Artist Opportunities: May 2024
Our curated list of artist opportunities for May 2024, including grants, calls for art, residencies, and more.
Fireline Fellowship
Deadline: May 3, 2024
The Fireline Fellowship invites writers, artists, and thought leaders in the humanities to become part of a thinking community that, for two and a half years, will explore issues related to wildfire at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (the Andrews). Fellows will receive a stipend, opportunities to learn alongside scientists in the field, and up to four weeks of residency time at the Andrews. Fellows will develop new projects for a public audience and/or involving public engagement, and projects will be presented in collaboration with the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). Eight Fireline Fellowships will be awarded: three by invitation and five by application.
SFCB Book Arts Mentorship Award
Deadline: May 5, 2024
San Francisco Center for the Book has partnered with esteemed artists and educators John DeMerritt, Li Jiang, and Emily McVarish to offer three, five-day, one-on-one mentorships for experienced artists, held at SFCB’s facility in Potrero Hill. This program is an opportunity for mid-career and established artists from underrepresented communities to learn from skilled professionals in the bookbinding, letterpress, and artists book fields. Priority will be given to applicants who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). Selected mentees will each receive a $2500 stipend.
Café Royal Visual Arts Grant
Deadline: May 6, 2024
Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award an exhibition/project grant to NYC artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs. Artists in all genres of visual arts are eligible to receive up to $10,000.
CALI Catalyst
Deadline: May 6, 2024
CALI Catalyst provides unrestricted grants of up to $7,500 to California changemakers who are creating tangible impact within the arts and culture sector, shifting power and influence to historically underrepresented voices. Applicants (including all team members) must reside full-time in California.
CultureHub Residency Open Call
Deadline: May 12, 2024
The CultureHub Residency program will offer one-week residencies to artists September 9–December 13, 2024. Artists will receive one week of studio access with full technical support at CultureHub New York or Los Angeles to target specific areas of their project’s development and engage the CultureHub community around their work. Open to U.S. based artists who are not currently enrolled in a degree-earning program.
Berkeley FILM Foundation Grant
Deadline: May 13, 2024
The Berkeley FILM Foundation supports East-Bay based emerging and established independent filmmakers whose work combines intellectual clarity with creative use of the medium. We support documentary works that have a social consciousness and addresses complex issues of our time. Grants support films in the production, post-production and distribution stages and range between $2,500 and $15,000.
Firelight Documentary Lab
Deadline: May 13, 2024
The Firelight Documentary Lab supports filmmakers from underrepresented communities in the United States who make artful and innovative documentary films that take risks, and provide new narratives about the most pressing issues of our time. Firelight will consider all types of documentary projects - historical, investigative, personal, vérité, and experimental.
Nicholson Project’s Residency Program
Deadline: May 13, 2024
The Nicholson Project’s Residency Program welcomes emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists & designers, but also dancers, poets/writers, makers, chefs, gardeners, architects, engineers, and scientists. Open to all artists, however their focus is on BIPOC artists and those who live in or have ties to Southeast Washington, DC.
Hopper Prize
Deadline: May 14, 2024
$40 application fee
The Hopper Prize was established to provide grants, visibility, and career enhancing validation to artists who demonstrate a serious commitment to their work. This prize provides unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe working in any media.
The Bandung 2024-25 Residency
Deadline: May 14, 2024
This residency, presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), is an opportunity designed to uplift the work of organizers, artists, educators, and waymakers whose practice is intended to foster solidarity between Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Black communities. 7-10 NYC-based visionaries will be selected to participate in a year-long hybrid program, receiving an honorarium of $3,000.
Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History
Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Cokie Roberts Research Fund for Women’s History will support one to three annual fellowships for emerging and established historians, journalists, authors, or graduate students who perform and publish new research to elevate women’s history using the records held by the National Archives. Selected fellows will receive up to $12,500.
NYPL Dance Research Fellowship
Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the Library for the Performing Arts, which houses the Mikhail Baryshnikov archive, invites applications from dance scholars and practitioners interested in exploring the legacy of Baryshnikov. Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend, dedicated support to work with a dance librarian as they work in the archive, and an opportunity to present their projects at the annual Dance Symposium in January 2025. The research period is July 1–December 31, 2024.
