Our commitment: dismantle barriers and provide meaningful resources and training for creative and cultural professionals.
Erie Arts & Culture believes that creative and cultural professionals can play a central role in developing vibrant and healthy communities and neighborhoods when they are provided with access to Professional development, Resources, and Opportunities (PRO).
Want to know more about budgeting and financial planning? Uncertain of what your intellectual property rights are as an artist? Trying to determine the best ways to market yourself? Exploring virtual performative and teaching opportunities? Interested in the methodology of creative placemaking and community engagement? We can help!
For your convenience, we also record and post past webinars. View our catalog of past webinars using the link below.
Through the PRO Network Survey, Erie Arts & Culture is asking creative and cultural professionals in Northwestern Pennsylvania to identify the barriers that have the most immediate impact on their capacity or the scalability of their careers. If you are a cultural or creative professional in NW PA, please take a moment and complete our survey so we have a more in-depth understanding of your talents and needs. Using results from this survey, we will design programs and events specific to the needs of those living and working in our region.
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Applications open annually July 1-August 31.
In 2016, Erie Arts & Culture committed to making a greater investment in the artists living and working in Erie County by establishing the annual Artist Fellowship program. The agency saw a need to provide artists with unrestricted funding that could be used to pursue artistic development and growth.
Originally, Erie Arts & Culture awarded three fellowships annually – two to emerging artists and one to an established artist. In 2020, the agency’s Grantmaking Committee reviewed the program’s eligibility requirement through the lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Upon further reflection, the Erie Arts & Culture Board of Trustees and Grantmaking Committee decided that it was necessary to revise program criteria and guidelines. Starting in 2020, the fellowship program includes three artist categories: Emerging, Mid-Career, and Established.
Erie Arts and Culture is partnering with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to help creative entrepreneurs and their businesses. The Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (CEAP) matches eligible creative entrepreneurs with free local small business consulting services and $2000 in grant funding.
Fifty-one percent of the funds available for distribution in this program will be reserved for Black, indigenous, or persons of color (BIPOC), or individuals residing in communities identified by the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI).
Applications will be accepted quarterly, pending available funds. Please refer to this page for updated application timelines throughout the year.
*Erie Arts & Culture will be accepting applications through Submittable from October 1 - December 31. All applicants will be notified of funding decisions by February 1.
Annual Deadline: May 31
Rostered teaching artists are eligible to participate in Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) funded Arts in Education residencies. Teaching artists champion the arts as a tool for both personal and community development by leading quality arts-based programs in schools and community settings.
Annual Deadline: April
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) provides grants to support folk and traditional arts apprenticeships as a means of preserving and promoting the diverse cultures found throughout the Commonwealth. Each grant award provides funding to form a partnership between a master traditional artist and a qualified apprentice, enabling the two to work together to share and develop advanced techniques or repertoire.
Timeline:
The Lydia McCain Grant to Advance Artist Opportunities is a funding source for Erie County artists working in any creative discipline: visual and media arts, literary arts, or performing arts. Eligible applicants have a strong artistic vision and a timely opportunity present that will help advance their artistic career.
Deadline: See the link below
As part of the Northwest Pennsylvania Arts Recovery Grant Program, Erie Arts & Culture offers a new funding opportunity to artists living and working in Erie, Warren, Crawford, Venango, Mercer, and Lawrence Counties. This program is made possible through a subgranting award that EAC received from the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Rescue Plan. The grants are intended to fuel the nation’s recovery from the devastating economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These funds are intended to help support artists and the broader arts and culture sector in its response to and recovery from the pandemic.
EAC’s awards will impact a broad constituency, and we encourage applications from artists of all disciplines. Through this project, EAC provides support to regional artists as they mitigate the impact of the pandemic while also encouraging the expansion of community access to the arts by (a) demystifying artistic practice and increasing the accessibility of arts programs to communities—especially communities that may have been underserved in the past by federal arts funding; and (b) supporting a wide range of arts activities developed in a variety of local settings.
EAC's Northwestern PA Arts Recovery Grant Program will provide artistic fees and stipends to artists for the production of artistic workshops or presentations that are free and accessible to community stakeholders.
Erie Arts & Culture is committed to promoting opportunities for artists, arts professionals, and cultural organizations. Our guiding policy is to only post opportunities that pay. The opportunities below are updated on a weekly basis. If you'd like your opportunity listed or have any questions, please contact [email protected].
