**In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital expands its support of individual artists with the 2026 Open Call for the Creative Capital Award and the launch of the new State of the Art Prize.** 

**The Creative Capital Award** provides individual artists with unrestricted project grants for the creation of bold, innovative, original, and imaginative new artistic works. In addition to unrestricted project grants from $15,000 up to $50,000, the Award offers transformative professional development support including strategic advising, peer mentorship, industry connections, and community-building opportunities. Grants are awarded via a national, democratic, open call, external review process.

  
**The Creative Capital Award seeks project proposals in the following disciplines:**

* **Visual Arts**: architecture & design, craft, drawing & illustration, ecological art, installation, painting & printmaking, performance art, photography, public art, sculpture, social practice, sound art, video art, technology, and socially-engaged visual art
* **Performing Arts**: dance, jazz, multimedia performance, music, musical theater, opera, theater, playwriting, technology, and socially-engaged performing arts
* **Film:** animation, documentary film, experimental film, and narrative film
* **Literature**: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry

  

Unrestricted project grants from $15,000 up to $50,000

  
The Award also offers transformative professional development support including strategic advising, peer mentorship, industry connections, and community-building opportunities. 

The Creative Capital Award 2026

Exhibitions bring art, culture, and scientific findings closer to the public, provide new perspectives and better understanding, and serve both educational and entertaining purposes. In times of multimedia oversupply, it is a major challenge to offer outstanding experiences or convey complex content in a way that arouses audience enthusiasm.

  
The 2025 Special Prize is intended to honor exhibition designs that address different sections of the population in an innovative, contemporary and, if possible, barrier-free way, while offering visitors new perspectives on the environment and society through impressive sensory experiences.

  
Individuals or initiatives (associations, offices, studios, etc.) that develop, design or convey the content of temporary or permanent exhibitions in or near Lower Austria can apply for the 2025 Special Prize for Exhibition Design.

  
Documentation in digital form that is suitable for presenting the award-winning project comprehensively and comprehensibly (descriptions, photos, videos, websites, etc.) as well as a biography must be submitted.

The Lower Austrian Cultural Prizes have been awarded since 1960 and are enshrined in the Lower Austrian Cultural Promotion Act. **Two recognition prizes of €6,000 each and one appreciation prize of €13,000 are awarded for each category**.

  
The recognition award is intended to support artists and cultural workers who have already achieved professional recognition for their work. The award can be submitted by an individual or a group of people (e.g., an association).

  
The award is intended to honor the complete work of an artist or group of people of national importance.

kulturpreis Appreciation Prize '25

**: what is bildingship?**

„bildingship“ is a working fellowship for young artists, to use bilding as space for their own artistic work as well as actively engaging in the regular workshop programme for the duration of half a year (prolongation to one year is possible), including part-time employment (maximum income Euro 450,– per month). The aim is to convey the concept and working methods of bilding to the artists, while at the same time, imparting artistic processes directly to the children and adolescent based on the artists on-site work, to establish mutual ties and to promote and expand international discourse in the f ield of art and cultural mediation with young people, based on the practical experiences gained at bilding.

  
**: why bildingship?**

„bildingship“ is intended to expand the artistic spectrum offered in the continuous programme. For bilding, young artists represent an important and complementary link to the children and young adults. For many young creatives, they facilitate a natural close relationship, which dismantles potential barriers in the professional exchange and provides a basis for an ideal working atmosphere. During the „bildingship“, the artist is given the opportunity to present his/her own work in an exhibition on site. This allows an expansion of the artists own range of activity, as well as offering the young bilding creatives an opportunity for gaining first-hand exhibition experience. “bildingship” is intended to get the artist acquainted with the regional artistic and cultural scene while facilitating contacts to local artists. The aim is the use of bilding as a studio on the one hand, and an opportunity for artistic exchange with young people and local artists on the other.

  
**Duration of residency:** The „bildingship“ is projected for the span of around one semester and can be prolonged for another semester. Period: July 2025 – February 2026.

**Free accommodation in Innsbruck.**

Part-time employment for approx. 10 h/w (500 € per month).

For his/her own work the artist will have unrestricted access to the bilding workshop as well as the ample outdoor spaces. 

On-site materials and workshop equipment are also available.

bildingship – call for submissions

What are the innovative forms, ideas, and themes happening right now in artistic creation in the Midwest? The **South Bend Museum of Art’s** **_Biennial 33_** will present contemporary artwork in all media. Selected artists are asked to exhibit a body of work, or other presentation modality (site specific installation, projection reel, performance etc.), that gives a comprehensive look into their creative studio practice. 

  
**EXHIBITION DATES: September 27 - December 28, 2025**

  
**Timeline:**

**September 5, 2025:** Deadline for the delivery of shipped work

**September 5 - 21, 2025:** Hand delivery of work and installation

**Saturday, September 27, 2025:** Exhibition opens

**Friday, October 3, 5:00–8:00 p.m. EST:** Artists reception

**Sunday, December 28, 2024:** Exhibition closes

**Monday, January 5 - 16, 2026:** Pick-up of work 

$1,500 in awards will be selected by the juror and $1,500 in purchase awards will be chosen by the South Bend Museum of Art’s Collections Committee.

