WHITNEY INDEPENDENT STUDIO PROGRAM
NEW YORK, NY
DEADLINE: 4/1/2024
The Independent Study Program (ISP) consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Critical Studies Program, and Curatorial Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture.
Each year fifteen students are selected to participate in the Studio Program, four in the Curatorial Program, and six in the Critical Studies Program. Curatorial and critical studies students are designated as Helena Rubinstein Fellows in recognition of the substantial support provided to the program by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. The program begins in early September and concludes at the end of the following May. Many of the participants are enrolled at universities and art schools and receive academic credit for their participation, while others have recently completed their formal studies.
FIRE ISLAND ARTIST RESIDENCY
ASTORIA, NY
DEADLINE: 4/1/2024
Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), the first residency in the United States exclusively for artists identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, intersex, two-spirit or queer, annually accepts applications for its prestigious and internationally recognized summer program. Now in its 12th season in the secluded beach community of Cherry Grove, NY, an historic LGBTQ settlement of Fire Island, emerging artists will share a live/work space for a four-week program marked by intimate studio visits with, and public lectures by, renowned leaders in contemporary art, scholarship, activism and curation.
BAYARD RUSTIN RESIDENCY
MANHATTAN, NY
DEADLINE: 4/1/2024
Beginning in September of 2024, this residency will provide up to one year of room and board to a person who demonstrates a strong project that addresses ending Systemic Racism and who has a necessity to be in New York City for up to one year. They will reside at the Penington Friends House located in New York City’s Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Bayard Rustin Resident will demonstrate a need to live in Manhattan. Areas of focus of their work can include activism in the arts, policy change, human rights, community organizing, and other areas of activism focusing on ending racism and strengthening equality. Residents will meet regularly with the Residency Manager and will be expected to share their progress with the New York City community in the form of presentations or workshops.
ABRONS ARTS CENTER'S VISUAL ARTISTS
NEW YORK, NY
DEADLINE: 4/1/2024
GRANT: $7,000 + $5,000 BUDGET
New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship for Visual Artists supports a cohort of 3 visual artists between the ages of 18 and 30 years old for a residency at Abrons Arts Center over the course of 21 months. Each fellow will be paired with a professional artist mentor who is an alum of the Abrons Arts Center Visual Artist AIRspace Residency program. The mentor will support the creative and professional development of the fellows during the residency period.
BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART - SPRING & SUMMER RESIDENCY
OMAHA, NB
DEADLINE: 4/1/2024
GRANT: $1,250 per month + $250 Travel Refund
Founded in 1981, by artists for artists, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts facilitates the creation, presentation, and understanding of contemporary art through an international residency program, exhibitions, and educational programs. Located in the historic Old Market, Omaha’s arts and culture district, Bemis Center serves a critical role in the presentation and understanding of contemporary art, bridging the community of Omaha to a global discourse surrounding cultural production today.
Bemis Center’s core mission has always been to provide artists from around the world dedicated time, space, and resources to conduct research and to create new work across conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The independently driven atmosphere and communal environment encourage creative growth, experimentation, confrontation of challenges, and cultivation of new ideas. To date, more than 1,000 artists have participated in the residency program.
RECESS ART - SESSION
BROOKLYN, NY
DEADLINE: 4/1/2024
GRANT: $1,000 + mentorship
Session provides artists a 1200sf workspace in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn and 6-10 weeks to develop a new inquiry-based project meant to push the boundaries of their practice. They will receive an artist honorarium, planning meeting fees, project expenses, technical support, and mentorship collectively valued at approximately $22,500-$25,000. Throughout the session, we will facilitate public interactions with the Recess community, as well as connections among intentional communities as identified by each artist. Our hope is that these engagements provide an opportunity for mutually beneficial exchanges that not only refine the artists’ thinking, but that challenge dominant social narratives and activate new forms of artmaking.
