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Teaching Artist-in-Residence Arts Fellowship The Benedetti Arts Fellowship provides opportunities for early career arts professionals from historically-minoritized communities to complete large-scale arts projects within a community-focused liberal arts college program. During their time in residence, Fellows will further have such opportunities to teach students within the Department of Fine and Performing Arts (FPA) and engage with the wider community as befit the needs of the college and interests of the resident in any given year. Learn more.
Deadline: Open Until Filled

Call to Artists The Monmouth Museum in Lyncroft, NJ, is proud to host The Bias Inside Us, a traveling Smithsonian exhibition dedicated to exploring the concept of bias—how it shapes our perspectives, interactions, and society as a whole. Through engaging art and educational programs, this exhibition aims to foster dialogue, understanding, and empathy within our diverse community. As a compliment to this meaningful initiative, the Museum invites artists to submit artwork that creatively reflects upon themes related to bias, perception, inclusion, and the pursuit of empathy and equity. The artwork will accompany the Smithsonian exhibit in the Main Gallery. Learn more.
Deadline: June 30, 2025

Literature Prize The Drue Heinz Literature Prize recognizes and supports writers of short fiction and makes their work available to readers around the world. The award is open to authors who have published a book-length collection of fiction or at least three short stories or novellas in commercial magazines or literary journals. Winners receive a cash prize of $15,000, publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press, and support in the nation-wide promotion of their book. Learn more.
Deadline: June 30, 2025

Call to Artists The Saugus Cultural Council and Bike to the Sea are excited to announce their partnership in organizing the very first cross-community art show along the Northern Strand Trail! The Northern Strand Trail Art Show is on Saturday, July 19th, and will celebrate local creativity and community spirit, showcasing artwork from residents of all ages who live along this community connecting trail. They invite everyone to be part of this creative celebration and submit artwork through the online form. Learn more. For more information or questions, please contact the Saugus Cultural Council at saugusculturalcouncil@gmail.com
Deadline: July 1st, 2025

Visual Artists TAG The Art Gallery is expanding into a new space within SoWa – Boston’s vibrant Art and Design District, and they’re excited to welcome new artist members to be part of this dynamic creative community. This is a fantastic opportunity for visual artists and makers to gain consistent exhibition opportunities, increase visibility and sales, connect with fellow creatives in a high-traffic, well-established arts hub. If you’re looking to grow your art career and be part of a supportive and professionally curated gallery, they’d love to hear from you. Questions, contact Claudia Fiks, Gallery Director, at claudia@newenglandartcenter.com. Learn more.

Call to Artists The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists sheds light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provides critical support to their continuing work. Developed and named in partnership with Mariette Pathy Allen, Aaryn Lang, and Serena Jara, this grant supports visual artists who are self-identified Black trans women and awards $10,000 to the winner and $1,250 to distinguished finalists. Winning artists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development in the field. This year’s judges will be Legacy Russell, Jordyn Jay, and Lee Laa Ray Guillory. Learn more.
Deadline: July 2, 2025

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

Ucross Fellowship For Native American Artists is now accepting applications for its Spring 2026 residency. This fellowship supports the work of contemporary Native American visual artists, writers, and performers. Selected fellows are offered a four-week residency, which includes uninterrupted time, private studio space living accommodations, meals prepared by our professional chef, a stipend, and the experience of the majestic High Plains. The Fellowship for Native American Artists also includes an award of $2,000 and the opportunity to present work publicly, such as a featured exhibition in the Ucross Art Gallery, a reading, or a performance. Learn more.
Deadline: July 15, 2025

Grand Canyon Conservancy: 2026 Artists in Residence The Artist in Residence program at Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona) offers artists of any discipline the opportunity to work at one of the world’s most beautiful sites. Through impactful community-engaged programming, our residency inspires visitors and locals to deepen their connection to Grand Canyon National Park. Seeking inspiring and resourceful artists who engage contemporary, interactive, immersive, and/or socially engaged methods to make positive environmental and cultural impacts through their work. Learn more.
Deadline: July 15, 2025