  
Participation in **South Bend Museum of Art’s** **_Biennial 33_** 

Biennial 33

**The Pence Gallery announces that its Emerging Artist Award 2025 is now open!**

This award supports the creation of new work by emerging artists in California and the opportunity to share that work through an exhibit and an artist talk in January to February 2026\. Artists must use the award of $4000 to further their work in a significant direction and may work in any medium, except for video or sound art.

Pence Gallery Emerging Artist Award 2025

**The National Gallery of Canada’s General Idea Fellowship encourages and supports advanced research in contemporary art.** 

Research will relate to any aspect of contemporary art, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, artist’s books and multiples, video, installation and other media, and emphasize the use and investigation of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, including the Art Metropole Collection, the General Idea fonds, the AA Bronson collection, and related materials in the Gallery’s collections.

Each award is limited to a maximum of $15,000, including expenses and/or a stipend. 

General Idea Fellowship

**Contemporary- Call for Artists:** Showcase your work in a prestigious landmark location in Central London 

  
Have you ever questioned whether your art is good enough? You’re not alone- every artist does. This exhibition challenges that doubt, proving that all styles and expressions have the potential to be powerful.

  
Join the conversation. 

  
Full details Here: 

https://boomergallery.net/contemporary-call-for-artists

Application is free, but a £189 fee (including VAT) applies for each selected artist. This fee covers an extensive suite of benefits

Contemporary- Call For Artists 

Calling all artists worldwide!

  
GlogauAIR’s Online Program is OPEN for applications to participate in the next April – June 2025 online residency.

We’re thrilled to invite creators from diverse backgrounds and artistic disciplines to join our community.

  
Why choose GlogauAIR?

What we offer:

& International community

& Professional evaluation

\# Enriching program

& Work from home or your studio

GlogauAIR provides:

o Catalogue feature (printed and digital)

o Virtual Open Studios

o Networking opportunities

  
DEADLINE 06.04.2025

Find more information and the application form at the link in our bio

NEW GlogauAIR On-Line Residency Q2 2025 Open Call

The Art Eco-Conception Prize was born from the desire of the Art of Change 21 association to **raise awareness among the French artistic scene of environmental and climate issues** , to support it in its ecological transition and to enable it **to anticipate the major changes to come**.

  
Organised **in partnership with the Palais de Tokyo and supported by the Ministry of Culture and ADEME**, the Prize has already supported 24 winning artists in 2023 and 2024\. **100% of the winners** in 2024 were satisfied with the support and declared that it would develop their practice. 

  
**The significant** and **growing** number of applications received, 278 in 2023 and 356 in 2024, demonstrates the importance of such an initiative and **the growing expectations** of artists in terms of **environmental responsibility** . 

  
The Art Eco-Design Prize is part of a **long-term action program** by the Art of Change 21 association for an ecological transition of the cultural sector, including the creation of an online resource center accessible to all, regional support, the publication of a guide in partnership with ADEME and eco-designed artistic programs.

Each year, the Prix Art Éco-Conception **rewards and supports 12 contemporary artists in reducing their environmental impact** , with a three-day tailor-made support program at the Palais de Tokyo, provided by environmental, carbon, and eco-design experts specializing in art, as well as by artists already engaged in an environmental approach. Each winner also receives a **€1,000** bonus at the end of their support.

2025 ECO-DESIGN ART PRIZE

Applications are open for Fluid Earth, the title of GroundWork Gallery’s fifth annual artist residency and exhibition programme for 2025\. It builds on our track-record of environmental art residencies which have taken a strongly inter-disciplinary approach. We welcome broad and imaginative approaches to the subject.

  
**Extractivism: the overarching theme**

The overall concept for the residency up till now has been about extraction and extractivism: the removal of resources from the earth, whether natural or otherwise.

  
Extractivism describes an overarching attitude which legitimises removal as a default, as opposed to replenishing resources or thinking in terms of regeneration. This is often accompanied by an assumption that extraction is a permissible exercise without full consideration of the longer-term implications for sustainability, for pollution, or of ownership of the materials or environments affected.

  
The artists in residence have to date taken rigorous perspectives. They have been drawing attention to overconsumption and using resources with enormous sensitivity. They have highlighted little-known practices and properties of materials, minimizing or making effective use of waste products. Results of their work can be seen in the exhibition pages since 2020, the more recent ones being The Ground Beneath Our Feet, 2023 and Ground Up, 2024\. Ground Water is also part of that theme.

For all chosen artists the residency includes a research week based in King’s Lynn, followed by 10 days production residency based at 1 of the 3 participating sites. The emphasis of this second phase will differ, depending on location.

There are 3 residency locations: The GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn; The Grange Projects, Great Cressingham and Broomhill, Reepham.

  
Alongside the residency period from 4 August to 10 September there will be an exhibition in the gallery Ground Water, featuring artists from the 2024 residency. It is followed by the Fluid Earth exhibition from 4 October to 13 December, for which each resident artist will be considered.

GroundWork Residency 2025: Fluid Earth

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