Open Calls

2025 Ambroggio Prize - Publication Prize

The 2025 Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation.

Applications Due: September 15, 2024

The Bennett Prize
Stipend/Grant-in-aid

The Bennett Prize is a stipend/grant-in-aid program established by American art collectors Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt to support the fine art practice of a woman painter working in figurative realism. The Bennett Prize, administered by The Pittsburgh Foundation, is awarded biennially and provides $25,000 annually over two consecutive years to the winning artist ($50,000 total).

Award
$50,000 total (Over two years)

Deadline
October 4, 2024

New York Foundation for the Arts
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

Visual artists, Film/Video/Digital Artists, Choreographers

Award
Up to $5,000

This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need* who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.

South Arts
Free Online Workshop: Copyright Basics, the Arts, and A.I.

Join South Arts, The Ella Project, and Georgia Lawyers for the Arts for an informational session about the basic concepts behind U.S. Copyright and how it affects art makers. We will also discuss Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

September 19, 2024
11:00 AM (EST)

The Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grants

Aims to champion the power of visual storytelling in driving positive change for our planet.

We're offering one grant totaling $20,000 and six grants worth $5,000 each, all dedicated to nurturing documentary projects that spotlight solutions-based environmental narratives.

Applications will close September 15, 2024.

Northeast Florida Artists |

Jax Contemporary Triennial Juried Exhibition by MOCA

Exhibition on View March 29 – November 9, 2025

Following the celebration of its centenary in 2024, MOCA Jacksonville is excited to launch Jax Contemporary, a triennial art exhibition bringing to the fore the artistic talent in the Greater Jacksonville and Northeast Florida region, including Flagler, Putnam, Baker, Clay, St. Johns, Duval, and Nassau Counties.

Artist prizes to be announced

Applications open : Sep 9, 2024

Applications close : Oct 11, 2024

Professional Development and Artistic Planning Grants

These grants offer up to $1,000 to support artistic planning and the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators.

Applications must be submitted at least 60 days prior to the project start date.

Deines Cultural Center
Mystery, Magic, & the Macabre 2024

Visual Artists | painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media
Award :More than $1500 in prizes
Deadline : August 28, 2024

The Deines Cultural Center is excited to open submissions for the fourth annual Mystery, Magic & Macabre Juried Exhibition. We welcome artists who infuse thoughtfulness and creativity into their work, offering unique perspectives on the surreal, the mysterious, and the supernatural. Please note that artworks depicting graphic violence will not be considered.

The Artist Grant - emerging artist

Award : $500.

Deadlines : October 15

The Artist Grant offers up to $500 in grants to emerging artists. Offered four times a year. No proposals are required. In fact, they won’t read one if sent. Just an application and a link to your website showing your body of work communicating its viewpoint, ideas, and concepts clearly, effectively, and creatively.

The W. Eugene Smith Grant | Photography

Deadline: Opens July 2 | Closes October 8, 2024

Award Info: $40,000

The W. Eugene Smith Grant seeks to encourage and support visual storytellers whose photographic work renews the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion as a photographic essayist. Special consideration will be given to work that promotes social change, that embraces new technologies and image distribution, and that seeks to integrate the tradition of photography and social change with contemporary practice.

Pulitzer Center Grant

provides support to freelance and staff journalists to pursue underreported enterprise stories in two ways: Reporting grants: Funding for in-depth journalism projects or Fellowship programs: Funding; training; data and research support; and a cohort experience with journalists pursuing similar in-depth or investigative stories

Deadline : Rolling

Gender Equality Grant - Pulitzer

The Pulitzer Center, a non-profit organization that supports independent global journalism, is seeking applications for investigative data-driven projects on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women & girls

Deadline : Rolling

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper.
Award : Varies
Deadline : Rolling


The Foundation provides financial resources for visual artists to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses.

The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses and amounts range up to $50,000.