The Blu-Sky Artist Award (BSAA) is an online international semi-annual prize put forward by Ten Moir Gallery. Through this award, the gallery aims to recognize and encourage upcoming talented artists from across the world and provide them with a platform to showcase their work. This award comes with an unrestricted financial reward, which allows aspiring talents to develop their skills and increase their chances of becoming successful professionally within the art field.

Sunbeam Arts Residency, established in 2020, offers a welcoming space in Silicon Valley for emerging early career artists. The residency aims to increase inclusive participation in the fine arts, technology, and experimental international community living. The residency includes a 3-week stay in a private room with a shared bathroom and studio space, at no cost. However, no stipend or materials are provided.

The Saguaro National Park Artist Residency offers artists a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the breathtaking beauty and cultural richness of the Sonoran Desert. The residency is open to all artistic media and includes a $3,000 stipend. Housing is provided in a spacious house outside the park, centrally located approximately 30 minutes from each of the two Saguaro NP districts.

The Grants for Artists program in Oklahoma is offering grants to individual artists to create visual art for public presentation, develop their professional practices, and lead community projects. The grants, which are open to artists working in visual-based mediums, curation, and art writing, fund up to $1500 for initiating community-based projects leading to artwork creation.

The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award promotes excellence and innovation in the field of art on paper while supporting and encouraging artists who specialise in this medium. With a total prize pool of $26,000, the Award recognises outstanding artworks created with, on, or about paper and provides a platform for recognition and an opportunity for artists to explore the materiality, versatility, and potential of paper as a medium for artistic expression.Artforms can include, but are not limited to painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, mixed media and video.

The SAMSTAG INTERNATIONAL VISUAL ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS is a unique opportunity for Australian visual artists to undertake a year-long placement at an international learning institution. The scholarship covers institutional fees for one academic year, a $75,000 tax-free allowance, and travel expenses to a leading international art school of the artist's choice. The program is open to current visual arts students and artists who have graduated from a tertiary institution.

The Grants for Artists program in Oklahoma is open to artists working in visual-based mediums, curation, and art writing. The program aims to foster creative excellence by helping individual artists create visual art for public presentation, develop their professional practices, and lead community projects. Applications are reviewed three times a year.

The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors facing unforeseen catastrophic incidents. The grant does not have a deadline and does not consider requests for dental work, chronic situations, capital improvements, or projects of any kind. The maximum grant amount is $15,000, with a typical award of $5,000.

The Black Artists Grant (BAG) offered by Creative Debuts as a no-strings attached financial support to help Black artists. They can spend the grant on whatever they want – be that make new work, buy equipment or materials, travel, research, visit exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.

CERF+ offers Get Ready Grants, providing craft artists with grants up to $1,000 for activities to safeguard their studios, protect their practices, and prepare for emergencies. Priority is given to applicants that have been underrepresented in the craft community including BIPOC and folk/traditional artists.

The Working Artist Project (WAP) is a year-long fellowship program facilitated by The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA). The program was created by MOCA GA to champion established visual artists of merit who are based in the Atlanta metropolitan region. Each year, a guest curator selects three of our best and brightest to receive a solo exhibition, promotion, a studio apprentice (in support of emerging artists in the Atlanta Community), a full-color catalogue, and a $15,000 stipend to create work over the course of the year.

The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a three-year program that offers a $150,000 stipend, a $36,000 housing stipend, a $1,500 studio move-in stipend, a fully subsidized independent studio space, a $3,600 studio assistant stipend, a $3,600 health and wellness stipend, YMCA memberships, facilitated cohort gatherings & meals, open studio events, and childcare reimbursements. The fellowship is open to national and local artists and/or arts workers of any medium and/or discipline with a minimum of five years of arts field experience. The application period for the 2026-2028 award term is from April 2 to May 29, 2025.

The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation offers a grant program to support sculptors and writers on sculpture. The program operates on a 2-year cycle, alternating between supporting writing and sculpture. The grant amount is $20,000 and the recipient is expected to complete their project within one year of receiving the award.

The Liu Shiming Art Foundation is offering grants to early career visual artists who have either received a degree in studio arts or had their debut show at a gallery or juried art exhibition between 2015 and 2023. The grant, which totals $5,000, will be disbursed in two payments.

The Larch Creative Fund, in partnership with the Spruill Center for the Arts, is offering grants for innovative projects that promote creative and critical thinking through the arts. The fund will distribute a total of $50,000 in grants among selected artists or organizations. The projects should be new, free, accessible to a diverse audience, and encourage community participation. The projects must be arts-based and take place in Georgia.