Currently 67 active paid grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the US, across AI, arts, film, journalism, research, tech and cross-disciplinary practice. 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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Anthropic's four-month STEM Fellows Program brings mathematicians, physicists, biologists, chemists, engineers and other domain scientists in to work on unsolved problems in their own fields using Claude. Fellows join small pods of peers from related disciplines, define hard open problems that Claude currently struggles with, build datasets, simulations and evaluations, test how the model plans experiments and interprets data, and map where its answers are confidently wrong, with access to frontier models and internal tools and weekly meetings with Anthropic researchers. Some fellowships may be extended. ELIGIBILITY: a STEM PhD plus several years of experience (for example postdoc or faculty), hands-on experience with Claude and Claude Code, full-time availability, and existing US work authorisation (no visa sponsorship); prior machine-learning experience helps but is not required. Runs 12 January to 8 May 2027, full time, San Francisco by default with a required one-week in-person orientation there; remote within the US may be considered case by case. Later stages include a take-home exercise and conversations with the research team. DEADLINE: 28 October 2026 (no time zone stated); offers planned by 20 November 2026.
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans annually select 30 fellows based on their potential to make significant contributions to American society, culture, and their chosen fields, across disciplines including the arts. WHAT YOU GET: up to USD 90,000 over two years in stipend and tuition support for graduate study beginning fall 2027, plus mentorship, community, all-expenses-paid attendance at the Fall Conference, and lifelong connection to a network of nearly 900 fellows. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be an immigrant or the child of immigrant(s), meet the program's age requirements, and be in the first two years of a graduate or professional program or applying to one during the admissions process; school selectivity, GPA, and test scores are not used to determine eligibility, and reapplying is allowed. APPLICATION: free, via the online portal, with a resume or CV, two essays (1,000 words max each), transcripts, any program-required test scores, and 3 to 5 recommendation letters. TIMELINE: finalists notified mid-January 2027, virtual interviews in February, winners notified in March. DEADLINE: 29 October 2026, 2:00 PM EDT.
Grants for large-scale interactive installation art shown at Black Rock City 2027; much of the funded work is creative-tech, light and kinetic. Two-stage process: a Letter of Intent now, with invited full proposals due mid-January 2027. FUNDING STRUCTURE: the official page publishes the overall picture rather than a per-award figure: a USD 1.5 million annual budget across roughly 75 projects, grants covering 40 to 60% of a project's proposed budget, and grants over USD 20,000 described as rare. ELIGIBILITY: open internationally, individuals and collectives; attending the event is recommended but not required. DEADLINE: Letter of Intent due 29 October 2026, 5pm PDT; late LOIs are not accepted.
The City of Los Angeles' residency-based grant line for socially engaged art. Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residencies (NEAR, USD 12,000) fund individual teaching-artists to run participatory, multi-session residency projects in self-selected non-arts venues (community organizations, civic spaces) across LA's Council Districts, reaching audiences with little exposure to arts programming. Creative Optimism-Uplifting Promises (CO-UP, USD 15,000) funds collaborations between social-justice nonprofits and artists for community-driven arts projects and public events. Both lines run on one autumn application cycle for the 2027-28 framework. ELIGIBILITY: Los Angeles-based artists and host or partner organizations; projects must take place in the City of Los Angeles. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026, 11:59 PM via the DCA grants portal.
The Foundation for American Innovation's Conservative AI Policy Fellowship is an eight-week, part-time, work-compatible programme on AI policy for conservative policy professionals in Washington DC. WHO: congressional and executive branch staff, policy researchers and think tank staff, tech professionals moving into AI policy, and exceptional early-career applicants; no technical AI background is required. FORMAT: weekly in-person sessions at FAI's Capitol Hill office (usually Fridays 12:00-13:30 or Tuesdays 18:30-20:30), about 2-3 hours a week, plus a required weekend retreat in February. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 1,500 stipend for eligible fellows (subject to ethics rules for government employees), with meals and retreat costs covered. APPLICATION: online form linked from the FAI fellowships page. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026.
Umbrella request for proposals for ambitious AI-first projects that make the transition to capable AI go well and use it to unlock science. Three connected layers, each with its own detailed call: I. Local Compute (compute that individuals or communities physically own and control); II. Coordination and Accountability (supercollaboration and decentralized alignment, human empowerment, AI insurance and open governance); III. AI-First Science: Bio, Neuro, Nano (automated nanotechnology, whole-brain emulation, replacement, enhancement, biostasis). AI-first means AI is the primary engine of progress, not tapped onto an existing research program; strong proposals identify narrow bottlenecks and propose something that can be built, tested or measured. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and scientific network. ELIGIBILITY: individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding); applicants who want to be active in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Grants typically $30,000 to $100,000, smaller for the Human Empowerment and AI Insurance & Open Governance areas and higher for the rest. Review takes about three months after the deadline. Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
The MATS Residency, announced in August 2026 as a new track alongside the seasonal MATS fellowship, funds 6 to 24 months of high-independence AI safety research for experienced researchers, whether already in AI safety or moving in from adjacent fields. COMPENSATION: USD 155,000 to 285,000 per year gross depending on location, seniority and experience, plus insurance, retirement plan, PTO (17 days US / 20 days UK), conference funding, catered meals, and up to USD 25,000 in relocation support. ELIGIBILITY: at least one substantial piece of research-caliber work; credentials are not required. Full-time (part-time case by case for academics on sabbatical), in person at MATS offices in Berkeley, London, or Washington DC, with visa support where required. TIMELINE: the Winter 2027 intake window runs 25 August to 31 October 2026 (AoE), with decisions by end of November and interviews plus a paid work test in the first week of December; three intake windows per year.
