Visual Arts & Design

The Logan Nonfiction Program is a hybrid fellowship for nonfiction writers, documentary filmmakers, photojournalists, podcasters and multimedia creators. The fellowship combines virtual and in-person programming in two classes per year of 10-12 fellows per class. Provisional dates for the coming year are 2 April - 11 June 2022 and 16 July – 24 September 2022.

The Romanian Association of Contemporary Art (ARAC) is offering a six-week residency opportunity for a curator to explore the art-scene in Bucharest and Romania at large. The curatorial residency will take place December 2021 – January 2022.

Academy in Exile is offering three residencies of three months each for a filmmaker/videographer, sound artist, and visual artist to work on the theme of ‘Fixing What’s Broken’. The programme is open to cultural producers who advocate on behalf of human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of free expression and/or who have been displaced because of their professional work. Fellowships may start as early as December 2021.

The Mattress Factory is an artist-centred museum, international residency programme, and renowned producer of installation art located in Pittsburgh. They have now opened an international open call for artist residencies and solo exhibitions. Over an 18 to 24 month period, artists are invited to work closely with the Mattress Factory to develop and plan a project, typically working on-site for a 6 to 8 week period to install a site-specific installation inside the Museum.

FLAD/AiR 351 grants are targeted at US-based / American artists and curators and will cover a 4 month residency during 2022 (exact dates to be settled between AiR 351 and applicant) in Cascais, Lisbon region, Portugal. United States based visual artists and curators at any stage of practice are invited to apply.

In From the Margins is a European cooperation project between Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland; Cork Printmakers, Ireland; Funen Printmaking Studio, Odense, Denmark; International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and AGA Lab, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Amant’s Studio & Research Residency enables practitioners to pursue their individual artistic goals while also being closely integrated into the organisation’s wider community programming during a three-month stay in New York City. The residency welcomes applications from around the world from both emerging artists and from artists with professional standing in their field.

The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organisation committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace. The Aftermath Project holds a yearly grant competition open to working photographers worldwide covering the aftermath of conflict. For 2022, the focus of the grant is ‘1492/1619 American Aftermaths’.

In the framework of the EU-funded project EU4Dialogue, Goethe-Institut Georgia invites photographers working on social issues to take part in a one-week residency in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Aichi University of the Arts’ residency programme focuses on Fine Arts (painting, sculpture, installation, print making, design, photography, film, etc.) and is open to individuals and groups. Residencies can last between 30-100 days and take place during the period from 1 June 2022 – 16 December 2022.

Now into its second year, the Comic Art Europe project is preparing to launch a second call for ‘comics’ projects. The theme this year is ‘Living together’. Five projects will be selected and awarded a grant and a two-week residency in one of the four partner cities of the project (Lyon in France, Brussels in Belgium, Barcelona in Spain and Kendal in England).

For this special edition of AARP - ASEAN Artists Residency Programme, the ASEAN Secretariat will partner with Maybank Foundation and Sharjah Art Foundation to support two artists to take part in a residency in Sharjah during EXPO 2020 Dubai in January 2022. Applicants must be based in and hold nationality from an ASEAN nation: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.