), a full one-year organisational budget and 501(c)(3) documentation. Deadlines are 1 March and 1 September, notifications 1 July and 1 January. Fiscal sponsors are not accepted. Organisations that received a Multi-year grant within the past year are ineligible, and proposals centred on anniversaries, relocations or major renovations are explicitly discouraged.
Launched in February 2026 as an expansion of the Foundation's programme to reach organisations too small for the Exhibition Support and Multi-year strands, and it is the single most relevant new US scheme for small media-arts festivals. It funds visual arts projects with a public component, explicitly naming film festivals, exhibitions, installations, residencies and interdisciplinary collaborations. Grants are USD 20,000 to 30,000 toward direct costs. The hard gate is the USD 200,000 annual operating budget ceiling plus US 501(c)(3) status held directly by the applicant, not via a fiscal sponsor. The Foundation states it assesses creative risk-taking and the growth of participating artists rather than community impact metrics, which suits experimental sound and digital culture programming. Proposals are a maximum of three pages plus a one-year operating budget, a project budget and IRS documentation. Deadlines are 1 March (projects begin 1 July or later) and 1 September (projects begin 1 January or later). Youth-focused projects are ineligible. One project per round, and grantees must wait a year after project completion and final reporting before reapplying.
Creative Australia's principal open-round project grant for arts organisations and the most directly relevant Australian scheme for mounting festivals, exhibitions and public programmes. The guidelines explicitly list festivals, productions, exhibitions, performances, touring, publishing, recording, collaborations, research and community engagement as supported activity. Organisations may propose either a single project or an entire programme of projects, which can extend to a full artistic programme for a given calendar year or longer, so this can function as de facto annual programme funding. The category is artform-agnostic and routinely supports media arts, digital culture, experimental sound and art-and-science work; activity delivered online is explicitly permitted. NOTABLE: international organisations are eligible where the project demonstrably benefits practising Australian artists, their work, or Australian audiences, so a non-Australian festival can apply if it is programming Australian artists. The applicant must be a legally constituted entity: incorporated association, company limited by guarantee, or government statutory authority. Registration in the Application Management System must be completed at least one business day before the closing date. The round closes 1 September 2026 at 3pm AEST.
Fast Forward is a two-year Pro Helvetia programme offering mentoring, management support, and content-creation funding to help mid-career musicians build international careers, spanning pop, rock, jazz, electronic, experimental, global sounds, and hip-hop. Applicants must be mid-career music professionals established in Switzerland's music scene with regular presence across language regions. ELIGIBILITY: requires a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); not open to practitioners without a Swiss connection. AMOUNT: CHF 25,000 per year (maximum CHF 5,000 for mentoring and CHF 10,000 for musician fees). Submission deadline 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Feat. is a Pro Helvetia grant supporting first-time collaborative projects between hip-hop and/or clubbing artists to produce a joint release. Open to DJs, beatmakers, rappers, and producers with at least one prior EP or album on a recognized label. Applicants must have a verifiable connection to Switzerland (citizenship, permanent residency, or an institutional base with regular artistic activity). AMOUNT: up to CHF 10,000. Deadlines twice a year: 1 March (23:59 CET) and 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Pro Helvetia's creation and production grant for pop, jazz, and global music supports the creation and production of new musical works (repertoire, recordings, performances) by established artists working in pop, rock, jazz, electronic, experimental, global, and hip-hop styles. Applicants must be nationally established music professionals or bands. ELIGIBILITY: requires a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); not open to practitioners without a Swiss connection. AMOUNT: maximum CHF 25,000. Deadlines twice a year: 1 March (23:59 CET) and 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Pro Helvetia's new production grant funds new performing arts productions, including digital and hybrid formats, by Switzerland-based artists and companies with confirmed venue bookings and co-financing in place. Open to Swiss citizens, permanent residents active in Switzerland, or independent groups and cultural institutions based in Switzerland. ELIGIBILITY: requires a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); not open to practitioners without a Swiss connection. The grant amount is not specified on the call page and depends on the project. Deadlines twice a year: 1 March (23:59 CET) and 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Focus Photo is a Pro Helvetia grant supporting new production in artistic, documentary or applied photography; projects may be based on analogue, digital or post-photographic image practices. FOR WHOM: cross-regionally established photographers and artists. Pro Helvetia's general requirements apply, meaning a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); Swiss-based groups and collectives may also apply. SELECTION CRITERIA: a high degree of artistic originality and quality; feasibility of the project; and the importance of the work for the applicant's artistic development. Applications are assessed by a jury under Pro Helvetia's general decision-making process. AMOUNT: maximum CHF 25,000. WHAT TO SUBMIT: a description of the planned project, an implementation plan and a budget with financial plan (including all financial assistance requested from third parties) in a single PDF; a portfolio documenting work over the last three years (including links to videos, maximum 20 pages); a CV including previous exhibition activities in a single PDF; and, if the project is planned as part of an exhibition, an invitation letter from the organiser confirming the planned presentation. EXCLUDED: projects involving journalistic research and reporting (with publication in print or digital media) and PR projects; new editions, commissioned works and projects that are part of an advertising campaign; and photographic publications. ONE APPLICATION RULE: across production grants, production grants with presentation, Focus Photo and Perform!, only one application may be submitted per person or collective per calendar year, whichever format you choose; recipients of production grants may only reapply for one of these formats once the project is complete. KEY DATES: applications open 1 July; submission deadline 1 September, 23:59 CEST; notification of decision within four months; earliest project start 1 January. Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Pro Helvetia's visual arts production grant supports the creation of new works by established visual artists, photographers, and architects with a cross-regional exhibition track record beyond their own language region. ELIGIBILITY: requires a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); not open to practitioners without a Swiss connection. AMOUNT: maximum CHF 25,000. Submission deadline 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Pro Helvetia's grant for production with presentation funds newly created visual artworks that are being presented publicly for the first time. Open to cross-regionally established artists, photographers, and architects (and collectives) with institutional experience and exhibition activity beyond their own language region. ELIGIBILITY: requires a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); not open to practitioners without a Swiss connection. AMOUNT: maximum CHF 25,000. Submission deadline 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (KHN) in Nebraska City supports established and emerging writers, visual artists, and composers/musicians by providing living and studio space that allows uninterrupted time for work, reflection, and creative growth. Residencies run 2 to 8 weeks and include free living and studio space plus a USD 175/week stipend. KHN awards approximately 30-38 residencies per session, of which roughly 8-12 go to visual artists working in various media. Categories: Writers & Poets, Visual Artists, Composers & Musicians, and Interdisciplinary Artists. Visual artists work in one of three studios (two approximately 425 sq ft and one 258 sq ft) outfitted with work tables, running water, and storage shelves; donated hand tools, a bandsaw, miter saw, and painting easels are available. Upon request, artists with previous printing experience may access the onsite Harry Duncan Letterpress Studio (SP15 Vandercook Proof Press, a 16x12 inch boxcar base for adhesive plates, furniture, fonts, and a small inventory of printmaking tools). Open internationally. Applications are reviewed twice a year (deadlines 1 March and 1 September); the 2027 1st Session (deadline 1 September 2026) is for awards scheduled 4 January to 25 June 2027. All applications must be submitted online via SlideRoom; mailed or emailed applications are not considered. A $35 application fee is collected through the portal.
ITER is now in its fifth year and supports people in the performing arts to build environmentally responsible, inclusive and equitable ways of touring and collaborating internationally. It is initiated and financed by Arts Council England, Arts Council Norway, Creative Scotland and the Danish Arts Foundation, and designed and delivered by Julie's Bicycle and in futurum. Creative Scotland joined as a partner for 2026. TWO TRACKS, up to 60 places in total: PATHFINDERS, ten sessions introducing the principles of sustainable touring for people new to the subject; and CHANGEMAKERS, nine sessions for those further along, on leadership and systemic change. Seminars run weekly from 1 October to 10 December 2026, Pathfinders on Tuesdays and Changemakers on Thursdays, 10:00 to 12:00 UK time, alongside networking and a new alumni network. THE MONEY COMES IN PHASE TWO: after the seminars, groups of three or more participants can apply for up to GBP 30,000 to implement collaborative projects that cut environmental impacts and advance climate justice. Funding applications open 6 November 2026 and close 11 January 2027; awarded projects begin in spring 2027. ELIGIBILITY: based in England, Scotland, Norway or Denmark, working in dance, music or theatre. That covers music and theatre venues receiving touring work, festivals, orchestras, theatre companies, solo artists, performers and musicians, performing arts producers, and multidisciplinary arts organisations. Applications are made through the relevant national funder (Arts Council England open funds, Creative Scotland targeted funding, Arts Council Norway, Danish Arts Foundation). Questions go to environmentaltouring@artscouncil.org.uk.
The Berlin Senate's work stipends for visual artists fund 8 or 12 months of artistic work during 2027 at EUR 2,000 per month. The program explicitly covers digital art and media art, sound art, artistic film and video (shown in a visual-arts exhibition context) and installation, alongside classical visual-arts disciplines. ELIGIBILITY: professional visual artists who live, work and are registered in Berlin; not open to applicants based elsewhere. The application window runs 6 July to 2 September 2026, 11:00 CEST, via the Senate's online portal.
The Music Growth Fund is Arts Council England's new investment programme for growth in new music, meaning original live performance, sound recording or musical work recently or newly created or performed by living UK-based artists and music creators. It sits inside the wider GBP 45 million Music Growth Package. WHO IT IS FOR: music festivals, music managers, music promoters, music publishers, record labels, recording studios, rehearsal spaces and grassroots music venues, plus established sector bodies and other sector support organisations that support them. Each applicant type has its own Applicant Specific Guidance on the Music Growth Package pages. IMPORTANT: this is business and organisational investment, not a grant for individual artists to make work. Individual artists, bands, producers and artist collectives should instead look at the separate Music Creators Growth Fund (GBP 10,000-20,000), whose guidance lands 1 September 2026 with the portal opening 1 October 2026. WHAT TO PROPOSE: how investment will be used to grow music businesses and/or the wider music industry, and enhance opportunities for artists and music creators, industry professionals, music fans and new audiences. Growth can mean increased reach, stronger business models, improved sustainability, skills development or expanded capacity, and is judged in the context of each applicant's own scale and ambitions. DECISION CRITERIA: potential for growth, effective use of funds, contribution to a fairer and more inclusive music industry, and contribution to a climate resilient music industry. BEFORE YOU START: you need an approved profile on the Arts Council grants management system before you can submit, so allow time for that. Arts Council reserves the right to change the programme, so check you are on the latest guidance. THIS STRAND: GBP 1,000 to GBP 40,000, with a GBP 3,000,000 annual budget for 2026/27 and a 25 percent cash match requirement. ROUNDS FOR 2026/27 (GBP 1,000-40,000 strand): Round 1 opens 6 August and closes 3 September 2026, decision 28 October. Round 2 opens 4 September and closes 15 October 2026, decision 28 October. Round 3 opens 16 October and closes 26 November 2026, decision 3 February 2027. Round 4 opens 27 November 2026 and closes 7 January 2027, decision 9 March 2027. ROUNDS FOR THE GBP 40,001-100,000 strand: Round 1 opens 7 September and closes 1 October 2026, decision 30 November. Round 2 opens 23 November 2026 and closes 15 January 2027, decision 8 March 2027.
The Ottawa School of Art invites artists and collectives to submit exhibition proposals for its 2027-2028 season, welcoming current and proposed work across all media including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video. Group exhibition proposals are accepted. Successful applicants exhibit at ONE campus gallery, but proposals may be submitted for either or both venues; an application to both must demonstrate a clear understanding of how the exhibition would work best within each gallery's dimensions (floor plans are published with the call). VENUES: the J.W. Stellick Gallery at the ByWard Market campus, dedicated to giving OSA students and the community a wide variety of contemporary art, and the OSA Orleans Gallery on the Centrum Level of the Shenkman Arts Centre. Artists receive an Ontario CARFAC exhibition fee. SELECTION: a jury of three art professionals selects exhibitions on the quality of the work, the integrity of the proposal, and its relation to OSA's programs. SUBMISSION: all six components are required, incomplete proposals are withdrawn without notification, and poorly organised proposals will not be reviewed. (1) Completed application cover form with contact information and exhibition details. (2) A written exhibition proposal outlining the concept and intent of the proposed or current body of work. (3) One artist statement per proposal; group proposals submit a single collective statement, not individual statements. (4) An up-to-date CV for the exhibiting artist, or a CV for each participating artist in a group proposal. (5) Up to 10 visual files of work completed within the last two years. An artwork and a detail of the same artwork count as two images; images must be JPG only, 300 dpi, no larger than 2MB each, RGB, maximum 1240 pixels on the longest side. Each video counts as one file, total video time per proposal must not exceed 15 minutes, and videos must be AVI, MOV or MP4 and no larger than 500MB each. Precede each file name with a zero-padded number and the title, for example 01Artwork title. (6) A corresponding numbered visual file list with title, year, medium and dimensions (H x W x D), specifying inches or centimetres. FILES MUST BE SENT VIA WETRANSFER to boutique@artottawa.ca; proposals submitted by post, hand delivery or email will not be accepted. Deadline 4:30 pm ET, Friday 4 September 2026.
The Premio Klemm is one of Argentina's longest-running visual arts prizes, now in its 29th edition, awarded by the Fundacion Federico Jorge Klemm in Buenos Aires. It is notable for a genuinely open definition of medium: the entry categories explicitly include arte digital, robotica, video, videoinstalacion, audio and fotografia alongside painting, drawing and sculpture, so technology-based practice is squarely in scope. Entrants submit one work dated 2021 or later, which must be durable rather than ephemeral. The top prizes are acquisition prizes, so winning work enters the foundation's collection. ELIGIBILITY IS RESTRICTED: Argentine nationals (native or naturalised) or foreigners holding at least two years of legal residence in Argentina, aged 18 or over. Submissions close 4 September 2026 at 23:59. Prize amounts and the closing date are stated in the bases y condiciones PDF linked from the entry site.
Supports organisations building new cross-border professional networks, funding joint meetings, workshops, staff exchanges and collaborative platforms among artists and cultural practitioners. It is designed for the convening and infrastructure-building side of festival work rather than artistic production, and it explicitly excludes artistic productions and public events, so it is used to assemble festival partners rather than to stage the festival itself. Grants run up to EUR 20,000 for networks of a year or less, with Nordic Culture Point covering at most 70 percent of the budget and a hard 85 percent ceiling on combined pan-Nordic public funding. The autumn 2026 window is 10 August to 4 September 2026, closing 15:59 UTC+3. TIMING RULE: activity may not begin until at least eight weeks after the deadline. IMPORTANT ELIGIBILITY DIFFERENCE from the Culture and Art Programme: the applicant must be resident in a Nordic or Baltic country and must be a professional with documented training or experience in art and culture, so non-Nordic and non-Baltic lead applicants are not eligible. A strong fit for a media-arts or sound-art organisation assembling a regional partner consortium ahead of a larger application.
The City of Moorhead is seeking proposals for an inspirational, movable public artwork to be installed at rotating locations across the city. Interactive elements are explicitly encouraged, with kinetic sculpture, digital installation and tactile elements named as examples. Strong proposals invite public participation, promote creativity and youth engagement, are safe for all members of the public, are durable enough for year-round outdoor conditions, and draw people to gather. Submissions are reviewed and ranked by the Artist Review Team, whose recommendation passes to the Art and Culture Commission and then to City Council for the final decision. Questions go to art@moorheadmn.gov. Proposals are due by 10:00am on Friday 4 September 2026.
Scuola Piccola Zattere is an independent non-profit centre for continuous education and research in the expanded field of contemporary arts, running exhibitions, commissions, fellowships, workshops, seminars, performances and public discussions as one connected research ecosystem rather than separate strands. Two international fellowships are offered. The support is unusually solid for a research fellowship: EUR 5,000 as a grant, EUR 2,000 as a research budget, accommodation, travel and a study space for three months. SEASON THEME: the 2026-2027 cycle is titled Living Document, investigating archives, regulatory documents, collective rituals, games, performative instructions, and the relationship between bodies, architecture and social organisation. Fellows join that shared inquiry while continuing their own work, and are expected to keep an active presence in the institution and contribute to public events through workshops, seminars, presentations, screenings or performances. The fellowship overlaps with the run-up to and opening of the 2027 Architecture Biennale, which is a real advantage if your research benefits from that traffic. ELIGIBILITY: artists, curators, researchers, architects, choreographers, performers and writers of any nationality, as individuals, collectives or duos. Good English is required, and non-EU applicants need a valid passport for international travel. No age limit, but the organisers say it is especially intended for practitioners in the post-academic stage of their career, typically under 40. You must be prepared to spend the full period in Venice, so this is not a remote or partial-attendance fellowship. WHAT THEY WANT: an active research process that can develop through discussion and experimentation, tied to the Living Document theme, not a finished stand-alone project proposal. The motivation letter, portfolio and public programming proposal are read as one integrated application. Deadline 4 September 2026 at 10:00 CEST.
Open call from SAC Art Amsterdam and Mama Magnet for a printed matter fair themed around jugaad: improvised, resourceful solutions built from what is on hand (from the Sanskrit yuj, 'to join', via Hindi jugar, famously embodied by post-independence Punjabi vehicles pieced together from scrap metal and pump engines). The curators want work that engages the spirit of jugaad either as subject (everyday intelligences of getting by, lateral logics of adaptation, unlikely workarounds, reinvention born of necessity) or in how it was made (found or repurposed materials, adapted processes, structures built to solve a specific constraint). Work that came from adjustment rather than access, problem-solving rather than budget. WHAT: zines, artist books, comics, risograph or photocopied prints, posters, foldables, instruction manuals, packaging and other small-format works; if it can travel in a suitcase it is probably in scope. No framed work or anything needing gallery-standard installation. Gen-AI images and text are not accepted. WHO: artists, designers, writers and collectives whose practice genuinely engages with the theme; if unsure, reach out and explain in a line or two. Selected work must reach the Netherlands by end of September 2026. TERMS: selections made on a rolling basis 5 August to 5 September; selected work is sold at the fair (9-10 October, Amsterdam) on mutually agreeable commission terms, with payment within 30 days of each sale and unsold work returned after the consignment period. HOW TO APPLY: email info@mamamagnet.org with a CC to art@sacartamsterdam.com, subject line 'JUGAAD - [Your Contribution]', by 5 September 2026; earlier is better given rolling selection.