Track I of Foresight Institute's AI for Science & Safety Nodes RFP funds building and scaling local compute setups that individuals or communities physically own and control. With five companies holding 71 percent of the world's AI compute, researchers relying on APIs and rented compute face data exposure, steep price increases and the risk of losing access altogether; open models are ready for serious science and safety work, but the ecosystem lacks sovereign and secure compute infrastructure. LOOKING FOR: local compute clusters in different sizes and configurations that are easy to set up and run across varied connectivity and electricity environments; blueprints for easy yet secure cluster management; models for bringing down cost, like selling idle compute or connecting to community clusters; ideally a business case for building, selling and distributing such clusters at scale. EXAMPLE DELIVERABLES: a prototype AI cluster an average person can deploy at home, software that runs a node without expert knowledge, economic models showing how the hardware pays for itself, a pilot deployment for individuals or communities. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and network; in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide may apply (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding). Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
Track II of Foresight Institute's AI for Science & Safety Nodes RFP funds ways for increasingly capable AI systems to coordinate with each other, the people using them, and the wider world, without handing power to a single model, lab or government. THREE FOCUS AREAS: (1) Supercollaboration and decentralized alignment: coordination and credit-assignment protocols, tooling for massive human-AI collectives, incentive designs robust to gaming, mutual monitoring and cross-checking among agents, scalable verification, and open coordination protocols built on boundaries as Schelling points for multi-agent coordination. (2) Human Empowerment: evidence, decision rules and working tools for when human control genuinely empowers people versus when AI delegation is preferable, including a 'when to defer control' framework and mechanisms to detect and fix hollow oversight. (3) AI Insurance and Open Governance: building a middle layer between lab self-governance and government regulation, such as ways for insurers to judge and price frontier-lab risk, independent incident reporting and assessment that does not leak lab secrets, and mechanisms like developer mutuals, catastrophe bonds or liability for near-misses. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and network; in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide may apply (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding). Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
Track III of Foresight Institute's AI for Science & Safety Nodes RFP funds AI-first science in bio, neuro and nano: work that asks what important science is stuck, what it is actually stuck on, and whether we can build the thing that removes that constraint. THREE FOCUS AREAS: (1) Automated nanotechnology: AI methods for nanoscale design, simulation and assembly, closed-loop fabrication and characterization tools, credible application pathways from toy problems to medicine, environment and bottom-up production, and defensive applications and safety frameworks. (2) Whole-brain emulation: cheaper and faster brain mapping and preservation, bringing down the cost of connectomics through better imaging or cheaper proofreading, lo-fi emulation pathways that predict organism behavior from behavioral and neural data, and shorter experimental feedback loops in neurobiology. (3) Replacement, Enhancement, Biostasis: longevity work including tissue engineering, organ synthesis, 3D bioprinting and progressive replacement strategies; reversible biostasis for organs and full humans with improved preservation and revival protocols and organ banking; and datasets for independently testing genetic predictors, gene editing and better measures of aging. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and network; in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide may apply (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding). Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
Foresight Institute's AI for Science and Safety Nodes request for proposals funds open, AI-first projects across three calls: I. Local Compute (compute that individuals and communities physically own and control), II. Coordination and Accountability (supercollaboration and decentralised alignment, human empowerment, and AI insurance and open governance: multi-agent oversight and verification, tools for collective deliberation, decision rules for when human control adds value, and independent risk assessment or insurance mechanisms for frontier labs), and III. AI-first Science (automated nanotechnology, whole-brain emulation, frontier bio). Grantees can also get workspace in the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes (a community xNode runs in Cape Town) and private compute. All funded code, data and outputs must be open-sourced. Projects are judged on fit with the focus area, impact on reducing existential risk from AI, feasibility within 1 to 3 years, AI-first working methods, ability to execute, and high-risk, high-reward potential. ELIGIBILITY: individuals, teams and organisations worldwide; nonprofits and for-profits welcome (for-profits must justify the need for grant funding). Priority goes to applicants who want to work in person at one of the Nodes, but it is not required. Review takes about three months; applications can opt in to sharing with Lightcone Commons. DEADLINE: 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
The Netherland-America Foundation funds professional artistic and cultural projects that show a clear exchange between Dutch and American artists, institutions or audiences, such as exhibitions, performances and other cultural initiatives that promote dialogue and collaboration. Both emerging artists and established organisations may apply. NOT FUNDED: applicants who are not working cultural professionals, seminar attendance, degree tuition, residencies, research, projects without a Dutch-American connection (these are not forwarded to the committee), and projects already underway or finished at the time of review. TIMING: apply at least 6 months before the money is needed; a letter of intent is optional and encouraged for projects 9 or more months out, after which the committee may invite a full application. Recent grantees must wait three years before reapplying. Letter and budget in English, addressed to the NAF Cultural Committee; include visuals where relevant. QUARTERLY CUT-OFFS: 1 February (window 2 Nov-1 Feb, results mid-March), 1 May (results mid-June), 1 August (results mid-September) and 1 November (window 2 Aug-1 Nov, results mid-December). Submit via Submittable.
The SURF Artist-in-Residence program invites artists to create work inspired by the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. At 4,850 feet deep, SURF is the deepest underground laboratory in the United States, housed in the former Homestake Gold Mine, and hosts experiments in physics, biology, geology and engineering. The residency is modeled after programs run by the National Park Service, CERN and Fermilab, and aims to create awareness of the science and encourage interdisciplinary work. STRUCTURE: a four-week on-site visit in summer 2027 (between 22 May and 31 July, timed to the artist's schedule) with studio time, guided underground visits, tours of Lead and the surrounding Black Hills sites, and dinners with scientists; then a one-week visit in October 2027 to install an art exhibition, give up to two lectures based on the proposal, and run promotional or outreach events in the local community (which may include schools, universities, interviews or documentation of the residency). FUNDING: a USD 5,000 stipend paid in two installments; the artist may apply for up to USD 5,000 in additional funds for creating the artwork; transportation, housing and per diem for both visits; and return shipping covered up to USD 7,000. CONDITIONS: each artist donates at least one artwork, selected by a SURF representative, to SURF's permanent art collection, and is responsible for installation and de-installation in coordination with SURF and the exhibition space. A timeline and expectations are agreed in an MOU before the residency begins. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: working underground requires being comfortable in dark spaces, following all safety protocols, walking on uneven surfaces for at least a mile at a time, and negotiating wet, slippery conditions and an elevator ride in the dark; safety training and loaned personal protective equipment are mandatory, and a SURF guide accompanies the artist at all times. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026, via the SURF AiR application portal.
The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships place scientists and engineers inside US federal agencies, congressional offices and the judicial branch for a year of hands-on policymaking, contributing technical knowledge and analytical skills to the federal policy process. AI, data and computing policy placements are among the largest tracks, and AAAS runs a dedicated AI legislative branch cohort that places AI experts in congressional offices at GS-12 Step 10 on the DC locality scale. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens holding a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in any science or engineering field, or a master's degree in engineering plus three years of post-degree professional experience; some tracks accept a bachelor's plus five years. Relevant expertise includes AI, machine learning, computer science, robotics and data science. Fellows must reside in DC, Maryland or northern Virginia during the fellowship year. TIMELINE: the application portal opens 1 August 2026 and closes 1 November 2026 at 11:59pm ET, with eligibility notification in late November, interview notification January to February 2027, semi-finalist interviews in March, placement offers by early May, and the fellowship year running 1 September 2027 to 31 August 2028. Apply through fellowshipapp.aaas.org.
The American-Scandinavian Foundation's award program for study and research abroad is its longest-standing commitment to educational exchange: over the past 100 years, more than 4,000 fellowships and grants have gone to Americans working in the Nordic region and Scandinavians in the US engaged in study, research, or creative arts projects. Fellowships for Americans in the Nordic Countries support projects in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Sapmi. AMOUNTS: long-term fellowships of up to USD 23,000 for 4 to 12 months, and short-term grants of up to USD 5,000 for 1 to 3 months; awards are given in all fields, with graduate students (preferably dissertation-related), academic professionals, and creative artists eligible. In 2026, 31 American Fellows were granted over USD 277,390 in total. REPORTING: fellows abroad more than six months submit an interim report mid-project, and all fellows submit a final narrative report within 60 days of the fellowship period's end. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026 for the 2027-28 cycle. See ASF's Program Guidelines for full requirements and apply via the ASF application portal.
The MIT Museum seeks proposals for compelling digital content exploring humanity's relationship with the BRAIN, the museum's thematic focus from April to September 2027 bringing together art, science, technology and design on cognition, neurotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, mental health and the boundaries of ability. Selected proposals run as ambient content on the two-story digital screen (3840x3024, 80:63 aspect ratio, 20'3" x 16'2") in the museum's central Exchange amphitheater. The museum wants immersive, non-linear, experimental, non-didactic work, such as artful visualizations of data or scientific phenomena; interactivity (touchscreens, QR codes) is out of scope and content-critical audio is discouraged. Content must run on the museum's existing hardware (Windows PC with RTX 3090, NEC LED wall with Analog Way 4K system). WHO CAN APPLY: artists, scientists, engineers, designers and other creative practitioners, from MIT or the broader community. SUPPORT: flat honorarium of USD 2,500-5,000 per selected proposal; no additional development funding. Applications reviewed from 2 November, accepted list finalized January 2027. Deadline: 1 November 2026.
