Open Calls

The Portfolio Year: PlacemakingJax 3.0

$3,000, $5,000 or $10,000 ideas

PlacemakingJax is a highly collaborative process for the people of Jacksonville (Jaxsons) to engage in the creation of pop-up projects or large-scale interventions in Downtown Jacksonville to transform underused public spaces into celebrated community places.

Applications close : Dec 21, 2024

Little Alley Shows - Musicians

Musicians & DJ’s needed for upcoming Fall/Winter Series!

Little Alley Shows are popup performances in an unexpected space in Downtown Jax

  • Saturday, October 26

  • Wednesday, Nov 6 - Artwalk Party

  • Saturday, Nov 23 

  • Wednesday, Dec 4 - Artwalk Party

  • Thursday, Dec 12

Pen/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website, and aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers.

Award
$2,000 publication prize

Deadline
November 1, 2024

Artistic Production Grant: Spring Cycle

Artistic Production grants fund the production and exhibition of new artistic commissions, in amounts ranging between $25,000 – $100,000.

Date
November 4, 2024

Award
$25,000 – $100,000

Breck Create
Artist in Residence Program

Artist-in-Residence spend 2-4 months in a live/work studio in the Breckenridge Arts District, an intimate campus of historic structures nestled under majestic snow-capped peaks in cozy downtown Breckenridge.

Deadline
Rolling

Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant

It is awarded annually to a sculptor who has demonstrated outstanding ability as a sculptor and who has created a body of work inspired by nature which includes works of sculpture in the round and in bas-relief.

Award
$5,000

Deadline
November 4, 2024

Right to Write Awards

Each year, two Right to Write Awards are given to outstanding applicants who have already been accepted into the Monthly Mentorship program. The award supports BIPOC and Veteran writers by waiving their tuition.

Deadline
November 12, 2024

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.

Dramatists Guild Foundation
Emergency Grants

While we hope our Crisis Relief Grants will be one time awards, we understand that hardship can occur unexpectedly and at different times during a writer’s career. With that in mind, dramatists may be eligible to receive multiple Crisis Relief Grants. First time applicants will be prioritized and multi-time recipients may experience longer processing times. 

Deadline
Rolling

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.

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.