Artist Application Resources

Apply for an exhibition, residency, public art, membership, or other kind of artist opportunity may feel challenging. Here are some helpful resources and best practices.

Artist Application Resources

 


2025 Post-Graduation Residency at Torpedo Factory Art Center

Free, Three-Month Residencies with Stipend

The Torpedo Factory Art Center Post-Graduation Residency is a competitive juried program that provides meaningful support and a three-month term studio space in the nation’s longest continually operated community of publicly accessible artists’ studios in a converted industrial space.

The 2025 Post-Graduation Residency offers four term opportunities:

  1. February – April 2025
  2. May – July 2025
  3. August – October 2025
  4. November 2025 – January 2026

Click To Download The 2025 Post-Graduation Call Information Packet

Click For More Information & To Apply

Applications due Thursday, October 31 by 12:00pm (noon)

 


Studio Residency and Artist Pro Tem Opportunities

2024 Open Call For Artists: Resident Artists & Artists Pro Tem

Torpedo Factory Art Center is accepting applications for Resident Artists — individuals or groups of up to four — who will earn three-year studio leases and Artists Pro Tem — individuals who will earn the ability to sublease and participate in the Art Center programming.

This application has closed.  Next Open Call scheduled for winter 2025. 

Click For All 2024 Open Call Information

 


Public Arts Grants & Opportunities

The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists.

Public Art Grant Information

See Current Grants