The Rome Prize supports roughly 30 artists and scholars a year with a residential fellowship at the American Academy in Rome; disciplines include Design and Visual Arts, where media and new-genre work is regularly funded. Fellows receive a USD 16,000 (half-term) or USD 30,000 (full-term) stipend plus housing, workspace and weekday meals on the Academy's Janiculum campus. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens for most categories; foreign nationals who have lived in the US for the three years preceding the deadline may apply in Environmental Arts and Humanities and certain postdoctoral categories. FEES: USD 50 (one category) or USD 60 (multiple) by 1 November 2026; a late window runs to 15 November at USD 80/90. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026.
The Processing Foundation's 2027 fellowship cycle supports artists, educators and creative technologists working on open-source projects, with a USD 10,000 stipend over an 8-month fellowship period. THREE TRACKS: Collective Intelligence (remote, US-based), co-designing AI education tools with youth, aimed at educators with software development or AI/ML experience; Gaming the System (hybrid, Los Angeles), building an open-source toolkit for video game design with underserved communities, for game makers and creative coders based in LA; and DIY Computing (hybrid, New York City), developing open-source hardware and software environments for custom computers, for early-career hardware artists in NYC (applicants currently enrolled in degree programs are ineligible for this track). ELIGIBILITY: US applicants only; hybrid tracks require residency in LA or NYC respectively. International applicants are pointed to the Foundation's Microgrants and Processing Community Day instead. APPLICATION: via nomination form, selecting one track; self-nominations are allowed. Selection by a panel of the Processing Foundation team and external reviewers, judging strength of the project, fit with the Foundation's mission and potential impact. TIMELINE: nominations open 7 October 2026, close 1 November 2026 at 11:59 PM PST; fellows notified 14 December 2026; fellowship runs 25 January to 26 September 2027.
Companion call to the BRAIN Digital Content Open Call: the MIT Museum seeks public programs exploring humanity's relationship with the BRAIN, its thematic focus from April to September 2027 spanning cognition, neurotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, mental health and the boundaries of ability. FORMATS: talks, demonstrations, performances, workshops, films, master classes, music, VR/XR, LARP and maker programs; art-and-science projects especially encouraged. NOT eligible: installations and exhibitions, including temporary ones (screen-based work goes through the separate BRAIN Digital Content call). VENUES: the Exchange amphitheater (capacity 100), Phillip Sharp Room (80), two Learning Labs classrooms (30 each), open areas and roving carts; target audience is curious adults and teens. FUNDING: up to USD 1,000 total per program, covering all costs including speaker/performer fees, travel, materials and equipment rental. WHO CAN APPLY: artists, scientists, engineers, designers and other creative practitioners aged 18+, from MIT or the broader community; proposals need not relate to MIT research; multiple proposals allowed. APPLY via the Fillout form with event name, program description, intended audience, practical considerations, budget, and marketing plans. TIMELINE: review from 2 November 2026, accepted programs finalized by 15 December 2026, programs run April to September 2027. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026, 11:59 PM EST. Questions: mitmuseum-opencall@mit.edu.
A three-month residency for AI safety generalists: builders, operators and organizers rather than researchers. Residents pitch, build and ship their own projects with weekly advice from field leaders, then get support landing a full-time AI safety role. ELIGIBILITY: open worldwide to early- and mid-career people from operations, communications, policy, engineering, computer science and similar fields; the main criteria are a track record of execution and a genuine commitment to AI safety. TIMELINE: applications close end of day 1 November 2026 (Anywhere on Earth); international applicants are strongly encouraged to apply by 26 October for visa time. Work tests by 9 November, interviews mid-November, decisions by 25 November. Free-response answers must be written without AI assistance.
Inciter Art, the Fractured Atlas blog, runs themed quarterly open calls for short essays by artists and arts workers, and this season's theme is 'tending to the hearth': generosity, solidarity and collective investment in the invisible infrastructure behind creative work. Pitch an idea through the form; selected writers are notified one week after the deadline, get four weeks to write a first draft, then one round of edits with the final due a week later, with the Fractured Atlas editorial specialist available for support. Published pieces run 750 to 900 words. Editors look for pitches grounded in your own experience as an artist or arts worker that say something new or a familiar thing in a new way. AI may be used only in a supporting role for writing (research, structure, grammar) and AI-generated images are not accepted; every pitch is read by a human. Writers keep all rights and copyright; Fractured Atlas may use the final piece in promotion with credit. Everyone who submits hears back. ELIGIBILITY: artists and arts workers; payment requires a W-9, so it is set up for US taxpayers. Pitches outside the themed call are also accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. DEADLINE: Monday 2 November 2026, 11:59PM ET; later submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis.
ACLS Digital Justice Grants fund digital projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of colour and other historically marginalised communities, including Black, Latinx, Indigenous, disabled and LGBTQ+ communities. The programme's stated aims are to diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues, with an explicit interest in scholars working with under-utilised or understudied source materials and those at institutions with less infrastructure for digital work. TWO TRACKS, one deadline: SEED GRANTS of USD 10,000 to 25,000 for projects in the start-up or prototyping phase, covering planning, prototyping and methodology testing; and DEVELOPMENT GRANTS of USD 50,000 to 100,000 for projects that have moved past proof of concept and can show preliminary work and evidence of engagement. ELIGIBILITY: at least one principal investigator must be a scholar in the humanities or interpretive social sciences, and awarded funds must be administered by a US institution of higher education. WHAT IS NOT FUNDED: creative works such as novels or films, textbooks, straightforward translations, purely pedagogical projects, and institutional indirect costs. Note that outputs are expected to be made as widely available as intellectual property allows, ideally under the most liberal open-source or Creative Commons licence. TIMING: applications go through the ACLS online fellowship and grant administration system (ofa.acls.org) by 3 November 2026 at 17:00 ET; grant terms begin between 1 July and 31 December 2027 and run 12 to 18 months. The programme is funded by the Mellon Foundation.
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin awards research fellowships for on-site work in its collections spanning literature, photography, film, art, performing arts, music and cultural history, supporting scholarly articles, dissertations, creative works, digital humanities projects and exhibition proposals. FELLOWSHIP TYPES: Postdoctoral Fellowships of USD 3,500 per month for one or two months, open to holders of a PhD or terminal degree (MFA, MLIS), current or former faculty, and similarly qualified researchers without institutional affiliation; Dissertation Fellowships of USD 2,500 for graduate students with doctoral dissertations in progress; and Travel Stipends of USD 2,000 open to graduate students, current or former faculty and independent researchers including journalists and artists (not combinable with other Ransom Center fellowships). International recipients in all categories receive an additional one-time USD 500 stipend toward visa and travel costs. Fellows spend most days in the Reading Room consulting the collections, with access to a shared office, during a residency period between 1 June 2027 and 31 August 2028. APPLY with a three-page proposal PDF and letters of recommendation; recommendation letters are also due by the deadline. DEADLINE: 6 November 2026, 5:00 PM CST.
The Federation of American Scientists' Metascience Fellowship places three full-time fellows inside federal research agencies such as the NSF or DOE for one year, after a pre-service residency at FAS. Fellows advise agency leaders on evidence-based research reform, analyse grantmaking, peer review and open-science practices, design experiments with built-in evaluation, write briefing memos, coordinate metascience work across agencies and give hands-on technical help. Placements may be extended depending on funding and performance. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens only; current federal employees cannot apply. Mid- to senior-career professionals with an advanced degree or equivalent experience in a scientific, engineering or public-policy field, willing to work mostly in person in the Washington, DC area. Fellows must start at FAS no later than 4 January 2027. Applications take a CV and three responses of up to 300 words each, submitted through the FAS platform. DEADLINE: 9 November 2026, 11:59PM ET; late applications are not reviewed.
The A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists, established in 1993 by artist Stephanie Bernheim, annually awards six emerging artists based in New York City their first solo exhibition in NYC with the support of the A.I.R. community; more than 130 artists have come through the program. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 3,000 stipend, a solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in spring/summer 2028, 4 to 5 professional development workshops, an assigned artist-mentor, a one-on-one studio visit with a review panelist, and curatorial and staff support across the 12-month fellowship (September 2027 to August 2028). WHO IS ELIGIBLE: women and non-binary visual artists working in any media, 18 or older, resident in the five boroughs of New York City for the full fellowship; you must not have had a solo exhibition at a permanent NYC venue in the last 10 years, must not be enrolled in a degree-granting program during the fellowship, must not be in a comparable development program, and must not be an A.I.R. staff/board member or fellowship alum. SELECTION PANEL for this cycle: Ada Potter, Jo-ey Tang and Mindy Seu. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 11:59pm ET. TO APPLY: via Submittable, linked from the program page.
The Asian Cultural Council's New York Fellowship brings artists, scholars and arts professionals from Asia to New York City for a six-month immersive cultural exchange. SUPPORT: USD 38,000 for the six-month fellowship. ELIGIBILITY: non-US citizens/residents from ACC-eligible Asian countries (including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, among others); age 21+; at least five years of professional experience in an eligible discipline (architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art); English proficiency (J-1 visa requirement); fellows cannot work or pursue coursework during the fellowship. COHORTS: January-June 2028 or July-December 2028. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply platform; applications open 1 October 2026. Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026. No application fee. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026 at 9:59 AM ET.
The Asian Cultural Council's Individual Fellowship supports self-directed exploration and cultural exchange experiences in a new or less familiar environment, fostering exchange between the United States and Asia and within Asia. SUPPORT: up to USD 35,000 for a 1-to-6-month program (minimum 30 days; two or more months preferred); single or joint applications with up to 3 participants. ELIGIBILITY: citizens or permanent residents of ACC-eligible countries (the US and countries across Asia, from Afghanistan to Vietnam); age 21+; at least five years of professional experience in an eligible discipline (architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art); English proficiency if traveling to the US; no coursework or teaching during the fellowship. Grant activities must take place between 1 August 2027 and 31 December 2028. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply platform; applications open 1 October 2026. Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026. No application fee. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026 at 9:59 AM ET.
The Asian Cultural Council's Graduate Fellowship supports Asian graduate students in an eligible arts or culture discipline at a US university. SUPPORT: USD 15,000 for one academic year of full-time coursework; a second year may be renewed at ACC's discretion. ELIGIBILITY: citizens or legal permanent residents of an ACC-eligible country, territory or region in Asia (US citizens and permanent residents are not eligible); enrolled in, or admitted by 1 April 2027 to, a full-time in-residence graduate degree in the US in an eligible discipline (architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art); must be in the coursework phase, not the research or thesis phase. The five-year experience requirement for other ACC fellowships does not apply. Applicants need a valid US student visa (ACC does not sponsor student visas). Applicants may apply to only one ACC programme per cycle. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply portal with an Individual Account (https://goapply2.akoyago.com/acc/application/GRAD2027). Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET. Questions: the ACC office matching your citizenship (Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines and Taiwan have their own offices; all others application@accny.org). DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET.
The Asian Cultural Council's Organization Grant funds arts and culture organisations to send participants on cultural exchange between the US and Asia or within Asia. SUPPORT: up to USD 50,000. ELIGIBILITY: nonprofit organisations, government-affiliated or sponsored arts and culture institutions, or academic institutions, legally registered and based in an ACC-eligible location (the US and countries across Asia) with at least five years of artistic or cultural programming. The activity lead and all participants must be citizens or legal permanent residents of an eligible location, though not necessarily the organisation's own. Eligible disciplines: architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art. ACC does not sponsor visas. Applicants may apply to only one ACC programme per cycle. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply portal with an Organization Account (https://goapply2.akoyago.com/acc/application/ORG2027). Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET. Questions: the ACC office matching your location (Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines and Taiwan have their own offices; all others application@accny.org). DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET.
LMCC's flagship regrant line (NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and NYSCA funds) for Manhattan-based individual artists, artist collectives and small nonprofits presenting public-facing arts events in the borough: exhibitions, performances, screenings, festivals, workshops and public art across all disciplines. WHAT YOU GET: USD 1,000 to 20,000 toward a public event taking place in Manhattan between January and December 2027; the related Creative Learning and UMEZ Arts Engagement lines run on the same deadline for arts-education and Upper Manhattan projects. ELIGIBILITY: Manhattan-based artists, collectives and nonprofit organizations (nonprofits with budgets under USD 250,000 for some lines); work must be presented publicly in Manhattan. DEADLINE: 12 November 2026, 6 PM EST, via LMCC's application portal; info sessions run through October.
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program awards USD 200,000 each to scholars, journalists, authors and public intellectuals for one to two years of research and writing toward a book or major study in the social sciences and humanities, with recent classes framed around understanding US political polarization and strengthening social cohesion. HOW IT WORKS: this is a nomination-based program; individuals cannot apply directly. Nominations come from designated nominators at universities, colleges, think tanks, publishers and other institutions, and most nominating institutions run internal selection rounds with deadlines in early October 2026 (check your institution's research office). Carnegie Corporation's nomination deadline is 13 November 2026, with fellows announced in spring 2027. ELIGIBILITY: US-based candidates put forward by their institutions; both senior and junior scholars are considered. If you are affiliated with a university or think tank and want to be considered, contact your institution's limited-submissions or research development office well before its internal deadline. NOMINATION DEADLINE: 13 November 2026.
The NYC track of Eyebeam's AGENCY residency cycle supports New York City-based artists exploring questions of agency at a moment when AI systems increasingly act, decide and carry out tasks on our behalf: how to preserve human agency as these systems shape human behavior, how to assert agency in imagining and building the societies we inhabit, and what agency becomes when understood as collective, relational, entangled and more-than-human. Projects might engage AI directly but do not have to; critical and creative approaches to power, autonomy, technological systems, collective action, human and nonhuman relationships, and the social and material structures of agency are all welcome, including reimagining AI through collective governance, repair, rehearsal or mischief, and repurposing AI systems toward new tools, methods and models for the public good. Residents receive a USD 5,000 stipend, mentorship, and access to tools and technical expertise through Eyebeam's network. ELIGIBILITY: individuals only (no collectives this cycle); not enrolled in a full-time degree program; not committed to another residency during the term; must live in New York City within the five boroughs and be able to work on site at Eyebeam at least one day a week for the full term. TIMELINE: deadline Sunday 15 November 2026, 11:59 PM ET; interviews 7-10 December; notifications 14 December; residency 15 March to 11 June 2027. Info session Monday 19 October 2026, 1 PM ET. Apply via Submittable, free.
