MASS MoCA's Early Application opportunity provides extended lead time for artists who need advance planning for their residency stays, with announcements made 9-15 months before sessions. This application track is designed for artists confident in securing external funding or paying full rate, making it easier to apply for grants from employers or arts councils. Artists applying through this route are not eligible for MASS MoCA's financial aid.

A Sense of Place invites visual artists to explore diverse interpretations of the universal human desire to locate oneself, and the many ways place shapes human experience, identity, and belonging. This theme considers place not only as a physical location, but as an emotional and psychological landscape carried internally through memory, longing, and lived experience within an increasingly complex and fragmented world.

Artwork from all types of visual media will be accepted,
including painting, drawing, photography, digital media, mixed media, sculpture, and installation.

Deadline is August 2nd at 11:59 pm EST.

treat gallery invites artists to submit original artwork exploring the theme '2026' and how artists are halfway through the year. The theme encompasses reflection, prediction, question, warning, hope, memory, or vision connected to the months before or remaining. Artists may explore what 2026 has meant to them through cultural shifts, milestones, or futures imagined through abstraction, narrative, technology, environment, identity, or place. NOT YET! is intentionally open-ended, welcoming all visual art mediums. 8-12 artists will be featured in a curated, online exhibition of small-format works, and 3-6 artists will be invited to exhibit during Affordable Art Fair NY.

Deadline: August 10, midnight EST

The Wassaic Project is currently holding an annual Open Call for our 2027 Summer Exhibition for artists of all mediums, including: 2D work, sculpture, video, new media, site-specific installation, performance, text, poems, essays, publication-specific work, etc. If selected, your work will be showcased alongside a diverse range of pieces and performances in and around historic Wassaic and Maxon Mills. The Wassaic Project's 2027 Summer Exhibition will be free and open to the public every weekend from May 1 - September 12, 2027. All accepted artists will receive a modest honorarium to participate in the exhibition. Artists interested in creating a site-specific installation for the 2027 Summer Exhibition are eligible for an Exhibitions Fellowship.

• July 1, 2026, applications open.


• Aug. 12, 2026, applications close.


• by Sept. 2026, panel selects exhibitors. It is anticipated that two exhibitors will be selected for the first year (October 2026-April 2027). Two one-person exhibitions are planned.


• July 1, 2027, applications open for 2027-28 season.

NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship allows individual artists and emerging arts organizations to raise funds using NYFA's 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. The program provides nonprofit structure and financial oversight for artist-led projects. Artists lead their projects while NYFA provides the nonprofit structure and financial oversight.

The Liu Shiming Art Foundation offers project-based grants to support artists pursuing new creative work. Funded projects are selected through an application and review process, with successful applicants notified directly by the foundation. Grant funds are released once the proposed project has been completed, encouraging accountable and completed creative output. The grant program is designed to give practicing artists direct financial support for developing new bodies of work, independent of exhibition or gallery representation, making it a flexible funding source for artists at various career stages.

The Hale Master of Fine Art Residency funds artists who either have recently graduated (within 5 years) from or are currently enrolled in an MFA graduate program. This month-long residency is designed for an artist whose work explores aesthetic beauty. The Hale MFA Residency provides space and time for artists to focus solely on their work. There is no expectation to teach, exhibit, or present work. Hale Residencies take place only during the months of January, February, and March. There is no expectation for the resident to teach, but they do encourage exhibition and other community engagement.

MacDowell is a prestigious artist residency program located in rural Peterborough, New Hampshire. The program provides artists with ideal working conditions including exclusive studio use, accommodations, and prepared meals in a supportive environment. MacDowell has been supporting artists since 1907 with deep respect for creative work and offers comprehensive facilities including specialized studios and equipment.

“Queer” is used today as both a descriptor of identity and a verb conjuring subversion. Both represent a challenge, whether to normative structures or conventional intimacies. This exhibition, with a working title, Queering Wood Craft, will highlight the work of queer-identified makers working in wood, and be both exploration and celebration of the dynamic intersections between contemporary work in wood and the multiple meanings of queer. Artist participants will explore the history of this craft through a queer lens, making one visible to themselves and rendering a more complex understanding of queer lives, labor, and communal and familial relationships. Integral to humanity’s experience for centuries and across continents, woodworking has an essential role that is distinct and multifaceted. They invite artists and makers who work in wood—building furniture, turning, carving, or otherwise using wood as the primary material in their work—to submit their work for consideration. The exhibition will take place at the Museum for Art in Wood from late May-late July 2027.