New Artist Opportunities You Will Love (May 13th - May 19th 2025) + Rough Roadmap For My Collective
Yesterday, I spoke with Wendi Chen—an artist and illustrator who makes her living selling prints at Pike Place Farmers Market in Seattle. It was an insightful interview, and I learned a lot from her experience. I’ll be posting our conversation online before the end of the week. Paid subscribers will also receive a handy cheat sheet summarizing key takeaways from Wendi’s interview.
This week’s list of opportunities is going out a day late—thank you for your patience. Life moves in seasons, and sometimes things shift.
For paid subscribers: at the end of this week’s post, you’ll find a rough outline for a South Asian Feminist Artist Collective, I’m hoping to co-create with others here in Long Island, NY. I’d love to hear your thoughts—enjoy the breakdown, and feel free to send over any questions.
Deadline Mar 13th 2025
The Hopper Prize Artist Grants
The Hopper Prize is accepting entries for their Spring 2025 grants in the amounts of $3,500 and $1,000 for artists and photographers around the world. International Artists are eligible to apply.
Deadline Mar 14th 2025
Sundance Institute Development Track for Screenwriters
The development track has one open application that allows the applicants fiction feature work-in-progress screenplay to be considered for the following programs, fellowships, and grants:
Screenwriters Lab (held annually in January)
Screenwriters Intensive (held annually in March, online)
Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (includes participation in either the Screenwriters Lab or Intensive) and Commissioning Grant
Josephine Sculpture Park 2025-2026 Artist-in-Residence Program
JSP’s Artist-in-Residence program provides artists the career-boosting opportunity to make new work on a large-scale, with the physical space and technical and financial support to succeed.
Lodging stipend of $500/week for up to 10 weeks
Frankfort, KY.
The Bandung Residency, presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), is an opportunity designed to uplift the work of organizers, artists, educators, and waymakers whose practice is intended to foster solidarity between Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Black communities.
NYC-based changemaker, organizer, artist, educator, waymaker or community leader
$3000 Honorarium
Deadline Mar 15th, 2025
Art Omi: Critic/Curator-in-Residence
The Critic/Curator-in-Residence opportunity is open to critics, curators, and art writers who have been professionally active for the past 5 years, as demonstrated in their resumes, websites, blogs, published articles, and/or reviews, and who enjoy being immersed in an artists community.
Travel grant + $1500 Stipend
Upstate NY
The McMillen Artist Community (MAC) Reverse Scholarship Program
The McMillen Artist Community (MAC) Reverse Scholarship Program is designed to award competitive grants to support artistic excellence in the visual arts for artists living and working in Washington State.
Awards up to $25,000
The applicant must have an art degree, make less than 75K a year, and have over 10K in student debt.
Offered since 1954, the James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The award was endowed in 1995 by a gift to the Academy from the Drue Heinz Trust. It is named for the poet and publisher James Laughlin (1914–1997), who founded New Directions in 1936.
The winning poet receives a $5,000 prize, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and the distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize honors the memory of Lenore Marshall (1897-1971), a poet, novelist, essayist, and political activist. She was the author of three novels, three books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and selections from her notebooks.
The prize includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to hundreds of Academy of American Poets members.
$25,000 award
Working Assumptions Project Grants
Six $10,000 grants to support visual storytelling projects that inspire audiences and/or participants to look at family in new ways. Looking to invite proposals that employ photography or photo-based art for journalistic, artistic, therapeutic, educational, and research purposes. Funding is unrestricted, allowing recipients complete creative freedom, provided the project is intended for public consumption and work began before the grant application deadline.
Deadline Mar 16th, 2025
Ceramics Artist-in-Residence 2025-2026
The Umbrella Arts Center, in Concord, MA, seeks applicants for the Ceramics Artist Residency Program. Active ceramic artists and educators looking to join a fully equipped ceramics program with a large and vibrant community are encouraged to apply.
A materials and fee stipend of up to $2000 for the year
Open to U.S.-based ceramic artists
Visual Arts Artist-in-Residence 2025-2026
The application for The Umbrella Arts Center’s 2025-2026 Artist-in-Residence program is now open! Join an active and vibrant multidisciplinary art center with 50 artist studios, an independent ceramics studio and classroom, a fully equipped woodshop, and gallery and performance spaces in the historic center of Concord, MA.
Free access to a studio space of approximately 220 square feet
Open to U.S.-based artists
A Collective in the Making
I'm part of a group of South Asian feminist artists on Long Island, and together we're hoping to grow into a sustainable collective. The idea is beginning to take root—we've been meeting informally and discussing our work. While researching other artist co-ops and collectives for my last two articles, I’ve also been exploring how our group might function in a way that supports us both creatively and financially.
It’s important to me that this collective isn’t just a space for creating art—it’s also a way to build community and support each other financially through direct connections with our audience. I want it to stay grassroots, accessible, and aligned with feminist values, so I’ve been mapping it out step by step.
This is in no way a end all, it is just early sketches put into words.
1. Clarify Our Mission and Vision
First, I’m taking time to clearly define the mission and values of the collective. Because we’re a group of South Asian feminist artists, I want us to be crystal clear about what we stand for—whether that’s empowerment, visibility, solidarity, or all of the above. I’m asking questions like:
What themes run through our work?
How can we amplify South Asian feminist voices?
What values do we want to embody and share?
This will help us not only stay grounded but also communicate clearly to potential collaborators, audiences, and supporters.