Call to Artists FIGMENT Boston 2025 is looking for artists, creators, and anyone with an idea that they want to bring to life. Do you have something you want to share with the world? An art piece? A project you’ve been working on? A performance? Share something you are passionate about with the public! Learn more.
Deadline: June 27, 2025
Poets Bauhan Publishing offers an annual poetry contest in honor of New Hampshire poet May Sarton to encourage both new and experienced poets from anywhere in the world to submit their poetry. Your collection could potentially win $1,000 and publication through their company. Learn more.
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Autumn House Poetry Prize For the 2025 prize, the Autumn House staff as well as select outsider readers serve as the preliminary readers, and the final judge is Matthew Olzmann. The winner receives publication of their full-length manuscript and $2,500. Learn more.
Deadline: June 30, 2025
The Arts Action Consortium (AAC) is a dynamic new initiative comprised of six Boston-based cultural organizations with a mission to strengthen and sustain Boston’s creative workforce. In collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture of the City of Boston, this two-year program provides artists with essential resources, including professional development, technical assistance, and career support.
Filmmaker Grant The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant is an annual grant of $7,000 that will be awarded to self-identified lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. Work can be experimental animation, experimental documentary, experimental narrative, cross-genre, or solely experimental. Applicants must be based in the U.S. This grant was established by Hammer in 2017 to give needed support to moving-image art made by lesbians. The grant is supported directly by funds provided by Hammer and administered through Queer|Art by lesbians for lesbians, with a rotating panel of judges. Learn more.
Deadline: July 2, 2025
Women’s Studio Workshop: Artists Book Residency Grant Artist’s Book Residency Grant is a six- to eight-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition book work. Working intensively in our studios, artists print and bind their own books, and are encouraged to create an edition size no larger than 100 and no smaller than 50. The grant includes a stipend of $350/week, up to $1000 for materials, up to $250 for travel within the Continental US, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access. WSW can provide technical advice; training on new equipment, techniques, and materials; and production assistance. Learn more.
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Call to Youth Artists NextGen InterArts Foundation has announced their XC Creative Art Contest for students in Grades 6–12. This international contest invites original, cross-disciplinary artworks combining visual art with science, literature, music, and media. It is free to enter and offers cash prizes, letters of recommendation, and professional exhibition opportunities to top participants. Submissions accepted: August 20 – October 20, 2025 (online). Final Exhibition: December 14, 2025, at the XC Art Center in Boston, MA. Learn more.
First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship The Cultural Capital (CC) Fellowship is a yearlong program that offers financial support and guidance to Native culture bearers and artists who are deeply rooted in their communities and committed to passing on ancestral knowledge within their Native communities. The CC Fellowship offers $10,000 in grant funding to artists and culture bearers to support their cultural work in their community through the arts. This fellowship is open to artists at any stage of their career. Learn more.
Deadline: July 16, 2025 at 6pm MT
First Peoples Fund Native Performing Arts Fellowship The Native Performing Arts Fellowship provides grants of up to $10,000 for Native individuals who practice/work within the performing arts landscape (theater, dance, music, etc.). This is not a project based grant. Developing or completing a creative project can be a component of the fellowship, but does not need to be the primary goal or outcome. Learn more.
Deadline: July 16, 2025 at 6pm MT
Call to Artists The Newton Free Library is currently accepting art applications for exhibits January – June 2026. As one of the busiest public library buildings in Massachusetts, their exhibit space is highly sought after, well-loved by library patrons, and prominently located on the first floor. They welcome applications from New England artists showing two-dimensional works that are compatible with the Walker Display system. They encourage artists from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences to apply. All applicants will be notified in September for January – June 2026 shows. Learn more.
Deadline: July 31, 2025
Pre-Production or Early Development Film Funding Through the Moving Image Fund, LEF Foundation supports the work of New England-based filmmakers across all phases of a project’s production. The foundation is currently accepting applications for Pre-production ($5,000) and Early Development ($2,500) grants. Learn more about how to apply.
Deadline: August 8, 2025
Image credit: Bicycling / Hy Sandham ; aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co.. Woman, on three wheel bicycle, followed by men on high-wheelers, 1887. From the collection of the Library of Congress.
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