The Erie Canal Museum, in partnership with the New York State Canal Corporation, is appointing two Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence for a one-year, year-long creative inquiry into the New York State Canal System, including the historic Erie Canal: reflecting on its past, contemplating its current condition, and considering its future. The 2027 residencies are dedicated to projects that reflect upon the Canal's physical, environmental and social condition and history, its materiality and its context, and the project must directly address the Canal. Applicants propose a specific creative visual project that must be exhibitable in a gallery setting, identify their target audiences and explain how the work will be shared with them and with the public at large. Studies of Canal communities are encouraged, but the Canal and its context must be central. Projects may focus on key areas or on the entire system, and applicants are told to weigh that scale: 524 miles of navigable waterways and 365 miles of multi-use trails. ELIGIBILITY: all artists are encouraged to apply, and special consideration goes to artists with ancestral ties to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and/or the Mohican Nation and to artists who have lived or worked in Canal communities. Only individual artists or artist collectives may apply; artists representing nonprofit or for-profit organisations may not. Artists must be 18 or older and may not be currently enrolled in school full time. For collectives, only one USD 10,000 stipend is awarded to the group. APPLICATION: a statement of interest and proposal (up to 500 words) covering why the residency interests you, your proposed project and how it meets the three residency goals (engage with the Canal, adjacent Canalway Trails, Canal Corp. and Museum staff, Canal facilities, communities and visitors; reflect directly on the Canal's physical, environmental and social condition and history; consider a fuller, more complete account of the Canal's past, present and future), which geographic section you will focus on, how you would share work publicly during the residency, your proposed final project, and how your previous work and public engagement relate; an artist's statement (up to 300 words); a resume or CV (max three pages); two professional references with phone and email; and ten examples of recent work (written work limited to three pages each) with a list giving title, date, materials and size plus short descriptions. EVALUATION covers clarity and relevance of the proposal, the scope, feasibility and clarity of the plan to reach the intended audience, the plan for public engagement including at least one public-facing event during the residency, a final project usable in an exhibit and catalogue, and the quality and relevance of prior work. Applications are reviewed by a panel of Erie Canal Museum and Canal Corporation representatives plus invited arts professionals (the 2026 panel included Elizabeth Dubben of Collar Works, artist and educator Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, and Garth Johnson, Curator of Ceramics at the Everson Museum of Art); finalists interview with the panel. SUBMIT application packages as PDFs by email to Natalie Stetson, Executive Director, at employment@eriecanalmuseum.org with 'Erie Canal Artist-in-Residence' in the subject line, by 11:59 pm on Sunday 6 September 2026. The RFP is at eriecanalmuseum.org/about/careers/.
Fundacion Cotec (a Spanish innovation-focused non-profit) and Sonar+D, building on an initial experiment at Sonar 2026, invite proposals for a long-term installation at KNOWCASE, the street-level showcase of Cotec's Madrid headquarters in Chamberi, visible to the public 24 hours a day. THEME: digital culture, meaning projects that combine knowledge, research, science and data with art, technology and social impact. Cotec's stated priorities are the big transitions (analogue to digital, linear to circular economy, tangible to intangible) plus innovation ecosystems and R&D&I, the climate crisis, the future of work and learning, social divides, citizen participation and democratic health. WHAT YOU GET: a budget of up to EUR 100,000 plus VAT covering everything (design, production, installation, maintenance, documentation, artist fees, travel, accommodation and insurance), and a minimum 24-month public display from February 2027. WHO CAN APPLY: artists, collectives, designers, technologists, universities, research centres, startups, businesses, creative agencies, producers, cultural institutions and multidisciplinary teams, internationally; applicants must demonstrate solid experience and a relevant portfolio. CONSTRAINTS: the proposal must be original and never previously exhibited, must include participative or interactive elements, must encourage critical thinking, and must be technically and financially viable for the full 24+ month exhibition period (durability and maintenance are central selection criteria). Selection weighs conceptual quality highest (40 percent), followed by public interactivity (25 percent). HOW TO APPLY: one PDF of maximum 15 pages containing summary, concept, technical proposal, visuals, budget, timeline, team profile, portfolio and declaration, in Spanish, another official language of Spain, or English, via the application portal linked from the terms and conditions. Results announced 14 October 2026. Deadline 7 September 2026 at midnight CEST.
Located in the heart of Savannah's Starland District at ARTS Southeast, the fully-funded ON::View Artist Residency provides a free, high-visibility studio space, lodging, and a $500 stipend for an artist or curator to complete a new project, continue an in-progress endeavour, or conduct research. The studio's large east-facing street-level windows look onto Bull Street, allowing the resident's work to be on view to the community 24/7 as visitors and passersby witness the process from concept to final execution. It is the only residency of its kind in Savannah and welcomes creatives from around the globe working in all media. STUDIO: 12 x 12 feet just off the ARTS Southeast lobby, with 24-hour access; residents must work during public open hours (Thursday to Sunday, 12 to 5PM) a minimum of one day per week, and must be present during the First Friday Program Finale. Restrictions: no aerosol or toxic/high-VOC materials, no ongoing or repetitive loud noise (occasional hand and power tool use is allowed); accepted applicants provide their own materials and supplies. LODGING: the 5th Dimension Apartment a few blocks away, a cozy studio with full kitchen and bath, private gated entrance and garden, wifi and TV, queen bed; houses up to 2 people (larger teams should arrange additional housing). No smoking or pets. ENGAGEMENT: residents do an Instagram takeover via @onviewresidency, are encouraged to give a public lecture, workshop, or interactive event, and may participate in an annual group exhibition in February 2028. ELIGIBILITY: creatives in all media; collaborative teams are eligible (one proposal per team); current Studio Members or those who were Studio Members in the last 6 months are not eligible. Creatives may seek additional funding from other organisations, and ARTS Southeast will provide a letter of support to accepted residents seeking grants. KEY DATES: deadline Monday 7 September 2026 by 11:59PM; first-round notifications 18 September 2026; interviews 21 to 25 September 2026; final notifications 12 October 2026. APPLICATION: pay the $50 application fee (waivable at ARTS Southeast's discretion for undue burden), then complete the online application. Supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the City of Savannah.
PICE Movilidad is AC/E's collaboration scheme with foreign cultural institutions: a festival, biennial, museum, venue, gallery or platform OUTSIDE Spain applies for AC/E to cover the costs of programming Spanish or Spain-resident artists, collectives and cultural professionals in its own public programme. This is one of the clearest routes for a non-Spanish festival to have a foreign national fund pay for part of its programme. Ten thematic areas are covered including Artes visuales, Musica y creacion sonora, Podcast, Videojuego y animacion and Arquitectura y diseno, so tech-crossover, sound-art and media-art programming is squarely in scope. For visual arts and architecture/design, covered costs include production materials, purchase or rental of technical equipment, hiring of technicians, curators, coordinators and designers, reproduction and exhibition rights, logistics and transport of works, publications, documentation, accommodation, per diems, travel and insurance; for Musica y creacion sonora coverage is narrower (travel, accommodation, per diems, internal transport). Non-EU and UK organisations are fully eligible; there is no EU-membership requirement. Natural persons are barred. TIMING: Phase 3 closes 7 September 2026, provisional list 21 October, definitive award list 30 October, and Phase 3 projects may not begin before 1 November 2026, so this window cannot retro-fund an event already scheduled for autumn 2026.
PICE Visitantes is the inbound mirror of PICE Movilidad: a Spanish festival, biennial, fair, museum or platform applies for AC/E to fund bringing international programmers, curators, producers and cultural professionals to its event in Spain, so that they meet Spanish artists and go on to programme them abroad. It is direct money to an organisation to enrich a festival or public programme it is already hosting. The same ten thematic areas apply as in Movilidad, including Artes visuales, Musica y creacion sonora, Podcast and Videojuego y animacion, giving good coverage for media-arts, sound-art and creative-technology events. Covered costs are travel, accommodation, travel insurance, internal transport, text translation and simultaneous or consecutive interpretation for the invited visitors, with the exact list varying slightly by thematic area. Only entities constituted in Spain may apply; natural persons are barred. Invited guests may come from any country including non-EU and the UK. TIMING: Phase 3 closes 7 September 2026, provisional list 21 October, definitive list 30 October, and visits may not start before 1 November 2026. Applications go through the AC/E PICE online system in Spanish or English with no fee.
The Princeton Arts Fellowship places early-career artists at the Lewis Center for the Arts for two academic years on a full-time salaried appointment, on the conviction that exposure to the arts helps us make sense of our lives and the lives of our neighbours. ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS are early-career composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists. IMPORTANT FOR THIS CYCLE: applications are accepted only for the Program in Dance, the Program in Theater and Music Theater, and the Department of Music. Fellows typically teach one undergraduate course per semester (subject to approval by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty), or in some cases take on an artistic assignment with students in lieu of a class; prior teaching experience is NOT required. Beyond that, fellows are expected to engage with the Princeton community through advising students, talks, workshops, exhibitions or other events, and have time to pursue their own artistic practice and scholarly research. NOT ELIGIBLE: the appointment cannot be used to fund work leading to a PhD or any advanced degree; holders of Princeton PhDs cannot apply; past recipients of the Hodder Fellowship cannot apply; and anyone with a sustained and continuous relationship with Princeton is excluded (an occasional and sporadic relationship is fine). Fellows may not hold concurrent teaching positions at other institutions during the appointment. You may apply once per application cycle. APPLICATION via Interfolio: a CV; a 750-word proposal broken into how you would use the fellowship to develop your work (250 words), what you might teach or pursue with undergraduates (250 words), and your approach to building community with people of different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and artistic practices through your practice, teaching and/or research (250 words); contact information for one reference; and work samples with a 150-word statement on how they relate to your proposal, submitted as links in a PDF. WORK SAMPLE SPECS: Dance (choreography), one to three links to performances, rehearsals or research, continuous footage only, no trailers, photographs or promotional material, with cue points of no more than 3 to 4 minutes per link and no more than 10 minutes total. Music, one to two scores and/or links to performance examples totalling 10 minutes, video optional. Theater, up to 15 pages of writing sample and/or up to 10 design images (photos or renderings) and/or a video or audio reel with cue points, no more than 10 minutes to watch. The deadline is 8 September 2026 at 11:59 pm EDT; receipt of applications cannot be confirmed and late applications are not accepted. FAQ and examples of building community in artistic practice, teaching and research: arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/faq.
The Hodder Fellowship is given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have 'much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts'; they are selected more 'for promise than for performance.' Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the 'studious leisure' to undertake significant new work. Fellows spend an academic year at Princeton with no formal teaching, supported by a USD 93,000 stipend for the 10-month Visiting Fellow appointment. IMPORTANT: for this cycle, applications are accepted only for the Program in Dance, the Program in Theater and Music Theater, the Program in Visual Arts, and the Department of Music. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree; one need not be a U.S. citizen to apply; previous recipients of the Princeton Arts Fellowship are not eligible. To apply, submit a resume, a 500-word project proposal, and samples of your work (writing sample, images, video links to performances, etc.). Applicants may apply for the Hodder Fellowship only twice in a lifetime. Applications are submitted via Interfolio. The application cycle closes 8 September 2026 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Funds US organisations to present curator-led contemporary visual art exhibitions and projects that originated elsewhere, on condition the presenting institution meaningfully adapts the project to its own context. Teiger's remit covers group exhibitions, single-artist surveys, participatory and community-engaged projects, digital exhibitions, and live and virtual performance, making it one of very few US funders that will directly finance media-art and performance programming at organisational level. Requests are fixed at USD 50,000 or USD 75,000 with up to 30 percent for indirect costs, and there is no minimum organisation budget size, with smaller organisations explicitly favoured for infrastructure support. Hosting deadlines are quarterly: 9 September 2026 and 9 December 2026, both 17:00 ET, each mapped to a defined project-opening window roughly a year out. IMPORTANT: re-presenting a touring project unchanged is explicitly not competitive; the curatorial adaptation is the substance of the application. US 501(c)(3) status is required and the fund is not open to individuals or non-US organisations. Teiger's larger biennial Call for Proposals is not running in 2026 and next opens in autumn 2026 with an early-2027 deadline.
The Fundacion Ama Amoedo Grants provide resources and opportunities to strengthen the visual arts ecosystem and its institutions. Through an open call, ten grants of USD 10,000 are awarded annually across four categories: Artists, Art and Social Engagement, Organizations, and Publications. The program supports the realization of projects by artists, organizations, and institutions with a meaningful connection to Latin America. This is the 4th edition of the grants; the Foundation receives applications via its online platform from 7 July to 9 September 2026. ELIGIBILITY: artists, collectives, art professionals, non-profit organizations, institutions, and foundations with a significant connection to Latin America, whether through nationality, cultural heritage, and/or the location where the project will take place. Refer to the Terms and Conditions document on the website for full details. Inquiries: info@fundacionamaamoedo.org. Application deadline: Wednesday 9 September 2026, 11:59 pm.
A Mondriaan Fund voucher sending visual artists to Mexico Art Week 2027 in Mexico City, built around the Zona Maco art fair. The voucher covers admission to the Zona Maco preview days, a curated programme during the week, a networking event with the Dutch Embassy and hotel accommodation from 2 to 7 February 2027, plus a EUR 1,300 contribution to travel costs. Fifteen vouchers are available. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists from the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom with at least one year of professional practice. Applicants may not be enrolled in a bachelor's, master's or PhD programme, with an exception for part-time programmes under 20 hours per week. CONDITIONS: the artist must be available to stay in Mexico City from 2 to 7 February 2027 and take part in all scheduled activities, and must submit a written evaluation after the visit. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online system with a CV (maximum three pages), a motivation statement addressing your international ambitions, the relevance of Mexico Art Week to your practice and your networking strategy, bank details and, if applicable, a BRP extract. Deadline 10 September 2026 before 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time.
This scheme funds cultural heritage institutions in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that want to collaborate with foreign heritage institutions on research projects in shared collection areas, including art historical and provenance research. A development phase can also be funded, covering travel, accommodation and presentation costs while the collaboration is being shaped. CONDITIONS: the applicant institution must be publicly accessible and manage nationally significant cultural heritage; it must partner with comparable institutions abroad; the research must be presented by both the Dutch and the international partners; the applicant must contribute significantly to financing the project; and the international partners' share of costs must be proportional to the Mondriaan Fund grant. AMOUNTS: up to 40% of variable project costs for the main project, or up to 70% of variable costs capped at EUR 15,000 for development research. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online application system after registering an account. Deadline 10 September 2026 before 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time (an earlier 28 May 2026 round has passed).
Prague performance venue Studio ALTA announces four residency open calls for 2027, all with a single deadline of 10 September 2026. RESEARCH HOUSE (19 to 28 April 2027): a shared residential laboratory for three art projects or individual artists in the early stages of exploration and experimentation, or reopening an existing finished work (performance, installation, object, video) to transform it into another form such as a workshop, text or performance-lecture. Includes a 10-day residency, a fee of CZK 12,000 per project, shared studio, individual workspace and facilitated exchange meetings; the research output must be shared publicly as a work-in-progress in a form based on participants' needs. REST HOUSE (March to November 2027): a five-day residential spa for overloaded colleagues from the arts sector, with no required output or activities; restricted to people working in production, dramaturgy, curation, PR, technical and other supporting artistic professions in the Czech independent sector. Two guests are chosen by lottery (fee CZK 6,000 per person); the public draw is announced 16 September 2026. HOUSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (9 to 18 August 2027): for one performative art project created with the local community and designed or adapted for public space in Liben and its surroundings; this year's call focuses on the 55+ target group. Includes a fee of CZK 30,000 per project, rehearsal and indoor facilities (primarily outdoor spaces), dramaturgic, production, technical and PR consultation, connections to partner organisations, and 7 days of intensive production and technical support in the final phase. A public premiere or work-in-progress in public space at the end of the residency is required. HOUSE OF SWEAT (1 to 10 February 2027): for one performative art project designed or adapted for the specific environment of the Studio ALTA sauna and its immediate surroundings, seeking new ways of working with intimate space, proximity to the audience and non-traditional formats. Includes a fee of CZK 15,000 per project, a 10-day residency, sauna and rehearsal spaces, dramaturgic, production, technical and PR consultation, and 2 days of intensive final-phase support; a public work-in-progress or premiere in the sauna within the 9 to 12 February 2027 programme block is required. Projects at any stage of development can apply to the production calls, and selected projects may be included in Studio ALTA's year-round programme. TIMELINE: deadline 10 September 2026; results 3 weeks after the deadline (30 September 2026); a Q&A Zoom call takes place 10 August 2026 at 3:00 PM. Apply via the registration forms on the call page.
Nordic Culture Point's main project line, funding Nordic collaborative arts and culture projects across all phases: preliminary work, production, presentation and dissemination. Eligible activity explicitly includes creative productions, workshops, knowledge development and spaces for artists to meet publics, which covers festivals, public programmes and convenings when framed as new collaborations. The tiered co-financing model is the standout feature: EUR 7,000 with no match at all, rising to EUR 100,000 at a 50 percent match, and in-kind contributions count. NOTABLE: applicants do not need Nordic residency or citizenship provided the three-country and two-Nordic partner structure is met, so a non-Nordic organisation can lead the project. The autumn window runs 10 August to 10 September 2026, closing 15:59 UTC+3. TIMING RULE: decisions arrive ten weeks after the deadline and no project may start before notification, so budget for a roughly three-month lag. The programme will not finance existing tours, institutional running costs, ongoing festival core financing, solo performances, film, TV or gaming production, or book publishing, so a recurring festival must present a distinct new collaborative strand rather than seek operating support.