Based on our learnings from our current experimental Session cycle, we are moving towards a biannual open call. In addition to the 6 Session artists selected for the 2024-25 season, we will also maintain relationships with a small cohort of applicants to further develop their proposals toward the 2025-26 season. We will also leave flexibility in the 2025-26 season for re-engaging Session alumni and for hosting projects with collaborating organizations advancing racial and economic justice.
All Session artists are expected to engage with Recess’s other main program Assembly. Founded in 2016, Assembly offers system-impacted young people aged 18-26 an inroad to art and connections to working artists, while serving as an alternative to incarceration and its intersecting systems of oppression. The curriculum empowers young people to take charge of their own life story and envision a future through art.
INK SHOP KAHN FAMILLY FELLOWSHIP
ITHICA, NY
DEADLINE: 4/2/204
GRANT: $2,000
The Ink Shop Printmaking Center offers an annual Fellowship Grant to a printmaker or book artist. The Fellowship, funded in part from a generous contribution from the Kahn Family, provides an artist with the time and resources to create a new body of work. The Fellow is granted a full year membership to The Ink Shop with 24/7 access to studio and equipment, and is given the opportunity to present this work in a gallery show. The Fellowship enables the artist to participate in Ink Shop exhibitions and portfolio exchanges, and to partake in all aspects of The Ink Shop’s day-to-day management. The Fellow helps with exhibition programs and covers some shop hours.
The next Fellowship begins May 15, 2024 and ends February 15, 2024. The Fellow will be offered a stipend of $2000 and all the benefits and privileges of a Printmaker Associate. The Fellow may teach workshops and/or edition for other artists (for which one could be paid additionally as an independent contractor). The Ink Shop will provide technical advice, guidance, and assistance in production and use of equipment. For the month of February 2024 the Fellow will have the opportunity to present a Solo show.
A STUDIO IN THE WOODS - SELF AS UNIVERSE: MENDING OUR COLLECTIVE ECOSYSTEM RESIDENCY
NEW ORLEANS, LA
DEADLINE: 4/3/2024
GRANT: $3,000 + $2,000
The climate crisis is an urgent global concern. Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to explore the connections within our collective ecosystems and use the power of imagination to heal the wounds in the relationship between ourselves and our communities. Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually scarred by the effects of environmental degradation. These injuries – the historical to the present – affect our bodies, families, communities, and cultures, as well as the land and its other creatures. We encourage artists to guide our collective response as the caretakers and caregivers to our universe while bringing wisdom, integrity, optimism, and even humor to intentional and timely projects seeking transformation for our species and planet. This new call reflects a desire to repair the disconnection and alienation between humankind and the planet that is hindering the climate movement.
We are open to artists of all disciplines who have demonstrated an established dialogue with environmental and cultural issues. We ask artists to describe in detail how our unique region will affect their work, propose a public component to their residency, and suggest ways how they will engage with the local community.
VISUAL STUDIES WORKSHOP
NEW YORK, NY
DEADLINE: 4/5/2024
Rooted in VSW’s mission to provide support to experimental photo, film and media art artists, the goal of the Project Space Residency is to provide time, space, and resources to artists so they can create.
The 4 week residencies are open to artists at any stage of their career and take place at VSW in Rochester, NY. Project Space Residents receive 24/7 access to a private studio, digital printing equipment and an analog darkroom. They also receive a stipend of $1000, plus $250 for supplies, and a $500 travel budget for those traveling from outside the Rochester region.
We provide accessible housing for national/international artists in an apartment within walking distance to VSW. All of our Residents receive the support of VSW’s digital printing technician, program assistants, consultations with curators on staff and research support in VSW’s collections. The Project Space Residency also provides opportunities for artists to engage with the public through public lectures and Open Studios.
InSILo
HOLLABRUNN, AUSTRIA
DEADLINE: 4/6/2024
GRANT: 1,200 € per WK + 250€ Budget+ Travel Refund
The current and the previous year have forced us to take a fresh look at freedom of artistic expression and recognize that it is threatened not only in countries with authoritarian regimes but also in countries with competitive democratic elections. This open call for the new residency Round 2024, which we titled "Non-Utterance", aims to capture this moment, analyze the atmosphere in the artistic environment, and explore censorship and self-censorship in art.
