THE OCP

A historical record of open calls, residencies, and grants that have closed. These opportunities are no longer accepting applications, browse live calls for current opportunities.

All Photography Sculpture Painting New Media Performance Art Theatre Dance and Circus Film and Video Art Ceramics Music and Audio Writing Other

Tulipán Art & Culture Award

Tulipán FoundationClosed May 2026

PaintingSculpturePhotography

Art and Shamanism: The Mask and the Shamanic costume

Associazione LaimaClosed May 2026

Performance ArtSculpturePainting

Braziers International Film Festival

Braziers International Film FestivalClosed May 2026

Film and Video ArtPerformance Art

ArtPrize 2026 Artist Seed Grant

Page 7 of 28

← Previous Next →

ArtPrize

Closed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Early Career Artist Residency Program

Lanesboro ArtsClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Festival OPEN CALL 2026

Outburst Queer Arts FestivalClosed May 2026

Performance ArtFilm and Video ArtWriting

Digital Presence Lab for Performing Artists

NIPAIClosed May 2026

Performance ArtTheatreDance and Circus

Open Call “Women.Life.Climate”

Group Global 3000Closed May 2026

SculpturePaintingPhotography

Musical Theatre Dancers Intensive 2027

Banff Centre for Arts and CreativityClosed Aug 2026

Performance ArtTheatre

HUGE Gallery Montreal, Canada 2026

HUGE GalleryClosed May 2026

PhotographyDance and CircusSculpture

2026-27 Artist Residency Programme

artsdepotClosed May 2026

Performance ArtTheatreDance and Circus

Burnt Orange Theatre MASTERCLASS 2026

Burnt Orange TheatreClosed May 2026

TheatrePerformance Art

Collaboration and Innovation Grant

Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and HumanitiesClosed May 2026

Performance ArtWriting

A New Tradition for Heywood Commission

Culture Co-opClosed May 2026

Performance ArtSculpture

Newcastle Puppetry Festival Artist Call Out

Moving Parts ArtsClosed May 2026

Performance ArtFilm and Video Art

Capsules 2026 Call for Projects

LAWClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

State of the ART(ist) – Cultural Diplomacy and the Freedom of Art

Ars Electronica and the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International AffairsClosed May 2026

New MediaPerformance ArtWriting

Declarations of Incongruence

FourteenfifteenClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Manifest Gallery: VELVET Open Call

Manifest GalleryClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Lumen Prize 2026

Lumen Prize FoundationClosed May 2026

New MediaPerformance ArtFilm and Video Art

200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Ephemeral ArteryClosed May 2026

Performance ArtDance and Circus

VAA OpenSpaces - Global Artist Call

Visual Artists AssociationClosed May 2026

PaintingSculptureNew Media

MindAIness - Out of Mind: Presence, Flesh, and the Posthuman Condition

BcmAClosed May 2026

Performance ArtTheatreNew Media

Open Call 2027

VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art and Carlow Arts OfficeClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Open Call: Designers in Residence Kortrijk 2026 - MUTATION

Designregio Kortrijk and NERDLABClosed May 2026

New MediaPerformance ArtSculpture

The Nicholson Project's Artist Residency Program 2026 Application

The Nicholson ProjectClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Artistic Production Grant Program

VIA Art FundClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

2027 Residency Programs

The Nicholson ProjectClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Sleeping Beauties: 2026 Open Call

EUNICClosed May 2026

New MediaPerformance ArtFilm and Video Art

Open Call - Sleeping Beauties

British Council RomaniaClosed May 2026

Performance ArtFilm and Video ArtSculpture

SAW 2027 Open Call

National Arts CouncilClosed May 2026

PaintingSculpturePerformance Art

ID Bursary Awards 2026

Independent DanceClosed May 2026

Performance ArtTheatreDance and Circus

ESC 2036: 0—1 Open Call

0—1 GalleryClosed May 2026

New MediaPaintingSculpture

Open Call for Artist

Arts to Hearts ProjectClosed Jun 2025

PhotographySculpturePainting

Art and Politics online exhibition

Site:Brooklyn GalleryClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Open Call for Dancers: Mind & Heart Art Residency

Vilija ArtClosed May 2026

Performance ArtDance and Circus

Becoming an Octopus – Pragovka Summer School

Pragovka GalleryClosed May 2026

New MediaPerformance Art

Barcelona Summer Residency 2026

R.A.R.O. BarcelonaClosed May 2026

PaintingPerformance ArtFilm and Video Art

Rivers of Democracy 2026

European AlternativesClosed May 2026

Performance ArtWritingSculpture

Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship at Girton College

Cavendish Arts ScienceClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo Workshop

Forum Dança and Associação ParasitaClosed May 2026

Performance Art

Play As We Are: A Symposium of Somatic Sound Practices

Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)Closed May 2026

Music and AudioPerformance Art

PASS (Performing Arts Salon Saturdays) Residency Program – Annual Open Call

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical GardenClosed May 2026

Dance and CircusMusic and AudioTheatre

CILT’s Canvas: Envisioning Our Values

Centre for Independent Living in Toronto (CILT)Closed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Eco-Witchery Themed Residency

Argo ArtsClosed May 2026

PaintingPerformance ArtMusic and Audio

Peyton Evans Artist Residencies

The Studios of Key WestClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

2nd Annual Symposium: Existing Otherwise - Open Call

The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) in collaboration with Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality Forum (BiGS)Closed May 2026

Performance ArtFilm and Video ArtWriting

Migration in Changing Climates: A PLAYA + PRAx + Spring Creek Project Fellowship

PLAYA, PRAx and Spring Creek ProjectClosed May 2026

WritingPhotographyPainting