Creative Catalyst Fellowship 2027 (up to $30,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Creative Catalyst Fellowship 2027. The Creative Catalyst Fellowship helps particular person artists creating work centered on Belonging: a way of neighborhood, home, company, and the important proper for our communities to flourish.

Belonging is a counterweight to racism and violence and might advance a imaginative and prescient for the inclusion and recognition of the methods Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities have formed and contributed to this nation. Art speaks to us, feels our ache, paints our desires, and opens our minds in profound new methods. It has a method of breaking by. The objective is to give impartial artists the sources and freedom to do their artwork, in a method that additionally lets us put that artwork to work on this planet.

Benefits

• Up to eight artists will every obtain $30,000 to produce work with the potential to break by to broader audiences and spark dialog round this yr’s theme: Belonging.

Eligibility

• They are searching for artist-led work that connects with AAPI communities: initiatives grounded in life experiences, formed by cultural views, and constructed to break by to new audiences. They are drawn to work that’s transportable and reproducible.
• Applicants have to be 18 or older.
• There is not any U.S. citizenship requirement. However, chosen Fellows should submit both a W-9 (for U.S. residents or resident aliens) or a W-8BEN (for candidates exterior the United States).
• They fund:
  • Visual artwork (printmaking, illustration, pictures, modular installations)
  • Digital and media-primarily based work (brief-type video, audio storytelling)
  • Written and narrative kinds (poetry, zines, narratives)
  • Hybrid or interdisciplinary work constructed for public engagement
• They are unable to fund characteristic-size movie, totally staged theater, dance works, neighborhood occasions requiring prolonged rehearsal infrastructure, or initiatives depending on giant-scale or mounted bodily installations. If your follow touches these areas, they’re nonetheless ; present how the work might be tailored into one thing concise and shareable.

Application

The deadline to apply is Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 11:59 pm PT. 

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Creative Catalyst Fellowship.