Closed Grants & Opportunities

These grants and opportunities are closed to new applicants, but the information is archived here for current recipients.

Deadline December 3, 2023

Creative Placemaking Summit - Call for Session Proposals

Creative Placemaking Communities and South Arts invite you to submit a session proposal for the peer-to-peer exchange sessions, to be held during the upcoming South and Appalachia Creative Placemaking Summit in Atlanta, Georgia from March 5-8, 2024.

Deadline November 30, 2023

Creative Placemaking Summit Scholarships

Earn a scholarship in order to attend an annual gathering of artists, administrators, community leaders, planners, designers, and other professionals exploring models at the intersection of arts, cultural heritage, and public policy.

Deadline Extended Through October 20

Emerging Traditional Artists Program

Connect with your peers, participate in professional development workshops, and receive up to $5,000 supporting your projects.

Thursday, October 19 at 11 a.m. ET

Virtual Speed Networking: Partners in the Know

In this webinar, participants will learn more and network with South Arts' partners in the field.

Online Professional Development Workshop

Deadline October 16

National Leaders of Color Fellowship

A professional development and networking opportunity for arts and cultural workers of color.

Temporarily closed - anticipated to reopen in Spring 2024

Micro Accessibility Grants

Grants of up to $2,500 for organizations to make arts programs accessible to persons with disabilities.

Deadline Extended: September 8, 2023

Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts

The Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts support, acknowledge, and celebrate writers in our nine-state region with $80,000 in awards. The genre for the 2024 cycle is Fiction.

Thursday, August 24 at 11 a.m.

VisAbility: Accessing Arts and Culture

In this workshop, presenters will explore non-apparent disabilities and how barriers to access impact individuals with autism, PTSD, sensory processing disorder, among other disabilities.

Deadline: August 20, 2023

Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowships

Six $5,000 awards to support experienced practitioners and culture bearers with opportunities to examine, research, develop, perform, and/or document the Black Appalachian storytelling tradition.

Open to Black Artists in Appalachia

Deadline August 1, 2023

Cross-Sector Impact Grants

These grants of up to $15,000 support "arts and..." projects developed by partners—one arts organization or artist, and one non-arts organization—harnessing the power of collaboration.