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$4,500 Artist GrantsFeatured
The Hopper Prize is accepting submissions for $4,500 and $1,000 artist grants. For this open name, they’ve elevated awards to $4,500 and will probably be offering 6 grants totaling $13,000 USD. 2 artists will every obtain $4,500, and 4 artists will every obtain $1,000. That is a global open name, and all visible media is eligible. This open name gives a direct path to get your work in entrance of a global group of curators, artists, gallerists, and humanities directors. Further publicity is accessible through a 30-artist shortlist, on-line journal, and Instagram at the moment reaching over 150k.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on November 11, 2025.
Open Calls
The Abbey Harris Mural Fund (U.Okay.)
This grant helps artists creating semi-permanent or everlasting public murals or site-specific works on partitions in any medium. Funding of as much as £7,000 is accessible for an artist or group producing a public mural.
Deadline: October 10, 2025.
2026 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition (U.S.)
The Griffin Museum of Science and Trade invitations submissions for the 2026 Black Creativity Juried Artwork Exhibition. This annual present presents works from skilled and rising Black artists from throughout the U.S., in addition to works by Black teen artists from the Chicagoland space. There’s a $10 utility price; submissions to the teenager class are free.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CDT on October 12, 2025.
Contemporary Reflection Art Exhibition (Worldwide)
Artists from all disciplines are invited to submit artworks for the Modern Reflection exhibition, a curated showcase exploring the complexities of contemporary life, identification, and cultural transformation. The exhibition will run from December 1 to 7 at Cornerstone Studios in London. There’s a £20 utility price.
Deadline: November 1, 2025.
Open Call for 2027-29 Exhibitions at Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon (Eire)
This open name is a chance to share work that’s new to the viewers in Dublin and the overall M50 space (i.e. North Wicklow, South Dublin, Fingal, and Kildare). Chosen artists will obtain a price—€6,500 for established artists or €4,300 for rising artists—and an exhibition on the Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire.
Deadline: 2 p.m. IST on November 3, 2025.
Glen Arbor Arts Center Open Call for INteriors (Worldwide)
The INteriors exhibition is an exploration of inside areas, each actual and imagined. The present will run from January 9 to March 12, 2026, and have work made previously three years. There’s a $35 utility price ($25 for GAAC members).
Deadline: 2 p.m. EST on November 5, 2025.
Sight/Geist: Film & Performance Open Call (New York Metropolis)
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Basis is searching for submissions for its sixth season of Sight/Geist, a sequence that helps rising movie and efficiency artists. The artist price for participation in a one-night group screening is $300, and the stipend for a one-night solo efficiency is $1,000.
Deadline: November 15, 2025.
Creative Commission for Sycamore Gap Tree (Worldwide)
The Nationwide Belief invitations artists, organizations, and artistic companies to submit proposals that may breathe life into the wooden saved from the felled Sycamore Hole tree. This chance will see as much as 5 shortlisted artists obtain funding to develop their concepts, with one last idea chosen in early 2026. The shortlisted artists or collaborations will every obtain £5,000 to develop their proposals.
Deadline: 5 p.m. GMT on November 17, 2025.
Open Call for Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt (Worldwide)
Worldwide galleries, mission teams, and particular person artists have the chance to showcase their work at this artwork honest in Germany, taking advantage of the excessive density of capital and collectors within the enterprise metropolis of Frankfurt and the Rhine-Primary-Space. Discovery Artwork Truthful Frankfurt runs from November 6 to 9.
Deadline: Rolling.
Grants
Verdant Fund Project Grants (Alabama)
Verdant Fund helps particular person artists, artist-curators, collectives, or collaboratives primarily based in Alabama. Challenge grants of as much as $7,000 prioritize views from ladies artists, artists of shade, artists with disabilities, Alabama artists dwelling and/or working in rural communities, and LGBTQ artists.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on October 10, 2025.
The Supporting Act Foundation Artist Grants (Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Eire, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the U.Okay.)
The Supporting Act Basis, by WeTransfer, has designed the Artist Grant to assist rising artists from underrepresented teams whose practices contain some type of collaborative, collective, or inventive course of that advantages their group. Ten artists will probably be awarded unrestricted grants of €10,000.
Deadline: 11 a.m. CET on October 13, 2025.
Dutch Talent Project Grants (The Netherlands)
Rotterdam Photograph, in collaboration with Amarte Fonds, presents the Dutch Expertise Challenge Grants 2026. This initiative provides rising photographers the chance to develop new work across the competition theme, Echoes of Silence – Conflict within the Artist’s Soul. Chosen artists will obtain monetary assist, curatorial steering, and a platform to exhibit their initiatives throughout Rotterdam Photograph 2026.
Deadline: October 15, 2025.
Craft Research Fund Grant (U.S.)
The Middle for Craft awards grants from $5,000 to $15,000 yearly to assist new and interdisciplinary analysis.
Deadline: October 17, 2025.
GLEAN Portland Artist Stipends (Portland, Oregon)
GLEAN is a juried program that provides 5 chosen artists from the Portland space (Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties) entry to the Metro Central switch station (a.ok.a. “the dump”) to supply supplies to make use of to create artwork. The GLEAN program will present studio visits, advertising assist, a stipend of $3,000, and group critiques with GLEAN artists and companions, culminating in an exhibition.
