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Last updated: January 9, 2021

Deadline: Ongoing / A self-directed, open-source artist residency to empower and inspire artists who are also mothers.

Deadline: ACCEPTING URGENT APPLICATIONS AT ANY TIME

Deadline: January 10, 2020 / 6-8 week residency in Luxembourg, enabling the selected artist(s) to develop practice and create a new (body of) work(s), boosted by the mentorship of acclaimed Finnish artist Jorma Puranen.

Deadline: January 10, 2021 / This residency program offers the opportunity to develop and adapt existing artworks, offers the artist the appropriate accommodation, infrastructure and possible assistance within the ‘mur.at’ community to research, develop ideas, collaborate with others and produce digital artworks.

Deadline: 10th January 2021 / The Artist-in-Residence scheme is open to professional Visual Artists working in any discipline including but not limited to: sculpture, photography, painting, installation, and video.

Deadline: January 10, 2021 / NOTE: The fellowship is open to early-career researchers who are citizens of any African country AND resident on the continent. / he British Council, in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, has developed a bespoke fellowship opportunity for early-career researchers from Africa who are living and working on the continent. The successful candidate will undertake a 7 month research fellowship based with IASH at the University of Edinburgh, starting in April 2021. They will receive a stipend of £1300 per month, a £1000 travel grant and assistance with the UK visa application process and costs.

Application deadline is 15 January 2021 / Icelandic authors, foreign publishers or organisations arranging events can apply for travel grants for Icelandic authors travelling to promote their works abroad.

Deadline: January 15, 2021 / Mophradat is supporting emerging creative writers from the Arab world working in the genres of contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Deadline: January 18, 2021 / Up to 4 artists are selected for residencies at Bernheim on an annual basis. One residency is always dedicated to a regional artist currently living in Kentucky or in Clark and Floyd counties of Southern Indiana.

Deadline: January 15, 2021 / Greylight Projects residency program is launching its first open call for a residency of 2 months (March-April 2021) in Heerlen, The Netherlands. This open call is addressed to artists based in the EUREGIO. The EUREGIO is a crossborder region between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The artist needs to be settled in this geographical area to apply for the residency, no matter his/her nationality. The artist needs to be sincerely and actively engaged in his/her practice. The residency has its focus on supporting the artist’s research rather than the production. NOTE: Travel and food payed by artists. Scholarship and accommodation is provided.

Deadline: January 15, 2021 / The Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grants provide support to doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior scholars from both the US and outside the US for research topics dedicated to the art and visual culture of the United States prior to 1980. The grants foster firsthand engagement with American artworks and art-historical resources; build networks for non-US-based scholars studying American art; and expand access to artworks, scholarly materials, and communities for US-based scholars studying American art in an international context.

Deadline: January 18, 2021 / The Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) and the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) are offering three writers from Ghana, Africa, and the Diaspora a 4-week residency starting in May 2021 / NOTE: Travel and food you cover for yourself - BUT - there are some grants that can cover this such as IFA for Germany, ECF etc.

Deadline: 21 January 2021 / Fondation Fiminco is launching an open call for visual artists across all disciplines to undertake a residency in Romainville (Seine-Saint-Denis). This residency will be focused on research and development, as well as production. The residency is aimed at artists residing in France or abroad, without an age limit, who can demonstrate a professional practice, either emerging established.

Deadline: 31 January, 2021 / Curator-in-residence 2021 Curator residency in Ebenböckhaus (One Position)

Deadline: 31 January 2021 / The City of Munich and their program ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MUNICH with its two residences Villa Waldberta and Ebenböckhaus stand for openness, encounters, and exchanges between people from all over the world. With this call for applications, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MUNICH offers international artists from all genres the opportunity to work and stay at Villa Waldberta. There they can develop concepts, exchange ideas and thoughts with other guest artists, initiate projects, and introduce themselves and make presentations to the general public as part of events. Who can apply? Effective immediately, professional artists from all genres with a residence outside of the State of Bavaria can apply.

Deadline: 9th fo February 2021 / In this pandemic year, with travel on hold for everyone's safety, our residency in our departed co-founder Crystal's honor is transforming into online fellowship and distributed residency around the theme "Mediated."

Deadline: 31 January 2021, 12pm midnight (Central European Time CET) / The Koschatzky Art-Award ("KA") is a competition held every two years since 2005, which aims to honour and promote young emerging artists up to 35 years of age.

Deadline: 31 January 2021 / The Creative Europe project MAREBOX has issued a call for artists and interdisciplinary teams for ‘Water Weighs: Tracing underwater memory, the sea’s life and its corporality’.

