On this page we provide you with links to grants, open calls, residencies, and other types of support for artists. These lists are not exhaustive but will get you going on pursuing your career as an artist. Have an opportunity or resource to share? Email it to jack@contemporarysa.org.
Grants for artists
- Abaraka Award – For African American Women in visual arts
- The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation – for artists with 20 year career or more
- Artadia – must reside in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, NYC, LA, or San Francisco
- Awesome Foundation
- CEC Artslink
- Clark Hulings Fund
- City of San Antonio Artist Grants
- Creative Capitol
- DMA grants for Texas Artists (there are two grants for young artist 15-25 and under 30, and a travel grant for artists over 30) – Applications usually open around August/September with notification in the Spring
- FCA emergency grants
- First People’s Fund – For Native American artists
- Guggenheim
- Harpo Foundation
- Hopper Prize
- Innovate Grant
- Integrity Arts and Culture
- International Studio & Curatorial Program
- Luminaria Artist Foundation
- Mid-America Arts Alliance
- NALAC -For Latinx artists
- National Endowment for the Arts
- PAAM -for painters over 45
- Pollack Krasner Fund
- Sustainable Arts Foundation
- Women Photograph
Where to find open calls and other opportunities
- AnyArtist
- Call for Entry
- Entry Thingy
- Get Creative San Antonio
- Glasstire
- PublicArtist
- Submittable
- Texas Commission on the Arts
Organizations committed to helping/working with artists & artist resource sites and lists
Some of these organizations award grants you must be nominated for or invited to apply. Some also host classifieds and open call listings amongst the other resources and services they provide.
- Americans For the Arts
- Anonymous was a woman
- Artwork Archive
- The Big Artist Opportunities List – maintained by curator/artist Everest Pipkin
- Center for Parenting Artists
- College Art Association
- Common Field
- Creative Capitol
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts
- Glassell School and Core Program
- GYST
- Hatch Fund
- Joan Mitchell Foundation
- National Council of Art Administrators (for educators)
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- Rebuild Foundation
- Society of Photographic Education
- United States Artists
- Women Arts
Residencies and Fellowships
- The Contemporary’s Berlin Residency Program
- Anderson Ranch
- Artpace – Texas artists can apply via an open call
- Black Rock
- The Doseum Artist-in-residence
- Galveston Artist Residency
- Headlands Center for the Arts
- List of some nontraditional residencies
- The Luminary
- Macdowell Colony
- Mass MoCA
- NXTHVN
- Project Row Houses
- Santa Fe Art Institute
- Skowhegan
- Texas Based Residencies
- Vermont Studio Center
- McNay Art Museum Semmes Foundation Internship in Museum Studies – Paid 12 month annual opportunity
For Students
- Bold.org – art scholarships and more
San Antonio Non-Profit Arts Organizations, Galleries, and Artist Run Spaces
- 1906 Galleries and Studios
- Artpace
- Brick Gallery (upstairs inside Brick)
- The Carver
- Cinnabar Art Gallery
- Clamplight
- Contemporary Art Month
- Flight Gallery
- Freight Gallery, Studios, and Food
- French and Michigan
- Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
- Lawrence Markey
- Luminaria Artist Foundation
- The McNay
- Mercury Project
- Presa House
- Ruby City
- Ruiz-Healy Art
- Sala Diaz / Casa Chuck
- San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum
- San Antonio Ethnic Art Society
- San Antonio Museum of Art
- Southwest School of Art
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition
