Artists Looking for Grants? Here Is Where To Apply

Artist grants are vital to the sustainability of Miami’s thriving cultural community. (Digital collage by Jean Blackwell Font)

In an effort to continually support artists and their work, here is information about open calls with deadlines for artists and resource links to check for available opportunities throughout the year.

Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Community Grants Program

The Community Grants (CG) Program is responsive on a quarterly basis to nonprofit organizations developing small and large-scale community-based cultural (dance, theater, music, visual arts) programs, as well as projects and events, such as fairs, parades, neighborhood festivals and publications that have a strong artistic component.

Application Deadline: Friday, June 20, 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Click on this link for submission guidelines, to apply and view future 2025 grant deadlines  https://miamidadearts.org/community-grants-cg-program

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
Open Call for Digital Art

The museum’s first-of-its-kind program offers financial support to produce experimental digital artwork across South Florida, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora. Selected artists may be awarded between $1,000–$15,000 during an estimated 12-month period, expanding and advancing the museum’s presentation, study, and interpretation of international contemporary digital art.

Application Deadline: Sunday, June 30, 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Proposals must be submitted electronically through PAMM’s application portal https://pamm.slideroom.com/#/login/program/83840
Learn more about the open call, applicant eligibility, evaluation criteria, and how to apply by clicking https://www.pamm.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-EN-GUIDELINES-PAMM-Open-Call-for-Digital-Art-Commissions-Web.pdf

Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund
Knight Foundation

This grant seeks to support artists and arts organizations in Knight communities by equipping them with the tools they need to expand the use of technology in their work and engage audiences in innovative ways. Applicants must demonstrate how their work will utilize technology to increase the impact and reach of their work.

Application Deadline: Friday, June 20, 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Click here for full details and to apply https://kf.submittable.com/submit/326731/2025-knight-art-tech-expansion-fund-akron-detroit-miami?

Interiors and Bridge: Integrated Command and Communications Center at Lightspeed Facility
Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Art in Public Places

Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs through its Art in Public Places Program and Miami-Dade County People & Internal Operations Department request qualifications for artists for a number of public art commissions for the interiors and pedestrian bridge at the new Miami-Dade County Integrated Command and Communications Center at Lightspeed facility. The campus of buildings will serve as a hub for emergency response and disaster management. Open to professional visual artists based in South Florida.

Application Deadline: Sunday, July 21, 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Click here for full details and to apply https://miamidadepublicart.org/app/opportunities/calls-to-artists.page

Call to Artists: Artist-in-Residence Program
Deering Estate

The Deering Estate Artist-in-Residence Program (AIR) supports artists across visual, literary, performing, and cross-disciplinary arts. The program offers opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists willing to explore new bodies of work or practices to create, collaborate, and engage with the Estate’s historic, cultural, and natural environment.

Application Deadline: Saturday, Aug. 31, 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Click here for full details and to apply https://deeringestate.slideroom.com/#/login/program/83844

FilmGate Opportunities

Free for All Festival July 2025
Seeking short films across all genres in the following themes – Films with Subtitles (July), Free-For-All (August), Music Videos (September), Horror (October)
Submission Deadline: Sunday, June 30, 2025
Click here to submit https://filmfreeway.com/FilmGateFestival

FilmGate Fellowship 2025
Florida’s leading artist development program for creators in film, television, interactive, and hybrid media. Fellows receive mentorship from industry professionals, hands-on training and intensive bootcamps, access to FilmGate membership and production insurance during the required shooting period, culminating in a live pitch event to executive producers, financiers and distributors. Two winners will receive film grants to support their productions.
Submission Deadline: Sunday, June 30, 2025
Click here to submit https://filmfreeway.com/FilmGateFestival

Additional Links

A listing of where to check periodically for available grants, resources and application assistance.

Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs: https://miamidadearts.org/

Florida Division of Arts & Culture: dos.fl.gov/cultural/grants/grant-programs/specific-cultural-projects/

Florida Grant Watch: florida.grantwatch.com/cat/2/arts-and-culture-grants.html

Oolite Arts offers studio arts, cinematic arts, live in art and travel residencies:  oolitearts.org/

The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation: https://jmperezfamilyfoundation.org/grant-opportunities/

Green Space Miami: https://greenspacemiami.org/

AIRIE (Artists in Residence in Everglades): https://www.airie.org/

Funding Arts Network: https://fundingartsnetwork.org/home/grants/

Broward County Cultural Division: https://www.broward.org/Arts/Funding/Pages/artistsupport.aspx

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