Calls for Artists: July 2026

Loghaven Artist Residency. Image courtesy of The Aslan Foundation. Wassaic Project 2027 Residency ProgramWassaic, New YorkDeadline: July 1, 2026 The Wassaic Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, uses art and arts education to foster positive social change. The Wassaic Project nurtures connections between its artists and its neighbors facilitating a mutual broadening of perspectives and respect across economic and cultural boundaries. Partnerships between artists and the community improve the reach and quality of the Wassaic Project’s work and inspire new ways of looking at art and the world. The organization accepts proposals for its 2027 Residency program, which includes the Winter Residency program (Jan – April 2027) and the Summer Residency program (June – September 2027). This call is for individual artists, collaborative teams, groups of two or more individual artists, and artists applying through the Family Residency program. This call has a $25 application fee. Apply Call for Entries: Skyway 2027 – A Contemporary CollaborationTampa Bay, FloridaDeadline: July 1, 2026 Skyway 2027: A Contemporary Collaboration is a triennial exhibition that centers artists and artistic practices shaping contemporary life in the Tampa Bay region and beyond. Projects included in Skyway 2027 will be selected through an open call, by invitation, and through artist-centered curatorial approaches, including dialogue with artists, archival and community-based research, the commissioning of new work, site-responsive projects, and artist-led inquiry into institutional collections. Skyway 2027 seeks to support thoughtful, experimental, and rigorous artistic practices that reflect the complexity of contemporary life and honor multiple ways of knowing, making, and remembering. Artists working in all media, including oral history, performance, research-based, land-based, and socially engaged practices, are invited to apply. Apply Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual ArtistsNational & OnlineDeadline: July 2, 2026 The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists is an annual $10,000 grant awarded to provide critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized in the visual art field. In order to further recognize finalists for their artistic achievements, Queer|Art is pleased to announce that the grant will also provide a $1,250 award to four distinguished finalists. Winning artists and finalists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development in the field. Apply Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant ProgramLittle Rock, ArkansasDeadline: July 2, 2026 The Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant Program provides support for African American historic and historical preservation and public programming projects in Arkansas. The program accepts grant applications year round. Past projects include historical research, exhibits, workshops, publications, oral history interviews, documentary films and cemetery preservation and documentation. Apply The XENO PRIZE for Performance Art and Artists’ Books NationalDeadline: July 4, 2026 In pursuit of its mission to present, preserve, interpret, educate and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, cultural bias, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content, Franklin Furnace has since 2023 offered the annual XENO Prizes for Performance Art and Artists’ Books, named in honor of xenophiles, people who appreciate all people and cultures. The XENO PRIZE for Artists’ Books will be selected from submissions to a Call for Proposals issued March 1 2026, to receive $5000 to publish one artist’s book on the topic of book banning/burning in an edition of at least 100 copies. Independent artist jurors will make the selections and the award will be announced in September-October 2026. Apply Call for Entries: All American – Contemporary Perspectives from HBCU ArtistsRaleigh, North Carolina & NationalDeadline: July 10, 2026 Artspace’s All American: Contemporary Perspectives from HBCU Artists is a group exhibition celebrating current and former students connected to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This exhibition brings together perspectives across generations, exploring identity, culture, community, and the many ways HBCUs shape artistic practice, creative expression, and lived experience. This call is open to any current or former HBCU student displaying strong artistic merit. The exhibition will be juried by Alexandra Jane (Artist Programs Manager), Lamar Whidbee (2026 HBCU Artist in Residence), and John Blanco (Creative Director). Apply Florida Division of Arts and Culture: Specific Cultural Projects GrantTallahassee, FloridaDeadline: July 10, 2026 The Specific Cultural Project (SCP) grant is designed to fund a single cultural project, program, exhibition or series taking place within the grant period (July 1 – June 30). The grant activities must support the mission of the organization or artist and further the state’s cultural objectives. Organizations and individuals are both eligible to apply. Apply Pioneer Works 2027 Visual Arts and Music ResidenciesBrooklyn, New YorkDeadline: July 13, 2026 Pioneer Works is deeply committed to providing emerging artists and musicians with a space to work, tools to create, and a platform to exchange ideas. The cultural center welcomes those whose work is technically-skilled, genre-defying, and visionary. Pioneer Works also embraces those whose work exists outside the models and “norms” of their field and who will benefit from our unique facilities and culture. As such, Pioneer Works shifts and evolves to reflect the interests and work of each new cohort of residents, from public education offerings to Second Sundays, a monthly forum of artistic experimentation through activations, open studios, and performance. Apply Loghaven Artist ResidencyKnoxville, T