Call Type: Fellowship
Deadline: May 1, 2023
Open to: Creative artists of Cuban citizenship or direct lineage (having a Cuban parent or grandparent).
Details: Since 1963, the CINTAS Foundation has awarded over 81 fellowships in creative writing. In addition to supporting Cuban artists, many early in their careers, the CINTAS Foundation also maintains a growing collection of works by past awardees and other esteemed Cuban artists. For the purpose of historical value and documentation, award recipients are encouraged to submit creative writings sample, signed book, or other such representative samples of their work to be added to the CINTAS Fellows Collection after the grant period. $20,000
Call Type: Fellowship
Deadline: May 1, 2023
Open to: Creative artists of Cuban citizenship or direct lineage (having a Cuban parent or grandparent). Visual Arts may include painting, sculpture, installation art, photography, video, and the media arts. Media arts encompasses narrative, non-narrative, documentary, animation, or experimental time-based works using audio, digital, film and/or video media; also included is computer art in which the computer is an essential element of the work's creation, presentation or understanding.
Details: Since 1963, the CINTAS Foundation has awarded over 185 fellowships in the visual arts. In addition to supporting Cuban artists, many early in their careers, the CINTAS Foundation also maintains a growing collection of works by past awardees and other esteemed Cuban artists. For the purpose of historical value and documentation, award recipients are encouraged to submit art work (i.e., representative samples of their work) to be added to the CINTAS Fellows Collection after the grant period. $20,000
Call Type: Fellowship
Deadline: May 1, 2023
Open to: Creative artists of Cuban citizenship or direct lineage (having a Cuban parent or grandparent). Performing artists are not eligible to apply for CINTAS Fellowships. CINTAS Fellowships can only be awarded a maximum of 2 times to an individual.
Details: Since 1963, the CINTAS Foundation has awarded over 185 fellowships in the visual arts. In addition to supporting Cuban artists, many early in their careers, the CINTAS Foundation also maintains a growing collection of works by past awardees and other esteemed Cuban artists. For the purpose of historical value and documentation, award recipients are encouraged to submit art work (i.e., representative samples of their work) to be added to the CINTAS Fellows Collection after the grant period. Artists may submit a maximum of ten (10) digital images. $20,000
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: May 15, 2023
Open to: Fiber Art Network members only
Details: Often our work benefits us as the maker, but the final product can also make people think about an issue of importance, help raise awareness for a cause, or inspire viewers to do more. You may express current events, personal stories, or historical events in your project. Or surprise us with a new concept that addresses cultural commentary and/or social change. Grant is $300
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: June 12, 2023
Open To: Young, immigrant designers who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in digital, graphic, product, or social design
Details: The Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise support emerging to mid-career immigrant professionals who have demonstrated exceptional achievements early in their careers.
Call Type: Exhibition
Deadline: June 19, 2023
Open To: National (U.S.); Photography, Drawing, Painting
Details: SaveArtSpace is proud to present This Place Meant, a public art exhibition in New York City starting August 21, 2023, curated by Sadaf Padder.
This Place Meant - This open call is for third-culture kids, for the descendants of mass displacement forced to leave lush landscapes, fecund soils, rolling hills and expansive forests. This Place Meant beckons artists who are tapping into the spiritual realm by connecting with natural elements, found objects and plant-human hybridity to establish a sense of belonging and home.
ENTRY FEE: $10 donation
Award: An opportunity for artists to display their art on a billboard in New York City.
Call Type: Exhibition
Deadline: June 29, 2023
Open To: All mediums
Details: Express your artistic visualization of children's faces, figures, emotions, and acts.
Gallerium is pleased to invite you to submit your art to Children 2023, an international dual exhibition and publication, appreciating childhood and celebrating life in a better world through artistic visualization of children's faces, figures, emotions, and acts.
Now in its 3rd year, for Children 2023, we are looking for artistic interpretation of children concerning family, health, playing games, education, technology, poverty, abuse, violence, labor, etc., to visualize children of the world, our best hope for a better future.
Last year's exhibition is viewable at https://www.gallerium.art/children-2022
Call Type: Grant
Location: Atlanta, GA
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Open to: National Muralists, Public Art
Details: The Laura Patricia Calle Grant is designed to honor our dear friend Laura Patricia Calle's life, hard work, and immeasurable passion for equality for all people and the manifestation of diverse cultural expression in our public spaces.