Deadline: January 31,2021 / Three months residency in Weimar, Germany for radio and sound practioners. / ELIGIBILITY: Applications are open to artists from non-German speaking countries without residence in Germany.

Application deadline: 10 February 2021 / The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award three Grants for Media Art of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (€12,500 each). The Foundation of Lower Saxony grant at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art supports a wide spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio works and audio-visual installations. Each of the three grants will be awarded for the production of a new project in the area of media art.

Deadline : March 1, 2021 / The COAL Prize 2021 once again invites artists from around the world to mobilise and reveal a world still alive, to feel and experience the ecological balance of forests, to promote the diversity of beings and cultures that inhabit them, to revive their ancestral knowledge and give birth to new ones, to nourish the movements of resilience they inspire, to act with their protectors and to invent other ways of being together in the woods. The winner of the COAL Prize will be awarded 10,000 euros by the François Sommer Foundation and COAL. This sum is divided into a cash prize and a production aid for an artist residency offered by the Museum of Hunting and Nature at the Belval Domaine, property of the François Sommer Foundation.

Deadline: March 31, 2021 / Curatorial residency at Bourges art school in France 25.000€ overall budget, hosting and working space and technical and curatorial support.Curatorial residency at Bourges art school in France 25.000€ overall budget, hosting and working space and technical and curatorial support.

Deadline: July 1, 2021 / Our international residency program is open to all artists working in photography or image-based media, from any country. Applications must be submitted by the posted deadline. Applicants will receive an e-mail from SlideRoom confirming that we have received an application. While submissions are open throughout the year, our main selection committee review concludes in the late fall and notifications will be sent no later than December of each year.

Deadline: January 14, 2021 / The component will support up to 12 Cultural Alliances consisting of 36 cultural entities, who are seeking to strengthen their adaptive capacities and to engage in setting up a collaboration within Alliances as well as wider partnerships on the local, national and regional levels with the aim to strengthen the cultural ecosystem and to facilitate and increase access to culture within their contexts

Deadline: January 8, 2021 / Bora Bora Residency Centre in Århus, Denmark welcomes proposals from professional dance artists for projects to be researched and/or developed. The residencies are open to professional dance artists or dance ensembles or stage directors with a strong choreographic idea from all over the world.

Deadline: January 10, 2021 / The program intends to support creation in the area of performing arts, to stimulate research and investigation, calling for work partnerships with poetic and artistic freedom, who are interested in investing time on new issues, with special attention to identity and diversity issues.

Deadline: January 10, 2020 / NOTE: Applicants must be a graduate of a higher education art, film, or animation school and therefore qualify as a director or creative professional with at least one completed/produced audio-visual animation short on their CV. This could either be an independently produced animation film and/or a school graduation film.

Deadline: January 10, 2021 / This call for projects is intended for professional artists with a SIRET number (company, association, Maison des Artistes or AGESSA ..) who can invoice for services, or fees or rights. authors, EEC and non-EEC nationals.

Deadline: January 11, 2021 / ISLAND CONNECT is a collaborative program between five performing arts organisations, working with residencies located on (or associated with) European islands of different countries. United in the project by a common interest in contributing to the creation and consolidation of performing arts, the network partners of the international exchange residency program, wish to address an important ambition to support the artists and arts companies in their personal and professional development within the project’s framework, therefore are launching this call for projects.

Deadline: 14 January 2021 /‘on-the-fly’ is a Creative Europe project, led by Hangar in partnership with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Ljudmila and Creative Coding Utrecht, committed to supporting the development of European live coding practices. Live coding is a performing art and a creative technique, centered on writing and modifying algorithms in real-time, often in the presence of a physical or virtual audience, in such a way that the person writing the algorithms becomes part of the algorithm itself. Researchers, artists, developers and members of collectives of all ages (over 18 years old) and nationalities working in the field of live coding can apply.

Deadline: 15 January 2021 / Organised by Kontempora, RESET 2021 is a 10-day international artist residency programme taking place 4-14 March 2021 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria. The programme will contain theoretical and practical modules, public lectures, online lectures and a final art exhibition.

Deadline: January 15, 2021 / For: Artists and/or Arts Workers of any medium and/or discipline with a minimum of five years professional experience committed to living and working in Tulsa, Oklahoma full-time for two-years; U.S. Resident; Pass Background Check ‍

Deadline: January 15, 2021 / 2-8 weeks residency in Romania for practitioners based in France or Romania.

