Artist Opportunities You Don’t Want to Miss This Week
- Art Dealer Street
- Nov 30, 2025
- 3 min read
This week’s selection brings together four opportunities that can support very different kinds of practices: small-but-mighty funding, long-term community work in New York, an international children-friendly exhibition in Korea, and a tailored research residency across the United States.
From a $1,800 grant for visual artists and photographers to a two-year, well-funded social practice residency, plus an open call for hopeful, future-facing work at CICA Museum and Villa Albertine’s research-focused residencies in cities across the U.S., there’s space here for both experimental and established artists.
Check the eligibility criteria carefully (especially location and partner requirements), note the approaching deadlines in December 2025 and January 2026, and decide which opportunity actually fits your work and your life right now. One thoughtful application could open up your next phase.
Read through and find the opportunity that aligns with your vision, scale, and current direction.
1. Innovate Grant for Art + Photo (Fall 2025) Location: International
Application Deadline: December 11, 2025
Innovate Grant returns this quarter with newly increased awards: two artists—one visual artist and one photographer—will each receive $1,800, plus 12 honorable mentions featured on their website. This international grant supports painters, photographers, sculptors, filmmakers, mixed-media artists, installation artists, and more. The application process is intentionally simple so artists can focus on what matters most: the work itself.
Artists 18+ from anywhere in the world are welcome to apply. Winners receive feature profiles, interviews, and ongoing promotional support, including social media visibility to Innovate Grant’s audience of 73,000+.
2. The Laundromat Project — Create Change 2026
Location: New York City
Application Deadline: December 15, 2025
The Laundromat Project invites NYC-based artists, activists, cultural workers, organizers, and storytellers to apply for its 2026 Create Change programs—an influential platform for artists committed to social practice and community engagement.
This milestone edition, themed “Resonant Futures: Time as Echo, Memory, and Motion,” includes three tracks:
– The Create Change Fellowship (six-month incubator)
– The Create Change Residency (two-year artist-in-residence program)
– The Bed-Stuy Residency (for artists connected to Bedford-Stuyvesant)
Selected artists receive stipends ranging from $1,500 to $40,000, production budgets, mentorship, workshops, and embedded community partnerships. This program is ideal for artists whose work engages social issues, cultural memory, and collaborative processes.
3. CICA Museum – “Possibilities” Exhibition
Location: CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Application Deadline: December 8, 2025
CICA Museum invites artists worldwide to submit work for “Possibilities,” an international exhibition focused on children-friendly art that explores hope, possibility, and the future. Accepted media include painting, drawing, print, sculpture, installation, photography, 2D digital art, video, and interactive art.
Selected photography and 2D digital works are printed and framed by the museum (standard sizes, with optional larger formats for an additional fee). Video and interactive works are presented with museum-provided projectors and players, while painting, sculpture, and installations must be shipped and insured by the artist. Physical works must meet specific size and weight limits.
4. Villa Albertine 2027 Residencies
Location: Cities and regions across the United States
Application Deadline: January 29, 2026
Villa Albertine offers 1–3 month exploratory residencies across the U.S. for artists, researchers, and cultural professionals working in a wide range of disciplines—from visual arts, performance, and literature to digital creation, games, and podcasts. These are research-focused residencies, not production grants: the emphasis is on fieldwork, encounters, and critical thinking tied to a specific U.S. territory.
Villa Albertine covers international and domestic travel, accommodation, insurance, and a daily living allowance (for example, around $100/day in Washington, D.C.). Applicants must propose a project that clearly needs an immersive stay in the U.S., show a relevant professional track record, be fluent in English, and secure the support of a French partner organization based in France.
These four calls offer very different forms of support: a flexible cash grant, a deep dive into community-based practice in NYC, a themed international exhibition centered on hope and the future, and a fully supported research residency in the U.S.
As you review them, pay attention to three things: eligibility (location, age, partner requirements), timeline (deadlines in early–mid December 2025 and late January 2026), and fit with your current practice. If one of these aligns with what you’re already exploring in your work, it’s worth taking the time to craft a focused, clear application.
Use this week to shortlist what makes sense for you, gather your best images and texts, and send your work out.
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