The Prisma Art Prize is an international award for painting and two-dimensional artistic research based in Rome. The 20th edition selects emerging and established artists working in painting, drawing, illustration, printmaking, and traditional mixed media for a group exhibition at Palazzo Merulana, opening November 5, 2026. Winners share an annual cash fund of EUR 2,000 distributed across quarterly calls and receive inclusion in the collective catalogue plus artist interviews. Additional opportunities include solo exhibition prizes and fully funded placements at partner art residencies. The prize is open internationally to all living artists regardless of age, gender, nationality, or educational background. The submission deadline for this edition is September 10, 2026.
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.
VBKÖ, the Austrian Association of Wom*n Artists founded in 1910, invites proposals for its annual programme running March 2027 to February 2028. The call reads the present moment through the resurgence of authoritarianism, fascism, militarisation, colonial violence and extractive capitalism, and the parallel privatisation of care and criminalisation of solidarity. Drawing on María Galindo's framing of feminism as a project of social transformation and Sara Ahmed's account of feminist work beginning with refusal, the programme treats alternative ways of living as something rehearsed collectively through organising, creating, caring, listening, remembering and struggling. VBKÖ seeks a programme of practices that nurture communal care and build a platform for collective rehearsals: proposals that allow for tenderness, that are not afraid of ugly feelings and different truths, and that explore how contemporary queer and feminist perspectives resonate across artistic, social and political movements. FORMAT REQUIREMENT: only exhibition formats bringing together multiple artists, collectives or collaborative practices are accepted. Solo exhibitions, individual presentations and projects centred on a single artist's work are explicitly not supported. Proposals that activate the exhibition through public programming (screenings, performances, workshops, lectures and other events) are encouraged. Regular opening hours are Fridays and Saturdays 2pm to 6pm; any additional hours must be arranged and staffed by the selected group. The association acknowledges that its own history is marked by violence, exclusion and discrimination on the basis of religion, class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity, and states that it actively opposes all forms of discrimination including trans-exclusionary radical feminism. APPLICATION: a single PDF (max 5MB) with a programme description (max 2 pages, images welcome, English or German, including preferred dates and duration), a CV and biography for every participant (max 1 page each), a financial plan (Fair Pay encouraged), technical requirements, and contact details including email, mobile number and main residence; three high-resolution images of work or exhibition sketches sent within the email or via a download link, labelled with artist name, work title, year and proposal title (video links may be included in the proposal). Send to opencall@vbkoe.org with the subject line 'Open Call + your proposal title'. Incomplete applications will not be considered. A shortlist is compiled by the VBKÖ team and final selections are made by the VBKÖ board with an external jury member experienced in contemporary art, activism and community building; shortlisted applicants may be asked to present to the jury. Results are announced at the beginning of October 2026. Deadline 10 September 2026, 23:59. Free to apply.
PhotoVogue's global open call invites photographers and video makers to use image-making as a form of rebellion - to challenge indifference, disrupt conventions and expand visual storytelling. It asks not for a theme but for a position in relation to the world. Open to photography, video and multimedia projects across all genres (fashion, documentary, portraiture, fine art, experimental). Three artists share $12,000 in grants ($6,000 Outstanding Vision, $4,000 Vision, $2,000 Rising Voice for an emerging artist), with festival presentation, potential Vogue publication and portfolio reviews. ELIGIBILITY: open to all artists worldwide aged 18+; submissions are free; previous PhotoVogue applicants may submit a new project. SUBMIT: a series of up to 15 images, or images plus video for multimedia, and/or a 60-second trailer, via Picter. IMPORTANT: AI-generated works are NOT eligible. Open 14 May to 11 September 2026 (11:59 PM CET).
Stichting Stokroos funds a three-month reflective residency at Fundaziun Nairs in Scuol, Switzerland, for one selected visual artist, designer or craft practitioner (overlap possible). Both emerging and established makers may apply. Stokroos covers full accommodation and meals directly with Fundaziun Nairs and provides a discretionary EUR 7,000 budget for living, travel and production. The application should include a proposal that engages specifically with the residency, its Alpine surroundings and/or its historical and cultural context. Eligibility: you completed your first subject-specific (vocational or higher) programme in 2022 or earlier, or have an equivalent established practice, or started without formal training (first presentation marks the start of your practice); at least 21 years old; living and working in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (including its Caribbean parts) or Suriname for at least one year; not currently enrolled in a study or post-academic programme. Applications are individual only; duos and collectives cannot apply. Makers already selected by Fundaziun Nairs may still apply if they meet the criteria. You may submit only one application per year across all Stokroos grants, and must not have received a Seed Grant rejection in the previous calendar year. Apply via the online form (Dutch or English) with a portfolio PDF up to 20 pages, optional video up to 10 minutes total, CV up to 2 pages, and work/plan descriptions up to 2,500 characters each. Selection includes an introductory interview with up to three candidates; Stokroos aims to respond within 8 weeks. No appeal is possible. Application window: 1 to 11 September 2026. More information at nairs.ch.
The Learning Through Making fund supports UK-based visual art organisations to bring opportunities for making and material exploration into their art education work. Freelands Foundation is looking for exploratory projects that embrace openness, collaboration, and iteration -- enabling organisations to work with materials in an expansive way, unpicking preconceptions about making and material literacy without predefined outcomes. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES: providing materials, transport, or access to expertise and facilities; action-research trials such as a new series of workshops or events developing material literacy; adding a making-focused element to existing activity. Projects may range from a few days to several months, but must take place between 1 January and 31 December 2027. AMOUNT: up to £25,000; funding provided no earlier than December 2026. ELIGIBILITY: UK-based visual art organisations run with a charitable purpose and for public benefit; eligible types include charities registered in England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland; exempt charities; galleries, museums, or organisations within a Local Authority or larger charitable body (e.g. universities); and Community Interest Companies or Community Benefit Societies meeting specific criteria (charitable purposes, asset lock, no dividend distribution, ability to segregate restricted funds). Organisations with a prior Freelands Foundation grant relationship are eligible; you may not apply for activity already funded by Freelands Foundation. Individuals are not eligible. HOW TO APPLY: download the Application Form, Application Guidance, and optional Access Form from freelandsfoundation.co.uk; email completed form to grants@freelandsfoundation.co.uk with subject line 'LTM Fund - Application'; one additional page of images or diagrams may be included. APPLICATION SUPPORT SESSIONS (online): 9 July 2026, 10:30am-12pm; 12 August 2026, 10:30am-12pm. KEY DATES: applications open 17 June 2026; close 11 September 2026 at 12pm; outcomes shared 23 November 2026.
The Martin Roth-Initiative is the German temporary-relocation programme for artists and cultural actors at risk, run jointly by the Goethe-Institut and ifa with Federal Foreign Office funding. Programme Line 1 relocates an artist to Germany for up to 15 months on a scholarship, with insurance, language courses, psychosocial support, counselling and visa assistance, plus personnel funding for the hosting organisation. ELIGIBILITY: artists and cultural practitioners anywhere in the world who are demonstrably committed through their work to an open society, freedom, peace and democracy; who face threats, persecution or unsafe living conditions; who have no access to a safe place to continue working; and who speak English or German. Applicants must still be active in their home country or have left it after 20 February 2026. Citizens of EU and EEA countries, Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK and the USA are excluded, as are residents of Gaza and previous MRI recipients. HOST REQUIREMENT: applications are submitted jointly with a non-profit host organisation in Germany (museum, theatre, festival, cultural collective, NGO) that is a legal entity able to handle the administrative and digital-security requirements. Note that the scholarship visa does not itself permit employment or self-employment in Germany. TIMELINE: applications 6 July to 11 September 2026; decisions end of November 2026; funding starts no earlier than 15 January 2027. Apply to apply@mri-application.de (encrypted email recommended); phone +49 30 284491-77.
Artists, architects, designers, fabricators, and multidisciplinary creatives are invited to submit proposals for a series of site-specific installations at Yonge + St. Clair as part of DesignTO Festival 2027. For more than seven years the Yonge + St. Clair BIA has partnered with DesignTO to transform publicly accessible spaces throughout the neighbourhood into an exhibition of art, design, and placemaking. For the 2027 Festival, SEVEN installation opportunities are available across lobbies, galleries, and window spaces: 2 St. Clair Ave W (Lobby), 2 St. Clair Ave E (Lower Level Window), 30 St. Clair Ave W (Lobby), 40 St. Clair Ave W (Lobby), 55 St. Clair Ave W (Lobby), 95 St. Clair Ave W (Gallery), and 1521 Yonge St (Window). One installation will be commissioned per location. THEME: 'Intersections' - proposals may explore convergence, transformation, movement, identity, exchange, and the evolving relationship between people and place. Artists may submit proposals for multiple locations, but each proposal must be tailored to its site and submitted separately; only one proposal per artist or team may be selected. WHO SHOULD APPLY: emerging and established artists, designers, architects, fabricators, and multidisciplinary creative practitioners working in any medium; preference given to artists based in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. BUDGET: selected projects receive $5,000 to $7,500 CAD inclusive of artist fees, materials, fabrication, transportation, installation, and de-installation. Artists are responsible for the fabrication, transportation, installation, and de-installation of their work. KEY DATES: submission deadline 13 September 2026 at 5:00pm ET; selected artists notified late September 2026; final project information due October 2026; installation period 14 to 21 January 2027; DesignTO Festival exhibition 22 to 31 January 2027; de-installation 1 to 2 February 2027. HOW TO APPLY: submit a single PDF (artist information and biography, project description and executive summary, visual materials, detailed line-item budget, and current resume) via email or Dropbox link to info@yongestclair.ca with the subject line 'DesignTO Festival 2027 - Installation Name - Artist Name'. Free to apply.
Edward Albee founded this foundation in 1962 with the proceeds from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and it has run The Barn in Montauk for close to sixty years as a place for writers and visual artists to get uninterrupted time. The house sits on a secluded knoll and takes four residents at a time, usually two writers and two visual artists, each with an en-suite bedroom and a separate studio. The environment is deliberately simple and communal: residents share responsibility for the space and are expected to work seriously and keep it quiet for everyone else. ELIGIBILITY: any creative person over 18, any nationality, students included; selection uses talent and need as the only criteria. There are no fees at all, to apply or to stay. Domestic Fellows get a USD 2,500 stipend on completing the residency; international Fellows get expenses reimbursed up to USD 2,500. DATES: this cycle covers residencies from January to June 2027. Applications open at 08:00 on 17 August 2026 and close on 14 September 2026, through apply.albeefoundation.org. The next cycle (July-November 2027) opens 11 January 2027 and closes 15 February 2027. The Barn is closed every December. Contact apply@albeefoundation.org or (212) 226-2020.
The Paul Mellon Centre funds scholarship and dissemination in British art, visual culture and architectural history, from the medieval period to the present and across the relevant geographical and cultural contexts. This is the Autumn 2026 round, the first under the Centre's restructured funding scheme announced earlier in 2026, and all grants in the round close together on Monday 14 September 2026 at 23:59 BST. ELIGIBILITY: the Centre's funding is open to INTERNATIONAL applicants, not just UK-based ones (the exceptions are the MA/MPhil Studentship and Doctoral Scholarship, which are not part of this round). Every applicant must show how the award advances their research on British art, visual culture and/or architecture. SUPPORT: general application guidance, an updated FAQ and the Our Funding Focus page set out what the Centre looks for, and there are writeups of previously successful projects. The grants team will take specific questions or arrange a call at grants@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. No application fee. THIS GRANT: a new award of up to GBP 40,000 for organisations undertaking ambitious and sustained research, consolidating elements of three previous schemes (the Curatorial Research, Collaborative and Digital Project grants). It is designed PRIMARILY to cover STAFF COSTS towards facilitating a research project with public-facing outcomes and/or a legacy. The form the outcome takes is deliberately open: an exhibition, a digital project, a catalogue or another means of dissemination all qualify.
The Paul Mellon Centre funds scholarship and dissemination in British art, visual culture and architectural history, from the medieval period to the present and across the relevant geographical and cultural contexts. This is the Autumn 2026 round, the first under the Centre's restructured funding scheme announced earlier in 2026, and all grants in the round close together on Monday 14 September 2026 at 23:59 BST. ELIGIBILITY: the Centre's funding is open to INTERNATIONAL applicants, not just UK-based ones (the exceptions are the MA/MPhil Studentship and Doctoral Scholarship, which are not part of this round). Every applicant must show how the award advances their research on British art, visual culture and/or architecture. SUPPORT: general application guidance, an updated FAQ and the Our Funding Focus page set out what the Centre looks for, and there are writeups of previously successful projects. The grants team will take specific questions or arrange a call at grants@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. No application fee. THIS GRANT: up to GBP 6,000 for INDIVIDUALS disseminating research on British art through publication, covering monographs, edited collections, catalogues and articles. It funds the practical side of publishing, image copyright fees being the example the Centre gives. This is the one grant in the Autumn round aimed at individual authors rather than organisations.
The Paul Mellon Centre funds scholarship and dissemination in British art, visual culture and architectural history, from the medieval period to the present and across the relevant geographical and cultural contexts. This is the Autumn 2026 round, the first under the Centre's restructured funding scheme announced earlier in 2026, and all grants in the round close together on Monday 14 September 2026 at 23:59 BST. ELIGIBILITY: the Centre's funding is open to INTERNATIONAL applicants, not just UK-based ones (the exceptions are the MA/MPhil Studentship and Doctoral Scholarship, which are not part of this round). Every applicant must show how the award advances their research on British art, visual culture and/or architecture. SUPPORT: general application guidance, an updated FAQ and the Our Funding Focus page set out what the Centre looks for, and there are writeups of previously successful projects. The grants team will take specific questions or arrange a call at grants@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. No application fee. THIS GRANT: up to GBP 6,000 for organisations producing publications tied to their exhibitions and displays, covering practical publishing costs such as image and production costs.
The Paul Mellon Centre funds scholarship and dissemination in British art, visual culture and architectural history, from the medieval period to the present and across the relevant geographical and cultural contexts. This is the Autumn 2026 round, the first under the Centre's restructured funding scheme announced earlier in 2026, and all grants in the round close together on Monday 14 September 2026 at 23:59 BST. ELIGIBILITY: the Centre's funding is open to INTERNATIONAL applicants, not just UK-based ones (the exceptions are the MA/MPhil Studentship and Doctoral Scholarship, which are not part of this round). Every applicant must show how the award advances their research on British art, visual culture and/or architecture. SUPPORT: general application guidance, an updated FAQ and the Our Funding Focus page set out what the Centre looks for, and there are writeups of previously successful projects. The grants team will take specific questions or arrange a call at grants@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. No application fee. THIS GRANT: up to GBP 5,000 for organisations making their collections freely available online through digitisation. It covers both the personnel working on the project and the equipment the digitisation process needs, which makes it unusually practical for small collections without in-house capacity.
The Paul Mellon Centre funds scholarship and dissemination in British art, visual culture and architectural history, from the medieval period to the present and across the relevant geographical and cultural contexts. This is the Autumn 2026 round, the first under the Centre's restructured funding scheme announced earlier in 2026, and all grants in the round close together on Monday 14 September 2026 at 23:59 BST. ELIGIBILITY: the Centre's funding is open to INTERNATIONAL applicants, not just UK-based ones (the exceptions are the MA/MPhil Studentship and Doctoral Scholarship, which are not part of this round). Every applicant must show how the award advances their research on British art, visual culture and/or architecture. SUPPORT: general application guidance, an updated FAQ and the Our Funding Focus page set out what the Centre looks for, and there are writeups of previously successful projects. The grants team will take specific questions or arrange a call at grants@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. No application fee. THIS GRANT: up to GBP 3,000 for organisations disseminating research on British art through live, online and hybrid events aimed at a range of audiences. Eligible costs include venue hire, accommodation for speakers and staffing.
The Paul Mellon Centre funds scholarship and dissemination in British art, visual culture and architectural history, from the medieval period to the present and across the relevant geographical and cultural contexts. This is the Autumn 2026 round, the first under the Centre's restructured funding scheme announced earlier in 2026, and all grants in the round close together on Monday 14 September 2026 at 23:59 BST. ELIGIBILITY: the Centre's funding is open to INTERNATIONAL applicants, not just UK-based ones (the exceptions are the MA/MPhil Studentship and Doctoral Scholarship, which are not part of this round). Every applicant must show how the award advances their research on British art, visual culture and/or architecture. SUPPORT: general application guidance, an updated FAQ and the Our Funding Focus page set out what the Centre looks for, and there are writeups of previously successful projects. The grants team will take specific questions or arrange a call at grants@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. No application fee. THIS GRANT: up to GBP 25,000 to help protect and preserve significant works of British art, funding organisations to carry out original and needed conservation research. It covers the staff working on the project as well as equipment costs.
Orizzonti L.I.V.E. is Fondazione CRT's flagship thematic call for organisations that programme live performance as a driver of territorial transformation. The acronym stands for Luoghi, Impatto, Visioni, Energia, and stated priorities are strengthening organisations rooted in their territory, audience development reaching new publics, social inclusion and access for economically or socially fragile audiences, professional engagement of young musicians, actors and dancers, audience engagement aimed at under-25s, stable networks and strategic partnerships, and environmental sustainability aligned with Agenda 2030. This is festival and season funding at meaningful scale: the maximum request is EUR 100,000 and the overall project budget must itself be at least EUR 100,000, with co-financing covering at least 70 percent of eligible costs, so the applicant must bring roughly EUR 70,000 from other sources. The 2026 call runs in two sessions: the first closed 27 February 2026, and the second closes 15 September 2026 at 15:00 Italian time. Applications go through rol.fondazionecrt.it. SCOPE CAVEAT: this is broad live-performance funding rather than a media-arts line, so it fits experimental performance, sound art and hybrid live work but also covers conventional music and theatre. Non-EU and UK organisations can realistically only participate as project partners, not as lead applicants.