Data Through Design, the annual exhibition of artworks that creatively analyze, interpret and interrogate data from New York City's Open Data portal, opens its 10th anniversary call, held in conjunction with NYC Open Data Week. THEME: reflections, reverberations and the arc of data over time; the evidence of time (footprints, traces, scars, markers of change), temporal mirrors and kaleidoscopes, messages from the past and future, fractals of time and visuals of scale. Artists may also respond to a previous DxD theme in light of time, and alumni artists are particularly encouraged to apply, including by revisiting past projects. FORMATS: digital, analog, physical, performance, sound works, walks, installations, creative coding, participatory mapping, drawings and more; the organizers highlight participatory data collection, radical and cognitive mapping, and data experienced through time, sound and the senses. REQUIREMENT: projects must reference or use at least one NYC Open Data dataset; other data, including novel and experimental collection systems, is welcome alongside it. WHAT YOU GET: USD 900 stipend, half before and half after the exhibition, plus inclusion in the multi-media group show in New York City, tentatively 26 March to 11 April 2027. Work must be installation-ready by 19 March 2027 and delivered to the venue 22 to 24 March. ELIGIBILITY: open to artists, civic technologists, data enthusiasts, city dwellers and creative practitioners; applicants must be approved to work in the US to be paid the stipend. The submission process has been revamped for this edition, with a new rubric and submission materials to review. APPLICATION: free, via the submission form on the DxD website. DEADLINE: 15 November 2026 at 23:59 EST.
The Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, run by the Portland Art Museum's Center for an Untold Tomorrow with the Oregon Arts Commission, gives Oregon media artists money to create or complete new work. Eligible work is artist-driven moving image, sound, digital or time-based media: narrative, documentary and experimental film, animation, video art, artist-made television, audio and podcasts, immersive and interactive media, web-based and digital work, AR, VR and mixed reality, and emerging forms. Review criteria include sustained professional achievement and potential future contribution to the field. ELIGIBILITY: artists aged 18 or over who have lived in Oregon for at least one year as their fixed, permanent principal home, not enrolled in a creative degree programme, and who have not received a Media Arts Fellowship or any Oregon Arts Commission fellowship in the previous five years; one application per year, joint applications split a single award. DEADLINE: 15 November 2026 (no time stated; late applications are not guaranteed processing).
Code:ART is the City of Palo Alto's digital art festival celebrating creative technology in public space, returning 13 to 16 October 2027. This call commissions one artist or team to create a signature interactive installation for Lytton Plaza with a USD 20,000 budget. ELIGIBILITY: open to individual artists and teams based in the US or internationally; individuals must be over 18, and for teams at least one member must be over 18 and able to contract with the City; applicants in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are particularly encouraged. You may also apply to the parallel Interactive Media Installations call, but can receive only one commission across both. APPLICATION: via SlideRoom. DEADLINE: Monday 16 November 2026, 23:59 Pacific Time.
Code:ART is the City of Palo Alto's digital art festival celebrating creative technology in public space, returning 13 to 16 October 2027. This call selects up to five interactive media installations for the festival, each with a budget of up to USD 9,000. ELIGIBILITY: open to artists nationally and internationally, individuals and teams. You may also apply to the parallel Lytton Plaza Installation call (USD 20,000), but can receive only one commission across both. APPLICATION: via SlideRoom. DEADLINE: Monday 16 November 2026, 23:59 Pacific Time.
The Kennedy Center's Access/VSA Emerging Young Artists Program (2027 theme: Thrive) awards 15 young disabled visual artists a USD 3,000 stipend, an all-expenses-paid career development week in Washington DC (14 to 18 June 2027) and exhibition of one work. ELIGIBILITY: aged 16 to 25 on the deadline date; US-based with the right to work in the US; have a disability as defined by the ADA and be willing to disclose it publicly; submitted work made in the last three years and after the onset of disability; no generative-AI work; previous winners ineligible. OBLIGATIONS: attend three virtual workshops (April to June 2027) and the DC week to receive the stipend. APPLICATION: free, via CaFE (artist.callforentry.org); accommodation and alternative-format requests by 30 October 2026. Winners notified by 13 January 2027. Questions: vsainfo@kennedy-center.org. DEADLINE: 19 November 2026, 23:59 ET.
Small project grants for socially engaged art; the 2027 cycle covers film/video and theater projects, a fit for experimental film and video work with a social edge. Two-step process: mail in an application request form first, then submit the full proposal via the portal. ELIGIBILITY: US residents with a Social Security number, or US-based nonprofits and fiscally sponsored projects. TIMELINE: request forms accepted 14 September through 20 November 2026 (postmark by 25 November); completed proposals due 16 December 2026, 5pm EST.
Molly Crockett's lab at Princeton, based in the Department of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values, is hiring a postdoc to start in summer or fall 2027. The research topic is flexible. The lab uses methods from computational social science and cognitive science informed by theory from science and technology studies and feminist epistemology, studying feedback loops between individual psychology, institutions and culture, and how the tech industry co-opts these processes to concentrate power. It is especially interested in bridging quantitative and qualitative methods for understanding human experience, and in how culture and power shape which questions are valued and which methods are legitimised. The lab is industry-independent and accepts no research funding from the tech industry; it uses a variety of ML methods and aims to develop thoughtful approaches to automation in scholarship, so it suits researchers excited about AI in science but wary of hype and industry influence. WHAT YOU GET: an USD 80,000 salary from stable institutional funds, initial one-year appointment renewable up to three years. APPLICATION: via Interfolio; questions about fit to mj.crockett@princeton.edu. Review of applications begins 20 November 2026 and continues until the position is filled.
A year-long fellowship for journalists covering artificial intelligence. Fellows complete a three-month full-time remote programme on AI and journalism fundamentals, attend a weeklong summit, then work for nine months as reporters embedded in a partner newsroom (current partners are in Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC and Cambridge). ELIGIBILITY: journalism or AI expertise, aged 18+ by 7 June 2027, no degree required; primarily for applicants with the right to work in the US, UK or Hong Kong, as visa sponsorship is uncommon and needs partner-outlet approval.
Annual design commission for an ambitious, technically challenging large-scale public artwork or structure, built over summer 2027 by more than 100 young people working with Beam staff. The selected designer collaborates through bi-weekly remote planning meetings and may visit the build with travel reimbursed, making this genuinely remote-friendly for a physical commission. A strong fit for creative-technology and installation practices. AWARD: USD 5,000 to the proposer plus roughly USD 15,000 in fabrication budget. ELIGIBILITY: open worldwide, any age, individuals or teams. DEADLINE: 30 November 2026, 11:59pm EST.
The Nieman Foundation brings around two dozen journalists to Harvard each year for two semesters of study, reflection and community, one of the oldest and best-known midcareer journalism fellowships in the world. Fellows design their own course of study, audit classes across Harvard's schools and take part in Nieman's own seminars and master classes; many use the year to deepen a beat such as technology, AI accountability, science or press freedom. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 87,500 stipend paid over the nine-month academic year (2026-27 figure), plus allowances toward housing, childcare and health insurance. WHO IS ELIGIBLE: working journalists, staff or freelance, in any medium, with at least five years of full-time media experience; open to applicants from any country. Freelancers may use a recent supervising editor for one of the three required recommendation letters. Special fellowships within the program include the Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation. TO APPLY: applications for the class of 2028 open in the first week of October 2026 and require two essays (personal statement and study proposal), work samples and three recommendation letters. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026 for international applicants; 31 January 2027 for US citizens.
