Their residency welcomes artists who seek not only to advance their personal projects but also to engage deeply with the Sacred Valley of the Incas—its culture, nature, and history. They prioritize artists whose practice shows receptivity to new environments and who are enriched by immersion in different cultures and languages. Situated in Huaran, a vibrant agricultural town in Peru's Sacred Valley of the Inca (Calca province, Cusco region) at 9,850 ft (3,000m), their community brings together traditional local communities, residents from across Peru, and an international population from every continent. This dynamic, evolving cultural landscape has flourished over the past decade.

Their mission centers on fostering cultural, social, environmental, and humanitarian exchange.

Emerging Artist Program
$5000 Grant opportunity for the Emerging Artist Program

The Emerging Artist Program is designed for artists at the beginning of their careers with limited experience exhibiting or selling their work. The application process is the same as the general show; however, accepted Emerging Artists receive:

A reduced booth fee of $350
A provided tent
Workshops and artist mentoring
Support for lodging
The opportunity to showcase and sell their work at the 2026 Cherry Creek Arts Festival
In addition, CherryArts is proud to award $5,000 unrestricted grants to selected Emerging Artists to expand and enhance their creative practice. Funding may be used to support any aspect of their artistic career.

Join one of the nation’s most highly regarded art shows! CherryArts invites you to apply for the 2026 Cherry Creek Arts Festival and be among 250 exceptional exhibitors featured at this world-class celebration of art.

Each year, the festival welcomes 150,000+ visitors and offers artists an unparalleled experience, including:

Strong art sales potential (2025 Artist Survey reported an average of $17,470 per artist), Consistently high national rankings, On-site artist amenities, A new jury panel each year for fresh perspective
The Cherry Creek Arts Festival is a well-established event with a loyal, art-savvy audience, many of whom are collectors. Don’t miss this opportunity to exhibit and sell your work at one of the country’s top shows!

They’re inviting artists from around the world to be part of their next exciting exhibition in Hong Kong!

This is your chance to showcase your work in a vibrant gallery space at the heart of one of Asia’s most dynamic cities.

🖌 THEME: OPEN
No limits. No boundaries. Just pure creativity.
They welcome work in any medium – painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video, film, printmaking, illustration, mixed media, poetry, and beyond. If it’s creative, they want to see it!

📅 Exhibition Dates: 5th - 7th December 2025
📍 Location: Unit 504, 5F, Vanta Industrial Centre, 21-23 Tai Lin Pai Rd, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong

✨ WHY APPLY?

Global Exposure – Reach an international audience.

All Mediums Welcome – Let your creativity flow.

Holy Art Gallery is inviting artists from around the world to submit their work for their upcoming exhibition in Melbourne! This is your chance to showcase your art in a vibrant gallery space in the heart of the city.

THEME: OPEN

They welcome work in any medium—painting, photography, printmaking, video art, film, installation, sculpture, mixed media, poetry, illustration, and beyond. If it’s creative, they want to see it!

Exhibition Dates: 12th – 15th December 2025

Location: 362 Little Collins St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

✨ WHY APPLY?

- Global Exposure – Showcase your work to a diverse audience.

- All Mediums Welcome – No limits on creativity.

- Free to Submit – No application fee!

The Maguire Art Museum at Saint Joseph’s University invites artists of all mediums to submit original artwork that showcases why they think Philadelphia is an incredible place to live, work, play, and explore! Whether it's the vibrant culture, the unique neighborhoods, the dynamic people, or the endless opportunities for fun and creativity — they want to see what makes the city of brotherly love truly special. Your artwork should reflect what makes Philadelphia awesome!

Open AIR is best known for its unique place-based Artist-in-Residence program that connects artists from all disciplines and origins, with culturally, historically, and ecologically significant locations through collaborative partnerships in Montana. With innovative opportunities available in places such as remote wilderness areas to historically significant sites closer to town, artists have the opportunity to draw inspiration from a regional community dedicated to preserving place, environment, and the arts.

"Resolution" is a resolve, decision, or determination. With the New Year, one typically make resolutions and sets goals. As an example, one may resolve to spend more time in nature. The theme is flexible and can be interpreted in different ways, which is up to you as the artist. Your artist statement needs to state how your artwork relates to the theme, and your statement will be displayed with the artwork.

The Arroscia Residency an artist run, 501(c)(3), non-profit corporation open to all emerging and mid-career artists who’s focus is on one or more of the following disciplines: painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, fiber art, photography, installations, and/or mixed media work.

Fusion Art announces the Light & Shadow 2025 Art Competition.

For this competition, both 2D & 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best artwork depicting light and shadow. Whether color or black and white, the artwork should focus on the dramatic placement and effects of light and shadow over the canvas or through the lens.

