Guide to the Best Artist Grants and Opportunities in the Southwestern U.S.
The Artwork Archive team set out to find the best art opportunities, artist grants, and calls for entry for visual artists in the Southwestern United States.
Below you will find a list of the top artist residencies, international open calls, artist grants, exhibition opportunities and art competitions that we believe will benefit artists, specifically in the Southwest.
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We will be updating this list throughout the year, so make sure to bookmark the page, check back often, and let us know if there is an opportunity that should be listed!
MORE COMING SOON: Our team is currently hard at work searching for opportunities in this region!
October 15, 2024 43 days left
Baytown Sculpture Trail
Exhibition
- Organization: ACE District dba Baytown Sculpture Trail
- Submission Deadline: October 15, 2024
- Event Dates: April 12, 2025 - March 28, 2026
- Entry Fee: $25 for first two, $18 for next three
- Award Info: $1500 acceptance honorarium: $2000 People's Choice; $1000 Best of Show
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Sculpture
- Location: Harris County, Houston , TX, United States
The Baytown Sculpture Trail is pleased to announce the call for entry for the 2025 exhibition. Our previous public art exhibitions can be found at https://baytownsculpturetrail.org/. This will be our fourth season to produce a year long exhibition of excellent public art for our community and eastern Houston metro area. The exhibition will be installed in early April 2025 and will be on display until March 2026. Each artist’s accepted artwork will receive a $1500 honorarium. Additionally we will have a Best of show award of $1,000 and a People’s Choice Award of $2,000. We will reserve a room for two nights for our accepted artists so they might attend our artist dinner followed by the opening reception event.
November 1, 2024 60 days left
Houston Artadia Awards
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
- Award Info: three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $15,000
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Houston, Texas
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: we consider the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect our country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color.
In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers, such as inclusion in prominent exhibitions (e.g. five Awardees were featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and six in 2019).
Ongoing
Austin Creative Alliance (ACA) Artists Emergency Relief Fund-Deadline ONGOING
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: $1,000
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Cultural sector workers based in Greater Austin facing verifiable and immediate housing, food or healthcare insecurity (including travel, lodging and procedure expenses related to reproductive care) may apply for up to $1000 in unrestricted funds. The funding pool is limited, so applicants are asked to carefully consider the amount they request. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, and are subject to verification and available funds. A short phone interview may be required. Priority will be given to ACA members. Repayment is not required, but artists who receive funding may be asked to support the ACA Community in the future.
DEADLINE IS ONGOING
Ongoing
amshot's exhibITion art show (ONGOING DEADLINE)
Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Three times per year, downtown OKC IT firm amshot hosts an art opening featuring the art work of a local artist. The event benefits a local charitable organization and artists retain 90 percent of their sales.
As a local business, amshot typically focuses on IT services and software development, but our team is also passionate about supporting the local art community. With this in mind, we created exhibITion to promote local artists, give back to our community, and enjoy the company of fellow art-lovers.
Three times per year, we feature a local artist’s work on our office walls, host an art exhibition and sale, invite a local brewery, serve wine and hors d’oeuvres, and donate the proceeds of the event to a charitable organization.
The art show is hosted at amshot’s office in Downtown OKC. Admission to the gallery is free, but those 21+ can donate $5 to the featured charitable organization in exchange for a wristband that will allow them beer from the featured local brewery and wine. Light hors d’oeuvres are also served. All art displayed will be for sale and can be purchased with card or cash. The sold and unsold art will then hang in amshot’s office until the next exhibITion for all to enjoy.
Ongoing
Dual Program, Lab + Tlaxcala3
Residency
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Entry Fee: There is no application fee, however if accepted residency fees may apply. Please see website for further details.
- Award Info: Mentoring from both, The Lab Program & Tlaxcala3 -Individual accommodation -Workspace/Studio -Presentation of processes and public presentation -Digital Zine & Printed Publication (short release 15 prints)
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico
The dual artistic mentoring program run by Tlaxcala 3 + Lab Program, facilitates a partnership to develop critical skills and sensitive tools, where the concept of archive is presented as an opportunity to experiment and reflect on the role of memory in artistic creation.
This dual program aims to unravel the hidden layers of meaning, secrecy, and control often found within institutions, discourses, and social and spatial practices addressed in the conventional notion of archive.
Hierarchies and contradictions presented in texts and discourses, which, through simulation and the modern concept of reality, allow us to question concepts such as authenticity and truth in an era of simultaneous images, signs, multiple temporalities, and spaces. The cost of the residency is $25,000 MXN or 1,700 USD.
Studio Facilities are provided in collaboration with peer self-run art spaces in the city. This is a modality that encourage engagement with the wide and diverse art communities in Mexico City.