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Fellowship Opportunities - Art & Design

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Fellowship Opportunities - Art & Design

  • April 2025

    • Title

      The Core Program

      Sponsor

      The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston  (MFA)

      Funding Amount

      $15,000 stipend, 24-hour access to a private studio or office, and borrowing privileges at the Museum’s Hirsch Library and Rice University’s Fondren Library.

      Important Dates

      April 1 (anticipated)

      Brief Description

      The Core Program awards residencies to exceptional, highly motivated visual artists and critical writers who have completed their undergraduate or graduate training and are working to develop a sustainable practice. Residents engage with a wide range of leading artists, critics, curators, and art historians who are invited to meet individually with the residents, lead seminars, and deliver public lectures.

      Match Requirement

       

      Link

      https://www.mfah.org/fellowships/core-program/

  • Title

    Individual Photographer's Fellowship

    Sponsor

    Aaron Siskind Foundation

    Funding Amount

    $10,000

    Important Dates

    May 18 (anticipated) 

    Brief Description

    The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of Individual Photographer's Fellowship grants of up to $10,000 each, for artists working in photography and photo-based art. Recipients will be determined by a panel of distinguished guest judges on the basis of artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future achievement in the medium in its widest sense. The Foundation seeks to support artists/photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field, who are professionally active or employed in the field. The entry fee for this grant is $20USD.

    Match Requirement

     

    Link

    http://www.aaronsiskind.org/grant.html

  • September 2025

    • Title

      Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program

      Sponsor

      Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study

      Funding Amount

      Stipends of up to $77,500 for one year with additional funds

      Important Dates

      September 14 (anticipated) 

      Brief Description

      Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study encourages you to explore the people, programs, and collections that make the Radcliffe Institute a home to big thinkers, new ideas, cutting-edge research, and thought-provoking events that are free and open to the public

      Radcliffe Fellows are expected to devote themselves full time to the work outlined in their proposal. Since this is a residential fellowship, fellows are expected to reside in the Boston area the fellowship period and to have their primary office at the institute to participate fully in the life of the community.

      Match Requirement

       

      Link

      https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/fellowship-program/how-apply

    • Title

      A Blade of Grass Artist Fellowships

      Sponsor

      A Blade of Grass

      Funding Amount

      N/A

      Important Dates

      September 18 (anticipated) 

      Brief Description

      A Blade of Grass nurtures socially engaged art. We provide resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. We evaluate the quality of work in this evolving field by fostering an inclusive, practical discourse about the aesthetics, function, ethics and meaning of socially engaged art that resonates within and outside the contemporary art dialogue.

      Match Requirement

       

      Link

      http://www.abladeofgrass.org

    • Title

      John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

      Sponsor

      John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

      Funding Amount

      TBA

      Important Dates

      September 19 (anticipated) 

      Brief Description

      A Blade of Grass nurtures socially engaged art. We provide resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. We evaluate the quality of work in this evolving field by fostering an inclusive, practical discourse about the aesthetics, function, ethics and meaning of socially engaged art that resonates within and outside the contemporary art dialogue.

      Match Requirement

       

      Link

      https://www.gf.org/applicants/