Showing items tagged "Opportunities and open calls"
Black Makers and Designers Residency
Deadline: 08/02/2026
Makerversity is launching the Black Designers and Makers Residency. A programme designed to offer long term support, space and resources to Black designers, makers, creatives and innovators. Each resident will receive £100 every month, to…
https://www.makerversity.org/blog-post/black-makers-and-designers-residency
Four Nations International Fund
Deadline: 25/02/2026
The Four Nations International Fund helps artists and creative practitioners from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales collaborate with each other and with partners around the world. The fund exists to make international collaboration easier at…
Massee Arts Grant
Deadline: 31/03/2026
The Massee Arts Grant provides an annual fund of £10,000 to support new individual projects up to a maximum of £5,000 each. Artists who can help encourage all sectors of society to engage with and learn about…
Prix Ars Electronica 2026
Deadline: 04/03/2026
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s longest running media art competition. Winners are eligible for the coveted Golden Nica awards and monetary prizes of up to 10,000 euros in each of the 4 categories. The…
Pitch Your Project International Women’s Day 2026
Deadline: 09/02/2026
To celebrate International Women’s Day, ‘A space’ arts are looking to award a £2000 bursary to a creative, community focused, women led initiative in the SO postcode. Projects will be selected by the…
https://aspacearts.org.uk/news/open-call-pitch-your-project-iwd-2026
Wysing Arts Centre X St Peter’s School Artist Residency
Deadline: 30/01/2026
Wysing Arts Centre and St Peter’s School are inviting applications from artists for a paid residency built around an academic year embedded within the school environment. This programme supports sustained creative…
Honeybourne Line public art commission
Deadline: 27/02/2026
Cheltenham Borough Council is seeking a public artist to transform the Honeybourne Line, a historic disused railway turned vibrant cycle path, into an inspiring cultural journey. This commission offers an opportunity to create bold, imaginative…
https://www.cheltenham.gov.uk/info/33/parks_and_open_spaces/547/honeybourne_line/2
The Drawing Year
Deadline: 01/04/2026
The Drawing Year is a full time, full scholarship postgraduate level programme. It is designed for artists and creatives who wish to engage in creative exploration and critical enquiry, and discover how drawing can further enrich their…
https://royaldrawingschool.org/courses/postgraduate-drawing-year
DX Associate Programme
Deadline: 26/01/2026
Deptford X is launching a new DX Associates Programme designed to support and elevate early career artists and curators from under represented Global Majority and working class backgrounds. Over nine months, three selected artists or curators will…
The Art of Progress Prize
Deadline: 01/03/2026
The Art of Progress Prize is a global award where art, innovation, and sustainability intersect, supporting the next generation of creative changemakers. Applications are invited from artists aged 35 and under from anywhere in the…
https://www.dsm-firmenich.com/art-of-progress-prize/en/home.html
2028 McKinney International Art and Design Residency
Deadline: 01/02/2026
The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4–6 week McKinney International Art and Design Residency. An established artist or designer will be selected whose…
Tender: Better Open Calls
Better Open Calls is a research project that looks at how arts organisations find artists to work with. It proposes and tests equitable processes for organisations to find and choose artists. If you would like to…
The White Pube Creatives Grant
Open deadline
The White Pube Creatives Grant is a one off £500 grant to be given out to a different working class creative practitioner based in the UK once every month. This grant has been set up…
Supporting Whitechapel Gallery’s open call for London Open Live
Building on our research, Artquest are supporting Whitechapel Gallery’s application and selection process for London Open Live. Whitechapel Gallery’s open call exhibition, The London Open, is back with an exclusive focus…
Unlocking the Collections
A research residency for an early career, London based artist to engage with The Collections Library at the Museum of the Home. Residencies took part in 2021 and 2022 with advice from Artquest on improving application and…
Lifeboat
Studio residency, peer mentoring and career development award for MA postgraduates from University of the Arts London The Award Between 2012 and 2018 the Lifeboat award supported artists who had completed a postgraduate course at UAL in the previous…
Sarah Roberts: on developing practice in the face of deadlines
How can you balance the demands of deadlines with the needs of your practice? Deadline vs Live Development I’m not a ‘loans’ exhibitior, so a new exhibition means a new…
Laura Fowle: on artist opportunities
Can do / Must do : Lost in a Sea of Artist Opportunities Continuing to pursue my practice post University was a consistent challenge. I found it harder to define my work since leaving. One…