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May 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies.
Top Artist Residencies 2025
Discover here a comprehensive list of the current open calls for art residencies worldwide.
Artist in Residence Program
Applicants are invited to apply for the 2026 Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program in Lead, South Dakota.
Dorothy Antoinette LaSelle 2025 Travel Fellowship
Recognizing the impact that travel can have on an artist’s career, the Dorothy Antoinette LaSelle Foundation has established the Dorothy Antoinette LaSelle Travel Fellowship.
Narva Art Residency: Finno-Ugric Creative Residency 2026 (Estonia)
Narva Art Residency (NART) has an open call for the Finno-Ugric creative residency, which will take place from 16 October to 8 December 2025.
4th Open Call for 2025 Exploration Residency
Apply now to the 2026 editions of the Art Omi: Architecture, Art Omi: Artists, Art Omi: Music, and Art Omi: Writers international residency programs!
Open Call at The Edward F. Albee Foundation
The application window for the Winter/Spring 2026 will be open from Monday, September 1st through the evening of Monday, October 13th.
Open Call - Sardinia Island, Italy (2026)
Nocefresca is the first active and permanent artistic residency program in Sardinia. It is a house that welcomes creative professionals from all over the world to the rural villages of Sardinia for research and creative experimentation, involving both participants and local communities in a cultural exchange experience.
Jazz Road Tours
Jazz artists, take your music to places it's never been. Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country.
Residency open call for artists based in West Africa - Gasworks
The Gasworks is offering a fully funded eleven-week residency in London from 7 April to 23 June 2026 for contemporary visual artists based in West Africa who have already presented their work in several venues.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY | Pullman Yards
The Pullman Yards Artist Residency is a dynamic program designed to spark meaningful collaboration and cultural exchange.
SFW Residency at Kent Cultural Alliance - 2026 Residency Sessions
This is a community engagement based residency. Each session is based on a broad them, relevant to local residents. Artists will partner with a local community organizations during the first week of residency to learn about the mission and goals of the organization, so as to be inspired with ideas for creative projects which will engage a broader cross-section of the public in those goals and missions.
Spiekeroog Residency 2026: Art Grant \"VOGELFREI\"
An open call for the scholarships starting in October 2026 is expected to begin in November 2025. Applicants can be writers, visual artists or musicians living in Germany.
Dresdner Stipendium für Fotografie
Das Dresdner Stipendium für Fotografie richtet sich an Fotograf:innen, die selbständig oder hauptberuflich als Fotografin oder Fotograf arbeiten und/oder einen künstlerischen Studienabschluss besitzen, mindestens eine öffentliche Personalausstellung bzw. eigene Publikation mit fotografischen Arbeiten nachweisen können und ihren Lebensmittelpunkt nicht in Dresden haben.
Five artists to develop new works at St. Croix Watershed Research Station
A cohort of five painters, illustrators, and writers will develop new artistic works in a historic Pine Needles cabin at the St. Croix Watershed Research Station this summer.
PACT Zollverein: Residency Programme 2025 (Germany)
The programme is open to professional artists from Germany and abroad who work in the areas of dance, performance, media arts or music.
Call for Digital Artist Residency/Submissions: OPEN FEED 2025
The Open FEED 2025 Onsite Residency is an opportunity for media artists to prototype and finish artworks using FEED's unique resources.
Open call for Art and Technology residency
This residency offers two Swiss artists active in all disciplines supported by Pro Helvetia (design, game design, literature, music, performing arts, visual arts) the opportunity to develop projects where technological or digital elements play a central role, whether through the materials and tools employed or the conceptual inquiries that drive their practice.
basis e.V. Curator in Residence 2026
basis e.V. and the city of Frankfurt invite young international curators to participate in the AIR_Frankfurt program.
Grants
The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant was established so that ceramic sculpture artists or sculptors of diverse mediums may have the opportunity to devote a substantial period of time to the development of his or her own work.