Artist Opportunities
Internships, Fellowships, Grants, and Residencies
PLEASE NOTE: The opportunities listed below are submitted by external sources and are not affiliated with Arts Mid-Hudson unless explicitly stated otherwise. Please direct any questions or inquiries to the contact provided in the listing.
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+ 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
Deadline to Apply: January 27
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is an $8,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Tribal Nations located therein.
This grant is awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period (five categories a year) and the application is free to complete. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development.
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is provided by Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, Joy of Giving Something, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Lawrence Foundation, and individual donors.
+ Individual Artist Fellowship - Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/individual-artist-fellowship/
+ NEA Grants for Arts Projects (GAP)
Deadline to Apply: February 12, 2026
Description: Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides project-based funding for organizations in the areas of Arts Education, Challenge America, Dance, Design & Our Town, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater & Musical Theater, and Visual and Media Arts. Funded activities may include a wide range of arts projects described in the application guidelines. Awards require a 1:1 cost share.
The NEA strongly encourages applications for arts projects that focus on one or more agency funding priorities.
Eligibility:
Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; Units of state or local government; or Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes.
https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects
+ Statewide Community Regrants Program - Arts Mid-Hudson
Deadline to Apply: Thursday, February 26th, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Arts Mid-Hudson and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) announce the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a funding program with over $170,000 in NYSCA funds to support the arts in Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties. This funding is available to individual artists to create new work in 2026, and to nonprofit organizations, Tribal Nations, individual artists, libraries, and municipalities for arts and cultural activities in 2026.
Eligible projects may include, but are not limited to: exhibits, performances, concerts, festivals, in-school and community workshops, screenings, readings, cultural programming, and the creation of new work. Grant awards are determined by a peer-review panel composed of community members. Please note: this program was previously called the Decentralization Program.
For full details: https://www.artsmidhudson.org/statewide-community-regrants