Kulturdirektoratet's main scheme for multi-artistic and cross-disciplinary events, organisers and venues, and the natural Norwegian route for a festival or biennial that does not sit inside a single artform committee. It funds single events, event series, festivals and seminars with cross-disciplinary relevance, plus year-round operation of organisations with a multi-artistic profile, which covers media arts, digital culture and experimental sound programming presented alongside other forms. Art production itself, closed workshops, infrastructure investment and activity already completed before the deadline are not funded. Two application rounds run in 2026: 8 April 2026 (project grants, closed) and 15 September 2026 at 13:00 (project grants plus activity grants for the 2027 operating year). Project grants accept individuals, private and public institutions, and organisations, while activity grants require an organisation number or a named, separately budgeted activity within a larger entity, existing for at least one year and not already receiving permanent annual state funding. The scheme never fully finances a project, so a credible co-financing plan is expected. FLAG: decision dates and foreign-applicant eligibility are not published on the scheme page; award notifications arrive via the application portal.
This scheme gives operating and programme support to visual art organisers in Norway, covering exhibition and event programming, content production, salaries, artist fees, venue costs including rent, utilities and internet, and administrative expenses. Because it funds the organiser rather than a single artwork, it is the relevant route for an artist-run space, biennial organisation or media-arts venue running a recurring public programme. Applicants must demonstrate artistic and cultural expertise, innovation and distinctiveness. Eligibility is limited to bodies with their own registration number, or a separately named and budgeted activity within a larger organisation, existing for at least one year prior to application, and organisations already receiving permanent annual state funding are excluded. The 2026 application deadline is 15 September 2026 at 13:00. Kulturdirektoratet explicitly warns that applicants often receive less than requested or are rejected despite quality proposals, so co-financing is necessary. FLAG: amounts, decision lag and foreign-applicant eligibility are not published on the funder's page; results arrive through the application portal with an acceptance deadline in the decision letter.
MoTA (Museum of Transitory Art) in Ljubljana runs an annual open call for production residencies for media, sound and visual artists, curators and researchers. Production residencies offer full support including accommodation, technical support, production costs and an artist fee; the exact artist-fee amount is not published on the official or aggregator pages, so applicants should confirm the figure directly by email. Residencies run up to one month. Open internationally: artists of all nationalities and at all professional levels are encouraged to apply, as individuals or collectives. No application fee. The annual deadline is 15 September (for residencies the following year). Apply by email to mota.artists@gmail.com with the subject line Application for production residency. Note: the official motamuseum.com SSL certificate is currently expired, which may briefly affect link reliability.
Artadia's open call for Boston, providing unrestricted $15,000 awards to three contemporary visual artists. Finalists not chosen as Awardees receive an honorarium. Two-round jury (curator review + 45-minute virtual studio visits). ELIGIBILITY: living and working in Boston's eligible counties for at least 2 consecutive years prior to deadline; contemporary visual-arts practice; not currently enrolled in an art-related degree programme; no prior Artadia award of $10,000 or more. Open call 15 August - 15 September 2026. Apply via Submittable only.
Monson Arts hosts residencies for artists and writers in Monson, Maine, providing housing, all meals, private studios, and a USD 500 stipend (USD 250 for two-week stays). The application window for Winter 2027 runs 1 August to 15 September 2026.
THE ONE International Digital Art Biennial, organized by Pinata Group in Torun and Wloclawek, Poland, accepts digital art internationally with free entry; prizes are PLN 3,000, 2,000, and 1,000, plus exhibition and an ISBN catalog. IMPORTANT CAVEAT: submitted works may not be AI-generated. NOTE: the 15 September 2026 deadline is from a listing site and is not stated on the organizer page; verify before submitting.
Heritage Innovation funds projects and research tracks that contribute to substantive innovation in the heritage sector. Examples given by the fund include developing new narratives about cultural heritage, strengthening regional collaboration across the sector, redesigning how a collection is presented, and feasibility studies on technological applications such as AI or gamification, which makes this one of the more tech-adjacent Mondriaan schemes. WHO CAN APPLY: museums and collection-holding cultural heritage institutions, including archives, in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Cultural organisations in the heritage sector may also apply if they collaborate with one or more collection-holding institutions. All applicants must be non-profit, not-for-profit entities. NOT FUNDED: fixed costs, restoration, building museums, or regular operations. CONDITIONS: institutions must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code, and must pay visual artists fairly where artists are involved. AMOUNTS: projects get up to 40% of variable project-related costs on a minimum project budget of EUR 25,000; research tracks get up to 70% of costs capped at EUR 15,000 with no minimum budget. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online system after registering an account. Deadline 17 September 2026 before 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time.
Innovate Grant awards two unrestricted USD 1,800 grants every quarter, one to a visual artist and one to a photographer, along with up to 18 honorable mentions who are featured and promoted on the organization's website. The award is unrestricted, so recipients can apply the funds toward new projects, materials, studio rent, travel, or other needs. Grant cycles run four times a year (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall). Visual artists and photographers aged 18 and older from anywhere in the world, both US and international, are eligible to apply. Applications require contact details, a grant category, and 3 to 10 images of work, plus a USD 35 application fee. The Spring 2026 cycle closed on June 18, 2026, and the Summer 2026 cycle follows on the regular quarterly schedule.
$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.
The Xposure International Photography Awards are free to enter and include a dedicated Drone Photography category alongside many others. Category winners receive cash, equipment, and a trip to the Sharjah festival for the ceremony and exhibition. Official deadline 5 September 2026, extended deadline 20 September 2026.
Subsidy supporting in-depth activities or innovative impulses within the artistic practice of Rotterdam-based visual artists, with a clearly defined artistic question or objective. Applicants must be registered with Art Office (artoffice.info) with an up-to-date artist page. The 2026 Round 2 deadline is 21 September 2026, 11:00 (form opens 10 August 2026); results by 16 November 2026. Round 1 (deadline 2 March 2026) has already closed. Decisions made by the director of CBK Rotterdam on advice from an expert committee.
Fonds Podiumkunsten's route for Dutch festivals and venues bringing in exceptional foreign performing arts and concerts that Dutch audiences would otherwise not see. The applicant must be a Netherlands-registered legal entity running a venue or festival and carrying artistic and financial responsibility for its own programme, so individuals and sole traders cannot apply. Grants are calculated from travel and transport costs of the incoming artists, at a maximum of EUR 25,000 per production and EUR 75,000 per applicant across several productions. The core test is that the foreign work is rarely or never seen in the Netherlands and substantially enriches the existing Dutch offer, which favours experimental, non-canonical and cross-disciplinary programming over mainstream touring. Experimental music and sound-art programming is not excluded; the selection criterion is rarity and added value, not genre. Applications go through the Mijn Fonds portal and there is no fee. Four rounds run each year. TIMING: because the scheme competes against a shared EUR 267,500 per-round pot and assessment takes several weeks after the deadline, organisers should apply at least one full round ahead of the performance date and must not have the activity already underway. Success rate in 2025 was 60 percent of 33 applications.
The Danish Arts Foundation's Production and Exhibitions programme funds the production, dissemination and exhibition of contemporary art in Denmark and abroad, and it is one of the few Nordic national schemes a foreign organisation can apply to directly. Eligible costs include creating new works where an exhibition agreement is in place, exhibition costs, exhibition programming featuring Danish or international artists, promotion tied to an exhibition, and honorariums covering artists' work and installation time, which lets a festival or biennial cover commission and artist-fee lines. THE KEY CONDITION for non-Danish applicants is that the exhibition must feature Danish artists; Danish artists and venues face no such restriction. No minimum or maximum grant is published since the committee decides case by case, and previous award levels are visible on the site. Two 2026 deadlines apply: 26 March 2026 (closed) and 24 September 2026 at 14:00, with the application form opening one month before each deadline. TIMING: applicants receive a response no later than twelve weeks after the deadline, so expect a decision by mid-December 2026. Applications must go through the Danish digital subsidy portal; submissions outside it are rejected except in very special circumstances. FLAG: earliest-start-date rules are not specified on the funder's page.
The National Lottery Rural Engagement Arts Programme funds organisations to deliver arts activity in rural Northern Ireland, addressing isolation and social inclusion. It supports either a single one-off project or a multi-event public programme, making it usable for exhibitions, workshops, touring events and community-facing digital or media arts work. Grants range from GBP 500 to 10,000, covering artist fees, transport, materials, venue hire, accessibility support, volunteer expenses, evaluation, and equipment up to 50 percent of the request value. The deadline is Thursday 24 September 2026 at 12:00 noon, and the online system closes precisely at noon with no late or incomplete submissions accepted. TIMING RULE: funded activity must fall between 1 December 2026 and 30 November 2027, setting an effective earliest start date of roughly ten weeks after the deadline. Registered charities, formally constituted non-profit groups, local authorities and arts organisations are eligible, including bodies based outside Northern Ireland where the benefit accrues to rural NI residents. Consortium applications demonstrating partnership working are explicitly prioritised. The rural and community framing means creative-technology work qualifies only where framed for that audience.
PAUSE is the French national programme for the emergency hosting of scientists and artists in exile, created in 2017 and run from the College de France. It co-funds a stay at a French higher education or research establishment or at a cultural institution so that a researcher, doctoral candidate or artist at risk can keep working, and it also supports their family. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be able to prove status as a doctoral student (with a thesis in progress interrupted by the emergency), researcher, teacher-researcher or artist-teacher in their country of origin; must be in a crisis situation because of the security situation in that country or because of persecution or fear of persecution on grounds of ethnicity, religion, political convictions, opinions or sexual orientation, or the content of their research or teaching; and must be forced into exile or have been in France for less than three years. HOST REQUIREMENT: a French host institution is mandatory and submits the application; eligible hosts are institutions under the French higher education and research ministry, EESPIG private institutions, and structures supported by the Ministry of Culture. PAUSE publishes a list of at-risk candidates looking for a host, which institutions can use to find a match. The call opens at the end of August 2026 with a deadline of 24 September 2026.
Utrecht's main project fund for cultural activity with a public presentation in the city, covering all art forms including experimental and cross-disciplinary work. Individuals, foundations, associations and companies are all eligible. Two bands apply: Category A of EUR 1,000 to 5,000 assessed on artistic importance and entrepreneurship, and Category B of EUR 5,000 to 20,000 which adds meaning for the city as a third criterion. The activity must be exceptional or innovative, or otherwise of value to the city, its residents or the Utrecht cultural sector; professional projects and amateur, education or participation projects both qualify. Three rounds run each year and the next closes 25 September 2026 at 17:00 CET. TIMING RULE, which catches applicants out: for professional arts applications the presentation may not take place earlier than 13 weeks after the round's closing date, and for participatory applications the project may not start earlier than 13 weeks after that date, so a 25 September 2026 application supports activity from late December 2026 onward. Decisions are issued no later than 13 weeks after the closing date, following review by an independent Adviescommissie Projectsubsidies. Documentation is capped at 15 pages, or 5 pages if a video is included. Applications go through mijnsubsidie.utrecht.nl with DigiD or eHerkenning. Utrecht also runs a rolling Impulssubsidie Cultuur of up to EUR 2,500 for first-time applicants only, open through 31 December 2026.
The Foundwork Artist Prize is an annual juried award supporting outstanding artistic practices. The 2026 honoree receives an unrestricted USD 10,000 grant, studio visits with each of the five jurors, and an interview for Foundwork's Dialogues program. In addition, three artists are named to the 2026 Short List, each receiving a USD 1,000 micro-grant in support of their practice. Submissions are made online through Foundwork. Application deadline 25 September 2026.
BNG Cultuurfonds funds arts and culture projects that add value for Dutch municipalities and their inhabitants, explicitly including temporary exhibitions, public programmes and festivals developed by professional makers. Media art, digital culture and cross-disciplinary work qualify as long as a professional maker's artistic vision leads the project. Only stichtingen (foundations) may apply: no sole traders, associations, individuals, or foundations in formation. Applications go by email to aanvraag.cultuurfonds@bngbank.nl with a signed form, a project plan of at most 3,500 words, a specified budget and coverage plan, current statutes and a recent KvK extract. The grant is EUR 5,000 to 15,000 and can cover no more than 35 percent of the budget. TIMING IS THE MAIN TRAP: for the 27 September 2026 deadline, feedback comes at the end of December 2026 and the project may not start before 1 January 2027, with applications for earlier-starting projects rejected outright with no exceptions. Missing documents are flagged up to one week before the deadline, so anything submitted in the final week cannot be corrected. Plan for roughly four months of lead time. Excluded: amateur art, talent development, education-focused projects, semi-permanent public art, publications, building or renovation, and regular operating costs. Further rounds: 3 January 2027, 28 March 2027, 27 June 2027, 3 October 2027 and 2 January 2028.
A fully funded art-science residency from Ars Electronica and Ceske Budejovice, European Capital of Culture 2028, exploring how art and science can collaborate on urgent environmental challenges: climate emergence, sustainable agriculture, geoengineering, permaculture, water resource management, and the broader ecological impacts on local communities. Selected residents work in direct collaboration with local scientists in Ceske Budejovice. WHO CAN APPLY: artists, designers, creatives and artist collectives with more than 5 years of professional creative practice and documented interdisciplinary work; experience in community engagement and science collaborations is essential; applicants must be 18+, of any nationality, and legally eligible to work and travel in the EU. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 24,000 package (EUR 6,000 artist fee, up to EUR 15,000 production, up to EUR 3,000 travel and subsistence) plus one month of housing covered separately; two winners are selected. STRUCTURE: the residency runs January 2027 to April 2028, with a required on-site stay of up to one month in February/March 2027, an optional stay in August/September 2027, and a March 2028 stay for festival installation, exhibition and deinstallation. HOW TO APPLY: online form with project title, a written proposal of max 250 words, a scientific direction statement (max 100 words), artistic vision (max 100 words), community connection plan (max 100 words), a super short pitch (3 to 30 words), 3 to 7 images, an optional 1-minute video, a portfolio link and contact information. Two-round selection (online application then interview); winners notified by November 2026. Deadline 28 September 2026 at midnight CET.
The most directly relevant Terra line for organisations running convenings rather than exhibitions: conversations, symposia and workshops that stimulate interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange. Covered costs are unusually broad and practical, including professional fees, artist honoraria, travel, AV support, interpretation and translation, catering, research dissemination, marketing, and administrative costs up to 20 percent. Awards run USD 10,000 to 25,000 and are made twice yearly. The process is two-stage: Round 1 has a grant inquiry due 28 September 2026 followed, if invited, by a full proposal due 30 November 2026, for programmes taking place after 1 May 2027. Round 2 has an inquiry due 16 February 2027 and proposal due 20 April 2027 for programmes after 1 November 2027. Invited proposals go to an external panel of curators and arts professionals. International applicants are explicitly eligible and need US 501(c)(3) status or a recognised non-profit equivalent in their own country. The binding constraint is topical rather than geographic: a European or Asian organisation can win this, but the convening must engage American or Indigenous North American visual art, which is a workable frame for art-and-technology or sound-art programming with a US axis.
The QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists selects two emerging visual artists living in New York City for its 2027-2028 cohort. Each fellow receives a $20,000 award, professional development consultations, mentorship from Queens Museum staff and an established New York-based artist, and a solo exhibition at the Queens Museum in 2028, with curatorial support across a full year of project development. Aimed at early-career visual artists (roughly two to ten years of professional practice) who have a consistent practice and developing public profile but have not yet reached major institutional recognition. ELIGIBILITY: must currently reside in one of NYC's five boroughs and maintain residency through the fellowship; artists enrolled in degree-granting programs are not eligible; review the detailed criteria on exhibition history, previous grants and years of practice. Supported by the Jerome Foundation. Apply via the Queens Museum fellowship program page. Deadline: 28 September 2026, 11:59 PM EST.
SOCIAL DIVE is Tokyo Biennale's open call, now in its third edition and, for 2027, open to both international and domestic applicants (the 2019 round drew roughly 1,500 overseas applications and the 2025 international-only round roughly 1,400). Artists and curators propose projects to be presented as part of Tokyo Biennale 2027, whose theme is 'From Me to Us'. THEME: general producer Masato Nakamura frames the biennale against an age of conflict and division, arguing that to avoid repeating memories of war, violence and exclusion we must reexamine the wisdom and cultural resources passed down across generations. Tokyo carries the memories of neighbourhoods dating back to the Edo period, twice suffered great loss through the Great Kanto Earthquake and the Second World War, and each time was rebuilt through the strength of its citizens; it is also an international city where different languages, memories, beliefs, wounds and hopes intersect. Quoting Kenzaburo Oe, 'I cannot live my life over again. But we can live our lives over again', the call proposes that when a single 'me' encounters others and reconnects relationships, a new consciousness of 'us' emerges. Art projects are treated as a form of cultural prescription, reconnecting people with people, people with places and people with memories. ELIGIBILITY: open to artists, curators, researchers, collectives and practitioners in related fields active in Japan and abroad; applicants must be 18 or older at the time of application; there are no restrictions on nationality, place of residence or base of operations; participants must be able to work in Tokyo during the designated period. ACCEPTED FORMATS: artwork creation, exhibitions, performances, video works, tours, workshops, participatory projects, research projects and curatorial projects. Applications cover both artwork production by artists and art project proposals by curators. APPLY via the Google Form linked from socialdive.jp/en (a Google account is required) during the application period 17 July to 30 September 2026, 23:59 JST. Read the official call documentation for full eligibility requirements and guidelines.