For the 6th annual grant, we invite artists and art collectives to present proposals for a mural to be painted in the Metro Atlanta region (as defined by Atlanta Regional Commission). The mural should inform and promote awareness on the subject(s) of:
Social Equality
Feminism
Immigrants' Rights
LGBTQIA+ Rights
Cultural Diversity
Award: $20,000 all-inclusive grant
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: August 1, 2023
Open to: Woman, non-binary, and/or transgender US filmmaker, age 39 or older, who is working on their first narrative feature as a director
Details: This project-based award that provides $20,000 to an individual woman, non-binary, and/or transgender US filmmaker, age 39 or older, who is working on their first narrative feature as a director.
Call Type: Residency - Homer, Alaska
Deadline: August 31, 2023
Open to: Women Writers
Details: Storyknife offers free writing residencies to women writers. Each resident has their own cabin where she can write and reflect.
Call Type: Residency, NYC
Deadline: September 1, 2023
Open to: Emerging Contemporary Artists in all Disciplines
Details: The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are free and one year long, starting on April 1st and October 1st each year, and they take place in the shared Artists’ Studio, including the solvent/etching area and the darkroom. Keyholders work independently, in a productive atmosphere alongside other contemporary artists.
Call Type: Fellowship - Princeton, New Jersey
Deadline: September 12, 2023
Open to: Early career visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors, and performance artists who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Details: This fellowship is awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Fellows receive an $90,000 a year stipend and spend two consecutive academic years at Princeton University— formal teaching is expected.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Open To: Fiber Artists
Details: This grant supports special projects developed by artists that benefit the fiber community and/or the public. Funds may be applied to artist stipends, materials, equipment, or programming directly related to the project. Priority will be given to artists who have traditionally been underserved by the grantmaking community and to projects that focus on social equity.
Award: $300
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Open to: A wide range of practitioners (such as architects, scholars, critics, writers, artists, curators, and educators) and organizations (such as non-profit galleries, colleges and universities, publishers, and museums).
Details: Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Oct 15, 2023
Open to: Fiber Artists
Details: This grant is available to artists who have completed a degree program within the last two years or who have started working in fibers within the last five years.
Award: $300
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: November 15, 2023
Open To: Fiber Artists
Details: Artists who have yarn bombed a public place or who have plans to yarn bomb a public place are eligible.
Award: $300
Call Type: Grant
Open to: Professional disabled fiction podcasters
Deadline: Early 2023
Details: Elevate for Podcasters is the first program created specifically for disabled fiction podcasters. The program offers $10,000 grants that can be used for professional development, show marketing, equipment, accommodations, IP licensing and living expenses.
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(1) $100 monthly grant. Grant winner will be selected on the last date of each month, beginning February 28, 2021.
Deadline: Rolling
Buffalo Arts Studio is looking for artist submissions for their 2023/2024 exhibition calendar. The series will reflect the belief that artists and curators can effect change through purposeful collaborations that balance community need with artistic insight. This series of exhibitions will be curated with the intent to not only display powerful visual statements, but to also spur dialogue between varied audiences and to open doors to social, economic, and environmental justice.
Buffalo Arts Studio is providing a $1000 honorarium to solo exhibiting artists for the 2022-2023 exhibition calendar to support their curatorial goal of economic and representational justice. Artists are encouraged to pursue ambitious, site specific installations that utilize the available assets of the space.
Questions can be directed to: Shirley Verrico, Buffalo Arts Stufio Curator, at: [email protected]
Deadline: International Deadline: Recurring Monthly
Description: Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants, $1000 or the local equivalent, come out of pockets of the chapter’s “trustees” and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects.
Local chapter: https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/erie
Call Type: Public Art
Deadline: Rolling
Open to: Established public artists
Number of Applications Allowed: 20
Details: This is a call for the inclusion of public art collections in the Public Art Archive, an online database of public art. To be considered for inclusion, you must be a professional artist who has completed and installed public artwork, or an administrator of an established public art program. There is no charge to submit entries to the Public Art Archive. Public art is defined here as art that is situated in a location that is accessible or viewable by the general public and was, in most cases, commissioned by a public art entity, typically using percent-for-art or public funding. Gallery art and art exhibited inside galleries and museums is not eligible. Works of art that were commissioned and/or gifted by corporations, museums, educational institutions, private parties, and other entities may also be eligible. Permanently cited, temporary, new media, performative, rotating, and portable works may be eligible if they meet the commonly known definition of public art or civic art.
