Closed Grants & Opportunities

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

Rolling Deadline through April 30, 2026

Artist Creative Practice

The Artist Creative Practice Grant supports a variety of professional development opportunities including milestone activities in an artist's career that will likely lead to substantial career growth.

Application Deadline: April 10

Southern Circuit: Call for Screening Partners

Screening Partners select films and filmmakers to tour from a curated shortlist of submitted and invited films. Films are evaluated for consideration based on the subject matter and themes, potential programming or partnerships, and the film's relationship to the South.

Become A Screening Partner for the 2026-2027 Southern Circuit

Application Deadline: April 10, 2026

Southern Circuit: Call for Filmmakers

We collaborate with a network of Screening Partner venues and filmmakers to share the transformative power of indie films with communities across the South.

Submit your film for consideration

Deadline March 18, 2026

Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Visual Arts

The Southern Prize and State Fellowships is open to visual artists in our nine-state region to support, expose, and celebrate the breadth, depth and diversity of artistic excellence.

LOI Deadline: March 10

Jazz Road Tours

Jazz artists, take your music to places it's never been. Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country.

Deadline: December 10, 2025

Literary Arts Grant

Project grants of up to $5,000 will be made to writers, independent literary publishers, small presses, and literary arts organizations. Project categories include Creative Literary Work Creation and Publishing, Community Engagement, and Professional Development (writers only).

Application Deadline: October 15

Jazz Road Tours

Jazz artists, take your music to places it's never been. Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country.

October 8-10, 2025

Southern Curators Summit

South Arts, in partnership with ArtFields, will present the Southern Curators Summit in Lake City, SC October 8-10, 2025.

Application Deadline: October 5

National Arts Futures Fellowship

Building on the legacy of the National Leaders of Color Fellowship (LoCF), NAFF expands its reach to leaders from all backgrounds while upholding its core values of care, community, democracy, wellness, and belonging.

Call for Grant Panelist Nominations - Arts in Community

South Arts welcomes professionals and leaders in the arts field from our nine-state region to serve as panelists for our grant program.