The Generator Fund is BICA's regranting programme for visual artists in Buffalo and the surrounding two counties, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation's Regional Regranting Program. It makes direct project grants to artists rather than to institutions, and welcomes professional, emerging and experimental practitioners alike. CHOOSING A TRACK: Kinetic Grants (up to USD 5,000) suit a project with a clear beginning and end, built around a specific event, release or presentation, usually made alone or with a small team. Potential Grants (up to USD 10,000) suit an ongoing space, system or collaborative structure that involves many people and is meant to evolve over time; these applications also need a sustainability plan. ELIGIBILITY: you must live and work in Erie or Niagara County, New York. You can apply as an individual artist, an informal group or an unincorporated collective. NOT ELIGIBLE: 501(c)(3) organisations; anyone receiving a solo exhibition honorarium from BICA in the same fiscal year; BICA employees; and anyone who received a Potential Grant in the previous round (they can still apply for a Kinetic Grant). The fund supports visual arts based projects, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, social practice, performance art, video and zines; projects rooted primarily in music, theatre, dance or literary arts without a strong visual component are not eligible. APPLICATION runs through Submittable and asks for a project title, a 150-character tagline, artistic context (up to 250 words), a full project description (up to 500 words, the most heavily weighted part, expected to cover where the project happens or how the public accesses it, a timeline with key milestones, the audience and how you will reach them, and the people involved), a budget on BICA's project budget sheet covering expenses, in-kind support and income, work samples (images, video or PDFs of past work and a sense of what is to come) and a CV. SUPPORT before the deadline includes a virtual info session on 12 August 2026 at 5:30 pm, an in-person info session at BICA on 5 September 2026 at 3:30 pm (followed by a budget and CV workshop led by Nando Alvarez-Perez), one-on-one office hours with the Generator Fund coordinator on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through August and September, and group work sessions at BICA School Lab (30B Essex St) on 19 and 26 September 2026, 12 to 5 pm. Applications submitted a week or more early may receive feedback and be reopened for edits.
Annual prize from Gallery 1957 in Accra for women artists connected to Ghana and to Senegal, which joins the prize for the first time in 2026. Two winners are selected, one from each country, and each receives USD 5,000 in cash, a three-month residency exchange in the partner country with flights, artwork transport, accommodation and materials covered, and a resulting exhibition with the gallery. ELIGIBILITY IS GEOGRAPHICALLY RESTRICTED: applicants must be female citizens of Ghana or Senegal, aged 18 or over, living in Ghana, Senegal or the diaspora, and must present a valid national ID or passport. Not open to international applicants without that citizenship. Apply by email to applications@gallery1957.com with an artist bio or statement of no more than 200 words and a portfolio of up to six high-resolution images or videos with captions, both as PDFs. Questions go to awo@gallery1957.com. Deadline 30 September 2026.
The mid-size project strand of Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven, the arm's-length body that distributes the city's culture budget, and the main municipal route for an Eindhoven organisation to fund a festival, exhibition or public programme. Awards go up to EUR 35,000 and cover a maximum of 80 percent of eligible costs, so at least a fifth of the budget must come from elsewhere. Unlike the Snelgeld strand this route is closed to individuals: only private-law legal entities established in Eindhoven may apply. Rounds run three times a year in fixed windows; the next opens 1 September and closes at 17:00 on 30 September 2026, which is round 1 of the 2027 cycle. TIMING: the decision lag is long by municipal standards at up to 13 weeks after the submission window closes, so a September 2026 application is decided around the end of December 2026 and activity should be planned for 2027. Given Eindhoven's design and technology profile, media-art, design and creative-technology programming fits the remit particularly well. The parallel Snelgeld strand offers up to EUR 5,000 on rolling intake, reopening 1 September 2026 and running until 31 December 2026 or until the tranche budget is exhausted, whichever comes first.
The Hayama Artist Residency introduces visual artists from around the world to Japanese culture and offers them their first gallery exhibition in Japan. The four-week residency takes place in Hayama, a coastal town in Kanagawa Prefecture about 1.5 hours from Tokyo. Selected artists receive roundtrip airfare to Tokyo, shared accommodation with one other resident, and USD 800 for meals and local transportation. A core element is a group exhibition during the stay, hosted in partnership with KOKI ARTS, a contemporary gallery in the Bakurocho art district of Tokyo. The program is open to visual artists over 21 working in any medium, based anywhere in the world, and applications are reviewed by the director and an international selection committee. The June 2027 cycle has an application deadline of September 30, 2026, with notification by December 15, 2026.
The eidolon Grant is an international programme, presented annually, for projects that explore, promote and conserve vernacular photography. It is open to artists, academics, professionals, researchers, collectors and vernacular photography enthusiasts whose past work and proposed project is centred around the image heritage of everyday photography. The grant aims to identify phenomena, collections, histories, practices and trends within vernacular photography, offering new interpretations and analyses, and thematising both photographic heritages and contemporary photographic practices. Applications can be made under two categories, with a total of EUR 25,000 to be distributed. Each chosen project will contribute to the enrichment of eidolon's program in the coming year. The deadline for submission is 30 September 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Apply via https://everydayphotography.org/centre/grant-2026.
Created in 2025, the Phenomenon Grant is a yearly program that supports art projects in Greece with grants of EUR 5,000 to EUR 10,000 for individuals, collectives, and non-profit organizations engaged with queer, feminist, anti-colonial, and other emancipatory art practices. The grant aims to support critical phases of artistic development, enabling experimentation, research, collaboration, and the realization of new and ongoing projects. In a context marked by rising authoritarianism, genocidal forces and the dismantling of social justice advancements, the program seeks to support voices that critically and ethically engage with these issues, create spaces of resistance, reimagine futures beyond exclusion, persecution, and domination, and open pathways toward collective liberation. Particular attention is paid to collaborative endeavours rooted in Greece that are built on connections with the Global Majority, promoting networks of translocal solidarity and interconnected struggles. Organized and supported by Kerenidis Pepe, which has pledged a total budget of EUR 60,000 over 2025-2027, the amount awarded is based on the application's actual funding needs. In 2025 the program received 193 applications and awarded three grants of EUR 8,500 each to Athens Museum of Queer Arts (AMOQA), Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIA) and Theo Panagopoulos. The 2026 selection committee is composed of Athena Athanasiou, Dora Garcia, Christina Li, VASKOS, and chaired by Aggelika Mitsiou. The submission period runs from 1 September to 30 September 2026, with selected projects announced in November 2026.
Waag Futurelab invites artists, theatre makers, choreographers, dancers, game designers and other creative practitioners to engage directly with seven experimental generative AI Enablers being co-created with technologists and dance, theatre and gaming professionals. The call is an invitation into the development process: selected artists get access to the technologies, datasets, interfaces and assumptions that shape these systems while they are still being built. Rather than testing whether the systems work, artists are asked to interrogate why they work the way they do, who they are designed for, what forms of creativity they enable or constrain, and what assumptions about culture, intelligence, authorship, labour, bodies, audiences and society are embedded in them. Waag is looking for individuals and collectives willing to move beyond adoption into investigation, and welcomes proposals that are speculative, critical, poetic, provocative, humorous, performative, constructive or disruptive, including work that challenges, misuses, reimagines, hacks, subverts or plays with the tools, exposes hidden biases, questions environmental costs, or imagines alternative technological futures. THE SEVEN AI ENABLERS, each requiring an on-site visit to its technology partner: the Generic Procedural Content Generation Enabler (text-to-3D assets and avatars, CERTH, Greece); the Data-Driven Cultural Content Adaptation Enabler (audience-aware creative content ideation with ranked candidate ideas, CERTH, Greece); the Cross-Domain Audience Engagement Analytics Enabler (turning heterogeneous cultural participation data into interpretable engagement signals, The Audience Agency, Warrington, UK); the Dance Style Analysis and Generation Enabler (dance video into virtual 3D choreography, dissected into body, effort, shape and space components, Centre of Excellence for Research & Innovation, Cyprus); the Immersive Design Integration Enabler for Dance & Theatre (NLP-driven XR environments with speech-to-3D scene editing, Cyprus); the Music-to-Movement Translation Enabler (audio into a time-aligned feature set spanning genre classification, emotional valence-arousal analysis, rhythm extraction and latent-space projection, feeding motion generation, spatial audio and visual choreography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); and the Adaptive Narrative Enabler for Games & Theatre (an evolutionary AI trained on creator-written story elements that generates infinite story variations, explicitly rejecting LLMs because of their dependence on copyrighted or public-domain corpora that encode 19th and early 20th century sexism, racism and imperialism, CAUSA Creation, Austria). ELIGIBILITY: artists, designers, creative technologists, theatre makers, dancers, choreographers and game designers, as individuals or collectives; applicants must hold a European VAT number. An info session with live demonstrations of the AI Enablers runs 31 July 2026, 10:00 to 11:30 CEST (meeting ID 995 7016 2341). Applications go through Homerun using the official Application Template, uploaded as a PDF; read the Guide for Applicants, which contains the full Enabler descriptions, before applying. Questions: zoenie at waag dot org. The AI Enablers and this call are part of the Horizon Europe project HAMLET, which aims to make generative AI accessible to cultural organisations of all sizes. Closes 30 September 2026, 23:59 CEST. Free to apply.
The Circulation strand of Connect and Create funds the touring and dissemination of African artistic creations across Africa and Europe. It is part of the Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture programme (EUR 8M, led by the Goethe-Institut and Expertise France in partnership with Institut francais, supported by the European Union), and is a different strand from the Professional Mobilities call also on the desk. THIS CARD IS THE SECOND CALL, deadline 30 September 2026 (the first call closed 30 November 2025). AMOUNT: EUR 15,000 to EUR 39,500 per project. WHAT IS FUNDED: mobility costs for artistic teams, including transport, visas, insurance, lodging, per diems, local transport, and shipping of scenographic and technical elements. WHO CAN APPLY: artistic teams (performing arts companies, music ensembles, collectives) based in sub-Saharan Africa; dissemination structures (production houses, artist managers, theatres, labels, venues) based in Africa or Europe; and event organisers (festivals, markets, professional gatherings) in Africa or Europe. Applicants must be legally established in one of the 47 eligible sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya among them, or one of the 27 EU Member States. INDIVIDUALS CANNOT APPLY. ELIGIBLE PROJECTS, two formats: (1) TOURS, requiring a minimum of 5 pre-booked dates across at least 3 different African countries, or at least 3 pre-booked dates in one or more European countries; (2) PROGRAMMING WITHIN MAJOR EVENTS, requiring a festival, market or professional gathering in Africa or Europe to host at least 3 artistic teams from different African countries. TIMELINE: activities must take place between February and December 2027; selection committee December 2026, results announced January 2027. PRIORITY is given to projects that build on existing tandems already collaborating, feature emerging artists, use eco-responsible practices, and address inclusion. APPLY via the Institut francais emundus portal. Questions: connectandcreate@expertisefrance.fr.
The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency gives emerging, underrepresented and established artists an immersive, communal atmosphere for art-making and dialogue on a 77-acre farm in Granville, New York, the classic farmhouse where the late Elizabeth Murray spent more than two decades of summers and kept her studio in the large, cathedral-like dairy barn. Murray, who died in 2007, won a Skowhegan Medal in Painting in 1986, a MacArthur grant in 1999 and a MoMA career retrospective in 2005; her husband Bob Holman is a poet and arts activist who founded the Bowery Poetry Club. In 2017 the Murray-Holman family partnered with Collar Works, a nonprofit contemporary arts organisation in Troy, New York, to build a summer residency carrying the legacy forward. EMAR is explicitly designed around the critical needs of emerging and underrepresented artists and of artists with children, with an active commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion, and describes itself as a safe space for creative risk-taking, personal growth and respite. Work is primarily in visual and literary arts, though the programme supports new contemporary work across many art forms. TWO TRACKS: the INDIVIDUAL RESIDENCY takes up to five artists per session (including onsite artist-staff) for two weeks, with 24-hour access to semi-private studios in the barn, a private bedroom in the farmhouse, shared bathrooms, communal living room, kitchen and a library holding Elizabeth Murray's personal art book collection. The FAMILY RESIDENCY invites three to four artists and their families for one week, with a private bedroom (families may need to room together), a semi-private studio in the same barn, and full-day childcare running as a parallel creative residency for children aged 5 to 12, focused on art and nature programming: while parent artists get uninterrupted studio time, children work in their own EMAR Kids Art Studio, explore outside through guided activities, play, swim, read and take guided field trips to local farms and museums. Partners are welcome to join and help with childcare, but the programme is committed to fully supporting artists who want or need to attend solo with their children, and Collar Works works case by case with each artist to put the necessary support and equipment in place before arrival given the rural setting. APPLICATION requires artist information, a statement of intent (250 to 500 words), an artist biography (250 words), ten examples of recent work (visual arts as JPEGs up to 2MB each, with a PDF of links or a curated URL page for video and media works including any passwords; literary arts as up to three poems totalling max six pages, or max ten pages of prose) and a list of works with title, medium, date and size. Applications go through Submittable and close 1 October 2026 (the Submittable listing shows a 2 October 2026 06:00 close in its own timezone). Questions and technical assistance: info@collarworks.org.
The digital-space strand of the Fonds Darstellende Kuenste GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS programme, funding format-open and results-open artistic projects and artist-participatory approaches in digital and hybrid performing arts. Eligible artistic fields explicitly include digital performing arts alongside performance, theatre, dance, musical theatre, puppet theatre and contemporary circus, which makes it usable for hybrid or online public programmes. The applicant must be a coalition of at least three legally constituted organisations spanning arts and culture, education and civil society, all German-based, so this is genuinely institution-facing rather than artist-facing; individual artists cannot apply, and schools and kindergartens may participate as partners but cannot be the applying organisation. Two tiers exist: laboratory projects at EUR 5,000 to 15,000 requiring a minimum 30 hours of work, and process projects at EUR 15,000 to 40,000 requiring a minimum 60 hours, both inclusive of a 7 percent administrative fee. FULL FINANCING is available with no matching requirement, which is unusual and valuable. TIMING: the deadline is 1 October 2026 with the earliest permitted project start on 1 January 2027, so the decision lag is roughly three months. Applications go exclusively through the kumasta online database. FIT CAVEAT: the programme targets children and young people aged 3 to 18 in situations of social, financial or educational disadvantage, so it suits a digital-arts programme with a youth participation core rather than a general public festival.
Artadia's open call for Atlanta, providing unrestricted $15,000 awards to three contemporary visual artists. Finalists receive an honorarium. ELIGIBLE COUNTIES: Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton. Must reside in an eligible county for 2+ consecutive years prior to deadline, contemporary visual-arts practice, not a student, no prior Artadia award of $10,000+. Open call 1 September - 1 October 2026. Apply via Submittable only.
The Music Growth Fund is Arts Council England's new investment programme for growth in new music, meaning original live performance, sound recording or musical work recently or newly created or performed by living UK-based artists and music creators. It sits inside the wider GBP 45 million Music Growth Package. WHO IT IS FOR: music festivals, music managers, music promoters, music publishers, record labels, recording studios, rehearsal spaces and grassroots music venues, plus established sector bodies and other sector support organisations that support them. Each applicant type has its own Applicant Specific Guidance on the Music Growth Package pages. IMPORTANT: this is business and organisational investment, not a grant for individual artists to make work. Individual artists, bands, producers and artist collectives should instead look at the separate Music Creators Growth Fund (GBP 10,000-20,000), whose guidance lands 1 September 2026 with the portal opening 1 October 2026. WHAT TO PROPOSE: how investment will be used to grow music businesses and/or the wider music industry, and enhance opportunities for artists and music creators, industry professionals, music fans and new audiences. Growth can mean increased reach, stronger business models, improved sustainability, skills development or expanded capacity, and is judged in the context of each applicant's own scale and ambitions. DECISION CRITERIA: potential for growth, effective use of funds, contribution to a fairer and more inclusive music industry, and contribution to a climate resilient music industry. BEFORE YOU START: you need an approved profile on the Arts Council grants management system before you can submit, so allow time for that. Arts Council reserves the right to change the programme, so check you are on the latest guidance. THIS STRAND: GBP 40,001 to GBP 100,000, with a GBP 2,000,000 annual budget for 2026/27 and a 50 percent cash match requirement, which is the main thing that will decide whether this strand is realistic for you. You must also upload a completed finance template as well as your most recent financial statement; sole traders may submit the finance template alone. ROUNDS FOR 2026/27 (GBP 1,000-40,000 strand): Round 1 opens 6 August and closes 3 September 2026, decision 28 October. Round 2 opens 4 September and closes 15 October 2026, decision 28 October. Round 3 opens 16 October and closes 26 November 2026, decision 3 February 2027. Round 4 opens 27 November 2026 and closes 7 January 2027, decision 9 March 2027. ROUNDS FOR THE GBP 40,001-100,000 strand: Round 1 opens 7 September and closes 1 October 2026, decision 30 November. Round 2 opens 23 November 2026 and closes 15 January 2027, decision 8 March 2027.
Funds the circulation and touring of artists, exhibitions and artistic works by artists, groups and organisations from Canada, nationally and internationally. Media arts, digital arts and new media, inter-arts, and music and sound art are all explicitly named as supported practices, so experimental sound and creative technology work is in scope. This component sits inside Arts Across Canada and Abroad, the merged programme introduced in 2025 that replaced the separate Arts Across Canada and Arts Abroad programmes; the old Digital Now programme is discontinued. IMPORTANT AND UNDERUSED: non-Canadian organisations are eligible via the Foreign arts festival, biennale or book fair profile, defined as an incorporated organisation headquartered outside Canada running an international media arts festival, an international literary or storytelling festival, an international book fair, or a major international visual arts biennial, triennial or quinquennial. That support is restricted to presenting Canadian media, literary or visual artists and their work, and it is not advertised on the programme page. For digital and media arts, requests must be for work independent of the commercial film, television and video game industries, and only the creator or director may apply, not producers or production companies. Deadlines run three times a year. The sister component Representation and Promotion has continuous rolling intake and the same foreign-festival eligibility.
The Earth Partner Prize is a global open call for young creatives making work about climate action and ecological justice, run by Earth Partner with the Global Environment Facility and Re:wild, and timed to amplify youth voices ahead of the UN climate conference in November 2026. IT IS NOT A PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE: the call takes work across disciplines, and the organisers explicitly list photography projects, docu-style and experimental film, performance art, app development, spoken word, musical compositions, dance, fashion design, new media and social media projects. PRIZES: USD 10,000 for first prize, USD 5,000 each for two runners-up, USD 2,000 each for five finalists, plus an Impact Award and twenty honourable mentions. ELIGIBILITY: aged 14 to 30 at the time of submission, any nationality, race, gender or faith; applicants under 18 need parental consent. SUBMISSION NOTES: entry is free, and entrants are asked to disclose any use of AI tools and to mention prior awards or press coverage in the project description. Submissions are handled on Picter; deadline 7 October 2026 at 21:59.
