[May 2025]
Are you a visual artist, performer, or creative visionary? Discover residencies, grants, and open calls designed to fund your projects, amplify your work, and connect you with international art communities.
Submissions open for Felt Photographic Gallery Exhibition
Deadline: 16 June 2025
The Feel More Creative is thrilled to officially launch Dreaming, the sixth photographic open call from Felt Photographic! Submit your images that express our universal human experience of deep processing, manifestation, imagining or longing…[more]
Open Call for Artistic Residencies: S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion
Deadline: 13 June 2025
The S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion is excited to invite artists from all disciplines to apply for a unique interdisciplinary residency programme focused on the future of water in Europe…[more]
Open Call: Werner Fenz Grant for Art in Public Space
Deadline: 12 August 2025
The Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Graz and steirischer herbst are delighted to invite applications for the Werner Fenz Grant for Art in Public Space 2026…[more]
Apply Now: ‘Art Like Salt’ International Open Call for Residency Artists
Deadline: 28 May 2025
The Taepyung Salt Farm X Boggle Mansion seeks artists to submit entries for the juried exhibition, ‘Art Like Salt…[more]
Apply Now: Vila 31 x Art Explora Artist Residencies Programme
Deadline: 30 May 2025
The Art Explora is seeking applications from artists and artist collectives, researchers, and curators of all nationalities, without age restrictions, who can demonstrate a minimum of five years of professional activity and have exhibited their works and research internationally…[more]
28th Annual Peace Pals International Art Exhibition and Awards
Deadline: 31 August 2025
Youth from around the world are invited to submit their artwork to the 28th Annual Peace Pals International Art Exhibition and Awards for 2025…[more]
Culture Resource launches Productivity Grants Program
Deadline: 15 August 2025
The Production Grants Program supports young artists and writers under the age of 35 from the Arab region, whether residing in the region or abroad, by offering grants in the fields of literature, visual arts, music and sound arts, performing arts, and cinema…[more]
Apply Now: Deniz Villalari – Ecological Crossings Residency Program
Deadline: 31 May 2025
The French Institute of Turkey and the Goethe-Institute Turkey are launching, in collaboration with their local and Mediterranean partners, the artistic residency program titled Deniz Villalari: Ecological Crossings…[more]
Open Call: Financial Support for Cultural Projects (Poland and Netherlands)
Deadline: 9-Jun-25
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Poland has launched its Open Call to provide financial support for Cultural Projects…[more]
PhotoVogue’s Regional Open Call: East and Southeast Asian Panorama
Deadline: 25 June 2025
In celebration of the vibrant cultures and rich visual storytelling traditions of East and Southeast Asia, PhotoVogue has launched a Regional Open Call for photographers and videomakers from these regions…[more]
CFAs: Residential Workshop on Writing for Preserving Heritage (Bangladesh)
Deadline: 15 June 2025
The Anubad.net welcomes applications from young writers, artists, and individuals from the Manipuri (both Bishnupriya and Meitei) and Khasia communities based in Sylhet division for a three-day residential workshop focused on preserving cultural heritage through writing…[more]
CFAs: Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors (India)
Deadline: 10 June 2025
Applications are now open for the Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors (PM-YUVA) Scheme Third Edition to help develop a stream of writers who can write on various facets of India encompassing the past, present and future…[more]dia encompassing the past, present and future…[more]
Submissions open for Leela Mukherjee Artist-Educator Grant Program (India)
Deadline: 10 July 2025
The Leela Mukherjee Artist-Educator Grant is an annual grant that seeks to support artists-educators in India who are engaged in developing and running an art education project with school-aged children (5- 18 years of age), either within or outside the classroom…[more]
Heartefact Grants for implementation of Cultural and Artistic Projects in Macedonia
Deadline: 6-Jun-25
The Heartefact Fund is accepting grant applications to support an independent, diverse and inclusive cultural sector and its role in shaping and preserving democratic values, inclusive social change and fostering social cohesion through arts and culture…[more]
Residency Program for Artists and Curators from Chile
Deadline: 25 May 2025
The Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of Chile, the Institut Français of Chile, and the Cité internationale des arts in Paris has launched a call for the residency program, now called Andes~Sena, aimed at artists and curators working and residing in Chile, to promote and facilitate their international mobility, as well as to expand their professional network…[more]
Funding available for Comic Creation in Spain
Deadline: 4 June 2025
Applications are now open for Comic Creation Grants to stimulate and finance the literary creation of original works in the comic format, understood as sequential art, written in any of the languages official Spanish authorities, as well as those with legal recognition in the statutes of autonomy…[more]
Cultural Exchange Residency in Bangladesh for Irish Printmaking Artists (Ireland)
Deadline: 7 June 2025
The Gallery Cosmos and Cosmos Atelier71, in association with the Honorary Consul of Ireland in Bangladesh and the Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi, are delighted to announce a unique cultural exchange opportunity for an Irish printmaking artist to participate in a short-term residency in Dhaka, Bangladesh…[more]
Danish Arts Foundation announces Grants for Performing Arts for Children, Young People and Adults (Denmark)
Deadline: 2 June 2025
The Danish Arts Foundation is requesting applications from Small theatres, performing arts groups, independent performing artists and operators to promote performing arts of a high artistic quality in Denmark and Danish performing arts abroad…[more]
Call for Proposals: CreativeACTIONs 2 Grant Program (Zimbabwe)
Deadline: 30-May-25
The 3rd Call for Proposals under CreativeACTIONs 2 is now officially open, inviting Zimbabwean artists, cultural operators and creative organisations to apply for funding…[more]
Call for Applications: Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) – New Zealand
Deadline: 17-Aug-25
The Auckland Council is accepting applications for its Creative Communities Scheme (CCS)…[more]
RFAs: Bouddi Foundation for the Arts Grant Program (Australia)
Deadline: 2 June 2025
The Bouddi Foundation for the Arts is requesting grant applications to support young artists on the Central Coast between the ages of 15 – 30…[more]
Open Call: RISE – Funding for Young Creatives (UK)
Deadline: 1 June 2025
Supporting the next generation of artists through small pots of funding, RISE is designed to help young creatives develop and expand their creative practices…[more]