Grants, Fellowships & Prizes
The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2026
An annual award supporting UAE-based artists to propose and realise a publicly exhibited artwork inspired by the spirit of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The winning work will be produced and exhibited across major public sites in Abu Dhabi.
Deadline: January 30, 2026
Paul Mellon Centre Spring 2026 Funding Opportunities
The majority of the Spring 2026 opportunities are aimed at individual researchers. Many are offered as Fellowships designed to allow individuals the time and funding support to concentrate on undertaking uninterrupted research towards their project.
Deadline: January 31, 2026
The Homiens Art Prize
The Homiens Art Prize (£9,000 Awarded Annually): Entries close 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday, January 29, 2026. Open to all art forms and artists internationally. 3 Winners (3 x $1,000 USD) and 12 Finalists exhibit with Homiens, 200 artists Highly Commended. Winners receive optional Interview and Letter of Recommendation. All entrants may request a Certificate of Participation, and may also apply to our competitive, merit-based Meet the Artists initiative, and to become a Homiens Promoted Artist.
Deadline: January 29, 2026
Museum Foundation of the Philippines Grant 2026
An open grant supporting research, curatorial, publication, and professional development projects that preserve, study, and promote Philippine art, culture, and museum practice, aligned with MFPI’s mission and funding priorities.
March 1, 2026
Fluxus Museum Prize for Experimental Video 2026
FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video is now in its third year. Over the duration of this year’s prize, €45,000 will be given to participants, with a portion used to support the development of their projects, a fee provided to selected artists for their participation in the exhibition, and the remainder awarded as prizes at the exhibition’s end.
Deadline: January 16, 2025
Artflow Prize 2026
The Artflow Prize is a biannual initiative designed to provide emerging artists with international exposure and opportunities to showcase their work. This prestigious award includes a £200 cash prize and aims to support promising new talent by facilitating collaborations with Artflow Studio and our partners, JustArt Collective,The Hechyeomoyeo, HelloArt, IOAEA (Insights of an Eco Artist). Our mission is to encourage artistic creation and reassure emerging artists that we are here to support them.
Deadline: February 10, 2026
Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation Grant Program
The Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation launches its inaugural grant program to support creatives and researchers whose work deepens dialogue on meditation, psychology, creativity, and collective engagement as vital pathways to harmony and health. The foundation will award two grants of $50,000 and three grants of $8,000.
Deadline: December 30, 2025
CERF+’s Craft Emergency Relief Fund
CERF is a national, nonprofit organization that offers $3,000 Emergency Relief Grants to craft artists who experienced a recent and substantially disruptive emergency or disaster.
Deadline: Ongoing
Fully Funded: Culture& x Sotheby’s Institute of Art Cultural Leaders Programme
In 2023, Culture& and Sotheby’s Institute of Art launched a new fully funded scholarship programme, designed to empower and nurture the next generation of diverse leaders in the contemporary art world. The Culture& x Sotheby’s Institute of Art Cultural Leaders Programme – the first of its kind in the contemporary UK art world - brings together the considerable experience and cultural networks of the two organisations.
Grants for Artists: Education Assistance
The Grants for Artists program fosters Oklahoma’s visual artistic creative excellence. The grants committee supports the mission of OVAC and scores submissions based on the merit of each application according to the pertinent grant category and its associated criteria.Grants for Artists help individual Oklahoma artists create visual art for public presentation, develop their professional practices, and lead community projects.Grants are open to artists working in visual-based mediums, curation, and art writing.
Deadline: January 15, March 15, October 15
Henry Moore Institute Grants & Fellowships
The Henry Moore Institute is a world-recognised centre for the study of sculpture. We host a year-round programme of exhibitions, conferences and lectures, as well as developing research and publications, to expand the understanding and scholarship of sculpture. Each year we offer a number of Fellowships to enable artists and researchers to develop their work.
Deadline: Quarterly Reoccurring
Sony Alpha Female+ Grant Program
Sony Alpha Female provides a platform for photographers and videographers to share their stories and inspire the world with their creativity, passion, and drive. We aim to make the world a more equal, more representative, and more open place. With you by our side, there’s nothing holding us back.
Sony Alpha Female provides a platform for photographers and videographers to share their stories and inspire the world with their creativity, passion, and drive. We aim to make the world a more equal, more representative, and more open place. With you by our side, there’s nothing holding us back.
Deadline: Recurring Monthly
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Created in 1993 to further FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:
-Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
-Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Our mission is to support experimental artistic practices.
Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.
Deadline: Ongoing
POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT
The Foundation provides financial resources for visual artists to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses.
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.
Ongoing application.'
Deadline: Ongoing
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant Program
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.
The program does not consider requests for dental work, chronic situations, capital improvements, or projects of any kind; nor can it consider situations resulting from general indebtedness or lack of employment.
The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000; an award of $5,000 is typical.
Deadline: Ongoing
Pop Culture Collaborative grants: PROGRAM AREA 1: ARTISTS ADVANCING CULTURE CHANGE
Throughout America’s history, the most transformative cultural shifts—from slavery abolition to Reconstruction, “I Have A Dream” to “Yes We Can,” #BlackLivesMatter, the DREAM-ers, and Love Is Love—have been achieved by movements and leaders who have awakened people’s deep yearning to belong in a pluralist America. In each case, the tug-of-war between belonging and exclusion sparked a portal moment—a cracking open of the public imagination about what this nation is capable of becoming.
We believe our nation is on the precipice of another historic breakthrough: a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the American people to decisively choose to move in the direction of pluralism and justice. How will we respond to this call for transformation? Will we submit to authoritarian narratives that entice us to retreat back into the systems of exclusion and violence that stain our past, or will we step boldly through the portal and onto the path towards our pluralist future?
Deadline: Ongoing
London Bronze Editions Fellowship
Our mission is to champion a contemporary approach to metal casting. It’s a mindset we share with the artists & designers we work with - having the courage to ignore, bend and push the rules associated with our craft.
We’re aware that for many artists, a major barrier to working in bronze is the access & cost of the process. In response, we created the London Bronze Fellowship - an opportunity for you to pitch a new work to us, which we will then share with potential sponsors who will select & jointly fund the fellowship with LBE.
Deadline: Ongoing
Emergency Grants max’s kansas city project
Max’s Emergency Relief & Resource Fund is a one-time grant of between $500 and $1000 to assist self-employed artists who have a steady work history, but who are experiencing a temporary financial set back. MKCP assistance is designed to resolve this short term crisis, whatever it may be, and the applicant will again gain employment in the near future.
Deadline: Ongoing
JFNY Grant for Arts & Culture
The Japan Foundation, New York office (JFNY) accepts applications from non-profit organizations for projects that take place within the 37 states east of the Rocky Mountains, plus Washington D.C., listed below for the JFNY Grant for Arts & Culture on a rolling basis throughout the year. This grant aims to support projects that will further understanding of Japanese arts and culture. Successful projects are granted up to $5,000. This grant also supports online projects related to Arts & Cultural Exchange that incorporate issues pertaining to the COVID-19 global pandemic such as virtual exhibitions, virtual performances, film streaming, online conference as well as webinar.
Deadline: Ongoing