The Aesthetica Art Prize accepts work in any discipline and theme, with video, installation, digital, and photography regularly shortlisted; past shortlists frequently feature critical-tech and surveillance-adjacent work, making it a strong venue for media art. Main Prize GBP 10,000 plus a group exhibition at York Art Gallery and editorial coverage. Standard deadline 11 October 2026 (GBP 25 for two works); late entries 12-18 October 2026 (GBP 35).
Supports reciprocal international exchange between Australian practitioners or organisations and confirmed overseas partners, which makes it the right instrument for co-hosted convenings, labs and cross-border programme partnerships rather than one-way touring. Supported activity types are creative collaboration and development, cultural exchange and knowledge sharing, and labs and practice-exchange models, mapping closely onto media arts residencies, art-and-science research exchanges and digital culture symposia. Eligible costs include artist fees, travel, accommodation, production expenses, marketing, access costs, and childcare or carer support. International organisations are eligible where the project benefits Australian artists or creative workers, and a confirmed international partner is mandatory and must confirm participation in writing. The reciprocity requirement is substantive: the strongest applications embed mutually beneficial exchange rather than simply presenting an Australian artist abroad. Creative Australia's published assessment feedback notes top-ranked applications foregrounded First Nations self-determined or diasporic-led activity and demonstrated sector-wide impact. It is competitive: 157 eligible applications in the March 2026 round yielded 33 grants, about a 21 percent success rate. Contemporary music practitioners are excluded and directed to Music Australia programmes. Closes 13 October 2026 at 3pm AEDT.
Funds activities that build connections between artists and diverse audiences and contribute to public appreciation and enjoyment of the arts in Canada. This is the closest Canada Council fit for running a public programme, a single festival edition, a talks series or audience-facing exhibition programming, as distinct from creating the artwork itself. It is open to arts festivals, presenters and event organisers under the Presenting organization profile, alongside Artistic organizations, Artistic groups and Arts supporting groups, and the profile explicitly includes visual arts festivals, biennials, triennials and quinquennials. Digital arts and new media, media arts, inter-arts, and music and sound art are named among funded practices, so experimental sound art and creative technology programming qualify. IMPORTANT: unlike the Circulation and Touring component, international organisations are NOT eligible for Public Outreach. The Council will not fund projects whose primary focus is educational, therapeutic, recreational or social service delivery, nor fundraising activities or prize and award ceremonies. Deadlines fall twice a year. The related Composite Activities component offers up to 3 years of support for bundled multi-project programmes and may suit a recurring festival arc better.
The Bando Ordinarie is Fondazione CRT's open, non-thematic route: organisations can request support for initiatives that fit the foundation's statutory aims but do not fall under any of its thematic calls, across three areas of which one is Arte, attivita e beni culturali (branded Meraviglia). It is the right door for public programmes, cultural projects, media and digital-culture initiatives and events that are not live performance, exhibitions, film festivals or restoration. READ THE EXCLUSION LIST CAREFULLY: live performance goes to NoteSipari or Orizzonti L.I.V.E., exhibition-format initiatives and film festivals go to Immagini e Prospettive, heritage restoration goes to BeST, and accessible territorial-showcase events go to Eventi for All, so Ordinarie is the residual arts route. Non-profit entities and institutions operating in the reference territory are eligible, and because the applicant does not need to be headquartered in Piedmont or Valle d'Aosta this is genuinely open to organisations based elsewhere, including non-EU and UK, that run a programme in those regions. The project route has two deadlines: the first was 30 April 2026 and the second session is open 1 July to 15 October 2026 at 15:00 Italian time. Organisations receiving an activity-support grant cannot also benefit from other CRT calls in the same calendar year. Applications are made through rol.fondazionecrt.it.
The larger of The Hague's two municipal project bands and the appropriate route for an organisation running a festival or substantial public programme in the city. Awards range from EUR 10,000 to 30,000 against an annual ceiling of EUR 600,000 for the whole strand. THE CO-FINANCING REQUIREMENT IS SEVERE and is the single most important planning constraint: the municipal culture budget may fund at most 30 percent of the total project budget, so an applicant seeking EUR 30,000 must already have roughly EUR 70,000 secured or plausibly projected elsewhere. Only legal entities may apply; individuals and informal collectives must use Category A instead (EUR 2,000 to 10,000, 70 percent coverage ceiling, next window 1 to 15 September 2026). Professional arts and culture organisations running public projects in music, theatre, dance, film, literature, visual arts or combinations are eligible. The next window opens 1 October and closes at 17:00 on 15 October 2026. TIMING: the decision term is 12 weeks after the window closes, so an October 2026 application is decided around early January 2027 and activity should be scheduled from 2027 onward. Applications are handled through the municipality's subsidy system, which migrated to Easyfunders in April 2026. This scheme is independent of Stroom Den Haag. The underlying regulation runs to 31 December 2028.
Lighthouse Works' Fellowship Program supports a diverse range of cultural producers working at the vanguard of their creative fields. Fellowships are six weeks in length, occur year-round, and provide fellows with housing, food, studio space, and USD 1,750 in financial support. Fellows enjoy a private bedroom and share a kitchen, bathrooms, and living space in a 3-story Victorian house; all dietary needs are accommodated, and on most nights Lighthouse Works staff cook for and eat dinner with the fellows. Studios are located about 1.5 miles (a 30-minute walk) from the fellowship house, are private and flooded with light, and face the ocean adjacent to Silver Eel Cove where the island ferry arrives. Lighthouse Works also maintains a wood and metal fabrication shop and a kiln. While in residence, a fellow's primary obligation is to pursue their own work, though every fellow participates in two events, an Artist Talk and Open Studio, that bookend the fellowship; the program's intimate size allows for conversation, critique, and collaboration. Artistic excellence is the primary criterion for acceptance. Artists at any stage of their career are encouraged to apply through the online Slideroom system. SELECTION: staff review applications for completeness, a jury of experts in each artist's field reviews complete applications and identifies finalists, interviews are scheduled in early January, and applicants are notified in mid-January. The program is supported in part by a grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. APPLICATION CALL: Lighthouse Works accepts applications each year from September to October (the 2026 portal was open 15 September to 15 October 2025). The deadline shown here is the anticipated close of the next annual call for the 2027 cycle; confirm exact dates on the Lighthouse Works site when the portal reopens. Apply at http://thelighthouseworks.slideroom.com.
Mondriaan Fund grant for written and/or spoken-word publications about contemporary visual art: article series, long reads, podcasts, video essays, social-content series, and similar formats published across magazines, newspapers, online platforms, public media or social media. Aimed at strengthening reflection on, criticism of, and journalism around visual art practice in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Eligible applicants: existing or new platforms (online magazines, public media, podcast outlets, etc.) AND individuals working as curators, critics, social-content creators or journalists. New initiatives and collaborations may apply. Two cycles per year; the next deadline is 15 October 2026, 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time (an earlier 2 April 2026 round has already closed). Grant covers up to 70% of eligible expenses, with two pricing structures: fixed €2,480/month for short 1-6 month work periods, or a flexible grant of up to 12 months for larger project plans (amount determined by submitted plan and budget). Round budget €229,000. Good fit for science-communicator / critical-tech / art-and-AI long-form writing, podcast series, or video essay projects. Applications submitted via the Mondriaan Fund online portal after creating an account; documents cannot be uploaded after the deadline. Free to apply.
Project funding from the Toronto Arts Council for professional media artists to create or complete independent film, video, audio, digital, VR/AR and multimedia works, with grants up to $15,000. ELIGIBILITY: Canadian citizens, permanent residents or Protected Persons who have lived in Toronto for at least one year, are professional media artists retaining full creative control, and are not students.
Perform Europe is the EU's dedicated cross-border touring scheme for the performing arts, run by a six-organisation consortium and co-funded by Creative Europe. It funds partnerships of at least three organisations from three different Creative Europe countries to tour a finished performing arts work in at least three countries, with an explicit emphasis on greener, more inclusive and more equitable touring practice. Eligible disciplines are circus, dance, outdoor arts, performance art, puppetry and theatre; LIVE MUSIC AND OPERA ARE EXCLUDED, and production costs for new creations are not covered since the work must already be finished before 1 March 2027. Applicants pick one of three grant tiers with no fixed criteria per tier, and may request up to EUR 5,000 in top-ups for accessibility and sustainability measures. Five percent of the total fund is ring-fenced for proposals involving Ukrainian partners or supporting the Ukrainian performing arts sector. All 41 Creative Europe countries are eligible, including Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine, but the UK is not. TIMING: applications close 22 October 2026 at 23:59 CEST, selected partnerships are announced in January 2027, and activity may only start from 1 March 2027. A Matchmaking Platform with over 2,300 registered professionals is available for finding partners before applying. CORE PRIORITY: each partnership must pick either diversity and inclusion or the fight against climate change as its core priority, and must also include measures addressing the other one; that choice has to run visibly through the whole application rather than sit in one section. WHO COUNTS AS A PARTNER: both organisations and individual professionals are eligible, so a partner can be an artist, collective, company, producer, presenter, venue, festival, residency, educational institution or NGO. Eligibility is decided by where you are legally based. The partnership appoints a lead partner who submits, signs and receives the grant. ELIGIBLE COSTS: artistic fees and salaries, travel, accommodation, subsistence, administration, reporting, communication, translation, surtitling, equipment transport, copyright fees, access and environmental measures, complementary activities and capacity building. Venue and equipment rental or purchase is capped at 5 percent of the requested grant, and preparation costs for presenting an existing work at 10 percent. PAYMENT: 60 percent after signing, 20 percent after the first narrative and financial report is approved, and the final 20 percent after completion and EU approval of Perform Europe's own final report. Top-ups are reimbursed only after the project ends and documentation is approved, so budget for the cash-flow gap. PRACTICAL: every partner must register for a Perform Europe account before submission and approval can take several working days, so do not leave that to the last week.
The NORMA Fonds redistributes copyright remuneration collected by Stichting NORMA into cultural, social and professional projects involving performing artists, and is one of the few Dutch schemes with four intakes a year and a genuinely short cycle. Both arts-sector organisations and individual arts professionals may apply, though the applicant needs a bank account and legal footing and cannot be a BIS-funded institution. The project must centre on performing artists in the copyright sense, meaning people who perform a copyright-protected work: musicians, dancers, actors, voice actors. This fits live experimental music, sound performance and performative media-art work, but not object-based exhibitions or non-performative installation programmes. The maximum grant is EUR 10,000, the total project budget must stay under EUR 150,000, the applicant's annual budget under EUR 500,000, and at least a quarter of the project budget must be earned from audience income, so this is a top-up rather than a primary funding source. Budgets must honour NORMA's 2026 performer wage norms. Applications are submitted online during a one-month window each quarter; the next round runs 1 to 30 October 2026, closing at 23:59. TIMING RULE: decisions arrive no later than eight weeks after the deadline, and the premiere date must fall at least eight weeks after the application deadline. Organisations that already received a NORMA Fonds grant in 2024 or 2025 are excluded, and supporting staff may not exceed 2 FTE.
The Stichting Stokroos Seed Grant gives individual makers, duos and collectives time and space to focus on their artistic development, for example a focused working period for research and experiment, or the development of a prototype, new work or methodology. There are two application rounds in 2026: 15 May to 30 June 2026 (now full) and 1 September to 31 October 2026; Stokroos considers a maximum of 60 eligible applications per period (or closes once the budget is reached) and supports around 50 applications per year. Eligibility: active as a visual artist, designer and/or craft practitioner (overlap possible); living and working in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (including its Caribbean parts) or Suriname for at least one year; at least 21 years old; you completed your first subject-specific (vocational or higher) programme between 2018 and 2022, or started without formal training (first presentation marks the start of your practice); not currently enrolled in a study or post-academic programme. Duos and collectives may apply provided all participants meet the guidelines. The grant is a fixed amount with no budget required: EUR 5,000 (individual), EUR 7,500 (duo) or EUR 10,000 (collective). Plans can take place anywhere, start at least 10 weeks after submission and last a maximum of one year. You may apply for the Seed Grant once every two calendar years and receive it up to twice, and may submit only one application per year across all Stokroos grants. Apply via the online form (Dutch or English) with a portfolio PDF up to 20 pages/person, optional video up to 10 minutes total, CV up to 2 pages/person, and work/plan/collaboration descriptions up to 2,500 characters each. Stokroos aims to respond within 8 weeks; no appeal is possible. Next deadline: 31 October 2026.
The Studios at MASS MoCA is a year-round residency program on the museum's campus in North Adams, Massachusetts, hosting up to 10 artists at a time for stays of two or four weeks. It primarily welcomes visual artists across all media and writers in all literary disciplines, and applicants from around the world are encouraged to apply. Residents receive 24-hour access to a private furnished studio, lodging in nearby apartments, and several communal meals each week, plus museum membership benefits and access to The Clark Art Institute. The program offers need-based financial aid (artists typically pay between USD 0 and USD 450 per week) and fully funded fellowships that cover all residency fees for up to four weeks. General application deadlines fall on May 1 and November 1 each year, and the application is free to submit.
Artadia's open call for Houston, providing unrestricted $15,000 awards to three contemporary visual artists. Finalists receive an honorarium. Two-round jury (review + 45-minute virtual studio visits). ELIGIBILITY: living and working in Houston's eligible counties for at least 2 consecutive years prior to deadline; contemporary visual-arts practice; not currently enrolled in an art-related degree programme; no prior Artadia award of $10,000+. Open call 1 October - 1 November 2026. Apply via Submittable only.
Global art prize celebrating how art is made, open to artists worldwide working in any medium or art form. Instead of a traditional application form, artists submit a digital presence (website, portfolio or social profile) linked through a .ART domain that documents identity, process and work as one continuous record. PRIZES: Grand Prize (USD 15,000 cash); Artist Residency Award France (one month at Chateau du Fresne, near Paris); Artist Residency Award Spain (residency at Anfitrion, Marbella); Publication Award (editorial coverage in Whitewall Magazine, the campaign's media partner); .ART Domain Award (USD 10,000 premium .ART domain name). ELIGIBILITY: individual artists and artist collectives from all backgrounds (cultures, ethnicities, gender identities, abilities); 18 or older at time of submission; open to artists from all geographic regions with no restrictions on nationality or place of residence. Multiple entries permitted, as long as each submission (single artwork, series or overall practice) is presented on or linked to a SEPARATE .ART domain. NOTE: a .ART domain is required for submission; this is the de facto entry mechanism. ANNOUNCEMENT: winners revealed during Art Basel Miami on 3 December 2026. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026. APPLY via the .ART Award site.
The European Media Art Platform (EMAP/EMARE) is a network of leading European media-art organisations offering fully funded two-month production residencies for artists working with digital media, including media art, bio art and robotic art. Each residency provides a EUR 4,000 grant to the applying artist (including subsistence), a EUR 4,000 project budget, host-provided accommodation, travel covered according to EU ceilings, and access to technical facilities and media labs; a collaborating artist receives an additional EUR 2,000 (EUR 6,000 total for a duo). Residencies take place at one of 15 host institutions across Austria, France, Slovakia, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Germany and Poland. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be EU residents or taxpayers in an EU member state, or residents/taxpayers of one of the eligible non-EU countries (Netherlands-based artists qualify). Undergraduate and Master's students are not eligible; PhD candidates and emerging artists of any age and academic background may apply. IMPORTANT: applicants must apply as a duo or collective, or propose a collaborative project, rather than as a purely solo applicant. The 2027 open call runs from 3 September 2026 to 6 November 2026 at 14:00 CET. Apply online at call.emare.eu. No application fee.
Residency programme run by the Art Explora Foundation with the Cite internationale des arts at its Montmartre site, supporting work that engages scientific and technological exploration and the major social and environmental issues of the present. Residents receive a studio-apartment of around 50 sqm, a monthly living grant of EUR 1,000, a production grant of up to EUR 3,000, and a round-trip travel grant, plus access to production facilities and local networks. Two tracks are offered: a SOLO programme for artists and writers across visual arts, performance, digital practices, literary and other experimental disciplines, and a COLLECTIVE programme for duos or collectives working collaboratively on interdisciplinary, experimental or research-based projects, for which a single studio-apartment designed for collaborative work hosts two residents sharing a bed, and only one member should submit the application. Eligible artistic disciplines are visual arts, performance and live arts, digital arts, curatorial practices, and writing and literary practices; eligible research fields are humanities, social sciences, cultural studies and history, technological innovation, and ecology. No output is required at the end of the residency, but participation in the Open Studios is mandatory. ELIGIBILITY: artists, artist collectives, researchers, curators and writers of all nationalities, no age restriction, with a minimum of five years of professional activity and works or research exhibited at national or international level. The Cite lists 20 to 22 residencies per year on this programme. Deadline 6 November 2026, 23:59 Europe/Paris. Questions: residences@artexplora.org. FLAG: the grant figures above come from the open-call text supplied to the desk; neither the Cite nor Art Explora publishes amounts on the programme page, so confirm them, along with the exact deadline, before applying.
Launched in 2024 to support young emerging artists, the Sixi International Artist-in-Residence Project (run by Sixi Museum in Nanjing, China) facilitates exchanges between artists from different backgrounds and helps them achieve creative breakthroughs and personal growth. The project calls for artists across all disciplines and cultural backgrounds who are ready to engage in dialogue with the city. TWO THEMES FOR 2027: 'Flux and Imprints: Contemporary Echoes of Migration History' and 'Folds of Text: Cross-Media Intertextuality and Intervention'. WHAT IS PROVIDED: living and working space (a city-centre apartment plus a loft studio in the outskirts to suit the research and production demands of different disciplines), financial support, hardware facilities and staff assistance, and help establishing contacts with the local art scene; by the end of the residency artists have the opportunity to showcase their outcomes in exhibitions. Nanjing combines traditional and contemporary Chinese culture, and the project positions itself as one of the few local art residency programmes contributing to international cultural exchange in the city and to the diversified development of contemporary Chinese art. ELIGIBILITY: open to artists across all disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Deadline: 15 November 2026. Apply via siximuseum.com.
Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) offers an eight- to ten-week residency for artists to produce a limited-edition artist's book. Working intensively in WSW's studios in Rosendale, NY, selected artists print and bind their own books; edition size must be between 50 and 100 copies. AMOUNT: $350/week stipend; up to $1,000 for materials; up to $250 for travel within the Continental US; free onsite housing; 24/7 studio access. WSW provides technical advice, training on new equipment, techniques, and materials, and production assistance. SALES CONTRACT: 20% of the edition goes to the artist; 20% (at least nine copies) stays with WSW for archival and institutional sales; 60% goes to general distribution and sale. If the artist sells through WSW, WSW takes a 30% commission plus 20% for marketing; the artist receives a 50% commission, paid annually around 30 June. WSW holds the right to sell distribution copies at a 20% discount to standing-order and repository institutions. WSW's books are held in over 450 collections worldwide, including the Library of Congress, Yale University, and Vassar College. An outside jury of artists and curators selects recipients. INDIGENOUS ARTISTS: applicants may check the appropriate box on the Submittable form to be considered for the BIMA Artist's Book Residency Grant for Indigenous Artists. APPLICATION MATERIALS (upload via Submittable): current resume; brief project description including media required (200-word maximum); materials budget form (Google Sheets, Excel, or PDF); up to ten images of recent work; image script (title, medium, dimensions, date). MAILED MATERIALS (to WSW at the address below): a physical book mock-up demonstrating how the book will be bound or function, actual size, with at least 1-2 fully realised spreads; and the shipping form (download and open the PDF locally). Mail to: Artist's Book Application, Women's Studio Workshop, PO Box 489, Rosendale, NY 12472. Applications open 1 August 2026; deadline 15 November 2026, 11:59pm EST; notification March 2027; residency runs September through June, one year after application. Apply via Submittable at https://wsworkshop.org/residencies/artists-book-residency-grant/.
Artist Grant awards an unrestricted USD 1,200 grant to one visual artist three times a year, on a deliberately low-friction application: NO grant proposal is required. You email a link to your website, or 3-5 images of your work as JPG, PNG or PDF, plus a resume, CV or short bio with your name, to submit@artistgrant.org, and separately pay the USD 30 fee through Stripe or PayPal. If the name on your payment differs from the name on your email, say so in the email. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists aged 18 or over, worldwide. Past winners may NOT apply again. MEDIA ACCEPTED: painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, mixed media, installation, and new or alternative visual art forms. NOT ACCEPTED: film and video, music, theatre, dance. SELECTION CRITERIA: a cohesive body of work; well-crafted work; well-presented work, judged with an explicit allowance that artists have differing financial means for presentation; work that communicates its viewpoint, ideas and concepts clearly, effectively and creatively; and work that is not derivative. RESULTS: all applicants are notified within 6-8 weeks of each deadline, and results are announced on the website, social media and newsletter. They will not respond to individual queries during the review period. VISIBILITY: grantees are showcased on the website, social media and marketing materials, and selected applicants are featured on social media with permission. Artists retain their copyrights. NOTE: the grant recurs on 15 March, 15 July and 15 November each year, and this desk lists each round separately. There is a USD 30 application fee.
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants, administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts on behalf of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, provide one-time grants of up to USD 5,000 to help artists in financial need cover recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies. The program is open to generative visual and media artists and choreographers working in visual arts, film, video, electronic and digital arts, and choreography who live anywhere in the United States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory. Applicants must be artists in financial need, with adjusted gross income at or below USD 80,000 for an individual or USD 160,000 for joint filers, and must not have received a Rauschenberg Medical or Dancer Emergency Grant in the past five years. Eligible expenses include emergency medical bills, diagnostics, consultations, therapy, prescription medications, emergency dental care, and transportation to appointments. The grant does not cover lost wages, general living expenses, or care for anyone other than the artist. Applications are accepted during defined cycles, with the current cycle running roughly from late October to mid November.
The Japan Foundation's flagship grant for organisations abroad mounting an exhibition introducing Japanese art and culture, explicitly covering overseas biennials and triennials that present Japanese artists. It is a partial-cost grant rather than a production budget: it pays toward shipping Japanese works, producing print or digital catalogues, and bringing Japanese artists, curators and specialists to the venue. That cost structure suits media arts, digital culture and art-and-science exhibitions well, where shipping technical work and hosting the artist for installation are the main cost drivers. It is explicitly designed for non-Japanese applicants: museums, galleries and comparable organisations outside Japan. Institutions only, so independent curators and artists cannot apply directly and must be hosted by an eligible institution. Exhibition content must introduce Japanese art and culture, so a Japanese artistic component is mandatory. Recent UK recipients include Tate Modern, the V&A and the Hayward Gallery, so the scheme skews toward established institutions. Applicants are asked to discuss eligibility with the relevant regional arts programme officer before applying. FLAG: full FY2027 guidelines were not yet published by Tokyo headquarters as of July 2026 and this deadline is the funder's own provisional date; reconfirm in autumn 2026.
Async Museum is an independent digital space dedicated to web art with a distinctive point of view, existing to discover artists who use the web as their primary medium and to recognise their work as a new aesthetic. Its core philosophy is that the web browser is a twenty-first century canvas. Async Museum is officially seeking submissions of web-based artworks, welcoming both established practitioners and emerging voices who are pushing the boundaries of what the next generation of art can be. NOTE: this is an exhibition opportunity for web-based art rather than a paid grant; no artist fee is stated. To share your practice and submit your work, visit https://asyncmuseum.com/submit. Deadline: 1 December 2026.
A Wrinkle in Thyme Farm is a small, women-owned diversified farm in Sumner, Maine that offers a six-month live-in fiber arts residency starting in May. The resident exchanges an average of 15 to 20 hours per week of farm work for a modest monthly stipend, free private rustic housing, community meals, farm-grown food, and access to the fiber studio. Residents receive solo studio time plus one day a week of learning and collaboration with fiber artist Marty Elkin, working with home-grown Maine wool through felting, dyeing, knitting and spinning. The program also includes training in flock management, animal husbandry and lamb care, with the option to add two months for lambing season. It is designed for emerging fiber artists who are single females able to lift 50 pounds and work around a farm. Applications open in November with a December 31 deadline and a non-refundable USD 25 application fee.
The Kala Fellowship Program supports international, national, and local artists producing innovative work in and across multiple media, with an emphasis on Kala's specialized printmaking, photography, and digital media equipment. The institute supports up to 6 artists per cycle with a USD 3,000 stipend, 24/7 access to its Berkeley facilities for 1 to 9 months, one month of housing for artists based outside the 9 Bay Area counties, a Kala class or workshop, and a culminating group show in the Kala Gallery. Applications are submitted through kala.slideroom.com and require a statement of interest, an artist CV, documentation of 5 to 10 recent works, and two references. Artists enrolled in a degree-granting program during the fellowship period are not eligible. The application opens in December with no fee through January 15, after which a USD 25 application fee applies through the March 1 deadline.
The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, established in 1967 and run by The RAiR Foundation, offers visual artists a year-long studio-based residency known as the Gift of Time. Each resident receives a private house and a studio on a fifty-acre complex, with rent, utilities, repairs, and maintenance covered by the program. Artists also receive a monthly stipend of USD 1,100 plus a USD 250 monthly materials stipend. The program is open to professional visual artists aged 21 and older working in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, digital media, and installation. It does not support performance art, writing, music, or production crafts. The application period for the next cycle runs from January 1 to March 15, 2027, and international applicants are accepted with visa support available.
Artist Grant awards an unrestricted USD 1,200 grant to one visual artist three times a year, on a deliberately low-friction application: NO grant proposal is required. You email a link to your website, or 3-5 images of your work as JPG, PNG or PDF, plus a resume, CV or short bio with your name, to submit@artistgrant.org, and separately pay the USD 30 fee through Stripe or PayPal. If the name on your payment differs from the name on your email, say so in the email. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists aged 18 or over, worldwide. Past winners may NOT apply again. MEDIA ACCEPTED: painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, mixed media, installation, and new or alternative visual art forms. NOT ACCEPTED: film and video, music, theatre, dance. SELECTION CRITERIA: a cohesive body of work; well-crafted work; well-presented work, judged with an explicit allowance that artists have differing financial means for presentation; work that communicates its viewpoint, ideas and concepts clearly, effectively and creatively; and work that is not derivative. RESULTS: all applicants are notified within 6-8 weeks of each deadline, and results are announced on the website, social media and newsletter. They will not respond to individual queries during the review period. VISIBILITY: grantees are showcased on the website, social media and marketing materials, and selected applicants are featured on social media with permission. Artists retain their copyrights. NOTE: the grant recurs on 15 March, 15 July and 15 November each year, and this desk lists each round separately. There is a USD 30 application fee.
The Jerwood Foundation makes grants to UK organisations for public-facing arts activity across theatre, music, dance, visual arts and literature, including artist development programmes, commissions, residencies and projects involving the Jerwood Collection. Awards have historically gone as high as GBP 200,000, though the Foundation states most grants are much smaller. Applications are single-stage: a written proposal of no more than 10 sides of A4 excluding financial statements, sent by email to info@jerwood.org or by post, and it must include a summary sheet giving location, amount requested, timeline and audience figures. Applications missing that summary sheet are rejected automatically. The March 2026 deadline has passed; the next round opens 3 February 2027 at 9am and closes 17 March 2027 at 2pm, with decisions on 28 April 2027 and all applicants notified by 11 May 2027. TIMING RULE: activity funded in that round must start or open to the public between 1 July 2027 and 30 June 2028, so there is a long lead time and retrospective funding is impossible. Grants to individuals are not made, so artists must be supported through a host organisation. Core costs and capital work are explicitly out of scope, which makes this a good fit for discrete festivals, exhibitions and public programmes.
Artist Grant awards an unrestricted USD 1,200 grant to one visual artist three times a year, on a deliberately low-friction application: NO grant proposal is required. You email a link to your website, or 3-5 images of your work as JPG, PNG or PDF, plus a resume, CV or short bio with your name, to submit@artistgrant.org, and separately pay the USD 30 fee through Stripe or PayPal. If the name on your payment differs from the name on your email, say so in the email. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists aged 18 or over, worldwide. Past winners may NOT apply again. MEDIA ACCEPTED: painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, mixed media, installation, and new or alternative visual art forms. NOT ACCEPTED: film and video, music, theatre, dance. SELECTION CRITERIA: a cohesive body of work; well-crafted work; well-presented work, judged with an explicit allowance that artists have differing financial means for presentation; work that communicates its viewpoint, ideas and concepts clearly, effectively and creatively; and work that is not derivative. RESULTS: all applicants are notified within 6-8 weeks of each deadline, and results are announced on the website, social media and newsletter. They will not respond to individual queries during the review period. VISIBILITY: grantees are showcased on the website, social media and marketing materials, and selected applicants are featured on social media with permission. Artists retain their copyrights. NOTE: the grant recurs on 15 March, 15 July and 15 November each year, and this desk lists each round separately. There is a USD 30 application fee.
Visual Anthropology Center (VAC) in Belgrade invites filmmakers, visual anthropologists, artists, and researchers to apply for its residency programme. The residency specialises in visual anthropology but is also open to individual and collaborative projects in experimental ethnography, creative documentary film, and other artistic mediums. Residents may apply with a project aimed at a public showing, or use the time and space to reflect, research, or write without a specific outcome. WHAT IS PROVIDED: accommodation and studio space in central Belgrade; additional workspace and community connection through Community Center KROV (an independent creative hub hosting lectures, events, and exhibitions); project guidance and mentorship from film professionals, ethnomusicologists, producers, artists, curators, and anthropologists; connections to local cultural and academic institutions, archives, galleries, and exhibition spaces; access to camera equipment, translators for fieldwork or editing, fixers, and project-specific services or materials; opportunity to exhibit a final project as an exhibition, installation, screening, workshop, or lecture. Eligible projects may be promoted through VAC's platforms and partner networks, including the Vizantrop Film Festival, for regional and international visibility. ELIGIBILITY: filmmakers, visual anthropologists, artists, and researchers; individual and collaborative projects welcome. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
AIxDESIGN gets more requests for speakers and facilitators than it can handle in-house, so rather than turning them down it passes them through to a curated pool of critical, creative and thoughtful voices on AI. WHAT IT IS: a Speakers Collective whose members are connected with opportunities as they come in, including talks, workshops, panels and custom sessions for organisations, festivals, institutions and events. AIxDESIGN makes considered matches, briefs speakers on the gig and supports where needed; in return speakers credit AIxDESIGN publicly and contribute a small coordination fee or donation back to the ecosystem. Opportunities are posted in a private Speakers Collective Slack channel, where you raise your hand for what interests you and skip what does not. There is no exclusivity requirement. WHO THEY ARE LOOKING FOR: thinkers, makers, educators, researchers, artists and practitioners with honest, grounded perspectives on AI, who care what it means for society, culture and creative practice rather than only what it can do. They are particularly drawn to people working at the edges, questioning dominant AI narratives and exploring what critical, slow, speculative or decolonial approaches look like in practice, or making work that opens new imaginaries rather than reinforcing existing ones; practices at the intersection of AI and art, design, sound, moving image, writing, education, policy or community are a good fit. You need something real to say and some experience saying it (a past talk, workshop, panel or teaching context that can be pointed to), and alignment with AIxDESIGN's values. BONUS POINTS: if you have worked with AIxDESIGN before and are comfortable speaking about the shared project, or if you are based in or regularly in the Netherlands. PROBABLY NOT FOR YOU: if you have no prior speaking experience, or if your perspective clashes with what they stand for. HOW TO APPLY: a roughly five-minute form (Tally). Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and reviewed about every two months; if it is a fit, they invite you into the private channel where opportunities are shared.
The Acquisitions scheme helps Dutch museums and other cultural heritage institutions buy objects that enrich the Dutch National Cultural Heritage Collection, across everything from contemporary art to natural history collections. Acquired objects must be displayed to the public on a (semi-)permanent basis. CONDITIONS: the estimated value of the object must exceed EUR 50,000; complete provenance research is required; the applicant must contribute significantly to the acquisition costs; where multiple items are involved they must form an inseparable ensemble; the institution must follow the lending guidelines and remain the permanent owner. NOT FUNDED: artists' estates, constructional provisions, or passive conservation. APPLY online through the Mondriaan Fund digital system after registering an account, with valuation reports, condition assessments, provenance research, a presentation plan and an itemised budget. Rolling deadline, but allow about three months for processing.
Art Fair International covers stand rental for galleries taking visual art from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom to an art fair, and stand rental plus travel and transport costs for art book publishers at art book fairs. WHO CAN APPLY: Dutch and non-Dutch galleries that have signed and actively apply the Gallery Fair Practice Code, and art book publishers. CONDITIONS: an invitation from the fair is required; the artists presented must be artistically and substantively active in professional visual arts; a maximum of one application per fair per calendar year; no more than three awards annually. AMOUNTS scale with how much of the stand is given to artists from the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, as set out in the funding notes. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund digital application system after creating an account, at least six weeks before a fair on the fund's established list, or three months before a fair that is not listed.
Artist's Fee reimburses part of the compensation an institution pays an artist for work on an exhibition: producing new work, production-related labour, event activities, and providing artwork for presentation. It does not cover expenses such as materials or transport. WHO CAN APPLY: visual arts institutions in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that publicly exhibit contemporary visual art and/or heritage without a sales objective, and that subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code. CONDITIONS: the artist must hold a bachelor's degree in visual arts or have at least three years of professional experience; the fee must comply with the Fair Pay Rate Table 2023; the application must be submitted at least two months before the exhibition opens; the exhibition must open within 12 months of application; artist invoices must be paid within one month; and institutions already receiving other fair pay funding for 2025-2028 are not eligible. AMOUNT: up to 50% of the standard amount excluding VAT where the fee meets at least 100% of the guideline, with a minimum application of EUR 100. APPLY through the online system after creating an account, with a signed artist contract, the exhibition budget, artist CVs and a recent Chamber of Commerce registration. Note for artists: this is applied for by the institution, not by you, but it is worth pointing an exhibiting venue towards.
Art Heritage Festival supports festivals, biennales, triennales and similar events dedicated to the presentation of visual art and/or heritage, held in physical spaces and occurring no more than once a year. The scheme backs activities that reach diverse audiences or create meaningful public engagement with art and heritage. WHO CAN APPLY: non-profit organisations based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom; institutions for art education and post-academic institutions are excluded. NOT FUNDED: journals, publications, documentaries, symposia, conferences or online-only festivals. CONDITIONS: events must be publicly accessible and held no more than once a year; the project cannot receive simultaneous funding from other Mondriaan Fund grants or specified national cultural programmes; the organisation must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code; and fair artist compensation is mandatory where artists are involved. AMOUNT: up to 40% of eligible project costs, on a project budget above EUR 25,000. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online system after registering an account. Allow three months for processing; activities that have already happened cannot be funded.
Art Heritage Presentation funds presentations that are innovative and non-standard, rather than business-as-usual programming: exhibitions featuring internationally renowned artists, engaging shows offering fresh perspectives, public co-creation projects, and presentations built around special loans or commissioned work. WHO CAN APPLY: cultural institutions in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that focus on presenting cultural heritage and/or visual art, including museums, art centres and archives; art education and post-academic institutions are excluded, and the institution must be a non-profit legal entity established in the eligible territory. CONDITIONS: presentations must be open to the public; festivals, biennales and other events recurring annually or less often are handled by the separate Art Heritage Festival scheme, not this one; the organisation must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code; and artist fees must be realistic and included in the budget. AMOUNT: up to 40% of variable project costs, on a project budget above EUR 25,000. APPLY online after registering an account, with an institutional profile, project plan, presentation plan, itemised budget and, where applicable, artist information with visual documentation.