Circ Artist Grant
Deadline: May 15, 2024
$25 application fee
The Circ Artist Grant provides unrestricted funding to artists with a demonstrated commitment to their art. For the Spring 2024 cycle, three artists will be awarded $1000 each to enhance and further their creative practice. Open to emerging, mid-career, and professional artists in an international open call.
Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies.
James Laughlin Award
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Offered since 1954, the James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The winning poet receives a prize of $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Deadline: May 15, 2024
$75 application fee
Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. The prize includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to hundreds of Academy of American Poets members.
NewFest: The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Deadline: May 15, 2024
$40-$50 application fee
NewFest is New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival, highlighting the best in LGBTQ+ films from the US and beyond. More than 130 films will be screened this year, including narratives, shorts and documentaries. They are accepting narrative and documentary features, narrative and documentary shorts, and episodic series for TV and web. Festival submission fees for Black filmmakers with LGBTQ+ stories centering Black characters and perspectives will be waived.
Legacy Playwright Grants
Deadline: May 15, 2024
AGE seeks to change the equity landscape of the American Theatre canon by increasing the representation of BIPOC playwrights 40+ years of age of marginalized gender. Three playwrights will receive individual unrestricted grants of $10,000 each.
Development Track: Labs, Intensives, and Fellowships
Deadline: May 16, 2024
The Sundance Institute’s Development Track and Directors and Screenwriters Lab help filmmakers find a visual language in an atmosphere where experimentation and risk-taking is encouraged. The development track has one open application that allows the artists’ work-in-progress fiction feature screenplay to be considered for programs, fellowships, and grants, including Screenwriters Lab, Screenwriters Intensive, Sundance Institute Comedy Fellowship, Sundance Institute Horror Fellowship, and Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
VIA Art Fund Artistic Production Grant
Deadline: May 16, 2024
Artistic Production grants fund the production and exhibition of new artistic commissions, in amounts ranging between $25,000 – $100,000. Often exhibited beyond museum walls in public space, these projects feature high levels of thought leadership, artistic production, and public engagement. VIA Art Fund accepts Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) on a semiannual basis for our Fall and Spring award cycles.
100 Voices of Florida
Deadline: May 18, 2024
$15 application fee
Selected filmmakers based in Florida will receive an unrestricted prize of $1,000 to further fund their completed short film of any genre.
JGS Fellowship for Photography
Deadline: May 21, 2024
New York Foundation for the Arts' JGS Fellowship for Photography is a $8,000 cash grant open to New York State photography artists living and working outside of New York City. The Fellowship is awarded to five artists working in traditional and experimental photography or any form in which photographic techniques are pivotal. Applicants must be at least 25 years of age.
2024 Independent Projects Grants
Deadline: May 22, 2024
The Independent Projects grant program is a partnership between the New York State Council on the Arts and The Architectural League of New York, awarding grants for New York State-based individuals and teams to explore a design topic through creation or research. For the 2024 cycle, this program will award 25 grants of $10,000 to proposals in design fields including architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, biodesign, community-centered design, fashion, graphic, industrial, and interior design.
The Lumen Prize
Deadline: May 25, 2024
$35 application fee
The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition. Since its launch in 2012, it has awarded more than $100,000 in prize money and created opportunities worldwide for the artists selected as finalists or winners. 9 artists will receive cash awards ranging from $7,500 to $1,500, totaling $18,000. Open to all artists globally.
Art in Odd Places 2024: CARE
Deadline: May 26, 2024
AiOP CARE invites artists, performers, agitators, and caretakers to enact notions of care for the 19th annual NYC public art festival scheduled for Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, October 18-20 along 14th Street in Manhattan. The CARE curatorial team seek individuals, collectives, collaborators, and those interested in joining forces with like-minded folks to design new team projects for the festival. CARE invites proposals to offer stations of care across the festival, where all are invited to stop, to rest, to CARE.
The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation Grant for Writing on Sculpture
Deadline: May 31, 2024
This goal of this grant is to encourage and support sculptors, whether emerging or established, and writers about sculpture. The JBSF offers one $20,000 grant per year and is specifically for a writer who generates fresh writing and thinking on the history, aesthetics, purposes, imagination or situation of sculpture.
Jazz Road Tours
Deadline: June 1, 2024
Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country. The grant supports small, three- to six-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. Applications now open for tours occurring October 1, 2024 - April 1, 2025.
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