Fellowship & Residency Opportunities for Faculty Artists: AY24-25
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has put together a list of upcoming fellowship and residency opportunities for Emerson faculty artists for the academic year 2024–2025. These opportunities provide artists with time, space and resources to work, individually or collectively, on the development of their artistic practice. We encourage our artist-scholars to learn more about these opportunities below. Please contact ORCS with any questions.
Funder Name
Type/Topic
Deadline
Dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists in the theatrical genre) facing a financial crisis and needing financial assistance and/or support are eligible to apply for an emergency grant
Rolling basis
This program brings together artists from diverse backgrounds of the African Diaspora. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged (painting, sculpture, illustration, writing, dance, music, theater/performance, photography, fiber/textiles, etc). Currently accepting applications from the North Eastern region (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island).
Rolling basis
Open to regional and national artists of all disciplines, Artists-in-Residence spend 2-4 months in a live/work studio in cozy downtown Breckenridge, Colorado.
Rolling basis
The Foundation welcomes applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers.
Rolling basis
Application for one-time financial assistance is open to professional musicians across all genres.
Rolling basis
Supports writers, activists, and artists whose ideas are “on the edge,” taking on the pressing issues of our time
November 1, 2024
For emerging and distinguished writers who have published at least one book with a trade or literary press, this fellowship includes compensation of $40,000 and housing.
November 1, 2024
12 emerging writers will be recognized for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website.
November 1, 2024
This $5,000 prize is awarded annually to a sculptor who has demonstrated outstanding ability in their field and created a body of work inspired by nature which includes works of sculpture in the round and in bas-relief.
November 4, 2024
Support of new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments.
Letter of inquiry: November 4, 2024
Application submission:
December 9, 2024
Fully-funded fellowships are available to national and international artists
November 8, 2024
Helping authors integrate writing into their lives in sustainable ways, deepen their craft, and become their own best editors—for life
November 12, 2024
The 44th printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme ‘Street Photography’
November 12, 2024
The Wassaic Project’s 2025 Summer Residency program (June–September) is open to individual artists, collaborative teams, groups of two or more individual artists, and artists applying through their Family Residency program.
November 12, 2024
Residencies in the categories Art-in-Education Artist’s Book, Artist’s Book, and Artist’s Book for Indigenous Artists for women and trans, intersex, nonbinary and gender-fluid visual artists
November 15, 2024
A new art and literature journal focused on trauma, seeking submissions of visual art and short-form literature for its premiere issue around themes of body and trauma
November 18, 2024
Notions of excess, interstitial spaces, center and periphery, contradictions that defy mutual exclusivity, and imagines borders as fluid and permeable
December 1, 2024
Projects must take place in Massachusetts and creatively cultivate expressions or embodiments of spatial justice through public artmaking
December 2, 2024
The program includes a $2,500 stipend along with the opportunity to live at Bernheim Forest and create site specific work inspired by their total immersion experience in the natural environment
December 2, 2024
This residency awards an international community of artists the gifts of time and space amidst the extraordinary natural beauty of Joshua Tree National Park.
December 15, 2024
$1,000 is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work combining poetry and any other art or discipline.
December 31, 2024