9 Grants and Artist Opportunities
to Apply for in January 2025
Image by Dmitrii Eremin
Written by: crEATe Staff
January 14, 2025
Happy New Year everyone! We hope that in 2025 you continue to make time for your craft. And more importantly, we hope that these lists of opportunities continue to bring value to your creative journey. If you haven’t already done so, make sure you complete our artist survey. This helps us better understand where everyone in the community is located, what you’re looking to gain by being a part of this community, and how we can better serve you. It only takes two minutes!
Table of Contents
- Casa Lü Sur – Immersive Residency
- The Sculpture Center– 2026 Revealed Emerging Artist Series
- Ten Moir Gallery – Blu Sky Artist Award
- South Arts – Jazz Road Tours
- South Arts – Jazz Road Creative Residencies
- Verizon – Behind the Lens
- National Endowment for the Arts – Individual Artist Fellowship
- Fine Arts Work Center – 2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellowship
- Arkansas Arts Council – Individual Artist Fellowship
Casa Lü Sur
Immersive Residency
Who’s this for?
International artists
Award
– Private Studio Space
– Housing Accommodations
– Logistical and technical support
– Project feedback
– A final exhibition with an opening reception
– And more!
Deadline
February 28, 2025
Description:
Casa Lü Sur offers a residency in Mexico City for artists across various disciplines, fostering creative growth and interdisciplinary dialogue. This program provides artists with the space and resources to develop their work in a vibrant cultural setting.
The Sculpture Center
2026 Revealed Emerging Artist Series
Who is this for?
Sculptors
Date
January 27, 2025
Award
– Artist honorarium
– Travel stipend
Description:
The Sculpture Center is seeking applicants for its 2026 Revealed Emerging Artist Series with an open call for artists. Emerging artists of the greater Ohio region (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, western New York, or Ontario, Canada by birth, residency, or education, but need not be currently residing in the area) whose practice includes sculpture, installation, mixed and expanded media, relational aesthetics, and performance are eligible to apply. Revealed awards artists in the first ten years of their career the opportunity to create work for a solo show. This is a funded exhibition. An artist honorarium and travel stipend will be provided.
Ten Moir Gallery
Blu Sky Artist Award
Who is this for?
Amateur and professional artists
Award
– $500 unrestricted cash prize
– A published interview
– Social media spotlight
Deadline
January 31, 2025
Description:
The Blu-Sky Artist Award (BSAA) is an online international semi-annual prize put forward by Ten Moir Gallery. Through this award, the gallery aims to recognize and encourage upcoming talented artists from across the world and provide them with a platform to showcase their work. This award comes with an unrestricted financial reward. which allows aspiring talents to develop their skills and increase their chances of becoming successful professionally within the art field. Moreover, Ten Moir Gallery takes this award one step further by enhancing the careers of these artists through $500 cash prize and published interview.
South Arts
Jazz Road Tours
Who is this for?
Jazz musicians
Award
Up to $15,000 to cover eligible tour expenses
Deadline
March 5, 2025
Description:
Jazz Road Tours supports three- to six-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. This artist-centric grant program—designed to support approximately 50 tours each year—is made possible with funds from the Doris Duke Foundation with additional support from the Mellon Foundation.
South Arts
Jazz Road Creative Residencies
Who is this for?
Jazz musicians
Award
$5,000 – $40,000 grants
Deadline
April 2, 2025
Description:
Jazz Road Creative Residencies is an artist-centric program that responds to what artists have called for while promoting flexibility for how “residency” can be defined. Artists have expressed their need for time and resources to drive new creative visions, explore collaborations; and connect their music to communities in socially relevant and lasting ways. Support in these areas is viewed as crucial for musicians to reach new artistic and professional heights while building jazz partnerships and audiences throughout the US.
Verizon
Behind the Lens
Who is this for?
Photographers, videographers, video editors, social media content creators, production specialists
Award
– Practical experience capturing content in partnership with various sports leagues.
– Financial compensation
Deadline
Rolling
Description:
Behind the Lens will offer aspiring professionals practical experience capturing content in partnership with various sports leagues. This experience is meant to build participants’ portfolios and to serve as a launchpad for their career in sports content capture.The ideal candidate will have a passion for sports and knowledge / experience in the areas of photography, videography, editing, social media content capture and production during professional sporting events.
National Endowment for the Arts
Creative Writing Fellowship
Who is this for?
Creative Writers
Award
$50,000 grants
Deadline
March 12, 2025
Description:
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowships program offers $50,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through an anonymous process in which the primary criteria for review are the artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted writing sample. Through this program, the NEA seeks to strengthen the literary arts ecosystem by sustaining and nurturing a wide range of creative writers at various stages of their careers, and to continue to expand the portfolio of American art available to people from all backgrounds.
Fine Arts Work Center
2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellowship
Who is this For?
Visual artists
Award
Monthly stipend ($1250)
Exit stipend ($1000)
Deadline
February 3, 2025
Description:
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown has supported emerging writers and artists for over 50 years, granting 10 annual fellowships to visual artists and 10 annual fellowships to writers for a seven-month residency that runs from October 1 – April 30. Fellows are selected through a rigorous jury process. Visual Arts Fellows are provided with a private furnished apartment and a separate work studio of approximately 400 sq ft. Fellows are awarded a $1250 monthly stipend plus a $1000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship. The Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellowship counts among its alumni Sam Messer, Sarah Oppenheimer, Tala Madani, Troy Michie, Jennie Livingston, Jennifer Packer, Ellen Gallagher, Firelei Báez, and other critically acclaimed artists, many of whom have gone on to receive the highest commendations in contemporary art.
Arkansas Arts Council
Individual Artist Fellowship
Who is this For?
Arkansas-based artists
Award
$5,000
Deadline
February 1, 2025
Description:
The Individual Artist Fellowship program annually awards to up to 18 creatives $5,000 each in six categories. These grants are made directly to individual creatives who live and work in Arkansas. This grant is for already finished, not proposed, projects, and is made possible through a partnership with the Windgate Foundation.
