Of Note: Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order creating the first-ever Poet Laureate of Massachusetts. This new, honorary position is intended to promote poetry and creative expression across the state, serve as the Governor and Lieutenant Governor’s ambassador of the arts, and inspire the next generation of writers. More information about the Massachusetts Poet Laureate and how to apply will be available this Spring. Read more.
Craft Artists Grant The Society of Arts + Crafts Jumpstarter program will be awarding two recipients in this upcoming round. The grant award is $3,000. Learn more.
Deadline: February 17, 2025
Native American and Indigenous Artists Grant The Walker Youngbird Artist Grant is program is currently accepting applications. Through the foundation’s artist grant program, Native American and Indigenous artists are provided with financial support, mentorship, and a dedicated showcase celebrating a completed project. Learn more.
Deadline: February 19, 2025
Call to Artists Art Fluent invites artists to submit artwork to their online exhibit, IMPERMANENCE. Let’s celebrate the beauty in the here-today-gone-tomorrow moments. Artists are invited to capture what it means to embrace the temporary and find beauty in what is destined to fade. It’s a chance to get into the passing of time, the fragility of the human experience, the relentless evolution of nature, and the ever-evolving world around us. Show us IMPERMANENCE from your perspective. Learn more.
Deadline: February 21, 2025 at midnight (MST)
Medical Emergency Grants Are you an artist in need of critical medical, mental health, or dental treatment? The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent, unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies experienced by artists anywhere in the US in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, or choreography. Privacy is guaranteed. Cycle 29 will be open February 11 – March 11 for emergencies occurring August 1, 2024 and after. Please click here for details. Learn more in this recorded information session.
College Fellowship Exhibition $5,000 in fellowship grants will be awarded to college art majors whose work is selected. The call opens Friday, December 20, and closes Sunday, February 23 at 11:59 pm. There is no cost to register and submit. The College Fellowship Show is open to Berkshire County, Massachusetts residents enrolled at the undergraduate level as art majors at any college in the country, as well as non-residents majoring in art at a Berkshire County college; Berkshire Community College, MCLA, Williams, and Simon’s Rock. The show will open in April at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in Pittsfield; an award ceremony will be held on Saturday, April 19 from 3-5 pm. Learn more.
Deadline: February 23, 2025
Artists-in-Residence Arts/Industry has been connecting artists with the resources, technology, and materials of Kohler Co., and providing a place to explore new ideas, processes, and perspectives. Artists from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Arts/Industry residencies are three months in length and divided into three cohorts. There are four artists-in-residence in each cohort—two in Pottery and two in Foundry. Learn more.
Deadline: February 28, 2025
Multidisciplinary Artist Residencies Applications are currently being accepted for the Millay Arts multidisciplinary artist residencies. Dive deep into your practice/process with fully funded and partially subsidized options at the historic estate of poet and activist Edna St. Vincent Millay. Core and Steepletop Residencies include chef-prepared communal suppers and groceries. Learn more.
Deadlines: March 1, 2025
Call to Artists National call for art for the exhibition Beyond The Veil. Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, invites artists based in the United States to explore contemporary interpretations of surrealism and the supernatural. This show is juried by curator, educator, and author Kate M. McNamara. All visual and performance media (2D, 3D, time-based) will be considered. Learn more.
Deadline: March 2, 2025
Call to Berkshires Area Artists Visual artists and crafters living or working in the Berkshires and surrounding counties to enter our juried call for art. This call celebrates local talent and offers an art show at Eastover Contemporary Art Space in Lenox, MA, significant PR opportunities through AITB, and cash awards. Learn more.
March 14, 2025
Of Note: Walking Together: Investing in Folklife Communities of Color The aim of this program is to support folklife and traditional arts rooted in communities of color by investing in artists/practitioners and the community organizations that care for them.
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Deadline: March 19, 2025
Research Grants in the Arts & NEA Research Labs Updated guidelines are now available for two funding programs offered through the National Endowment for the Arts’ Office of Research & Analysis: Research Grants in the Arts funds research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecosystem or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Cost share grants of $20,000 to $100,000 will be awarded. NEA Research Labs funds projects that support transdisciplinary research teams grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, yielding empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike. Cost share grants of $100,000 to $300,000 will be awarded. Application guidelines for the present round of funding are available on the Arts Endowment website.
Deadline: March 24, 2025
Grant for Painters The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grants are offered to American painters aged 45 or older who demonstrate financial need. The primary emphasis is to promote public awareness and a commitment to American art, as well as encouraging interest in painters who lack adequate recognition. A jury made up of three art historians, artists, curators, and critics will review the applications in the late spring. Applicants will be notified no later than July 1, 2025. Learn more.
April 1, 2025
Image credit: Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, State Names, 2000, oil, collage and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Ann Dugan and museum purchase, 2004.28.
Leslie Sills says
So pleased to see your post of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith’s work. She was a woman artist of huge importance, alerting the world to the plight of Native Americans. I was lucky enough to see her show (with work spanning 5 decades) at The Whitney Museum in 2023. Let’s not forget her and the Native Americans who she represents.