Deadline: January 15, 2021 / The project partners are looking for artist-researchers of any discipline from Lithuania, Czech Republic, Belgium or Ukraine to propose art projects based on the interpretation of cultural heritage. Resident artists will carry out artistic research into one modernist building (Kaunas, Kortrijk, Brno, Lviv), involving the local community, heritage owners, experts, employees working in the field of cultural heritage, and last but not least the general public.

Deadline: January 18, 2021 / Themed photography prize, up to 10.000£ prizes.

Deadline: January 21,2021 / The Museo Novecento presents WONDERFUL! Award in support of Italian art addressed to artists and collectives under 40

Deadline: 25 January, 2021 / Call for francophone curators to co-organise the ¡Viva Villa! festival in 2022 at the Collection Lambert in Avignon, France. The curator has to visit and reside in three French state sponsored residencies in Madrid, Kyoto and Rome. ELIGIBILTY: being francophone therefore the call is in French only.

Deadline is 31.01.2021 / The ResearchLab consists of up to four residencies per year. It is aimed at supporting dance by nurturing emerging choreographers to realize their ideas from concept to live performance.

Deadline: January 31, 2021 / Six visual or interdisciplinary artists, living and working in Slovenia, Slovakia or Palestine, will be selected via open call to take part in a two-month residency in selected cities (Ljubljana, Košice, Ramallah).

Deadline: 31st of January 2021 / Funding for Germany-Global South art projects

Deadline: January 31, 2021 / Twice a year Landskrona Foto Residency welcomes an early to mid-career photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens-based media, who wishes to further and challenge their practice, to Landskrona, to engage in a project related to the city.

Deadline: 31 January 2021 / Six visual or interdisciplinary artists, living and working in Slovenia, Slovakia or Palestine, will be selected via open call to take part in a two-month residency in selected cities (Ljubljana, Košice, Ramallah).

Deadline: 1st of February 2021 / The Alex Adriaansens Residency provides a Dutch or international artist or designer the possibility to conduct a year-long research project into the material basis and aesthetics of our digital culture.

Deadline: February 14, 2021 / This opportunity is open to Antwerp-based artists of any age, and active in any medium.

Deadline: 28 February 2021 / SciArt Residency is a residency programme jointly established by Kalamari Klub and IsoQuant, encouraging proposals by artists and enthusiasts who are aiming to develop a body of work based on creation, collaboration and experimentation within an artistic research process. The residency is scheduled for September to October 2021 and located in Heidelberg, Germany.

Deadline: February 28, 2021 ///// 1. Artist Residency – 6-month programme, open to artists and collectives who are looking to develop artistic practices and emergent modes of artmaking. ////// 2. Curatorial & Research Residency – 1–3 months programme, open to curators and researchers who are working on, or interested to explore, new modes of curatorial thinking and research process. ////// 3. Community & Education Residency – 1–3 months programme, open to practitioners who explore the relationship between art practice and forms of education or whose core practice engages with local communities or the public in various ways.

Call for Proposals deadline: July 31,2021 Applicant Requirements: -In the field of contemporary art practice and natural research. -Open to different type of medium. -Artists, curators, designers and other creative practitioners with more than 3 years of experience. -Young artists and creative groups in China and abroad.

ONGOING / Artists, creatives and arts practitioners are one of the most instantly impacted groups of people in this unprecedented crisis that we find ourselves. In light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the artist community, many arts organisations, foundations and governments are creating additional immediate support to meet artists needs. To help you in this emerging situation, we have prepared the list of available grants and funds. We will continue to update it over the next few weeks. We hope you will find it helpful. Stay tuned! BY CONTEMPORARY LYNX

Deadline: Varies depending on the project type. Read the guidelines :) / The Nordic Culture Fund supports projects which stimulate the development of artistic and cultural life in the Nordic region. Here you can read more about our current funding programmes.

ONGOING / ARAK Collection, based in Doha – Qatar is inviting applications from Curators from Sub-Saharan Africa, this is an opportunity for Young and Mid-Career Contemporary Art Curators to be selected for their Annual Curatorial Residency Fellowship Program based at their Collection Exhibition and Research Space in Doha – Qatar.

Deadline : Every year, May 31 and October 31 / The Bibliothek Andreas Züst, The Studio Residency Stipend program

With its grant programme, the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (Arts Foundation Baden-Württemberg) provides targeted support to young talents from the visual and performing arts, literature, music, art criticism and cultural management, whose permanent residence or focus of work is in Baden-Württemberg, or who have spent a significant part of their life in Baden-Württemberg, which has been decisive for their artistic work.

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