Paul Mellon Centre Spring 2026 Funding Opportunities

Deadline: 31 January 2026
Eligibility: If you are undertaking research, projects or activities in the broad field of British art and architecture which need support, or plan to embark on an MA or PhD, do take a look.

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.

What you get:

• Senior Fellowship
  Awards of £60,000 to support a senior scholar for twelve months.

• Mid-Career Fellowships
  Awards of £18,000 to support an individual at a mid-career level for four months.

• Postdoctoral Fellowships
  Awards of £15,000 to support an individual who has recently completed their PhD for six months.

• Junior Fellowships
  Awards of £8,000 to support an internationally based PhD student to travel to the UK for three months of research.

• Rome Fellowship
  An award for an individual to stay at the British School at Rome for three months whilst undertaking research.

We will also be offering our New Narratives set of awards again this spring and we are delighted to be able to offer two Early Career Fellowships this year. This Fellowship is an award of £35,000 a year for two years designed to support an individual at an early career level undertaking a research project. The Early Career Fellowship sits alongside our MA/MPhil Studentship, an award of £32,000 designed to support the fees and living costs of an individual undertaking an MA, and our Doctoral Scholarship, an award of £32,000 a year for three years designed to support the fees and living costs of an individual undertaking a PhD.

We have also opened up our MA/MPhil Studentships and Doctoral Scholarships to internationally based students. Previously these awards were only available to those who qualified for Home Fee status; however, now anyone can apply as long as they intend to take their course at a UK-based institution. The funding for these awards remains fixed at £32,000 for MA/MPhil Studentship and £32,000 a year for three years for the Doctoral Scholarship, so any individual who does not qualify for Home Fee status would have to ensure any excess costs are met from other sources.

Alongside our Fellowships we are also pleased to be able to offer our Research Support Grants, awards of up to £2,000, designed to support research travel costs, and our Event Support Grants, awards of up to £3,000 to support organisations in hosting events such as symposia, lectures and workshops.

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The Homiens Art Prize

Deadline: 29 January 2026
Submission Fee: $30 USD

About the call: The Homiens Art Prize ($12,000 USD 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.

Eligibility: Open to all art forms and artists internationally. Artworks completed in any year are eligible, and there are no theme or size restrictions. Artists who enter retain full ownership of their submitted works and are free to exhibit or display them elsewhere at any time.

What you get: This round, 3 winning artists and 12 finalists will exhibit with Homiens as part of their seasonal exhibition program. Each winning artist receives $1,000 USD, may participate in an optional interview, and may request a letter of recommendation. Up to 200 artists per round are highly commended and celebrated across Homiens' media (including their website which receives 100,000+ annual visitors, and their extensive mailing list). Each entrant to the Homiens Art Prize may request a certificate of participation which can be used to contribute to a demonstration of professional participation in the art industry. All entrants may apply to participate in Homiens' Meet the Artists initiative, or to become a Homiens Promoted Artist. All entrants are considered for exhibition.

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Artflow Prize 2026

Deadline: 10 February 2026

Eligibility: 18+, any medium, NO AI

About the Prize: 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.

What you get: £200 prize from Artflow Studio and A space for the winning artist to enter for free into one of the group shows with Artflow Studio ; An exclusive interview in The JustArt Newspaper Club publication; A space for the winning artist to enter for free into one of the group shows with The Hechyeomoyeo; An exclusive interview with IOAEA; Social media feature post with HelloArt - 1 artist Emerging Artist Award: An online exhibition hosted by Artflow Studio - 10 artists JustArt Spotlight Award: An exclusive interview in The JustArt Newspaper Club publication; - 2 artists.

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Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation Grant Program

Deadline: December 30, 2025.
Submission Fee: Free
Eligible Media and Practices: This grant welcomes artists working in any medium or approach, including but not limited to:

• Visual Arts: Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, mixed media 

• Sculpture and Installation: Large-scale, intimate, indoor, outdoor, or site-specific works 

• Digital and New Media: Video, animation, virtual reality, interactive media, web-based projects 

• Performance and Time-Based Media: Live performance, dance, theater, sound art, music 

• Community and Social Practice: Participatory projects, community organizing through art, educational initiatives 

• Documentary and Narrative Media: Film, photography, storytelling, podcasting 

• Craft and Material Arts: Textile arts, ceramics, woodworking, metalwork, or other material practices 

• Interdisciplinary Practices: Any combination of the above or innovative hybrid approaches

About the grant: 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.

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CERF+’s Craft Emergency Relief Fund

Deadline: Ongoing

Submission Fee: Free

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.

