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

Unsound SOFT POWER: Discourse Program Open Call

UnsoundClosed May 2026

Writing

Festival OPEN CALL 2026

Outburst Queer Arts FestivalClosed May 2026

Performance ArtFilm and Video ArtWriting

Early Career Writers of Poetry 2026

Banff Centre for Arts and CreativityClosed May 2026

Writing

Early Career Writers of Poetry 2026

Banff Centre for Arts and CreativityClosed May 2026

Writing

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Collaboration and Innovation Grant

Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and HumanitiesClosed May 2026

Performance ArtWriting

SI Leeds Literary Prize

SI Leeds Literary PrizeClosed May 2026

Writing

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

PRISM PRESS : SPRING ISSUE OPEN CALL

Prism PressClosed May 2026

PaintingWritingPhotography

Capsules 2026 Call for Projects

LAWClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Lumen Prize 2026

Lumen Prize FoundationClosed May 2026

New MediaPerformance ArtFilm and Video Art

Call for Artists: Art Meets Word

Laird Art GalleryClosed May 2026

PaintingWritingPhotography

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

BcmAClosed May 2026

Performance ArtTheatreNew Media

Art Meets Word 2026

Laird Art GalleryClosed May 2026

WritingNew MediaPainting

The 2026 Letras Boricuas Fellowship

Flamboyan FoundationClosed May 2026

Writing

The Nicholson Project's Artist Residency Program 2026 Application

The Nicholson ProjectClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

2027 Residency Programs

The Nicholson ProjectClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Artistic Production Grant Program

VIA Art FundClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

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

Glimpses of Transformation: Climate Fiction Contest 2026

SLYCAN Trust and Resilience FrontiersClosed May 2026

Writing

Rivers of Democracy 2026

European AlternativesClosed May 2026

Performance ArtWritingSculpture

Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship at Girton College

Cavendish Arts ScienceClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Open Call for Curious Encounters 5

Earthwise ResidencyClosed May 2026

Performance ArtWritingNew Media

Chevening Overseas Territories in the Atlantic and Caribbean British Library Fellowship

British Library and UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeClosed May 2026

Writing

Peyton Evans Artist Residencies

The Studios of Key WestClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Craft 1o1 2026 Programs

Arts Letters & NumbersClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

CILT’s Canvas: Envisioning Our Values

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

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Unsolicited Press: In Every Generation, An Anthology Open Call

Unsolicited PressClosed May 2026

WritingPhotography

Peyton Evans Artist Residencies (PEAR Program)

The Studios of Key WestClosed May 2026

PaintingSculpturePhotography

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

Eco-Witchery Themed Residency

Argo ArtsClosed May 2026

PaintingPerformance ArtMusic and Audio

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

PLAYA, PRAx and Spring Creek ProjectClosed May 2026

WritingPhotographyPainting

Ragdale Residency Program 2026

RagdaleClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Ragdale 2027 Residency Program

RagdaleClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

2026 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency

Bethany Arts CommunityClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

The Hopper Prize Spring 2026

The Hopper PrizeClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

FACT FICTION: Interdisciplinary Research and Development Programme

New Music Research Institute Amsterdam in collaboration with .abeceda InstituteClosed May 2026

Music and AudioPerformance ArtWriting

2026 Armstrong Now

Louis Armstrong House MuseumClosed May 2026

Music and AudioFilm and Video ArtDance and Circus

The R2 Space - Rele Arts Foundation Residency

Rele Arts FoundationClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Open Call: Lucky Dip 2026/2027

a space artsClosed May 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

2027–2029 Tulsa Artist Fellowship

Tulsa Artist FellowshipClosed May 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Now or Never | Call for Artists

Boomer GalleryClosed May 2026

PaintingSculpturePhotography

Discipline Prize

Cleveland Arts PrizeClosed May 2026

PaintingSculpturePhotography

Fall into Focus residency

Arteles Creative CenterClosed May 2026

PaintingWritingNew Media