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

SaltWater Road Presents: Theatrical Jazz Crossroads

SaltWater Road Performance InstituteClosed Aug 2026

Performance ArtTheatreMusic and Audio

Cripping Culture Community Call Out

Disability Arts OnlineClosed Aug 2026

PhotographyWritingFilm and Video Art

Bold Mud V Open Call

Bold Mellon Collective & Mud Summons RecordsClosed Aug 2026

Music and AudioPerformance ArtWriting

Silicon Valley Artists-in-Residence Program

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Quinn EmanuelClosed Aug 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Disability Justice Project Film and Storytelling Platform

Disability Justice Project

Film and Video ArtWriting

Connections Through Culture 2026

British CouncilClosed Aug 2026

PaintingFilm and Video ArtMusic and Audio

Connections Through Culture 2026

British CouncilClosed Aug 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

5-50 Gallery OPEN CALL 2026

5-50 GalleryClosed Aug 2026

PaintingPhotographySculpture

Writer’s Lab

Soho TheatreClosed Aug 2026

TheatreWriting

ROAR - Rhapsody of August Riot

SWANFALL ARTClosed Aug 2026

PaintingSculptureCeramics

ROAR - Rhapsody of August Riot

SwanfallClosed Aug 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Open Call: zero material

KakilangClosed Aug 2026

New MediaPerformance ArtSculpture

Confluence of myths residency

Goethe-InstitutClosed Aug 2026

WritingCeramicsPerformance Art

2027 Prague Creative Residency for Foreign Writers and Translators

Prague City of LiteratureClosed Aug 2026

Writing

HOW WE HOLD WHAT WON’T STAY

WarblingClosed Aug 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Bristol City Council Culture Fund

Quartet Community FoundationClosed Aug 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Apply to Join the Liberation Studios Founding Studio Cohort

Liberation(n.)(v.) A Collaborative Practice, Gallery and Studios.Closed Aug 2026

PaintingPhotographySculpture

September - October 2027 Murray Gallery

The Galleries at SCCClosed Aug 2026

PaintingPhotographySculpture

ARTIST OPEN CALL: DAISY CHAIN

CorridorClosed Aug 2026

Film and Video ArtPhotographyNew Media

Scholastic Awards Region-at-Large Adjudication Partner Organization Application

Alliance for Young Artists & WritersClosed Aug 2026

PaintingWritingSculpture

Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships

Mid Atlantic Arts / Delaware Division of the ArtsClosed Aug 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Scholastic Awards Region-at-Large Adjudication Partner Organization Application

The Alliance for Young Artists & WritersClosed Aug 2026

PaintingWritingPhotography

Scholastic Awards Region-at-Large Adjudication Partner Organization Application

Alliance for Young Artists & WritersClosed Aug 2026

PaintingWritingSculpture

Art Scene West’s 3rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Art Scene WestClosed Aug 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Literature Grant

Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYCClosed Aug 2026

Writing

Performing Artist-In-Residence Program

Museum of Chinese in AmericaClosed Aug 2026

Performance ArtDance and CircusMusic and Audio

Artist Development Programme for Parents & Carers

Kinfolk FamiliesClosed Aug 2026

Performance ArtPhotographyFilm and Video Art

SOURCE WRITING PRIZE

SourceClosed Aug 2026

Writing

Les Kometa Fellows

KometaClosed Jul 2026

PhotographyWriting

The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships

The Center for FictionClosed Jul 2026

Writing

Fondo Transborder CONVO micro-grant Open Call

Fondo TransborderClosed Jul 2026

New MediaFilm and Video ArtPhotography

TrenAir Residency Program

Trenčín 2026Closed Jul 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Open Call 2026: International Residency Programme – In the meantime nothing happens

Fundacion Camila CanequeClosed Jul 2026

WritingNew MediaFilm and Video Art

Artsin Square Magazine – Issue 11

Artsin SquareClosed Jul 2026

PaintingPhotographySculpture

STIFF 2026. – Open call for artworks

International Student Film Festival – STIFFClosed Jul 2026

Film and Video ArtPerformance ArtNew Media

Anthology Short Story Competition 2026

Anthology MagazineClosed Jul 2026

Writing

Call for Artist in Residence Applications

Amerind MuseumClosed Jul 2026

PaintingSculpturePerformance Art

MusicOn+ InterArts Festival

NextGen InterArts FoundationClosed Jul 2026

PaintingPhotographySculpture

Wiro Mag: Ghosts

Lyndon WatkinsonClosed Jul 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

2026 – Baroque Blue (sept)

Primo Piano Special ProjectsClosed Jul 2026

PaintingSculpturePhotography

Silence Awareness Existence: Thematic Residency Program Winter 2027

Arteles Creative CenterClosed Jul 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Spazio13 Urban Bodies Residency 2026

Spazio13Closed Jul 2026

Performance ArtPhotographyFilm and Video Art

The PJAS 50

Pennsylvania Journal of Arts and SciencesClosed Jul 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

2027 Solo and Group Exhibition Proposals

Rehoboth Art LeagueClosed Jul 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Threads & Feast Open Calls

Et Al Gallery and StudioClosed Jul 2026

PaintingSculpturePhotography

International Artist-in-Residence Program

art quarter budapestClosed Jul 2026

PhotographySculpturePainting

Call for Native and Indigenous Art

Angels Gate Cultural CenterClosed Jul 2026

PaintingPhotographyNew Media

Queer Migrations Art Book 2026

Bold Mellon CollectiveClosed Jul 2026

PhotographyPaintingFilm and Video Art