Collection Mobility supports the revaluation of a collection and, where applicable, the selection, disposal and/or relocation of parts of a collection. NOT FUNDED: construction work, building preservation, archaeological excavation, passive conservation or documentation. WHO CAN APPLY: Dutch museums and other cultural heritage institutions that are publicly accessible, manage nationally or internationally significant collections, and are registered with the Dutch Museum Register. Joint applications are encouraged and, where relevant, institutions must apply together. CONDITIONS: applicants must follow the Basic Principles for Smarter Loan Transactions in the Netherlands; collections must be disposed of in line with the Guideline for the Disposal of Museum Objects; and the applicant must contribute significant funding itself. AMOUNT: up to 40% of eligible costs, determined per application. APPLY through the online system at mondriaanfonds.nl after creating an account, with organisational information, collection details, a project plan, a budget and supporting documents.
The closest thing the Netherlands has to a dedicated regional art-and-technology fund, being a public-private scheme co-financed by ASML and sited in the country's main technology region. It funds professional cultural projects of high quality with national or international reach, which in practice covers festivals, exhibitions and public programmes including media art and creative technology work. Private-law legal entities only (stichting, vereniging or BV); both new and existing cultural organisations qualify. Projects are assessed on societal impact (must address at least two of accessibility, inclusivity, diversity, social cohesion), cultural entrepreneurship and sustainability, alongside professional artistic quality. Applications are accepted all year round via a two-stage route: an intake where Brabant C scouts give an initial assessment, followed by a full application, pitch session and decision. TIMING RULES ARE STRICT and are the main planning constraint: the full application must be submitted a minimum of 12 weeks before the project starts, and the project may not begin until at least 12 weeks after a complete application has been approved. The internal clock runs roughly two weeks for a completeness check, about six weeks to the pitch session, and about four weeks from pitch to decision. Brabant C never covers more than half the budget, so a matched partner is required from the outset. A separate Brabant C matching scheme for impactful culture projects is open year-round through 31 December 2026 for Brabant-based organisations outside the Brainport region.
The National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations is Creative Scotland's main open-access grant for constituted arts, creative and cultural organisations, and it is genuinely rolling with no deadlines. It supports a specific one-off project or production, creative research and development, or a longer-term programme of work, and can also fund business sustainability and organisational development costs. Eligible organisations can apply for GBP 1,000 to 100,000 for projects lasting up to 18 months. TIMING RULES: decision lag is banded by request size, with GBP 1,000 to 20,000 decided within 10 weeks and GBP 20,000 to 100,000 within 14 weeks. The start date must be after the decision date, and the guidance recommends allowing a further 2 to 4 weeks for funding agreements and first payment. Critically for festivals, applicants are barred from starting activity, including advertising events or issuing calls for collaborators, before funding is confirmed, so a public programme should be planned to start roughly 12 to 18 weeks after submission. Only one application may be in assessment at any time. Non-UK organisations can be involved but cannot lead. Current Regularly Funded and Multi-Year Funded Organisations are excluded.
Community-led Art and Creativity sits within Esmee Fairbairn's Creative, Confident Communities aim and is one of the Foundation's two arts-related priorities. It funds work where local people and local artists lead the creative and cultural activity in a place, emphasising cross-sector collaboration that delivers social, environmental and economic benefit alongside artistic outcomes. Cited examples include the Migration Museum's People's Panel, B Arts in Stoke and WeCanMake's Festival of Making Together, which confirms festivals and public programmes are in scope where genuinely community-directed. Applications are rolling with no deadlines, starting with an eligibility quiz and an expression of interest. The minimum grant is GBP 30,000 with no upper limit, and most awards run three to five years covering core or project costs including salaries and overheads. Applicants need at least GBP 100,000 annual turnover in the latest accounts and a formal constitution, charitable or non-charitable so long as the work is charitable. This is highly competitive: in 2025 only around 5 percent of initial expressions of interest converted into funded grants, so long-term systems-change framing matters more than the individual event. Esmee's other arts priority, Arts and Creativity Making Change, is currently closed.
The Arts-based Learning Fund supports sustained partnerships between arts and cultural organisations and state-funded educational settings so that arts-based approaches become embedded in how young people learn. Grants run GBP 30,000 to 300,000 over one to four years, with a ceiling of GBP 100,000 in any single year, and can cover both project delivery and a fair share of the applicant's core costs. Applicants must be arts and cultural organisations (charities, community organisations, social enterprises, not-for-profits) applying in partnership with at least one state-funded educational setting. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with no deadlines; an optional enquiry call with a grants manager is encouraged before applying. The process is two-stage: an initial online application, then, if shortlisted, further information plus a phone or video conversation, with a final decision by a grants panel. TIMING RULE: applicants should expect a response within about four months, and successful applicants should allow roughly six months from application to receiving funds, so projects should not be planned to start sooner than that. The Foundation explicitly encourages applications from organisations led by people most impacted by racism, ableism, classism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia. IMPORTANT: this is the only Paul Hamlyn arts route open to new applicants in 2026, since the main Arts Fund is suspended to new applications until at least April 2027.
Since 2025 Het Cultuurfonds runs a dedicated application route for individual makers and collectives, separate from its project grants for foundations and associations. The ontwikkelbijdrage awards up to EUR 5,000 for research, workshops, masterclasses, courses and training, experiments and equipment, and for the pre-phase of a project, giving makers room to test and develop an idea before it has to be fully executed. It is open to all disciplines: visual artists, theatre makers, spoken word artists, photographers, musicians, ceramicists, restorers and more. A separate matchfundingbijdrage of EUR 250 to EUR 1,500 supports crowdfunding campaigns for public-facing projects such as exhibitions or performances. The route is run with voordekunst. Applying is a two-step process: a short vooraanvraag (pre-application) answered within one week, then a full application answered within four weeks, with development funds paid out within two weeks of approval. Rolling intake, no application fee.
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant provides interim financial assistance to painters, sculptors, and printmakers facing an unforeseen, catastrophic event such as fire, flood, or a medical emergency. Applicants must have been engaged in a mature phase of their art for at least ten years and must have a current, urgent need that is beyond their means. The maximum award is USD 15,000, with USD 5,000 being typical, given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency. The program does not cover dental work, chronic situations, capital improvements, projects, general indebtedness, or lack of employment. There is no deadline; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, usually within about four weeks, and within 24 to 48 hours in the most urgent cases.
CERF+ provides Emergency Relief Grants of USD 3,000 to craft artists in the United States who have experienced a recent and substantially disruptive career-threatening emergency or disaster. Eligible applicants are individual craft artists aged 18 or older who have lived and worked in the US or US Territories for the past two years and who make original three-dimensional visual art objects by hand, including folk and traditional art forms. The grant is a one-time non-taxable gift with no reporting required on how funds are used. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, though the program will not fund applicants if too much time has passed since the qualifying event. There is no application fee. Artists may receive one grant per emergency, no more than one per calendar year, and up to four grants over their lifetime.
The Factory on Willow is a non-profit funded artist residency in Manchester, New Hampshire, housed in a 90,000 square foot mill building from 1904. The 12 week program supports amateur and emerging artists of any medium to develop their current projects and creative practice. Selected artists receive a furnished studio apartment with utilities and internet, a USD 350 travel stipend, and a USD 1600 stipend covering food and art supplies. The residency runs in three annual sessions (March to May, June to August, and September to November), with two artists selected per session. Each residency concludes with a public capstone showcase, and participants donate one work to the Factory's permanent collection. There is no application fee and applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
The Cloud House Residency, run by Dreamsong in the Northeast Arts District of Minneapolis, provides accommodation and support for individuals working in contemporary art who intend to develop, exhibit, or curate new work in Minnesota. Residents stay in a 700 square foot one-bedroom cottage on Dreamsong's compound and receive a prorated stipend of USD 300 per week, with possible studio space and travel or materials budgets considered on request. The program is open to emerging and mid-career visual artists, curators, and writers with a focus on contemporary art, and it hosts one individual or a two-person collaborative team at a time. The organizers arrange introductions to local artists, curators, writers, institutions, and galleries across the Twin Cities. Standard stays are 4 to 6 weeks, with occasional one-week options. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the program is currently booking residents for October through December 2026 and throughout 2027.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation awards unrestricted grants to professional visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists working on paper, including printmakers. Grants range up to USD 50,000 over a one-year period and can be used for both professional and personal expenses such as art supplies, studio rent, and living costs. Applicants must demonstrate recognizable artistic merit and financial need, and must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional venues such as galleries and museums. The Foundation does not fund students, commercial or graphic art, video, performance, film, or generative and AI-generated work. Applications are accepted on a rolling, year-round basis with no deadline, and the review process typically takes nine months to a year. There is no application fee, and all applications must be submitted online.
Amarte Fonds is a private Dutch foundation that supports the arts, with rolling (continuous) contributions for visual artists and independent curators. There are two contribution types: a development contribution of up to EUR 2,750 and a project contribution of up to EUR 5,500. Up to 80 percent is paid in advance, with the remainder after the final report is approved. Applicants must be based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom (the ABC and SSS islands). The fund also supports work across theatre, film, music, literature and interdisciplinary projects through specific programmes. There is no fixed deadline and no application fee; decisions are relatively fast. Apply year-round via the online portal.
Commission artists to create new work in publicly accessible spaces such as hospitals or museums. Open to individuals and organisations. Continuous deadline.
Support for visual artists with 4+ years of experience to expand their portfolio, increase visibility or conduct research. Continuous deadline.
Funding for concrete artistic plans, research projects, or working periods in the Netherlands or abroad. Continuous deadline.
Support for visual artists at the beginning of their careers with plans for new work. Continuous deadline.
Support for owners and managers of objects registered as protected heritage. Continuous deadline.
Voucher to assist hiring artisans for artistic research or work production. Continuous deadline.
Voucher covering childcare costs for visual artists with dependents under compulsory school age. Continuous deadline.
Funding for developing and deepening artistic practice. Continuous deadline.
Quick-response voucher for visual artists, curators, art critics and art observers based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom who have been invited to take part in a public programme abroad. Eligible activities include giving a lecture, performance, book presentation or taking part in a panel at a contemporary visual art institution, venue, festival or symposium outside the Netherlands. Participation in an exhibition and commercial gallery or art fair contexts are not eligible. Visual artists need at least one year of professional practice; curators, critics and art observers need at least two years. Applicants cannot be enrolled full-time in a Bachelor's, Master's or postdoctoral programme. The voucher covers travel and accommodation up to EUR 2,500. Rolling intake, but the timing window is strict: applications are accepted a maximum of 4 months and a minimum of 5 weeks before the activity starts. No application fee.
Rolling general project funding for smaller media-art works, events and research. Covers interdisciplinary projects across music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature, film, architecture, socioculture, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, and children's and youth culture. For artists, professionals, initiatives and institutions based in Karlsruhe (group applications must include at least one person/institution with first residence or registered office in Karlsruhe). Applied for via the City of Karlsruhe online application; selected by UCCoMA Office staff.
PAID 12-week online mentorship program from Belgrade Art Studio: each artist works one-on-one with a dedicated artist-mentor through weekly 1-hour Zoom/Google Meet sessions, aimed at artists at a turning point in their practice (stuck, seeking new directions, experimenting with unfamiliar media including AI). Hybrid seminar/workshop format supporting both physical and online presentation, plus curatorial thinking, writing, interviews, and documentation. Closes with an online viewing and moderated discussion of the works produced. ELIGIBILITY: open worldwide to artists and creatives across visual arts, music, theatre, dance, film, writing, design, photography, digital/interactive art, games, fashion, architecture, and curation. English-language program (ability to collaborate in English preferred but accommodations possible). EXPECTATIONS: artists must treat the program as they would an in-person residency (dedicated time for research/creation/reflection), submit in-progress material for social-media exposure, participate in an artist interview, and refrain from hate speech or discriminatory content. APPLY by emailing CV, summary, and portfolio (links accepted) to artlab@belgradeartstudio.com. Rolling intake (no deadline). Selected artists are announced and contacted by email. COST: EUR 675 to participate — this is a paid offering, not a funded residency.
The BFI Doc Society Features Production Fund (delivered via BFI with Doc Society as delegate partner) supports UK filmmakers producing non-fiction feature films intended for theatrical release. Two strands: Directions (first- or second-time directors) and Momentum (established talent). AMOUNT: up to £150,000 non-recoupable grant (the total Doc Society contribution per project cannot exceed £150,000). ELIGIBILITY: UK-based filmmakers, both emerging and established directors; experienced and debut producers eligible; projects must meet at least three of six stated priorities: equity/diversity, audience impact, talent development, creative risk, UK-wide access, and environmental sustainability. PROCESS: two-stage — submit an Expression of Interest, then a Full Application if invited. Rolling intake year-round. Opened May 2026. APPLY via BFI Doc Society website. Contact: hellobfi@docsociety.org.
Cill Rialaig Arts Centre offers free residencies in restored cottages on Bolus Head, County Kerry, for artists, filmmakers, composers, and writers; over 4,900 artists from many countries have attended. Apply by email to cillrialaigarts@gmail.com; there is no formal deadline cycle.
Hypha Studios matches artists with free meanwhile-use spaces across London and the UK. Speculative exhibition proposals are accepted on a rolling basis and kept on file until a suitable space opens. No geographic restriction is stated, but applicants practically need to be able to install and attend in the UK.
Marfa Open runs a gallery, an annual art festival (6th edition), and a 3-4 week live-in residency in its gallery space that ends in an exhibition; it has also mounted international shows. Historically free to propose and open to everyone including international artists. NOTE: there is no formal application portal; intake is by direct contact via the website (the old marfaopen.org application site is dead; the live site is marfaopen.art).
Fonds 21 supports professional, high-quality art and culture projects by Dutch non-profit organizations (foundations, associations and non-profit BVs/NVs), across performing arts, visual arts, film, literature and interdisciplinary work, with additional pillars for arts education and youth & society. The minimum request is EUR 10,000 with no stated maximum, and roughly EUR 11.5 million is available annually. Applications are accepted year-round via the online portal (after a short eligibility snelcheck) and must be submitted at least four months before the project start date. Free-of-charge events are generally not supported; the fund expects most programming to be paid-access. No application fee.
Het Cultuurfonds (formerly Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds) invests over EUR 40 million per year in culture and nature in the Netherlands. Foundations and associations can apply year-round for project grants (typically EUR 15,000 to EUR 50,000 at national level), and since 2025 individual makers and collectives can apply for up to EUR 5,000. Provincial chapters run their own quarterly rounds for regional projects, and numerous themed funds (EUR 5,000 to EUR 25,000) cover specific disciplines. Rolling intake via the online application portal. No application fee.
VSBfonds supports cultural initiatives that make it possible for everyone in the Netherlands to take part in art and culture, spanning ten programme lines from professional performances to community arts. Applications are accepted year-round with no deadlines from foundations, associations and applicants without a formal legal form, and must be submitted at least four months before the initiative starts (two months for amateur arts). A two-minute online quickscan checks eligibility before the formal application. No fixed minimum or maximum amount; the request should be proportionate to other funding. No application fee.
The Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, one of the Dutch national cultural funds (annual budget around EUR 30 million), currently has several schemes open for applications: cultural education in vocational education (mbo, EUR 5,000-55,000), cultural education in vmbo/vso/pro (EUR 10,000-65,000), cultural education for the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom (EUR 5,000-50,000), an open call for design-based learning platforms (up to EUR 75,000) and an interdisciplinary scheme for professional makers (EUR 12,500-50,000). Most schemes target cultural institutions, in some cases in partnership with schools. See the subsidies overview for per-scheme conditions. No application fee.
AFK is the City of Amsterdam's arts fund and the main route to project money for artists and organisations working in the city, and it was the significant gap in this desk's Dutch coverage. The Projectsubsidies 2026-2028 scheme funds art and culture projects across disciplines, split into four categories by scale and applicant type; requests up to EUR 7,500 in categories 1 and 2 are assigned to an assessment round by monthly draw, with published loting and gesprek dates. ELIGIBILITY: you must live or work in the municipality of Amsterdam or in Zaanstad, Oostzaan, Landsmeer, Waterland, Haarlemmermeer, Amstelveen, Ouder-Amstel or Diemen. Both individual makers and organisations can apply depending on category. NOTE: AFK periodically closes individual categories when demand outruns budget (categories 3 and 4 for professional art were temporarily shut in May 2026 and reopened on 1 July 2026), so check which categories are open before you start. Applications are in Dutch through the AFK portal. Phone 020 520 0520, weekdays 09:30-12:30 and 13:30-16:00.
A standing travel fund from the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) that helps artists, collectives and writers based in Turkey get to international engagements abroad: exhibitions, theatre and dance performances, film screenings, concerts and similar activities. AMOUNT: up to EUR 1,300 towards documented transport costs. Flight support is the priority; economy tickets and public transport only, with accommodation covered in some cases depending on the applicant's budget plan. The fund does not support commercial gallery activity, profit-oriented business models, or personal and tourist travel. WHO CAN APPLY (all must be true): aged 18 to 40; a citizen of the Republic of Turkey; resident in Turkey; departing from and returning to Turkey for the planned trip; applying as an artist, group, collective or initiative; actively producing as a musician, artist, director, performer or writer in music, cinema, performing arts, contemporary art or literature; holding an invitation letter or other document proving the international collaboration; able to justify why the trip matters for professional development; with prior experience of comparable international or national events; and not having received support from this programme in the past year or applied for the same trip already. The hosting institution is expected to be an internationally recognised cultural organisation, and the applicant must be an invited guest, co-organiser or project partner. DEADLINE: applications are open all year and reviewed by an IKSV evaluation panel four times a year, meeting in the last weeks of January, April, July and October, with results announced within 15 days of each meeting. Applications submitted after 14 July 2026 go to the final 2026 panel, planned for late October 2026. HOW TO APPLY: online form at https://forms.gle/NCjyQ7HbncLkawi3A with CV, portfolio (max 10 MB, including performance video for performing arts and music), statement of purpose (max 1,000 characters), one-page budget plan and the invitation letter. All documents as PDF; the invitation letter in English, everything else in Turkish. The open-call page and the application are in Turkish only; there is no English version. Questions: gencsanatcifonu@iksv.org.