Eligibility: To qualify for an Emergency Relief Grant, applicants need to be craft artists who are 18 years of age or older. They must have been living and working in the U.S. or U.S. Territories for the past two years. Additionally, they should not have received an Emergency Relief Grant in the previous year or exceeded the maximum lifetime limit of 4 grants.

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Grants for Artists: Education Assistance

Deadline: January 15, March 15th or October 15th, 2025

Submission Fee: Free

Eligibility: Eligible artists must be 21 years or older, not currently enrolled in a BFA or MFA program, Oklahoma residents, and must not have received grant funding from OVAC within the past year.

APPLICATION COMPONENTS:

__Completed application form below

__Artist Resume or CV

__Artist/Writer/Curator Statement (250 words)

__5-10 Artwork samples or URL for video artwork. For video, include up to 3 minutes total

__Image list, and if applicable, include file name, medium, date, and dimensions

__Timeline identifying major milestones to completion

__Balanced Budget, meaning expenses are equal to income

About the grant:

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.

Applications are reviewed three times throughout the year and are due by 11:59 pm on January 15th, or March 15th, or October 15th.

Education Assistance grants fund up to $500 and are for educational opportunities such as: conferences, residencies, studio workshops, or study trips and can includes travel fees. Applications are evaluated by measuring the quality of educational opportunity, potential impact on practice/career, ability to complete project, and relevance based on portfolio.

TIMELINE:

- Applications must be received by January 15th, March 15th, or October 15th

- Committee will review applications following the deadline

- You will be notified of our decision within 4 weeks of the deadline

- Accepted applicants will receive payment approximately 2 weeks after being notified and submitting paperwork

- Grant projects must occur after grant is awarded and within one year of receiving grant funds

QUESTIONS:

Questions are encouraged! Please contact ariana@ovac-ok.org.

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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.

• Award Info: The grants range from $500-$3,000

• Categories: Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture

Deadline: Ongoing

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POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT

Deadline: Ongoing

Award Info: The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist's professional work and personal expenses and amounts range up to $30,000.

About the 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.

Requirements: Artists can apply to The Pollock-Krasner Foundation by submitting an online application. Requirements for consideration are the application form, a cover letter, a current resume including an exhibition record, and ten digital images of current work with a corresponding identification list. All applications will be promptly acknowledged and considered. Please do not send application forms by mail, fax or e-mail.

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Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants

Deadline: Ongoing

Submission Fee: Free

Eligibility:

What do we mean by eligibility?

• Eligibility refers to the rules on who can apply and what we can support through National Lottery Project Grants. These rules are based on our remit as a funding provider for creativity and culture, how we can responsibly distribute National Lottery money, and what we’re trying to achieve through Project Grants.

Who can apply?

Individuals and organisations can apply to National Lottery Project Grants for £1,000 or more.

Anyone who applies to Project Grants needs to:

• be based within (live in or have a business address in) England or the wider UK

• be at least 18 years old (organisations must have an accountable person who is at least 18)

Important information for individuals:

• if you’re applying in your capacity as an individual you will need a UK individual bank account in the exact

name you’re applying in

• if you’re applying as a sole trader on behalf of your business or company you will need a UK individual or

business bank account in the exact name you’re applying in

Important information for organisations:

• All organisations need to have a UK bank account in the exact name you’re applying in (the organisation’s

name), with two signatories. A signatory is someone that is authorised to make transactions and manage an

account, for example can sign cheques.

• Limited companies and registered charities need to have a registered office in the UK.

• We will accept applications from organisations working as a consortium, partnership, network or group.

• For non-constituted consortiums or groups, one organisation must act as the lead organisation and send us

the application. If the application goes on to be successful, this organisation would be accountable for the

grant.

By organisation we mean:

• a group of people working towards a common goal

• they must have a governing document that covers the type of project being applied for

• for example charities, limited companies or unincorporated groups

What is National Lottery Project Grants?
Project Grants can support individual practitioners, communities and cultural organisations
with projects that focus on:

• Combined Arts including festivals and carnivals

• Dance

• Libraries

• Literature

• Museums

• Music

• Theatre

• or Visual Arts

When we say ‘project’, we mean a series of activities or a piece of work. Your project will
have a start and an end date, and a set of measurable aims that you’d like to achieve in
that time.

• Before you apply to Project Grants you should read our ten year plan called Let’s Create.
  Our plan is made up of 3 Outcomes and 4 Investment Principles.
  Outcomes are what we want our plan to do.
  Investment Principles are what we believe in. We think about our principles before we
  give money to people or organisations.

