Top Art Fellowships 2026
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Deadline
Aug 31, 2026
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Alexander Tutsek Foundation - Artist and Child Stipend
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Sculpture
/
Glass
Duration:
1 year
Theme: Glass
Grant
Eligibility conditions
No students
Resident of
Germany
For artists who are mothers of children over one year old who are not yet of school age
Deadline
Aug 31, 2026
Information
Werkbeiträge der Kantone Ob- und Nidwalden
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Painting /
Drawing /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Performance /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
1 year
Grant
Eligibility conditions
No students
Resident of
Obwalden (CH),
Nidwalden (CH)
Deadline
Aug 31, 2026
Information
Limhelafnlosns ppehw
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Painting /
Drawing /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Performance /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
Grant
Eligibility conditions
Resident of
Australia
Applications are open to final-year students, graduates (within 5 years), and honours students/graduates from Adelaide University or Flinders University.
Deadline
Aug 31, 2026
Information
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Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Painting /
Drawing /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Performance /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
Theme: haleTopw rlFslive
Grant
Eligibility conditions
Resident of
Texas (US)
Applicants must hold a degree in the arts and be a practicing professional with at least 3 solo or group exhibitions in the past 3 years
Deadline
Sep 1, 2026
Information
F o okgrteecl imsmhspharriiaealmkwdjeep
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Sound /
Painting /
Drawing /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
11 months
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Grant
Trainee/research programme in the workshops
Eligibility conditions
Resident of
Netherlands
Deadline
Sep 1, 2026
Information
C rtpsitl-uip ritsna tuooud gnrcaneastrs t
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Painting /
Drawing /
Literature /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Performance /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
1 year
Grant
Eligibility conditions
No students
Resident of
North Carolina (US)
For individual artists and small, unincorporated groups of collaborating artists who have lived in Chatham, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, or Wake County for at least one year
Deadline
Sep 2, 2026
Information
Rrnwsoele ibsnait d- et knp
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Painting /
Drawing /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Performance /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
1 year
Grant
Eligibility conditions
No students
Resident of
Berlin (DE)
Deadline
Sep 3, 2026
Information
Rua sv en-arepatbordesgs
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Sound /
Painting /
Drawing /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Performance /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
Grant
5,000 € for the publisher
Eligibility conditions
Resident of
France
Collaboration between a photographer and an artist.
Deadline
Sep 3, 2026
Information
—gmo negr v aedotnai-roropr
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Painting /
Drawing /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Performance /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
1 year
Grant
Mentorship + Travel stipend 30,000 Dkr + Exhibition
Eligibility conditions
Resident of
Denmark
Applicants must have a primary connection to the Danish art scene and an MA or equivalent from a Danish or international art academy, and have graduated within the last five years (in 2021 or later)
Deadline
Sep 6, 2026
Information
Hwagemoslnt- a pi r dettrhia
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Painting /
Drawing /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
1 year
Grant
Mentorship + Group exhibition at Rosewood London
Eligibility conditions
Resident of
Austria,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Croatia,
Cyprus,
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Estonia,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Hungary,
Ireland,
Italy,
Latvia,
Lithuania,
Luxembourg,
Malta,
Netherlands,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
Spain,
Sweden,
United Kingdom
Works must be for sale, no full gallery representation, and open to graduates or final-year students
Deadline
Sep 7, 2026
Information
A k ltwk osoilh-s rhzrnuprliuc
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Sound /
Painting /
Drawing /
Literature /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Performance /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics
Duration:
5 months
Grant
Eligibility conditions
No students
Resident of
Oberösterreich (AT)
Artists with a connection to Linz (AT)
Deadline
Sep 7, 2026
Information
Nsurpoamerrocotaiolri r neoo-pt irm nteathgmmpn sl irtfau
Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Digital /
Painting /
Drawing /
Photography /
Video /
Printmaking /
Installation /
Performance /
Sculpture /
Textile Art /
Ceramics /
Curatorial
Duration:
4 months
Theme: mnarihestoMrpo remgP
Grant
Mentoring
Eligibility conditions
Resident of
Greater London
For emerging or early-career creative and cultural practitioners of colour based in London
Deadline
Sep 7, 2026
Information
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Genre:
Art Fellowship
Art field:
Literature /
Curatorial
Duration:
1 year
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Grant
Eligibility conditions
No students
Fluency in Spanish is expectable.
Employment is conditional upon the Employee having and maintaining the legal right to work in the UK.
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