Cafe Tissardmine is a situated in a remote village in the Moroccan Sahara. The recognise the need for artists to recharge, share ideas, be inspired and to find a place to breathe. They run 6 – 7 residencies per year for a maximum of nine artists with this idea in mind. The residency is not project based or requiring specific engagement or outcome but it is a place to find peace and new ideas. Artists from all disciplines are welcome to apply.
A Residency at Cafe Tissardmine is also an opportunity to discover the richness of the Berber culture; their way of life, cooking and crafts.

The Material Works Art Award supports artists through a one-time $2500.00 grant in exchange for an original artwork that will join their growing contemporary art collection. This award recognizes artistic excellence and aims to promote career advancement through increasing visibility and exposure.

They are currently accepting applications from artists with contemporary art practices. Visual artists working worldwide in painting, photography, installation, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, mixed-media, experimental, and conceptual art are eligible to apply. Please note that submissions for music, writing/poetry, and time-based media are not being accepted at this time.

Hera Gallery is looking for 52 selections of visual art that speak to invisible job descriptions most often designated to those assigned female at birth. LABOR will take place throughout the year of 2026. All selected works will be on virtual display throughout the duration of the exhibition on heragallery.org. Each week, Hera Gallery will choose one featured artist and their work from the exhibition to be posted on all social media accounts.

Join Fiber Art Now’s celebration of color. Artists are invited to present their most creative and colorful art. All submissions must include a fiber material or textile technique. The print exhibition will be juried by the Fiber Art Now creative team and juried selections will be featured in the spring 2026 issue of Fiber Art Now, and be eligible for an on-site exhibition.

FALL 2025 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce their newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00.

Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on their website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant's commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future.

Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. They've simplified the grant process, so that artists and photographers can focus on making their innovative work. The work should speak for itself and their application reflects that.

Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to their online exhibit, IN THE PINK.

They’re looking to celebrate everything pink can be. From soft and sweet to bold and in charge, pink does it all. They invite you to explore the many moods of pink. Show your pink as the main character for IN THE PINK.

JPEGs due by Friday, December 12, 2025 at midnight MST.
Notification of acceptance and online gallery opening by Friday, January 9, 2026.

You may enter up to 20 pieces total. For 3D work, there is no need to pay for additional entries for detail shots. Once your first entry is made, you may send additional views by email to [email protected].

Open to ALL fine art mediums (oil, acrylic, watermedia, pastel, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, photography, sculpture, fiber, wood, ceramics, film/video, digital art). AI will not be accepted. Diptychs and triptychs should be uploaded as a single image.

Sitar Arts Center invites artists to submit original artwork for the 16th Annual Patricia Sitar Juried Exhibition: “Belonging.”

At people's core, all long to belong—to feel connected, understood, and accepted. “Belonging” explores the places, people, and moments that make them feel rooted, and the journeys people take to find them. It invites reflection on identity, home, community, and the bold (or quiet) ways people seek to be part of something greater than themselves.

This theme holds space for stories of inclusion and exclusion, of searching and finding, of creating a sense of belonging where it didn’t exist before. Whether fleeting or lifelong, shared or solitary, belonging shapes who people are and how they move through the world.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces the 15th Annual “All Women” Online Art Competition.

There is no theme for this competition, so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration. Both 2D & 3D women artists only, worldwide, are invited to submit their best representational and/or abstract art.

Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply. Farm Studio International Artist Residency is located in a rural community in India. Residents stay and create in a quiet art centre and beautiful environment where they can develop their artwork free from accustomed distractions. Farm Studio residency provides three types of working spaces where artists can explore their art and ideas in the rural Rajasthani environment; at the Farm Studio indoor studios, the outdoor desert and farm environments, and in Andore Village. Collaboration and experimentation is encouraged. Relationships form between the artists coming from different countries and varied social, cultural, and artistic backgrounds. Many exciting exchanges and dialogues among artists take place, including scheduled artist talks, presentations, works in progress showings, etc.

• What does home look, sound, or feel like?


• How do migration, memory, or change shape our sense of home?


• In what ways can home be both sanctuary and limitation?


• Can home exist in language, tradition, or connection rather than place?

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.

NOW Art is actively seeking artists nationwide to design unique and original mural compositions for community-focused programs. These public facing projects are in partnership with corporations. Each mural is delivered as digital compositions or scanned high-resolution traditionally created artwork files. Approved artwork images will be printed on high quality vinyl, enlarged and adhered professionally in site specific locations.

The Artist In Residence Program (AIR) serves K – 5 students in all six Jamestown elementary schools following the school calendar. Residency options include a fall semester and a winter/spring semester, or both. Artists follow a visual arts curriculum structured on basic design elements working with teachers and administrators. Each rotation requires a completed “Unit Plan” which includes lesson plans or goals, supplies needed, and a section for teacher feedback. The resident artist may use the rest of the day and the weekends for personal studio time, including access to the pottery studio and print shop, and teaching classes at the Arts Center.

