In line with Locust Projects' mission to empower Miami artists of all disciplines to build and sustain a creative practice through access to probono legal services, incubator grants, and professional development opportunities, we are regularly updating this list of resources to help artists find other opportunities, grants, and open calls outside of our organization.
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GRANTS, OPPORTUNITIES & RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS
UPCOMING DEADLINES
CICA Contemporary Art Solo Show Series Fall 2024: CICA Museum invites artists worldwide to participate in the Contemporary Art Solo Show Series and the publication. Each selected artist will have a solo exhibition for a week (Wednesday – Sunday) in the gallery space (around 44m2). The artists will be also featured in the the e-book, “CICA Art Now 2025." Deadline to apply is September 18, 2023. Apply here.
2024 O, Miami Poetry Festival Open Call: looking for ideas that amplify poetry and engage Miamians in surprising ways. If you have a proposal that creates poetry, invites poetic encounters, or shares poetry across Miami, they’d love to read it! Deadline to apply is September 21, 2023. Apply here.
O, Miami Technically Poetic: An Artist Commission: O, Miami announces the creation of Technically Poetic, an artist commission that unites poetry and technology. They are seeking an established artist or artist team of any discipline to create an original project that uses technology to spread the poetry of Miamians to Miamians. Deadline to apply is September 21, 2023. Apply here.
The Camargo Fellowship: Since 1971, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, has awarded residencies to nearly 1,500 individuals as part of its mission to support groundbreaking research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts and Humanities. Each year, an esteemed panel of scholars and arts professionals selects 14 individuals or teams. The Camargo Foundation prizes diversity and welcomes applicants from all countries and nationalities, representing a broad range of creative thought and practice. Deadline to apply is October 1, 2023. Apply and learn more here.
The South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant to Visual and Media Artists: offers the largest regional, government-sponsored artists’ grants in the United States, awarding $15,000 and $7,500 grants to resident visual and media artists from the counties of Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach. Deadline to apply is October 2, 2023. Apply here
Embracing Our Differences Out Door Exhibition: Embracing Our Differences is seeking submissions for an outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard size images created by local, national and international artists. The display reflects the artists' interpretations of the theme "enriching lives through diversity." The exhibit will be on display January 21 through April 14, 2024 in two locations in Sarasota and Pinellas counties in Florida. Deadline to apply is October 5, 2023. Apply here.
APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED ON A ROLLING BASIS
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant: 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. Apply here.
Alternative Art School: TAAS stands firmly on a commitment to the production of dreams, alternatives, social relationships, and inner-dialogues produced in tandem with an active caring for each other and our planet. They offer a structured and intimate global extension of your local embodied art practice. With a growing roster of extraordinarily talented artists, curators, dreamers, and do-ers, they allow access and connection across a disparate array of experiences and disciplines. Learn more here.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants: The Pollock Krasner Foundation's dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time. Apply here.
Rauschenberg Emergency Grants: provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for medical or dental emergencies. The grants are available to visual and media artists, and choreographers living anywhere in the US. Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Apply here.
Awesome Foundation Grant – A micro-granting organization, funding “awesome” ideas, The Awesome Foundation set up local chapters around the world to provide rolling grants of $1000 to “awesome projects.” Each chapter defines what is “awesome” for their local community, but most include arts initiative and public or social practice art projects. Apply here.
Fulbright Fellowship for the Creative and Performing Arts - Fulbright Program has been sending students, academics and professionals across the world to conduct research, study, teach and act as ambassadors to the US since 1945. A rigorous process of securing recommendations, outlining a proposal and finding a host sponsor, it’s best to get started on this application early. But with approximately 8,000 grants annually awarded, it’s worth the time to see if you can be one of the artists who embark on an international adventure while doing some good.
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LISTS OF INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL & EMERGENCY GRANTS RESOURCES
You can also find extensive listings on emergency grants, financial support and resources for artists, curators and other cultural producers, and further resources listed here:
Art Rabbit's List of Artists' Opportunites
Artists’ Fellowship's Emergency Aid Resources List
Artwork Archive Call for Entries List
Artist Health Insurance Resource Center
Creative Capital's List of Artist Resources
FRACTURED ATLAS - helps individual artists and arts organizations at every level of the cultural ecosystem, in every creative medium, through several programs: Fiscal Sponsorship, and SpaceFinder for example. Fractured Atlas also provides educational resources and personalized support.
National Endowment for the Arts
PEN American Writers’ Emergency Fund
Res Artis: Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies
TransArtists' List of Calls for Artists
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Image: Rafael Domenech, assembling beneath a desire for sabotage, 2023.
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