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 group, home, company, and the important proper for our communities to flourish.

Belonging is a counterweight to racism and violence and may 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 goals, and opens our minds in profound new methods. It has a approach of breaking by. The objective is to give unbiased artists the sources and freedom to do their artwork, in a approach 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 on the lookout 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 isn’t 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, images, modular installations)
  • Digital and media-primarily based work (quick-kind video, audio storytelling)
  • Written and narrative kinds (poetry, zines, narratives)
  • Hybrid or interdisciplinary work constructed for public engagement
• They are unable to fund function-size movie, absolutely staged theater, dance works, group occasions requiring prolonged rehearsal infrastructure, or initiatives depending on massive-scale or mounted bodily installations. If your apply touches these areas, they’re nonetheless ; present how the work may 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.