Deadline: October 17, 2025.
Artadia Awards (Houston)
The Artadia Awards present monetary assist, publicity, and recognition to artists. The $15,000 awards are unrestricted, permitting artists to make use of the funds in any method they select.
Deadline: November 1, 2025.
MAKE Thesis Grants (Worldwide)
The MAKE Thesis Grant champions and spotlights rising expertise by instantly funding unique animated thesis initiatives (brief movies). Senior BFA/BA and MFA/MA animation college students (and groups) are welcome to use. Prizes accessible embrace $3,000 for first place, $2,000 for second place, and $1,000 for third place.
Deadline: 12 a.m. EST on November 4, 2025.
Booooooom Illustration Awards (U.S.)
5 winners throughout 5 classes, along with 20 shortlisted illustrators, will probably be featured in a particular print publication, created solely to showcase award winners’ work. Along with particular product award bundles, the prize features a money pool of $7,500. Everybody can submit one picture totally free; Booooooom members can submit an infinite variety of entries.
Deadline: 11.59 p.m. PT on November 7, 2025.
Bobby Anspach Studio Foundation Grant Program (Worldwide)
The Bobby Anspach Studios Basis launches its inaugural grant program to assist creatives and researchers whose work deepens dialogue on meditation, psychology, creativity, and collective engagement as very important pathways to concord and well being. The inspiration will award two grants of $50,000 and three grants of $8,000.
Deadline: December 30, 2025.
The Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (Worldwide)
This program gives one-time monetary help to certified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose wants resulted from an unexpected catastrophic incident and who lack the assets to satisfy that state of affairs. Awardees usually obtain $5,000 and as much as $15,000.
Deadline: Rolling.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (Worldwide)
The inspiration welcomes purposes from painters, sculptors, and artists engaged on paper, together with printmakers. Grants are supposed for one yr and vary as much as $50,000. The artist’s circumstances decide the scale of the grant, {and professional} exhibition historical past will probably be thought of.
Deadline: Rolling.
Residencies, Fellowships, & Extra
Morgan Conservatory Art of Papermaking 2026 Residencies (Worldwide)
The Morgan’s Artist in Residence (AiR) Program is funded by the Windgate Basis to supply rising and established artists from world wide who work with papermaking, guide arts, and printing the chance to discover targeted initiatives. Artists accepted into this system will obtain a stipend, 24-hour entry to Morgan amenities, and extra.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on October 15, 2025.
2026 Art Omi Residencies (Worldwide)
By a aggressive jury course of, residents are invited to attend Artwork Omi’s residencies without charge to themselves, besides journey bills. Artwork Omi provides residents the time and area to hone their very own craft within the Hudson Valley whereas cultivating a vibrant group of artists from across the globe. Residencies are open to practitioners of structure, visible artwork, writing, and music, and a lot of fellowships can be found.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on October 15, 2025.
Quinn Emanuel Artists-in-Residence Program (Higher Los Angeles)
This residency is open to rising and mid-career artists working in all disciplines. For 4 months, the artist-in-residence will probably be given a studio within the Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles workplace to assist their current observe or a brand new mission as acceptable. On the finish of the residency, an exhibition will probably be held, and not less than one work will probably be included into the everlasting assortment. A supporting stipend will probably be offered, in addition to a supplies allowance.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PT on October 16, 2025.
bEam Arts Residency Winter/Spring 2026 (Worldwide)
Situated in Thessaloniki, Greece, bEam Arts hosts a global residency program to assist artists’ vibrant studio practices. The group hosts month-to-month actions and gives artists with alternatives to attach, interact with each other, and increase their skilled networks. There’s a month-to-month price to attend.
Deadline: October 17, 2025.
The Center for Art and Advocacy Fellowship 2026 (U.S.)
Previously often called Proper to Return, the Middle for Artwork and Advocacy believes there’s an abundance of uncultivated expertise and distinctive creativity amongst people who share the lived expertise of incarceration. The Middle’s fellowship provides an annual award of $10,000 in unrestricted funds and $10,000 in mission growth funds to previously incarcerated artists. Fellows are invited to an annual retreat to community with earlier fellows, advocates, trade leaders, and funders.
Deadline: 11 p.m. ET on October 26, 2025.
Project Row Houses Artist Studio Residency (Houston)
Challenge Row Homes occupies a big footprint in Houston’s Historic Third Ward, one of many metropolis’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. The group provides an artist residency program that gives sponsored studio area for as much as three years on-site. This residency helps artists by giving them reasonably priced area to create, experiment, and develop their observe whereas being a part of the colourful Third Ward group.
Deadline: October 28, 2025.
Between Bridges Residency (Worldwide)
Between Bridges’ subsequent residency for visible artists will happen from July to December 2026 and features a working part in addition to a one-month exhibition or public presentation. The residency is open to skilled particular person artists, artist duos, or small teams working collaboratively. The residency gives entry to the group’s amenities in Berlin Schöneberg and provides a month-to-month stipend of €1,500 (whatever the variety of members) and the chance for studio visits. An extra funds of €5,000 is allotted particularly for the exhibition or presentation.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CET on November 2, 2025.
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