ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES

Guerilla Opera is a culturally focused and artist-led ensemble, whose mission is to commission and re-envision new and experimental works custom-tailored to our unique ensemble of artists.

Led by Artistic Director Aliana de la Guardia, we champion cutting-edge music and immerse audiences in profound experiences, provide a vehicle for creative authenticity, and IDEA (Inclusion. Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility), and inspire, influence and amplify emerging generations of artists and arts-lovers.

If you’re inspired and passionate about our work, and are committed to fostering support for the arts landscape in Boston, we encourage you to contact us to be a member of our Board of Directors.

The Fellowship offers writers, researchers, and creators the unique opportunity to spend a month in Paris working on their own creative project while contributing to the cultural life of the Library. In addition to working on their own project, Fellows present a public program during their residency that engages our audience and members around a central theme. The theme for 2025-2026 is “Ways of Seeing.”

Deadline: April 1, 2025

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The first residency in the United States exclusively for artists identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, intersex, two-spirit or queer, annually accepts applications for its prestigious and internationally recognized summer program. Now in its 15th season in the secluded beach community of Cherry Grove, NY, an historic LGBTQ settlement of Fire Island, emerging artists will share a live/work space for a four-week program marked by intimate studio visits with, and public lectures by, renowned leaders in contemporary art, scholarship, activism and curation.

Deadline: April 1, 2025

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Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City. Grants range between $2,000 and $10,000. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York City.

Deadline: April 1, 2025

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WaveMaker supports Miami’s visionary artists with incubator grants for innovative projects that are shared with the public in unconventional spaces. Grantees receive up to $6,000 each in three categories: New Work / Projects, Long-Haul Projects, and Research & Development + Implementation.

Deadline: April 2, 2025

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Jazz Road is an artist-centric touring and residency grants program promoting deeper engagement between jazz musicians, presenters, and communities. Jazz Road is led by South Arts, one of NEFA's Regional Arts Organization colleagues.

Deadline: April 2, 2025

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Providing eligible Minnesota-based early career film directors up to $10,000 to engage in self-designed mentorship to strengthen their film directing craft and/or professional skills in connection with a specific film project.

Deadline: April 3, 2025

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Supporting eligible Minnesota-based early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking with production grants of up to $30,000.

Deadline: April 3, 2025

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Supporting eligible New York City-based early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking with production grants of up to $30,000.

Deadline: April 3, 2025

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The 2026 Open Call seeks proposals for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work. The new State of the Art Prize provides unrestricted artist grants of $10,000.

Deadline: April 4, 2025

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Deadline: April 4, 2025

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Print Center New York invites emerging and early-career curators to submit letters of interest for exhibition opportunities. The program aims to generate new knowledge and understanding of printmaking’s potential. Guest curators receive financial support (including a curatorial fee starting at $5,000), mentorship from subject-area experts, guidance and feedback from curatorial staff, and full production and exhibition support.

Deadline: April 6, 2025

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The Al & Mickey Quinlan Residency is an application-based 8-week program for emerging and mid-career Midwest artists focused in the areas of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, created and led in partnership with the Miller Art Museum from August to September, 2025.

Deadline: April 7, 2025

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The Woodman Family Foundation Housing Stability Grant for Artists (WFF HSG) provides grants of $30,000, distributed over three years, to NYC-based visual artists in need who are seeking support for stable housing. In its inaugural cycle, the WFF HSG will award grants to five artists.

Deadline: April 8, 2025

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KODA Social Practice Residency is dedicated to conceptual mid-career, AFAB and/or non-binary artists. The residency will span from August 1 to October 31, 2025 offering artists time to think, research, or create. Benefits include a $1,000 honorarium, a studio space on Governors Island, NY, an optional residency exhibition, community engagement, professional development credit, and more. The program is placed under the theme of Peace-Building.

Deadline: April 10, 2025

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Deadline: April 11, 2025

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Velvetpark’s 2025 Artist Residency will be awarded to two artists—one for a 6 week term (July – August) and another for a 4-month term (September – December). Throughout the residency artists will have a dedicated live/work studio space to explore, develop, and refine their project. Applications are open to LGBTQ+ artists across the United States. Artists working in various mediums are invited to apply.