Our 3 Outcomes are:
• We want creative people
• We want cultural communities
• We want a creative and cultural country
Our 4 Investment Principles are:
• We believe in ambition and quality
• We believe in being flexible, we call this dynamism
• We believe in being environmentally friendly
• We believe in being inclusive and relevant

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Pop Culture Collaborative grants: PROGRAM AREA 1: ARTISTS ADVANCING CULTURE CHANGE

THE POP CULTURE COLLABORATIVE’S VISION AND PURPOSE
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?

Americans have the opportunity to ask: What society do we yearn to create and who can we empower to lead the way? If, as civil rights scholar Vincent Harding once said, America is “a country that has yet to be born,” the pop culture for social change field can help prepare and guide millions of people through this process of becoming something new by clearing away the detritus of our nation’s past, replacing fetid, crumbling ideas and norms with ones rooted in justice, care, and connection.

Together, artists, organizers, strategists, and researchers can create the stories that help the American public understand and interpret the choices we face through the lens of our shared commitment to becoming a pluralist nation.

Over the long-term, the Collaborative is working to support the growth of a pop culture for social change field capable of building the yearning in most Americans (more than 150 million people) to actively co-create a just and pluralist society in which everyone is perceived to belong, inherently, and is treated as such. The Pop Culture Collaborative defines a pluralist society as a culture in which the majority of people in a community and nation are engaged in the hard and delicate work of belonging together in a just and equitable society.

GRANT ELIGIBILITY
Individuals/organizations with fiscal sponsorships as well as nonprofits and for-profits in the United States are eligible for Pop Culture Collaborative grants.

To be considered, proposals must engage, affect, center, and/or support at least one or all of our multi-community focus areas: people of color, immigrants, refugees, Indigenous peoples, and/or Muslims, particularly those who are women, queer, transgender, and/or disabled. Initiatives with an intersectional and intentional focus on gender justice, LGBTQIA rights, disability, democratic fairness, pluralist values, and economic justice are highly prioritized. The Collaborative seeks grantee partners working at the intersection of pop culture and social change who:

Are artists, activists, organizations, strategists, researchers, and/or others who identify culture change as a clear outcome of their work and pop culture strategies as a critical aspect of their culture change efforts.
The Pop Culture Collaborative provides grants to artists and organizations or companies that support artist cohorts, from various disciplines, locations, and industries to bring their artistic vision to mass audiences, while also contributing to field-wide efforts to build public yearning for a pluralist America.

We seek to create a large, networked community of artists who believe that their creative work and leadership have the power to inspire millions of Americans to actively co-create a pluralist society.

Areas of interest include:

Supporting artists and cultural organizations to conceptualize, develop, and produce creative works that can help build public yearning for pluralist culture in America.
Supporting artists to gather for shared learning, networking, community-knitting, and power-building, especially spaces that bring artists into direct and meaningful connection with frontline activists and culture change strategists.
Helping artists and organizations develop the methodology, networks, infrastructure, pipelines, and leadership skills needed to redistribute access and power in their respective industries to historically excluded communities.

The Pop Culture Collaborative accepts proposals by invitation only. However, we have created a simple process for potential grantees to self-evaluate whether they are a match with the Collaborative’s goals and guidelines, and if so, to submit an idea for our consideration. It is important to note that an idea submission is not a proposal. The Collaborative will respond only to idea submissions that the staff team has reviewed and deem a potential match.

Submission Deadline: Ongoing

• Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture

• Location: New York, New York 10008, United States

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Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants

Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Eligibility: UK residents only. Eligibility varies based on amount applying for - Guidelines Here

About the grant:

What is National Lottery Project Grants?

• Project Grants can support individual practitioners, communities and cultural organisations
  with projects that focus on:
  Combined Arts including festivals and carnivals
  Dance
  Libraries
  Literature
  Museums
  Music
  Theatre
  or Visual Arts

When we say ‘project’, we mean a series of activities or a piece of work. Your project will
have a start and an end date, and a set of measurable aims that you’d like to achieve in
that time.
Before you apply to Project Grants you should read our ten year plan called Let’s Create.
Our plan is made up of 3 Outcomes and 4 Investment Principles.
Outcomes are what we want our plan to do.
Investment Principles are what we believe in. We think about our principles before we
give money to people or organisations.

Our 3 Outcomes are:
• We want creative people
• We want cultural communities
• We want a creative and cultural country
Our 4 Investment Principles are:
• We believe in ambition and quality
• We believe in being flexible, we call this dynamism
• We believe in being environmentally friendly
• We believe in being inclusive and relevant

Learn More Here