Call Type: Residencies - California
Deadline: Rolling
Open to: Artists of any discipline
Details: 6th Street Studios and Art Center is excited to announce our new Artist-in-Residence Program. Residency provides exposure to new audiences and a newly built, private workspace. An exhibition space is also provided, where dialogue between the artist and community is inevitable. A rare opportunity to propel the resident’s work forward!
Fee: $25.00 (6th Street Studios & Art Center)
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Rolling
Open To: Emerging figurative artists from anywhere in the world.
Details: The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant is one of the most prestigious grants available to emerging representational artists, as well as one of the most substantial.
Award: First grants are in CAD $17,000, Subsequent grants are CAD $20,000
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers
Details: The Foundation provides financial resources for visual artists to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist's professional work and personal expenses and amounts range up to $30,000. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.
Call Type: Grant
Open to: Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx creators with active projects across all of Kickstarter’s categories: Arts, Comics & Illustration, Design & Tech, Film, Food & Craft, Games, Music, and Publishing.
Details: Kickstarter, Creative Capital, and Skoll Foundation have partnered to launch a $500,000 Creative Capital x Skoll Foundation Fund. The mission of this Creative Capital x Skoll Creator Fund is to increase the number of funded Kickstarter projects launched by Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx creators through removing early financial hurdles. These funds will help bring more of their creative projects to life in the world, creating a more diverse and equitable artistic ecosystem overall.
Call Type: Grant
Open to: Emerging podcasters and content creators of color. Must be a member to apply. FREE to join.
Details: The Black & Brown Podcast Collective provides micro grants to further support the growth of podcasts and content.
Details: For those who work in filmmaking and television. Please filter by city to see opportunities near you.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Photographers, videographers, 3D artists, illustrators
Details: Help Shutterstock build a more diverse library. Apply for a chance to receive a grant of up to $10,000, learn the ins and outs of the stock content market, and open your work to an even broader commercial audience. Submit your portfolio today and discover what The Create Fund can do for you.
Call Type: Residency - Berkeley, CA
Deadline: Open
Open to: Artist from around the world.
Details: The Stochastic Labs offers fully-sponsored residencies to engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access, a $1,000 monthly stipend and a budget for materials.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Painters, printmakers, sculptors
Details: This emergency grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Visual and performing artists
Details: Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants range from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,900 They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Visual, media artists and choreographers for medical expenses.
Details: NYFA and the Rasuchenberg Foundation have teamed up to offer visual and media artists and choreographers in the US grants of up to $5,000 for medical related emergencies.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Journalists
Details: The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is a grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. Grant support will range from $500 to $5,000.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists)
Details: Housing grants are one-time grants to help theater writers with housing expenses that have accumulated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. DGF is committed to preventing evictions and displacement of dramatic writers as well as helping them rebuild their lives during the period of recovery from the pandemic.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricist
Details: It is vital to support writers in times of need so that they can get back to doing what they do best. DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricist
Details: The Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Bridge Grants are need-based awards of up to $500, now available to support dramatists with non-emergency and essential daily life expenses.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open To: National(US); Drawing, Painting, Sculpture
Details: The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides emergency support to U.S.-based visual artists who have suffered significant losses after natural or man-made disasters that have affected their community on a broad scale. The Foundation has historically granted funding to assist in the repair of homes and studios following flooding and material destruction, to replace art materials such as brushes, paints, inks, other materials such as hand or power tools and computers, and to assist in rent for a temporary studio space in which to work while cleaning up after a disaster.
Award: Up to $6,000 in emergency support
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open To: National(US); Craft/Traditional Arts
Details: CERF+’s emergency relief grants will focus on materials-based craft and folk/traditional artists that incurred significant medical expenses related to treatment and recovery from COVID-19 AND/OR experienced a recent, career-threatening emergency, such as an illness, accident, fire or climate-related disaster.
Award: $3,000
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Visual and performing artists
Details: Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants range from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,900 They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Visual, media artists and choreographers for medical expenses.
Details: NYFA and the Rasuchenberg Foundation have teamed up to offer visual and media artists and choreographers in the US grants of up to $5,000 for medical related emergencies.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists)
Details: Housing grants are one-time grants to help theater writers with housing expenses that have accumulated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. DGF is committed to preventing evictions and displacement of dramatic writers as well as helping them rebuild their lives during the period of recovery from the pandemic.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricist
Details: It is vital to support writers in times of need so that they can get back to doing what they do best. DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricist
Details: The Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Bridge Grants are need-based awards of up to $500, now available to support dramatists with non-emergency and essential daily life expenses.
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open To: National(US); Drawing, Painting, Sculpture
Details: The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides emergency support to U.S.-based visual artists who have suffered significant losses after natural or man-made disasters that have affected their community on a broad scale. The Foundation has historically granted funding to assist in the repair of homes and studios following flooding and material destruction, to replace art materials such as brushes, paints, inks, other materials such as hand or power tools and computers, and to assist in rent for a temporary studio space in which to work while cleaning up after a disaster.
Award: Up to $6,000 in emergency support
Call Type: Grant
Deadline: Open
Open To: National(US); Craft/Traditional Arts
Details: CERF+’s emergency relief grants will focus on materials-based craft and folk/traditional artists that incurred significant medical expenses related to treatment and recovery from COVID-19 AND/OR experienced a recent, career-threatening emergency, such as an illness, accident, fire or climate-related disaster.
Award: $3,000
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This page hosts contract-based public art opportunities, such as calls for artists and consultant RFP’s typically posted by public art programs and other commissioning agencies. The public art opportunities are submitted by our members and posted for anyone to see.
Formerly Artist Opportunity Monthly, all you need to do is sign up with your email and they send you thoroughly screened opportunities every month, including grants. AOM prides itself on ensuring each opportunity is worthwhile. A more comprehensive monthly list is offered at $5 a year.
Another site you may have heard of is ArtDeadline.com. According to their website, it is “the largest and most respected source for artists seeking income and exhibition opportunities.” The site may cost you a subscription fee of $20 a year to view the majority of its opportunities, but you can still browse many grants listed for free on their homepage and the @ArtDeadline Twitter account.
Art Rabbit compiles a selection of international open calls and opportunities for contemporary art-related competitions, prizes, exhibitions, awards, proposals, and grants for artists, writers, and curators. They publish a selection of open calls from a pool of submissions and editorial research. Only open calls believed to offer meaningful benefits to applicants at different stages of their careers are published.
Artshow.com attracts thousands of artists and art enthusiasts each day. They advertise worldwide juried shows, exhibitions, and competitions across any and all mediums. Artshow.com has been recognized in "Must-See Web Sites for Artists" by The Artist's Magazine and has received favorable mention in several other art publications, including American Artist, Southwest Art, Watercolor Magic, and The Pastel Journal, as well as The Wall Street Journal.
Free to peruse, we feature everything from dream residencies and life-changing grants, to fun festivals, art business workshops, and competitions for some extra cash. We make it easy to search, too! Filter by opportunity type, location, event dates, eligibility, and more to find exactly what your art practice needs to flourish.
While you may know this site for its wide array of calls for shows, exhibitions, and residencies, this site also boasts a collection of grants and awards. Search through the listings at no cost which covers all the need-to-know details for applying, including entry deadline, fees, location eligibility, and more.
Creative Capital is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work in the visual arts, performing arts, literature, film, technology, and multidisciplinary practices, including socially-engaged work in all forms. Their pioneering model of grantmaking also provides thousands of artists with scaffolding and infrastructure support via professional development programs, networking opportunities, and educational resources.
CuratorSpace is a project management toolkit for curators, organizers, galleries, and artists. It is designed to take the hassle out of managing exhibitions, competitions, fairs, and a whole lot more. Plus, they are a great site for finding art opportunities worldwide!
We provide tools and guidance so that artists can thrive, fully. We are about our business so that we can guide you in being about yours. Includes information on funding, healthcare, education, and more.
The Artist Opportunity Board features the latest local, state, and national arts opportunities, such as grants, fellowships, calls for entry, workshops, jobs, and more. Browse by opportunity type or deadline or subscribe to the Artist Resource Newsletter to have the latest opportunities delivered straight to your inbox each month.
