Artist Opportunities: February 2024
Our curated list of artist opportunities for February 2024, including grants, calls for art, residencies, and more.
New America National Fellows Program
Deadline: February 1, 2024
New America’s Fellows Program invests in thinkers—journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts—who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day. Stipends generally fall between $15,000-$30,000.
MyMA Artist Grant
Deadline: February 3, 2024
MyMA Artist Grant is a monthly juried grant that provides an unrestricted $500 award to one visual artist each month. In addition to the winner, 5 artists are recognized with honorable mentions. Selected artists receive a published written or video profile on MyMA's website and social channels. Artists must be 18 or older.
Locust Projects 2024 Digital Commissions Open Call
Deadline: February 5, 2024
Locust Projects invites local, national, and international artists to apply for the opportunity to propose ambitious multi-layered digital projects that respond to the hybridity and flexibility of Locust Projects’ physical space and various presenting platforms from onsite, galleries, interior or exterior surfaces, on screens, or online. Projects can be new proposals, current works-in-progress, or existing works that need support for their evolution or next iteration. Selected artists receive curatorial guidance, production budget, artist W.A.G.E. fee, documentation, and a live/work residency opportunity.
Café Royal Visual Grant
Deadline: February 6, 2024
Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award an exhibition/project grant of up to $10,000 to NYC artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs. Artists in all genres of visual arts can apply.
South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowships
Deadline: February 9, 2024
$25 application fee
The Southern Prize and State Fellowships are open to visual artists to support, expose, and celebrate the breadth, depth and diversity of artistic excellence being created in the American South. Open to individual artists living in the South Arts region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The State Fellowship will award nine winners $5,000 and the opportunity to compete for the $25,000 Southern Prize. The runner-up will receive a $10,000 prize.
Mudflat Studio Artists of Color Summer Residency
Deadline: February 11, 2024
Artists at any career stage can apply for a short term ceramic residency program at Mudflat Pottery School in Somerville, MA. The residency includes a studio space at Mudflat Pottery School, $2,500 per month stipend towards housing, materials, & expenses, opportunities to teach in educational programs or workshops, and opportunities for retail sales of work.
Theater Mitu Hybrid Arts Lab
Deadline: February 11, 2024
The Hybrid Arts Lab supports women, trans, and non-binary artists working at the intersection of performance and technology. A cohort of three artists will each receive a $5,000 unrestricted stipend and support to develop an artwork bridging performance and technology. Artists are required to be local in New York City and prepared for all in-person activities.
Sony Future Filmmaker Awards
Deadline: February 15, 2024
The Sony Future Filmmaker Awards is an annual awards program for short films devoted to supporting and elevating independent filmmakers and creators from across the globe. The 30 shortlisted filmmakers are flown to Los Angeles for a black-tie awards ceremony at the Cary Grant Theatre and a four-day workshop program at Sony Pictures Studios. There are six categories to enter: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Environment, Animation, Student, and Future Format.
Furious Flower Poetry Prize
Deadline: February 15, 2024
$15 application fee
James Madison University’s Furious Flower Poetry Prize is for emerging poets with no more than one published book. Poets can submit up to three poems (no more than a total of 6 pages). The winner and honorable mention receive $1500 and $750 respectively and will be invited to read at the decennial Furious Flower Poetry Conference.
CUNY Dance Initiative Residency
Deadline: February 15, 2024
New York City choreographers and dance companies are invited to apply for residencies via the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI). Designed to take advantage of underutilized facilities while integrating New York City’s dance community with the public university system, the CUNY Dance Initiative provides local artists with rehearsal and performance space on 13 CUNY campuses across the five boroughs.
Martin House 2024 Creative Residency Program
Deadline: February 16, 2024
The Martin House Creative Residency Program is a project-based residency based in Buffalo, New York that provides creative individuals a designated time and space to develop new works of the imagination inspired by one of the great examples of 20th century architecture. Residents will receive a stipend of $5,000. Travel expenses of up to $1,000 will also be provided to residents who are from outside the Buffalo-Niagara region.
Black Women Photographers x Nikon Grants
Deadline: February 17, 2024
The Black Women Photographers x Nikon Grants are back for the third year. Apply to take home part of $50,000 in project-based and business grants and the latest Nikon mirrorless Z series gear.
MINIMALISM 2024
Deadline: February 18, 2024
$15 application fee
Cape Cod Art Center seeks submissions for “MINIMALISM 2024” an online photography exhibit. Photographers of any level are invited to submit to this open juried online photography exhibit. Cash prizes awarded for Best in Show, First Place, Second Place and Honorable Mention.
NewFest New Voices Filmmaker Grant
Deadline: February 22, 2024
NewFest’s New Voices Filmmaker Grant, in partnership with Netflix, supports emerging LGBTQ+ directors by providing funding and opportunities for exposure, networking, mentorship and professional development. This grant will provide a $25,000 unrestricted grant to four emerging directors.
NXTHVN Fellowship Program
Deadline: February 26, 2024
Each year NXTHVN welcomes up to seven artists and two curators to participate in its paid 10-month intensive Fellowship Program. Each Fellow will receive studio or office space, a stipend, and subsidized housing. Fellows relocate to New Haven, Connecticut to participate in NXTHVN’s mentorship-driven curriculum which includes professional development sessions led by visiting artists, curators, scholars, and practitioners.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Deadline: February 28, 2024
The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is committed to fostering an equitable environment where a diverse and inclusive community of artists and arts workers have the opportunity to thrive professionally. Ten US-based artists will receive $150,000 paid over three years, in addition to stipends to help cover the costs of yearly housing, a studio assistant, health and wellness, and relocation expenses.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Performing Artist in Residence
Deadline: February 29, 2024
One artist will be selected for a residency in 2024. The artist will spend time creating work in and inspired by the Garden. They will host one or two public classes, seminars, or activities, then showcase their final work in September 2024. The residency’s theme is Natural Attraction, celebrating the plant-pollinator relationship through the lens of BBG’s vast and varied collections and the native insects to which they are inextricably linked.
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