Deadline Aug 1st:
The Art and Change Grant (ACG) provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects by women, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia.
RFQ PUBLIC ART @ CITY OPERATIONS FACILITY
The City of Federal Way, WA is seeking qualifications from artists interested in creating a public-facing, site responsive public art installation. The site will be the newly constructed Joint Use Operations and Maintenance Facility.
MARY BIRD PERKINS - DIVERSITY IN CLINIC TRIALS MURAL
Call for Mural Artists! We’re looking for a talented artist (or artist team) to bring a 450 sq ft wall to life! The selected artist(s) will receive a $7,000 fee to design and install a mural that drives diversity in clinical trials.
TANGLED ART + DISABILITY RFP 2025
Tangled Art + Disability is now accepting applications to exhibit your artwork at Tangled Art Gallery. We invite submissions from Deaf, Mad, and Disability-identified artists and curators, as well as arts organizations and other cultural producers who practice Disability Arts and Curation.
Deadline Aug 4th:
THRIVING TOGETHER ATLANTIC PUBLIC RFP
The Westside Beltline Mural invites artists or artist teams to create a site-specific public artwork that explores health equity, community care, and collective resilience themes. At a time when the health disparity gap is widening and policies are cutting critical resources for the most vulnerable among us, this project is a catalyst for public engagement, policy awareness, and neighborhood pride. Open to Atlanta based artists only.
SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER PROJECT
The City of Fort Collins, Colorado, APP Program is seeking an artist/team, to collaborate with the project team to identify potential locations for art and develop opportunities to integrate art into the SECC Project. This collaborative process will guide the locations and opportunities for artwork that complements the overall facility vision and goals, and enables opportunities for integrated public art projects. The project may include multiple artists/artworks in the overall scope and art budget.
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) invites New York City-based visual artists to apply for its Artist Residency and Training Seminar Series (ARTWorks), a six-month Fellowship that focuses on career sustainability. While all New York City-based visual artists may apply, priority will be given to Queens-based BIIPOC artists.
Deadline Aug 8th:
206 Zulu and SCIDpda, two community-based organizations, are seeking mural artists or artist teams to design and install publicly viewable murals on the exterior of 13th & Fir, a new affordable housing development located in the Central Area in Seattle, Washington.
The IAIA Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts (RCCNA) is accepting applications for two three-month fellowships. Fellowships will take place during a three-month period between August 18 and December 19, 2025, on the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) campus. IAIA is situated in O’Ga P’Ogeh Owingeh or “White Shell Water Place” on the traditional Puebloan lands of the Tanoan and Keres speaking peoples.
Deadline Aug 10th:
THE POWERHOUSE ARTS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (AIR)
The Powerhouse Arts Artist in Residence (AiR) program supports emerging to mid-career New York City-based artists working in print, ceramics, public art, and textiles who have been historically underrepresented in traditional AiR programs, specifically Black, Indigenous, artists of color, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and low-income artists.
Deadline Aug 11th:
BLACK APPALACHIAN STORYTELLERS FELLOWSHIP
The National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) is proud to announce the Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship to honor, celebrate, and support Black storytellers representing the Appalachian counties (as designated by the Appalachian Regional Commission) of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. This is a partnership between the National Association of Black Storytellers, Mid Atlantic Arts, and South Arts. The Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship is administered by the National Association of Black Storytellers.
The City of Kansas City, Missouri One Percent for Art program seeks qualifications for a professional visual artist or artist team to design, fabricate, and install permanent public art to be integrated into the Buck O’Neil Bridge Skate Park currently being designed. 2-5 semifinalist artists will be asked to advance to the RFP phase and propose designs. Semifinalists will be paid a design proposal stipend of $3,000. Art for this project may include, but is not limited to, mosaics, cast concrete, sculpture and murals.
Class on Aug 12th:
ARTISTS AND CULTURAL WORKERS AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM
Built by and for cultural workers, this training offers insight and connection to meet this moment with strategy, courage, and creativity. Together, we’ll unpack how mass noncooperation can block authoritarian power, learn from global resistance efforts, and imagine how our craft can power collective action. Whatever your creative medium or path, you’re part of a vital cultural frontline. Let’s grow our power, refuse compliance, and make culture that blocks, bridges and builds.
Deadline Aug 15th:
THE BRONX RIVER ART CENTER STUDIOS PROGRAM
The Bronx River Art Center's Artist Studios Program (ASP) is currently accepting applications for our professional artist studios for a 1-year term contract, with a 2nd year option to reapply.
Deadline Aug 17th:
BLACK CULTURAL ARCHIVES YOUTH PROGRAMMES
Join our Youth Programme at the home of Black British history and connect with a community of young creatives. Applications are now open for the Black Cultural Archives' Youth Programme.
Deadline Aug 20th:
CONSTITUTION HEALTH PLAZA: PUBLIC HEALTH LAB
The Constitution Health Plaza: Public Health Lab Percent for Art commission will provide an opportunity for one (1) artist or one (1) artist team to create multiple indoor murals to be located in the Shared Lobby and Public Health Lab areas on the second floor in the main building.
Deadline Aug 25th:
LEONHARD RECREATION CENTER
North and the Champaign Park District invite muralists to submit an application to develop a mural in the entrance and lobby of Leonhard Recreation Center. Funding for this mural is made possible through a grant from Illinois Arts Council
Deadline: Aug 31st
Calling artist. Your help is needed to tell the stories of people navigating the immigration system. Here's how to join us: DM or email communications@acaciajustice.org with a sample of your work We'll pair you with the story of an immigrant We can offer an honorarium for this work.
Deadline Sept 15th:
MAKING POLICY PUBLIC OPEN CALL
CUP is looking for community organizers, advocates, and visual designers to collaborate on our next series of Making Policy Public projects! Making Policy Public invites organizers and advocates to apply to create a project that breaks down a complex policy, process, or system into an accessible, visual resource. The goal of Making Policy Public is to use the power of art and design to increase knowledge of the policies, processes, and systems that affect our neighborhoods and communities.
Deadline Sept 16th:
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) is offering grants between $4,000 and $16,000 for artistic presentations across any discipline that engage Manhattan communities in 2026.
LMCC’s SU-CASA Creative Aging Residency is a community arts engagement program that matches artists and artist duos with older adult centers in Manhattan. Apply with a project in mind, and we’ll do the matching. Selected artists receive a stipend in exchange for the creation and delivery of arts programming for older adults. Programming supported through SU-CASA engages older adults in participatory arts projects with an emphasis on hands-on learning and adaptive teaching. The residency culminates in a public program component showcasing the participants’ progress and creative expression that is open to the center’s surrounding community.
Deadline Sep 22nd:
JEROME FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP FOR EMERGING ARTISTS
The Queens Museum (QM) is pleased to launch its seventh QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists in New York City. Two visual artists will receive $20,000 each, professional development consultations, and close mentorship from QM staff members working toward an artist’s project. The fellowships will culminate in solo project exhibitions at the Queens Museum in 2027. The duration of each fellowship is one year, culminating with the opening of the fellow’s exhibition.