ARTIST RESOURCES

Resources & Opportunities for artists from throughout the contemporary art field.

Transformer is committed to connecting artists with information on resources and opportunities to support them.

On a rolling basis, we share helpful artist listings and links from colleagues throughout the contemporary art field. Please check back on our website & Instagram regularly for these updates.

List Updated: October 29, 2024


The Morgan Conservatory Artist in Residence Program | Cleveland, Ohio

  • This residency offers emerging and established artists from around the world who work with papermaking, book arts, and printing to explore focused projects. As a working studio, gallery, gathering place for the community, educational hub, and purveyor of some of the finest handmade papers in the world, the Morgan offers residents a variety of ways to grow their practice and build strong connections with the community.

  • Deadline: October 31, 2024

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

  • This fellowship supports thirty New Americans— immigrants or the children of immigrants—who are pursuing graduate or professional school in the U.S. Each Fellowship supports one to two years of graduate study in any field and in any advanced degree-granting program in the U.S. up to a total of $90,000.

  • Deadline: October 31, 2024

apexart 2024–25 NYC Open Call

  • Creative people who have interesting exhibition ideas, trained and student curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals, regardless of experience level, background, or location can submit a 500-word proposal to present an original group exhibition at apexart’s NYC space.

  • Deadline: October 31, 2024

Blah Blah Gallery Open Call | Washington D.C.*

  • Blah Blah Gallery announces a call for artworks for their 2025 Juried Exhibition, open to emerging and mid-career women and non-binary artists working in any medium. This group exhibition will be curated by Blah Blah Director Megan Galardi, and will take place in January 2025.

  • Deadline: November 1, 2024

Field Projects Winter Open Call | New York, NY

  • Field Projects announces WINTER 2024 Open Call! Emerging and mid-career artists are invited to submit their work for consideration in our group exhibition. All submissions will be considered for the Exhibition and the accompanying Online Exhibition. Simultaneously, Field Projects Panel will be considering the submissions for future Solo Shows, Art Fairs, Group Shows, Off-site Exhibitions, feature on our social media and our studio visit program (NY Artists). 

  • Deadline: November 2, 2024

Artistic Production Grant

  • VIA Art Fund is accepting letters of inquiry (LOIs) for their Artist Production grant program. The grant awards individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions $25,000-100,000 in support of new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments. Project must have a confirmed exhibition venue.

  • Deadline: November 4, 2024

Right to Write Award

  • The Right to Write Award covers full tuition for Monthly Mentorship, a celebrated 7-month program helping authors integrate writing into their lives in sustainable ways, deepen their craft, and become their own best editors—for life. Through Monthly Mentorship, writers experience support, community, and challenge, while bringing projects to completion.

  • Deadline: November 12, 2024

Tendrils Journal  Call for Submissions

  • Tendrils (a new art and literature journal focused on trauma) is seeking submissions of visual art and short-form literature for its premiere issue. The first edition of Tendrils will explore the profound theme of trauma and the body—how it’s held, manifested, and transmitted in physical form. They invite creators to interpret this theme in their unique way, whether conceptually in abstraction, or more realistically.

  • Deadline: November 18, 2024

LSU SciArts New Play Festival 

  • LSU is accepting submissions for original plays that explore the intersection of science and art. They are seeking innovative stories where science plays a central role in the narrative. Selected playwrights will have the opportunity to workshop their plays, receive a $500 reward, and travel to Baton Rouge for our festival, which will take place from April 13-15, 2025.

  • Deadline: November 22, 2024

100 Voices of Florida

  • 100 Voices of Florida offers an unrestricted fund for Floridian-based filmmakers and screenwriters with completed scripts for short films of any genre to promote and encourage storytellers to keep creating. There will be one winner for every 100 submissions.

  • Deadline: November 24, 2024

Rauschenberg Emergency Grants

  • These grants of up to $5,000 support direct treatment expenses that have been incurred, or are needed, for medical, dental or mental health treatment. Artists practicing in the visual arts, film, video, electronic, digital arts, and choreography are eligible.

  • Opens: October 29, 2024

  • Deadline: November 26, 2024

Yale Call for Art Recognizing Enslavement 

  • Yale’s Committee for Art Recognizing Enslavement (CARE) is seeking artists with experience in public art, socially engaged art, or participatory art to create artistic interventions, permanent and ephemeral, and related programming in New Haven to address Yale’s historical roles and associations with slavery and the slave trade as well as the legacy of that history.