Deadline: April 13, 2025

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McColl Center hosts three residency terms per year—fall, winter, and summer, for four artists per term. Artists-in-residence receive private housing adjacent to McColl Center, a large-scale private studio in Uptown Charlotte, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a generous stipend. The Winter Artist-in-Residence program runs from January 6–April 13, 2026.

Deadline: April 14, 2025

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The Public Art Learning Fund aims to strengthen the field of public art in New England by providing professional development support directly to artists.

Deadline: April 14, 2025

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The Mudhouse is an artist residency located in the village of Agios Ioannis on the Island of Crete, Greece. Started in 2015 and now in its tenth year, the Mudhouse offers its two-week residency sessions each summer for international contemporary artists working across a manifold of artistic disciplines.

Deadline: April 14, 2025

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The William and Bertha Schrafft Charitable Trust is committed to the intellectual, personal and artistic growth of under-served youth ages 6-21, primarily through supporting neighborhood-based education programming throughout the City of Boston.

Deadline: April 15, 2025

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The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) will distribute a total of $300,000 in funding—up to $20,000 per project—to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.

Deadline: April 15, 2025

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The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) and Galvan Initiatives (Galvan) launched The Democracy Cycle, a new commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy. Proposals are requested for new performing arts works following that theme from artists working in theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance. The Cycle will provide $60,000 in support to each awarded project, consisting of a $30,000 commission as well as an additional $30,000 towards each commissioned project’s development process (research, readings, workshops etc.).

Deadline: April 16, 2025

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Clay artists are invited to apply for a one-year residency position at Mudflat Studio in Somerville, MA. This highly competitive program provides a private studio space at no cost with 24/7 access to Mudflat’s facility, a $75/monthly materials stipend, an $800 monthly housing stipend, opportunities to teach and sell work, and a solo exhibition and reception at Mudflat to showcase work created during the residency year. Residency dates: September 1–August 31 annually.

Deadline: April 16, 2025

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Unrestricted general operating grants for Massachusetts-based, nonprofit cultural organizations with year-round operations offering public programming in the arts, humanities, or sciences. Grants start at $6,000.

Deadline: April 17, 2025

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The City of Boston is looking for ideas to transform vacant spaces in Downtown Boston into vibrant hubs for creative enterprises. Creatives, entrepreneurs, and cultural space operators are invited to submit proposals that will help revitalize the neighborhood, support economic growth, and create dynamic community spaces.

Deadline: April 18, 2025

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The John O. Calmore Creative Activism Artist Residency at McColl Center is seeking citizen-artists dedicated to addressing social justice issues through their creative practice. This residency highlights the powerful role of art and artists as catalysts for social action, problem-solving, and relationship building.The residency will culminate in an exhibition in Toronto, Canada, showcasing the role of art in activism and community transformation.

Deadline: April 21, 2025

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Works & Process’s first-ever open call invites NYC artists who create movement-based work to apply for a residency to start a new project or continue developing an existing work in one of Works & Process’ out-of-town residencies. The week-long residency package includes industry-leading fees of $150 per artist/per day (up to $8,400 for a maximum of 8 participants), 24/7 studio access, on-site housing, a transportation stipend, and health insurance enrollment access. Each residency will culminate in an open rehearsal or showing for the local community. In addition, the project may potentially be presented in New York City by Works & Process.

Deadline: April 22, 2025

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Grants to organizations (including schools) to fund festivals, projects, residencies, and other cultural activities in the arts, humanities, and sciences. This program combines Festivals & Projects and Creative Projects for Schools into one program.

Deadline: April 30, 2025

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The American Psychological Foundation's Direct Action Visionary Grants seeks to fund innovative interventions, based on psychological knowledge, that directly address pressing needs of communities. They are particularly interested in supporting communities and populations dealing with prejudice, bias, intolerance, and all forms of bigotry including racism, antisemitism, homophobia, and misogyny. Grants are up to $60,000.

Deadline: April 30, 2025

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