National and international artists in the disciplines of media arts/new genres, visual arts, literature, choreography, and music composition are welcome. The Program provides core residents with studio space, food and lodging and local transportation. Winter alumni residents are provided studio space and lodging.
Deadline: March
Funds representational artists working in the early stages of their careers in painting, drawing, printmaking, or sculpture only. Applicants must have started or completed art school training or must demonstrate, through work and future plans, a commitment to making art a lifetime career. Grant amount is usually $15,000.
Deadline: Ongoing
The Center’s Scholars’ Program encompasses both short and long-term fellowships. Through its fellowships, the Center provides support for both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral research. Fellowship proposals may address wide-ranging aspects of the history of collecting in the United States from Colonial times to the present as well as in Europe. Proposals may focus on individual collectors, dealers, developments, or trends in the art market. Interdisciplinary research is especially encouraged.
Four short-term fellowships, currently supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, are awarded every year, each for a period of eight to ten weeks. Two semester-long Leon Levy Fellowships are awarded to scholars engaged on a major project.
Deadline: February
The Artist Residency Program is designed to offer time and space for craft artists to focus on their creative work and interact with the public. The program supports emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in all craft media, including but not limited to clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood and mixed media. Museum visitors have the unique opportunity to visit the artists’ studios and watch the artists at work. Stipend provided.
Deadline: March
The Independence Foundation Fellowships in the Arts is an opportunity for exceptional artists to take a key step forward in their professional development. Artists are encouraged to be creative in discovering the best possible way to expand their artistic horizons.
There are no set boundaries for what is possible or what types of projects might be funded. However, a successful project should be well designed and of maximum practical value to the artist. In addition, the project must provide the artist with an opportunity for artistic growth and improvement in his/her primary area of work. Fellowship grants are awarded to originating artists (painters, sculptors, choreographers, playwrights, composers, etc.) and interpretive artists (actors, dancers, musicians, etc.)
There are two grant cycles annually, one in the Visual Arts (spring) and one in the Performing Arts (fall).
Deadline: Check program for updates
The Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant is a prize of $5,000 sponsored by the National Sculpture Society.
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 bas-relief and in the round. The Bleifeld Grant is for a mature body of work; sculpture created in workshop or instructional settings should not be submitted.
Deadline: October
The EAiR Program supports artists who are making a transition in their professional lives. Whether moving from academia to a professional studio practice, taking up a new medium, or beginning a new body of work, artists find this independent residency ideal for contemplation, research, and experimentation. The program provides artists with a place and the time to develop an idea or project in glass, with the potential for realizing a new body of work.
The residency requires a project proposal and supports kilnworking, coldworking, printmaking, and use of mixed media but not hot glassworking. The EAiR program is an independent artist’s residency, so no instruction is available and some glassmaking experience is required.
Deadline: Check program for updates
The SSW Residency Program offers a number of opportunities throughout the year; these provide artists from all backgrounds, the time, space, support and facilities to develop their practice. At SSW we encourage experimentation and exploration of sculpture within the expanded field and so our residencies are open to artists of all disciplines.
Deadline: Check program for updates
The Socrates Annual Fellowship is an opportunity for early career artists to realize new public artworks at Socrates Sculpture Park, a public park in Long Island City, Queens. Socrates encourages artists to create proposals for new works in disciplines including sculpture, performance, social practice, ecology as well as across multiple and new disciplines.
Fellowship recipients receive a Production Grant up to $8,000 to support their project, a $2,000 honorarium, and seven-days-a-week access to the Park’s resources and facilities, including the outdoor artist studio, as well as the technical and administrative support needed to design and realize an artwork within the Park. Fellows are responsible for the production and transportation of their own artworks, but will collaborate closely with Socrates’ curatorial, operations, and public programs staff.
The Fellowship culminates in The Socrates Annual, an exhibition that showcases Fellows’ completed works, from September 2025 – March 2026.
Deadline: Check program for updates