• Folk & Traditional Art


• Visual Arts (painting, sculpture, photography, tattoo art, digital media, illustration)


• Performing Arts (dance, theatre, music, spoken word)


• Literary Arts (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting)


• Film & Media (filmmaking, directing, digital storytelling)


• Design (graphic design, industrial design, fashion)


• Curatorial & Social Art Practices 

Belgrade Art Studio brings its quirky formula of contemporary art and a warm, homey ambience to the Serbian capital. The studio opened during 2011 in a 19th-century listed building in Belgrade’s historic neighborhood of Dorćol. It provides artists with an environment to take themselves out of their daily routines, find new inspiration, conduct research and create new work. The ability to work uninterrupted for hours, days, weeks in a quiet studio. These are just a few of the reasons why so many world’s visual artists, curators, writers come to Belgrade Art Studio each year. Typically, their artists find they accomplish more in a matter of weeks at Belgrade Art Studio than they can in a year at home. It’s all about the work – art.

The Creative Center in Stöðvarfjörður, established in 2011 within a 2800 m² repurposed former fish factory, marks a transition from its industrial origins to becoming a focal point of culture and innovation in the region. They accept applications throughout the year. To be considered for the Residency, please send them a completed Residency
Application Form, CV and 5-10 recent work samples to [email protected]. If your medium is written then they would ask you to send at least one excerpt from a recent work.

They are offering month-long residencies at The Hide Artist Retreat, nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds. Surrounded by rolling hills, wild woodlands, and protected common lands, the retreat is just a stone's throw from the idyllic Cotswold town of Nailsworth. This unique opportunity provides a one-month, self-led residency for creatives of any discipline, whether they are based locally, nationally, or internationally. The Live/Work studio offers a private, fully contained, versatile workspace designed to provide uninterrupted time for focusing solely on your practice in a peaceful and inspiring location.

The Black Artists Grant (BAG) is a no-strings-attached financial support initiative by Creative Debuts aimed at assisting Black artists in the UK. Recognizing the systemic under-support of Black artists within the art world, this grant provides recipients with £500 to use as they see fit, whether for artistic development or personal needs. The grant is awarded monthly, with recipients selected from ongoing applications. There is no age limit, and the grant does not require any specific outcomes or reporting.

The Mentorship Residency Program at Indigo Arts Alliance in Portland, Maine, brings together artists from diverse backgrounds of the African Diaspora to engage in their creative processes while building lasting relationships rooted in co-mentorship. The program pairs a National or International artist with a Local/Regional artist to foster rich conversations, collaborations, and exchanges of experiences, knowledge, and technical skills. Artists are encouraged to work independently but are expected to dedicate 8–10 hours weekly to joint activities, including community engagement and collaborative projects. The residency provides 24-hour access to a flexible 3,000-square-foot community studio equipped for various disciplines. Visiting Artists are provided with private housing within walking distance of the studio.

Breck Create’s Artist-in-Residence program offers artists across all disciplines the opportunity to focus on their creative process while engaging meaningfully with the local community. Residencies span 2 to 4 months, during which artists reside in a live/work studio within the Breckenridge Arts District, an intimate campus of historic structures nestled under majestic snow-capped peaks in cozy downtown Breckenridge. During the school year, artists serve as guest instructors in Summit County schools, providing support and supplemental curriculum to teachers. In the summertime, artists identify and collaborate with a community partner or organization on educational programs. Artists are expected to facilitate two weekly open studios on campus, instruct weekly lessons in schools and on campus, participate in on-campus public events, and collaborate with a community partner. Priority is given to artists with teaching experience.

Price Sculpture Forest in Coupeville, Washington, invites sculptors to exhibit their work in a natural forest setting. The park features two themed trails: "Nature Nurtured," showcasing sculptures inspired by natural elements, and "Whimsy Way," highlighting playful and imaginative pieces. Sculptures should be durable for year-round outdoor display.

Apapacho is PROArtes México’s arts residency and studio space in the heart of Mexico City. This international program of art-based residencies has been launched to provide space and time for artists, curators, art historians, etc, to research and network in one of the most historically and culturally profound cities in the world. As an artist founded and operated space, we strive to provide an increasingly diverse group of guests an affordable international arts residency experience. As the name ‘Apapacho’ reflects, our interest is in developing a thoughtful and caring interaction unique to each resident’s curiosities, needs, and area of focus. Programming consists of invited residencies, partially scholarship-funded residencies, and self-developed residencies lasting 5–28 days. Residency fee applies

Olepangi Farm allows artists to luxuriate in the sound of hyena at night and in the long views, to reflect on the objects of art from our travels and to linger over meaningful conversations. Over the years, their lodge has drawn amazing artists who have brought their imagination and creativity to this little paradise. The Olepangi Artist-in-Residence Programme is designed to create a space where people and communities come together to share and learn; and for the artist, to create an exceptional experience for those seeking the time and mental space to investigate new ideas and deepen artistic inquiry. They are open to thinkers and creatives and will consider anyone with deep interest and already well-developed skill in visual arts, writing, culinary arts, composers, musicians, scholars, filmmakers, architects and more.