Find fully funded artist residencies, grants, and open calls worldwide

A national juried exhibition for emerging visual artists with disabilities, ages 16‑25, offering a $3,000 stipend and professional development.

The Photographer-in-Residence will spend 12-18 months visiting their jobsites, offices, and manufacturing facilities across the United States, capturing the “Art of Building.”

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate study in the United States — including visual artists, designers, architects, and filmmakers.

The Anita Wetzel Residency Grant offers mature artists a fully funded 4–6 week residency at Women's Studio Workshop to create new work in printmaking, papermaking, or photography.

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.

AXS Film Fund is a grant program for documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators who identify as living with a disability, particularly those from underserved communities.

Created in 1993 to further FCA’s mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who: * Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding * Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates

The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City awards a $7,000 travel prize to a visual artist or collaborators living in Baltimore City.

Fellowships are awarded through two annual competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and the other open to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Homiens Art Prize is an international competition open to all artists, offering $12,000 in annual funding and global exposure.

Conceived with the needs of humanists in mind, the National Humanities Center provides scholars with an environment and resources conducive to generating new knowledge and furthering understanding of the human experience.

Call for artwork submissions for the third installment of the I’M SCARED exhibition series at Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY.

A two‑month studio residency at Maryland Hall’s Openshaw Balcony Gallery, with a $500 material stipend, open to Maryland‑based visual artists.

Ooika’s Artist-in-Residence Program (oAIR) offers a month‑long residency in Princeton, NJ for photographers and image‑based media artists, including a $3,000 stipend, studio space, and exhibition opportunities.

Established in 1993, the A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists has enabled more than 120 artists to realize their projects.

Perform Europe invites partnerships of performing‑arts organisations to submit proposals for funding up to €60 000 to develop inclusive, green touring projects.

Warming Huts V.2027 is an international arts‑architecture competition inviting multidisciplinary teams to design a warming hut or installation on ice in Winnipeg.

Grant Programs Individual and organization grants for architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and work being done in the fine arts, humanities, and sciences that expands the boundaries of thinking about architecture and space.

Up to $15,000 for professional media artists to create new works or complete projects in film, video, audio, digital, VR/AR, and more.

Open call internacional para artistas, colectivos y equipos multidisciplinares que propongan una instalación digital para el espacio KNOWCASE de la Fundación Cotec en Madrid, con una dotación de hasta 100.000 € y exposición mínima de 24 meses.

The Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) programme grants seed funding to three artistic projects that are realised in rural and peri-urban parts of South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini between February and November 2026.

Creative Australia invites Australian artists and curators to submit proposals for the Australia Pavilion at the 62nd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2028.

A public‑art commission for Ohio‑based artists to create a site‑specific installation at Friendship Village of Dublin, with a $100,000 budget and a July 29, 2026 deadline.

Professional mural artists and artist teams with experience in large-scale installations are invited to submit proposals for a large-scale exterior mural installation at a new residential development.

Aiming to continuously rethink and re-examine the scope and the boundaries of “curating architecture,” the CCA solicits ideas for projects that take innovative curatorial approaches and experimental formats.

A fellowship year at Harvard Radcliffe Institute is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project in a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community.

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This guide presents only residencies that are fully-funded. That is, every residency below offers cost-free participation, housing, food, and access to facilities during the entire duration of the residency.

A year-long fellowship supporting two emerging New York City visual artists with funding, mentorship, professional development, and a solo exhibition at the Queens Museum.

VIA Art Fund provides Artistic Production Grants of $25,000–$100,000 to individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and cultural institutions for newly commissioned visual art projects presented outside museum walls.

The General Support Program provides funding for organizations with a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American concert music, jazz, or both with plans to continue that commitment.

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Annual grant supporting ceramic and sculptural artists with up to $60,000 in financial awards.

The Graham Foundation grantmaking programs focus on supporting individuals and organizations in the United States, however, the Foundation also awards grants internationally. Note that regardless of where a supported grant project originates, all final products must be disseminated in English.

The City of Peoria is brightening up its streets with a call to artists for the upcoming "Light at Play" event slated for spring 2026.

La Fundación Ama Amoedo otorga diez becas de USD 10 000 para artistas, colectivos, organizaciones y proyectos editoriales vinculados a América Latina.

Sense of Place is an open call for visual artists launched by SeeMe Gallery.

The MUUS Collection Research Fellowship offers a $20,000 grant to a curator or academic to conduct research and develop an exhibition or publication concept based on the MUUS Collection archives.

A one‑year pilot residency where an artist works with Durham’s Transportation Department to create way‑finding public art in city parking garages.

The newly created position of Partnerships and Production Manager is a critical member of the Arts Initiative’s small, highly motivated team.

The Toronto Arts Council offers grants up to $15,000 for community-based arts projects that foster public participation, collaborative creation, and skill-building in Toronto.

Free travel grants for Icelandic visual artists to support exhibitions, projects and residencies abroad, deadline October 1 2026, grant amount 75 000 ISK.

The goal of the Creative Project Grant (CPG) is to provide up to $12,000 to support art projects for Illinois artists, eligible not-for-profit organizations, and local governments.