During the next 2024 round, AIR InSILo aims to create a safe space for the completion or reworking of an idea or an artwork that has never been realized due to the political momentum or restraints of self-censorship nature.
SOMA
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
DEADLINE: 4/7/2024
GRANT: $2,268
SOMA Summer is an intensive three-week academic program in Mexico for artistic inquiry that welcomes a cohort of international artists, curators, critics, and art historians interested in collaborative pedagogical models. Each SOMA Summer is organized around a different theme that provides a compelling conceptual framework for research and creative work.
In its 2024 edition, SOMA Summer will be structured after Argentinean decolonial philosopher Enrique Dussel’s subject-subject relation categories to deal with entanglement as our object of study.
BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS - ALUMNI RESIDENCY & SOUND ART + EXPERIMENTAL RESIDENCY
OMAHA, NE
DEADLINE: 4/8/2024
Founded in 1981, by artists for artists, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts facilitates the creation, presentation, and understanding of contemporary art through an international residency program, exhibitions, and educational programs. Located in the historic Old Market, Omaha’s arts and culture district, Bemis Center serves a critical role in the presentation and understanding of contemporary art, bridging the community of Omaha to a global discourse surrounding cultural production today.
Bemis Center’s core mission has always been to provide artists from around the world dedicated time, space, and resources to conduct research and to create new work across conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The independently driven atmosphere and communal environment encourage creative growth, experimentation, confrontation of challenges, and cultivation of new ideas. To date, more than 1,000 artists have participated in the residency program.
THE LATINX PROJECT/ NYU
NEW YORK, NY
DEADLINE: 4/15/2024
The Latinx Project is thrilled to announce the next cycle of the Artist-in-Residence program open to emerging and mid-career artists based in the United States. As part of the Artist-in-Residence program, the selected artist will present a solo exhibition on campus with the option of curatorial support and a public program. The most compelling applications engage with larger contemporary or historic dialogues in Latinx Studies. Interested applicants can apply via the Google form below; applicants should include a concise portfolio that illustrates their artistic practice and approach. Below please find links to past artists-in-residence and their exhibitions.
VILL BARR
CITY OF NOVI, MI
DEADLINE: 4/15/2024
GRANT: $1,000
Three residency periods are available each year (Ranging from 6 to 15 Weeks in length). Spring/Early Summer, Summer, Late Summer/Fall
The residencies take place between April 1st and December 15th each year.
Villa Barr provides to the artist:
Full use of the house and studio at no cost.
All tools existing in the studio.
An honorarium of up to $1,000
Opportunity for immediate family to reside at Villa Barr during the residency.
Visual Artists working in sculpture may also have an opportunity to visit and collaborate Michigan Legacy Art Park, before, during, or after the residency period at Villa Barr Art Park on a case-by-case basis.
Q21 ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
DEADLINE: 4/22/2024
GRANT: 1,500 € per Month + 1,500€ budget
As part of its artist-in-residence program, the MuseumsQuartier Wien, together with EIKON - International Magazine for Photography and Media Art, invites an international artist to apply for a two-month work grant (period: September 1st - October 31st 2024) in a residential studio on the MuseumsQuartier site.
The call is aimed at visual artists who focus their work on photography and media art and who are staging an exhibition in the EIKON Schauraum during their stay in Vienna.
THE WOLFSMAN FELLOWSHIP
MIAMI, FL
DEADLINE: 4/30/2024
Wolfsonian fellowships engage scholars and artists around the world with resources held in the museum's trust and with the possibilities contained in dedicated study and interpretation of the modern age. Working full-time at The Wolfsonian over the course of their residency, fellows seek deeper understanding about the past (in research fellowships) or imagine novel ways to activate historic ideas and imagery (in creative fellowships).
Each fellow broadens public access to Wolfsonian collection items and enriches our collective knowledge about its artifacts by sharing takeaways and discoveries in new projects.
All fellows receive:
A stipend
Round-trip travel
Accommodations (if non-local)
Access to the collection and collections staff