  • Deadline: November 30, 2024

Alterwork Residency | Long Island City, NY

  • This residency allows emerging contemporary artists time and space to create new work exploring their practice. The residency culminates in a solo closing reception that is promoted across an extensive network. Proposals should have a contemporary art focus showing experimentation and career reach for the artist. The program is especially interested in projects that involve conc

  • eptual art, practice or theory, or involve the public in their creative process.

  • Deadline: Rolling

ART14 Residency | Patton, Pennsylvania

  • During their stay, artists’ objectives are self-prescribed. The program welcomes all types of artists, writers, musicians, etc. of all skill levels, welcomes creators to explore new media and techniques, and encourages collaboration but does not require it. Residents are encouraged to explore and engage with the local community. 

  • Deadline: Rolling

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

  • The Foundation welcomes applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses, and amounts range up to $50,000. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.

  • Deadline: Rolling

Alper Initiative for Washington Art | Washington DC*

  • We accept and review submissions on a rolling basis from Washington, DC, artists of all ages and backgrounds, exploring different mediums. By submitting, your proposal will be added to the AIWA database and available for review by the museum’s director and curator, and to guest curators for potential inclusion in future AIWA exhibitions. 

  • Deadline: Rolling

DC Arts Center Call for Curators | Washington DC*

  • Apply to curate and exhibition at the DC Arts Center, send your resume and cover letter/artist statement to info@dcartscenter.org

  • Deadline: rolling basis, apply now!

DC Arts Center Job Openings | Washington DC*

  • General Manager- reporting to the Executive Director, this is a mission-critical role that supports all organizational efforts, including operations and communications, personnel management, programming, finance, and development.

  • Deadline: rolling basis, apply now!

  • Development Manager- reporting to the Executive Director, this is a mission-critical role that supports all development efforts, including aggressive contributed revenue cultivation, generation, documentation, and application.

  • Deadline: rolling basis, apply now!

Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant

  • The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program provides interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident.

  • The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000; an award of $5,000 is typical.

  • Deadline: Rolling Basis

DC Arts Center Open Call For Artists | Washington DC*

  • The DC Arts Center accepts applications to exhibit in their Main and Nano Galleries on a rolling basis.

  • Deadline: Rolling Basis

MOCA Summer Positions | Arlington, VA*

  • The Museum of Contemporary Art in Arlington is searching to fill four positions in their upcoming summer camp for kids and teens. The season runs from June 17- August 16.

  • The positions available are Summer Education Assistant, Summer Ceramics Education Assistant, Art Instructor, ceramics Instructor.

  • Deadline: rolling basis, apply now!

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants

  • Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is $1,900.

  • Deadline: Rolling basis

The Awesome Foundation

  • The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time. Each fully autonomous chapter supports projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. Projects include initiatives in a wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more. Many awesome projects are novel or experimental, and evoke surprise and delight.

  • Deadline: Rolling

Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund

  • The Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund provides support to creators during times of extraordinary hardship. Current Fund efforts are focused on supporting creators who have been directly impacted by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. If selected, you will receive $10,000 from the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund. 

  • Deadline: Rolling

Awesome Foundation on the Water Grant

  • This grant awards $1,000 per month to a water-focused project that brings creativity, culture, and inclusion to the water or provides a new way of thinking about the water. Applicants can be based anywhere in the world.

  • Deadline: rolling basis

Artist Communities Alliance Job Postings

  • ACA is hiring for a wide variety of positions. Apply ASAP!


SUBMISSIONS

FLATFILE

Along with specific exhibition proposals, artists may submit samples of their work to be considered for inclusion in our FlatFile program - a growing collection of works on paper in a variety of two-dimensional mediums including photography, painting, drawing, and printmaking, approximately 16" x 20" in size and smaller, & priced under $500. 

For more information, please email: submissions@transformerdc.org

 

EXHIBITIONS

With a unique store-front exhibition space at 1404 P Street, NW, Transformer’s Exhibition Series, consisting of six to seven exhibitions per season, encourages artists to be site-responsive, often producing a deeper and more thoughtful exploration of ideas and solutions to the presentation of their work. Exhibitions run five to six weeks and are organized by Transformer staff in conjunction with participating artists, guest curators, and advisors.

Artists are never charged fees for participating in Transformer’s exhibition series nor to have their work considered. We are not a commercial gallery, we do not offer artist representation, and only offer ONE solo exhibition per year - for which we do not accept applications.

For more information, please email: info@transformerdc.org