Wave Farm, the Warhol Foundation-backed transmission arts center in Acra, NY, opens one application covering all its 2027 opportunities: the Transmission Art Residency, the Spatial Sound Residency, and two Radio Art Fellowship tracks (Research, and Community Engagement) connected to Wave Farm's WGXC radio station. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 1,000 stipend for each 10-day residency and USD 2,000 for each two-month fellowship, with access to Wave Farm's research library, transmitter and receiver equipment, and on-site staff support to develop a new transmission artwork. ELIGIBILITY: international; collaborations allowed; full-time students are ineligible except rare post-graduate cases; past residents and fellows may reapply; applicants may apply to as many opportunities as they wish but will be offered at most one; DJ sets are explicitly ineligible. A strong fit for signal-based, broadcast, spatial sound and radio-adjacent work. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026 at 11:59 pm EST. Finalists are interviewed by Zoom, with notifications in late February 2027 and residencies during 2027.
CISAC's 2027-2028 fellowship application is open across seven tracks: Artificial Intelligence and Laws of Armed Conflict; AI in Strategic Stability and Military Competition; Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence; India-U.S. Security Studies; Natural Sciences or Engineering International Security (for natural scientists and engineers researching scientific and technical aspects of security topics); Nuclear Security; and International Security. Applicants are considered for all fellowships they are eligible for. Fellows spend the academic year in residence at Stanford engaged in research and writing, participating in seminars and collaborating with CISAC faculty and the wider community. CAREER STAGES: predoctoral (currently enrolled PhD students), postdoctoral (completed PhD or DPhil), and junior faculty or professionals. FUNDING: stipends are provided (predoctoral comparable to Stanford Graduate Fellowships plus tuition; postdoctoral and professional stipends commensurate with experience), though exact amounts are not published; non-US citizens may apply and visas are available through the fellowship. APPLY via the SlideRoom portal (Stanford CISAC Fellowship Program) with the application form, CV, graduate transcript (required for pre- and postdoctoral applicants), research prospectus (max 1,500 words), abstract (max 200 words), writing sample (max 50 pages), and three confidential recommendation letters uploaded directly by recommenders; all materials in English. DEADLINE: 2 December 2026. Questions: cisacfellowship@stanford.edu.
The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, given jointly by Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, are open for 2027 submissions. Two annual awards of USD 25,000 each help writers complete a book-length work of narrative nonfiction on a topic of American political or social concern; books on science, technology and media accountability have won in past years. Applicants need a fully executed contract with a US-based publisher for the book in progress. There is no entry fee for the Work-in-Progress awards; note that the Lukas Book Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize run on the same portal with the same deadline but carry a USD 75 entry fee. TO APPLY: submit via the Columbia Journalism Awards Submittable portal. DEADLINE: 3 December 2026, 11:59 PM ET.
Annual screenwriting fellowship from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) administered through The Black List, awarding $20,000 each to three writers to revise a feature screenplay or pilot that engages with climate change in a compelling way. Submission and selection happen on The Black List platform; applicants should review program eligibility and any associated hosting/submission fees on blcklst.com before applying. Strong fit for narrative writers using fiction to dramatise climate, ecology, energy, or environmental-justice themes (rather than documentary). 2027 CYCLE: submissions are open until 4 December 2026 and are capped at a maximum of 500, so early entry is advised. All accepted submissions receive a free script evaluation and one free month of script hosting on the platform. Fellows also receive consultation with NRDC's Rewrite the Future team, which works to transform the onscreen portrayal of climate change beyond dystopia and apocalypse toward solutions, plus six months of mentorship from an established screenwriter; past mentors include Lucia Aniello, Dustin Lance Black, Roxane Gay, Nick Kroll and Daniel Scheinert.
CURRENTS presents one of the leading art and technology festivals in the United States, held every summer in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 2010, bringing together established and emerging new media artists from the USA and worldwide. The 2027 edition (11-20 June 2027) accepts submissions in: installations (interactive and non-interactive); audio experiences; virtual, augmented and mixed reality environments; robotics, kinetic and electro-mechanical objects and installations; multimedia performance; fabrication, 2D/3D printing and wearables; and experimental single channel video, documentary and animation. The festival is a collaboration between the non-profit Parallel Studios, partners throughout the city, and interns and volunteers. SUPPORT: selected artists may be eligible for travel, lodging and shipping support, though the festival warns it may not be able to cover international shipping given costs and risks, and may instead be able to supply needed equipment; no artist fee is published. SUBMISSION FEE: USD 30 single, USD 25 each for multiple. DEADLINE: 8 December 2026; participating artists announced March 2027. Questions to connect@currentsnewmedia.org.
The Adirondack Experience museum on Blue Mountain Lake offers four one-month artist residencies for June, July, August and September 2027. Residents work publicly on their own practice a minimum of six hours a day (roughly 10:00-16:00) three days a week in the museum's public areas, and spend two days a week (Fridays and Saturdays, 10:00-16:30) engaging visitors in the Art Lab makerspace. WHAT YOU GET: USD 5,000 stipend for the residency, USD 500 travel allowance, USD 250 Art Lab materials allowance, and free housing in a large bedroom on the second floor of the museum's Residence building with shared bathroom, kitchen and dining access, parking, utilities, wi-fi and laundry. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists with a portfolio of at least five works exhibited publicly (museums, public, university or private galleries) or sold to private collectors; digital and performance artists must explain how visitors will have an enriching experience watching them at work; open internationally, but ADKX cannot sponsor visas, so non-US artists arrange their own. CONDITIONS: artists provide their own materials outside the Art Lab allowance, and the museum retains first option to purchase one work created during the residency at fair market price. APPLICATION: email the completed application package to cbraunstein@theadkx.org. DEADLINE: 11 December 2026, 17:00 EST.
VisArts, a nonprofit arts center in Rockville, Maryland, pairs one emerging curator with mentoring curator Fabiola R. Delgado for a year-long program culminating in an exhibition at the Kaplan Gallery. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 10,000 budget covering exhibition costs and curatorial fees, year-long mentorship, and staff support for printing, promotions and exhibition programming. The mentoring curator's exhibition runs 27 August to 10 October 2027; the Emerging Curator's exhibition runs 15 October 2027 to 9 January 2028. ELIGIBILITY: emerging curators or artists with an interest in exhibition-making or curating; international applicants must be eligible to work in the United States (VisArts cannot provide or assist with visas). APPLICATION: free, via Submittable; application form, CV, evidence of past curatorial projects (up to 10 images, up to 5 minutes of video/audio, image list and supporting PDFs) and a statement on goals, curatorial interests, audience enrichment and community engagement. TIMELINE: finalists notified 8 January 2027, interviews 13 to 15 January, selection announced 20 January 2027. DEADLINE: 18 December 2026, midnight.
One-off film grant awarding a single filmmaker $4,500 to support an independent narrative project in 2026. Application is free to submit. Centerpiece of the application is a production book built on the IMGN platform: script breakdown, schedule, coverage, and pre-visualization for the project (tutorials are provided inside the application). Eligibility: US-based filmmakers in the 50 states plus DC, aged 18 and older. If the project is already completed before funds are disbursed, the grant is paid as a reimbursement upon submission of a final cut of the film. Winner announced and funds disbursed by end of January 2027.
Four resident biography fellowships plus the Levy/Sloan Fellowship, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, for a biography of a figure in science or technology; separate Sherwin fellowship for nuclear-age history. Open to writers of all nationalities, with explicit preference for first-time biographers who have not yet held a biography fellowship, though mid-career and senior writers are welcome; independent writers eligible. Fellows join monthly seminars and the center's public events. Apply with CV, career narrative, project description, writing sample and two references (agents, editors and publishers are discouraged as referees). No application fee.
The Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design is a year-long residential fellowship for accomplished mid-career practitioners shaping the built and natural environment: urban designers, public artists, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, developers, journalists, civic leaders, policymakers and community development leaders (past fellows have included a theater director, public artists and a documentary filmmaker). Fellows audit courses at the GSD and across Harvard (minimum one GSD course per semester), engage with the school community, and join a lifelong global alumni network. SUPPORT: a stipend of USD 57,500 for the academic year (taxable income), housing through 30 June for fellows and families of modest size coming from outside the Boston/Cambridge area, and a travel grant covering roughly one economy round trip home per semester. ELIGIBILITY: minimum 8 years of experience in the field (a typical class averages about 42 years of age); international candidates are encouraged to apply and must be eligible for a J-1 visa at selection; fellows must remain in residence in the Cambridge area while classes are in session. HOW TO APPLY: via SlideRoom with a resume, three recommendation letters (due 7 days after the deadline) and optional supplemental materials. No application fee. DEADLINE: 5 January 2027 at 11:59 PM ET for the 2027-28 class.
The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri funds people and teams to build and launch a tool, workflow or product that helps newsrooms, in three tracks: Individual (USD 75,000), Institutional (USD 75,000, paid to a host organisation or the fellow) and Emerging Technology (USD 100,000, where AI or another new technology must be essential to the solution). The output must be a free, open-source resource usable by US journalists; tools limited to one city or state are unlikely to be funded. The fellowship is remote and runs for eight months from 28 June 2027 with an in-person kickoff at RJI and a couple of paid visits. ELIGIBILITY: anyone, anywhere; no age, background or journalism credential required. Applications open 2 November 2026 on Submittable; a shortlist is invited in early to mid February 2027 to submit a fuller application, with finalist interviews 5 to 23 April 2027. DEADLINE: 8 January 2027 (first round; no time zone stated, RJI is on US Central time).
The Institute for Law & AI's US Summer Fellowship is a paid research fellowship at the leading edge of US AI law and policy for law students, professionals, and academics, including the Summer Institute on Law and AI in Washington DC and mentorship from LawAI research staff. FUNDING: USD 2,000 per week, a USD 10,000 relocation/housing stipend for DC-based fellows, covered flights, accommodation and meals for the Convening Week, and potentially higher subsidies for exceptional candidates. ELIGIBILITY: a strong grasp of US legal principles applicable to AI regulation via formal US legal study (incoming 1L and up) or comparable professional experience; full-time commitment 14 June to 20 August 2027; valid US work authorization required (visa sponsorship possible but not guaranteed). The application takes about 20 minutes. DEADLINE: 29 January 2027, 11:59PM ET.
Matching grants supporting US-based performing artists and ensembles, all performing-arts practices including experimental music and performance, appearing at international festivals and significant presenting engagements outside the United States. GRANT: up to USD 11,000 toward eligible travel and engagement expenses, matched 1:1. ELIGIBILITY: artists/ensembles based in any US state or territory; not open to non-US-based artists. The portal opens early December 2026; the round covers projects between 1 July 2027 and 30 August 2028. DEADLINE: 24 February 2027, 11:59pm ET.
Robot foundation models (pi-zero, OpenVLA, GR00T and others) are approaching widespread deployment on the back of more than USD 18 billion in funding, and almost nobody is working on their safety. The Physical AI Safety Institute, a new nonprofit founded by Bear Haon and Kaylene Stocking and seeded by a grant from BlueDot Impact, describes itself as a capacity-building organisation growing the community that develops techniques to interpret, align and control robot foundation models. Its research fellowship runs in 12-week cohorts: each fellow works within a stream led by a mentor on a concrete problem in physical AI safety, with mentors drawn from researchers with track records in robot foundation models, mechanistic interpretability, safe control or adversarial robustness for embodied systems. Each cohort ends with a research symposium where fellows present their work. STREAMS: mechanistic interpretability (sparse autoencoders and activation patching for VLA and WAM architectures); adversarial robustness (jailbreaking and prompt injection in the embodied action space); runtime monitoring (detecting when a policy operates outside its competence envelope); sim-to-real safety transfer (do safety behaviours survive deployment on physical hardware); and robot security (cyberattack vectors, data poisoning and supply chain for deployed robot models). WHO SHOULD APPLY: researchers with strong technical foundations in robotics or machine learning and a demonstrated interest in safety; prior safety experience is not required. PROCESS: this stage is an expression of interest, not a full application. The form takes about two minutes and asks you to pick your stream and preferred cohort dates; concrete details including stipend figures and application deadlines are shared through that channel, and neither is published on the site as of listing. PAISI also publishes seven free curriculum modules running from classical robot safety through VLA interpretability, adversarial robustness and runtime monitoring to deployment evaluation, plus a white paper, The Case for Physical AI Safety, at paisi.ai/the-case-for-physical-ai-safety. Contact: bear@paisi.ai.
Field of Vision is a filmmaker-driven documentary unit that creates and commissions original short-form and feature nonfiction visual journalism. It funds and commissions filmmakers, often as assignments, and supports projects in development and production (it does not acquire finished films). SUPPORT: commissioning fees and production funding; specific amounts are not published publicly. ELIGIBILITY: filmmakers of all experience levels, within and outside the United States. APPLICATIONS are accepted on a rolling basis, with no fixed funding cycles or deadlines. Submit via the Field of Vision submissions page.
A one-year fellowship placing Fellows directly inside government, non-profit and social-enterprise host institutions across the United States to design and implement high-impact programs, translating data-driven insights into actionable policy recommendations, new programs and operational changes for the partners they serve. STIPEND: USD 47,000 living stipend for the year (scaled up for higher-cost cities) plus a reimbursable health-insurance stipend up to USD 5,000. ELIGIBILITY: primarily intended for candidates graduating from their academic programs in 2026 and/or already working full-time; this is a full-time 12-month commitment. PROCESS: applications and interviews are considered on a ROLLING basis starting in March, so applicants are encouraged to apply early; most engagements begin between June and November, with partner match meetings 6 to 8 weeks before the anticipated start. APPLY: https://www.adf.uchicago.edu/apply
The CHAI Research Fellowship trains highly qualified postdoctoral researchers to advance beneficial AI, working with CHAI faculty Stuart Russell, Pieter Abbeel and Anca Dragan and collaborating with affiliate faculty at Berkeley AI Research and beyond. Fellows have broad freedom to pursue novel research toward provably beneficial AI systems in areas such as reasoning, decision making, learning, multi-agent systems and philosophical foundations, using probability theory, game theory and control theory. Current topics of interest include theoretical foundations of intelligent agent architecture, expressive formal languages for probability models (including probabilistic programming), decision making over long time scales, cumulative lifelong learning, human-in-the-loop planning and reinforcement learning, human-robot interaction, the structure of human preferences, acting on behalf of multiple humans, robust cooperation in heterogeneous multi-agent systems, and mechanism design for human-machine systems. Fellows may also lead collaborations, advise junior researchers, and teach. QUALIFICATIONS: a PhD (or about to be obtained) in a relevant technical discipline (computer science, statistics, mathematics, or theoretical economics) and a record of high-quality published research; prior work on the AI control problem is not required. International applicants are eligible (visa sponsorship provided). TO APPLY: submit via the CHAI application form a resume, a one-page statement of interest describing the research you would like to undertake, and the names and emails of two academic referees. Start date is flexible and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis (no fixed deadline). General enquiries: chai-info@berkeley.edu.
Pulitzer Center's 'Bringing Stories Home' initiative supports in-depth local journalism on under-covered issues in communities across the United States. ELIGIBILITY: freelance and staff journalists working on US-based stories. Grants cover the hard costs of reporting. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis via the Pulitzer Center reporting-grants page.
The ILIAD Intensive is a four-week, full-time, in-person program for mathematically strong researchers interested in foundational AI alignment, running in London (at LISA) and in Berkeley. It runs five days a week, 10am to 6pm, in cohorts of 15 to 30 participants. CURRICULUM, across five clusters: Alignment (decomposing the alignment problem, pretraining, post-training and deployment, reward learning); Learning (deep learning theory, singular learning theory, training dynamics); Abstractions, Representations and Interpretability (mechanistic interpretability, natural latents); Agency (reinforcement learning, decision theory, agent foundations); and Safety Guarantees (debate, steganography, the limits of interpretability). MONEY: no tuition is charged. Each participant receives a USD 5,000 travel and housing allowance, office space at the venue, and lunch and dinner five days a week. Participants book and pay for their own travel and accommodation out of the allowance. ELIGIBILITY: a strong mathematical background, typically graduate-level study or a completed degree in mathematics, physics or theoretical computer science, though mathematical maturity is weighted more heavily than specific credentials. Research experience, general competence and motivation are also assessed. Prior machine learning or alignment experience is not required. DEADLINE: no fixed closing date is published. A single application covers several upcoming programs and applicants indicate their preferred dates and locations; applications are being accepted for the October 2026 and November 2026 cohorts. HOW TO APPLY: through the application portal at iliad.ac/apply. Questions to contact@iliad.ac.
apexart's Open Calls turn a curatorial idea into a funded apexart exhibition, selected by a crowdsourced international jury of more than 600 people in 70 countries. WHO CAN SUBMIT: anyone, from anywhere, with no fees at any level: trained and student curators, artists, writers and creative people regardless of experience, background or location. HOW: a 500-word proposal for a focused, idea-driven, original group exhibition, submitted through the online form during the proposal window. TWO ANNUAL WINDOWS: every October for exhibitions in apexart's NYC space, and every February (to early March) for exhibitions taking place anywhere in the world except NYC; for the international call you must propose a location you have actually visited, with the specific venue settled after selection. SELECTION: jurors vote anonymously online (each proposal gets an equal number of views, submitter names hidden); proposals are judged on the strength of the idea and how well it is communicated, not on connections or CV. WHAT WINNERS GET: a USD 10,000 budget (USD 8,000 for expenses, up to USD 2,000 curator honorarium, plus up to USD 1,000 venue-rental match outside NYC), with apexart covering insurance, publicity, the printed brochure, the opening reception and most logistics including loan agreements and shipping, and staff working closely with the guest curator. Winning proposals become part of apexart's next exhibition season. Check the site for the current window's exact dates; submission forms only go live during the proposal periods.
The Anthropic Fellows Program is a four-month, fully funded research fellowship with direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers. Fellows work on empirical projects aligned with Anthropic's research priorities using external infrastructure, aiming to produce public outputs such as papers. Five workstreams: AI Safety, AI Security, ML Systems and Performance, Reinforcement Learning, and Economics and Policy; safety topics include scalable oversight, adversarial robustness, mechanistic interpretability, and model organisms. FUNDING: a weekly stipend of USD 3,850 (GBP 2,310 / CAD 4,300), around USD 15,000 per month in compute funding, and other research expenses. ELIGIBILITY: fluent Python; available full-time for four months; strong technical background in computer science, mathematics, or physics; work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada (no visa sponsorship). Locations: San Francisco, London, Ontario, or remote within those countries. APPLICATION: rolling, via the Constellation portal; the process includes an initial application, reference checks, technical assessments, interviews, and a research discussion. The next cohort is expected to start in January 2027, so apply well before the end of 2026.
NOTE: this tier is institutions-only; individual researchers cannot apply in a personal capacity but can serve as principal investigators through their institution. Anthropic's earlier Economic Futures Research Awards (USD 10,000-50,000 plus USD 5,000 Claude API credits for empirical research on AI's economic impacts, rolling, with results presented within six months) are currently not accepting applications; this entry covers the larger Research Fund now open for proposals. THE FUND: Anthropic has committed USD 200 million to the Economic Futures Research Fund to support ambitious external research on interventions that prepare society for the economic impacts of AI, studying what programs could make the economy more flexible and resilient, ensure AI's benefits are shared, and minimise harm from AI-driven disruption. FIVE RESEARCH PRIORITIES: (1) AI's impact on workers at the firm and workplace level; (2) equipping people for AI-driven transitions; (3) modernising income support for displacement; (4) building worker stakes in AI-driven growth; (5) generating evidence on public investments. FUNDING: projects primarily in the USD 5-30 million range, minimum USD 1 million, flexible upward for well-scoped, high-potential-impact projects. ELIGIBILITY: accredited universities and other degree-granting institutions, independent research institutes and policy research organisations, and nonprofits with a track record of running field experiments at scale; a global fund with an initially US-centric focus. APPLICATION: via the request for proposals linked from the research agenda announcement (Google Form); no deadline published as of September 2026.
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute's artist-in-residence program nurtures nature artists with a week in Jamestown, New York, and facilitated access to the Peterson Collection, inclusive of Roger Tory Peterson's original field guide art, fine art, films, slides, and personal papers. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 1,000 honorarium, with housing, per diem, and travel reimbursement for out-of-town artists. AFTERWARDS: residents create a body of work inspired by their time at RTPI, featured in a solo exhibition at the institute the following year. APPLICATION: rolling; applications are always accepted but residency slots are limited. Email the curator (rkosinski@rtpi.org) a statement of interest in Roger Tory Peterson, birds, or nature, a project proposal detailing research themes and planned artworks, and portfolio images representing your practice. DEADLINE: rolling.
Run by Seattle's Northwest Film Forum as part of the Warhol Foundation's Regional Regranting Program, the Collective Power Fund supports visionary new arts projects that incite public dialogue, push boundaries, explore genre fluidity, and are often non-traditional, anti-institutional, socially responsible or disruptive of existing structures. AWARDS: one USD 10,000 grant for an artist team or artist-run collective and ten USD 5,000 grants for individual artists, USD 60,000 in total. ELIGIBILITY: artists aged 21 or older living in incorporated or unincorporated King County, Washington (proof of residency at finalist status); work grounded in the visual arts or with a strong visual context; applicant must be the primary creator, able to receive income in the US, and hold creative control and rights; projects must include a publicly accessible component and be completed by 31 December 2027; one project per cycle. APPLICATION: via Submittable (nwfilmforum.submittable.com). DEADLINE: the 2026 application is open but the closing date was not published at the time of listing; the 2025 cycle closed mid-November, so apply early and confirm the deadline with grants manager jade@nwfilmforum.org.
Mentored, individual research in applied mathematics for AI alignment, including foundational questions that get less attention elsewhere, drawing on mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science. ELIGIBILITY: designed for PhD students, postdocs and researchers with equivalent experience in mathematics, theoretical physics, computer science or related fields; selection weighs academic credentials, technical ability, intentions and fit with the cohort's research coverage. APPLICATION: rolling, with fellowships starting at the beginning of most months.