Res Artist is a Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies from around the globe. The network comprises more than 700 vetted members in over 85 countries. They aim to support and connect residencies, engage and advocate the importance of residencies in today’s society by providing artists with resources and upcoming residency information.
Re-title is a service for professional contemporary artists searching for opportunities, such as competitions, exhibitions, residencies, etc. A site for international contemporary art, this is another great site to find opportunities around the world! There’s even a map you can click on to search opportunities regionally and world clocks at the top of their site so you can submit applications on time!
Not sure if you want to apply through a third party, Art Guide is the free artist opportunity site for you. This call for entries website allows you to apply directly to the organization offering the grant. The list is updated daily so there'll always be a great new opportunity to pursue.
This page hosts contract-based public art opportunities, such as calls for artists and consultant RFP’s typically posted by public art programs and other commissioning agencies. The public art opportunities are submitted by our members and posted for anyone to see.
Formerly Artist Opportunity Monthly, all you need to do is sign up with your email and they send you thoroughly screened opportunities every month, including grants. AOM prides itself on ensuring each opportunity is worthwhile. A more comprehensive monthly list is offered at $5 a year.
Another site you may have heard of is ArtDeadline.com. According to their website, it is “the largest and most respected source for artists seeking income and exhibition opportunities.” The site may cost you a subscription fee of $20 a year to view the majority of its opportunities, but you can still browse many grants listed for free on their homepage and the @ArtDeadline Twitter account.
Art Rabbit compiles a selection of international open calls and opportunities for contemporary art-related competitions, prizes, exhibitions, awards, proposals, and grants for artists, writers, and curators. They publish a selection of open calls from a pool of submissions and editorial research. Only open calls believed to offer meaningful benefits to applicants at different stages of their careers are published.
ACA is a resource for artists, providing a searchable residency directory that spans disciplines; and other resources to help artists find, apply and fund a residency experience.
Free to peruse, we feature everything from dream residencies and life-changing grants, to fun festivals, art business workshops, and competitions for some extra cash. We make it easy to search, too! Filter by opportunity type, location, event dates, eligibility, and more to find exactly what your art practice needs to flourish.
While you may know this site for its wide array of calls for shows, exhibitions, and residencies, this site also boasts a collection of grants and awards. Search through the listings at no cost which covers all the need-to-know details for applying, including entry deadline, fees, location eligibility, and more.
Creative Capital is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work in the visual arts, performing arts, literature, film, technology, and multidisciplinary practices, including socially-engaged work in all forms. Their pioneering model of grantmaking also provides thousands of artists with scaffolding and infrastructure support via professional development programs, networking opportunities, and educational resources.
The Artist Opportunity Board features the latest local, state, and national arts opportunities, such as grants, fellowships, calls for entry, workshops, jobs, and more. Browse by opportunity type or deadline or subscribe to the Artist Resource Newsletter to have the latest opportunities delivered straight to your inbox each month.
Res Artist is a Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies from around the globe. The network comprises more than 700 vetted members in over 85 countries. They aim to support and connect residencies, engage and advocate the importance of residencies in today’s society by providing artists with resources and upcoming residency information.
Re-title is a service for professional contemporary artists searching for opportunities, such as competitions, exhibitions, residencies, etc. A site for international contemporary art, this is another great site to find opportunities around the world! There’s even a map you can click on to search opportunities regionally and world clocks at the top of their site so you can submit applications on time!
Not sure if you want to apply through a third party, Art Guide is the free artist opportunity site for you. This call for entries website allows you to apply directly to the organization offering the grant. The list is updated daily so there'll always be a great new opportunity to pursue.
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The Profitable Artist: A Handbook for All Artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts, by Artspire (New York Foundation for the Arts)
I'd Rather Be in the Studio: The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion, by Alyson Stanfield
Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses, by Amy Whitaker
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, by William Zinsser
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, by Austin Kleon
Legal Guide for the Visual Artist, by Tad Crawford
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield
1,000 True Fans, by Kevin Kelly
Artists' Rights: A Guide to Copyright, Moral Rights and Other Legal Issues in the Visual Art Sphere, by Molly Torsen Stech
Story Craft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction, by Jack Hart
Field Notes From Creative Exchange: Stores of Artists with Impact From Communities Across America, by Springboard for the Arts
Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio, by Jessica Abel
A Beautiful Constraint, How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business, by Adam Morgan and Mark Barden
