Image courtesy of Alisa Lariushkina May 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists May 1, 2025 Opportunities Colossal Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. The Hopper PrizeFeatured The Hopper Prize is accepting submissions for $3,500 and $1,000 artist grants. They will be providing six grants totaling $11,000 USD. Two artists will each receive $3,500, and four artists will each receive $1,000. All media are eligible, with additional exposure available via a 30-artist shortlist, online journal, and Instagram posts currently reaching over 150,000 people.Deadline: May 13, 2025.Tulsa Artist FellowshipFeatured Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a place-based, durational award that aims to support visionary arts practitioners. Realizing George Kaiser Family Foundation’s vision grounded in social change, Tulsa Artist Fellowship is committed to fostering an environment where a visionary community of artists and arts workers have the opportunity to thrive. For the 2026-2028 term, awardees will each receive a total stipend of $150,000 paid over three-years for awarded project deliverables and general artistic practice costs, along with a $12,000 yearly housing stipend, $1,200 yearly health and wellness stipend, $1,200 yearly studio assistant stipend, $1,500 one-time studio move-in stipend, fully-subsidized studio spaces, and access to shared art-making facilities, and more.Deadline: May 29, 2025. The Vilcek Foundation will award six $50,000 prizes to young immigrants working in fashion curation, material innovation, makeup, hair, writing, curation, styling, design, and photography. Read more on Colossal.Deadline: June 9, 2025.Open Calls All About Photo Magazine Open Call (International) For its 48th issue, AAP Magazine is accepting submissions of portfolios or bodies of work around the theme of portraits. Winners receive $1,000 cash, their work published in the magazine, and press coverage. There is a $35 entry fee.Deadline: April 15, 2025.Timeless Bodies Open Call (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) Timeless Bodies is a juried exhibition at Oliva Gallery in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood dedicated to ceramic interpretations of the human form. The show invites works that explore the body as vessel, symbol, and story through realism, abstraction, and sculptural construction.Deadline: May 22, 2025.Denver Public Art Open Call (International) Artists interested in creating a new project in Verbena Park in Denver are invited to apply. Proposals should reflect the area’s family-friendly culture, along with its international history and conversations about equity, access, and inclusion. Shade and seating are strongly encouraged. There’s a $54,000 budget.Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on May 12, 2025.Artadia Awards (San Francisco Bay area) Artists receive unrestricted funds of $15,000, and honoraria will also be provided to finalists.Deadline: June 1, 2025.16th Epson International Pano Awards (International) This panoramic photography contest is open for entries and offering more than $50,000 in cash and prizes. There is an $18 entry fee.Deadline: July 21, 2025.Grants Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (U.S.)Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on May 7, 2025. This $20,000 grant will be awarded to a sculptor who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to the medium and an imaginative engagement with its materials and histories. It is designed to support a new body of work.Deadline: May 31, 2025.The Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (International) This program provides one-time financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs resulted from an unforeseen catastrophic incident and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Awardees typically receive $5,000, up to $15,000.Deadline: Rolling.This fund commissions visual artists to create company projects on a rolling basis. Awardees will receive between $500 and $5,000.Deadline: Rolling.Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (International) The foundation welcomes applications from painters, sculptors, and artists working on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for one year and range up to $50,000. The artist’s circumstances determine the size of the grant, and professional exhibition history will be considered.Deadline: Rolling.Residencies, Fellowships, & More Banff Centre Aknumustiǂis: Ecological Engagement Through the Seasons (International)Deadline: May 7, 2025. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House is the site of this two- to four-week residency that offers two tracks: the artist program supports the development of a new work, while the researcher program is geared toward projects that will result in published writing. Residents deliver a public program and are offered a $5,000 stipend and up to $1,000 in travel expenses. Deadline: May 9, 2025.LA FABRIQUE DES ARTS (International) This program is open to applicants working in visual arts, arts and crafts, dance, music, design, cinema, and literature. Residencies last between three and ten months and are held in Romainville, Greater Paris (Seine-Saint-Denis).Deadline: May 11, 2025.2025 Thirdspace: Emerging Artist Summer Intensive Program (International) This month-long residency at OCAD University brings together interdisciplinary emerging artists to develop a new body of work with mentorship from artist Van Maltese. There is a $4,600 CAD program fee.Deadline: May 13, 2025.Josephine Sculpture Park’s Artist-in-Residence (International) Two artists will receive 10-week residencies to create a new large-scale, outdoor work. Stipends include $1,000 for a site visit, $2,000 per week for the residency, $500 per week for lodging, and up to $2,500 for materials. Residents also receive studio space, mentorship, and an exhibition.Deadline: 11:59 p.m. MT on May 14, 2025.The Studios of Key West Residencies (International) Approximately 40 visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists are accepted each year for these month-long residencies. Chosen applicants receive lodging. Deadline: May 15, 2025.Applications are open for year-long residencies in ceramics, printmaking, and woodworking at Sawtooth’s Winston-Salem location. Residents are offered studio space, access to the facilities, and funding opportunities.Deadline: May 15, 2025.Exploratorium’s Artist-in-Residence Program (International) Having supported hundreds of artists and performers since 1974, the Exploratorium’s AIR program is hosting its first-ever open call. Residents receive a $15,000 annual stipend, travel support, project management, and financial support for residency projects.Deadline: May 30, 2025.Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence (International) This annual award offers one early-career artist developing new works addressing plants, gardens, or landscapes $10,000 and a two- to five-week stay at Oak Spring. Visual artists, writers, dancers, and musicians are eligible.Deadline: May 31, 2025.The Farm Margaret River Residency (International) This five- to eight-week residency is geared toward site-responsive projects and engagement with the land. Residents receive a $7,500 stipend, studio space, accommodations, and travel assistance.Deadline: 5 p.m. AWST on June 2, 2025.Headlands Center for the Art Artist-in-Residence (International) Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, housing, travel, and living expenses. Artists selected for this program are at all career stages and work in all media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, dance, music, interdisciplinary, social practice, arts professions, and architecture. There is a $45 application fee.Deadline: June 2, 2025.Artists, ecological scientists, and scholars wanting to explore connections to nature, land conservation, historic preservation, agriculture, and community building are invited to apply for this program. Studio space, accommodations, a $200 per week stipend, and more are provided.Deadline: 5 p.m. PST on June 20, 2025.Prairie Ronde Artist Residency (International) These five- to six-week residencies offer a $2,000 stipend, $500 travel grant, and housing to artists interested in interacting with the former Lee Paper Company mill in Vicksburg, Michigan. There is a $25 application fee.Deadline: June 15, 2025.Stove Works Residency (International) This program invites eight residents for one to three months. Six studios are designed for artists who require significant space in their practice, while the other two are for writers, curators, and academics. There is a $30 application fee. Deadline: June 15, 2025.The Kyoto Retreat (International) Artists, curators, and writers are eligible for this four-week retreat in Kyoto for research, exploration, and inspiration. Chosen applicants receive a round-trip flight, a private bedroom, and $800 to supplement meals and local transportation.Deadline: July 15, 2025.If you’d like to list an opportunity, please contact [email protected]. Previous articleNext article