Call to Artists Midwest Nice Art is excited to announce the summer call for art for archive the west, a virtual juried exhibition. The “Western United States” has become a long-standing art trope. Images of Monument Valley and other iconic landmarks have saturated the art-sphere, but these often seem like one-offs or fetishization devoid of a necessary context. Absent a larger series or archive, these depictions often rely on shallow understandings of the region’s cultural history. This call seeks depictions of the American West that draw upon personal or collective archives. Any mediums welcome. This exhibition will be juried by Disparate Projects. Disparate Projects is an evolving collective and platform dedicated to the exploration of contemporary photography founded by Lisa Beard, Micah McCoy, and Vann Thomas Powell. Learn more.
Deadline: July 20, 2025

Call to Artists ART in the PARK is an annual juried art event sponsored by the Artists’ Group of Charlestown. Since 1998, ART in the PARK has consistently attracted talented artists from the New England area, becoming an extremely popular fine art event. ART in the PARK 2025 will be held in the award winning City Square Park, Charlestown, MA on Saturday, September 6, 2025 (rain date Sunday, September 7th). The Committee will jury and accept applicants based on creativity, originality of the work and presentation. Various mediums including acrylic, oil, mixed media and watercolor painting, original prints and/or limited editions prints, photography, sculpture, glass and pottery, jewelry, fabric, textile and other fine art are acceptable. Learn more.
Deadline: July 23, 2025

Call for Artists & Filmmakers The ACTivate Residency of Boston Center for the Arts is a seven-day, site-responsive artist residency in Boston’s historic Cyclorama building, designed to support artists in the exploration of an idea or concept without the requirement of a finished product or piece at the culmination of their residency. The ACTivate Residency is open to all Boston-based visual, performing, and interdisciplinary artists with priority given to BIPOC, immigrant, and other artists from communities historically excluded from institutional arts funding and recognition. Learn more.
Deadline: July 28, 2025

Visiting Artist Scholarship Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s Nicholas Dahl Visiting Artist Scholarship is offered annually to an LGBTQIA+ individual who is 30 years or under and passionate about the arts. Created to honor the life of Nicholas Dahl, the scholarship aims to foster creative connections and opportunities in Provincetown. The scholarship will fund a one-week creative experience in Provincetown during the “off-season” (November-April), including lodging, a workshop at PAAM and associated materials, use of a PAAM studio, a PAAM Membership, and the opportunity to visit the Fine Arts Work Center, the National Seashore, and artist and writer studios. The scholarship is offered to LGBTQIA+ individuals 30 years of age and under who demonstrate a passion for the arts in the form of writing, poetry, painting, theater, music or other artistic mediums. The artist must commit to spending at least one week in Provincetown from November-April, at a time mutually agreed upon with PAAM, and have demonstrated financial need. Learn more.
Deadline: July 31, 2025

Call for Poetry Poets are invited to walk through Beals Preserve and respond to the art with a poem. Beals Preserve is a 55-acre tract of land, with hiking trails, meadows and a skating pond. The property, given to Southborough Open Land Foundation (SOLF) by Elaine and Philip Beals in 2009, is bordered on the North by Rte. 30, and tucked into the local neighborhoods of Southborough, Massachusetts. The Preserve offers moments of contemplation to hundreds of people who visit the preserve every year to hike, walk their dog, photograph nature, fish, ice skate, snowshoe, and cross country ski. The top 26 poems submitted (two for each art work) will be published in the ninth edition of Art on The Trails, due out in September 2025. Selected poets will receive a free copy of the chapbook. Learn more.
Deadline: July 31, 2025

Southern New England Apprenticeship Program Southern New England Apprenticeship Program The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History announces its Southern New England Apprenticeship Program (SNEAP) is now open for applications. SNEAP helps communities preserve their cultural knowledge by supporting teaching relationships between a mentor and apprentice. The program provides funding to cross-state apprenticeship teams from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or Connecticut. A new criterion this year is that at least one of the participating artists must reside in Connecticut, whether mentor or apprentice. Their counterpart may reside in Massachusetts or Rhode Island. The apprenticeship amount will be no more than $3500 and no less than $2000. Learn more.
Deadline: August 1, 2025

Image credit: Sunrise on the Matterhorn, Albert Bierstadt (American, Solingen 1830–1902 New York), after 1875, 0il on canvas, 58 1/2 x 42 5/8 in. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.