CURATED LIST BY THE RRASP TEAM
Our monthly top picks of upcoming deadlines in June is curated by the RRASP Team for creatives from various industries.
FELLOWSHIP
The Caribbean Cultural Institute Fellowship program is intended to support researchers, scholars, artists, and female or nonbinary photographers from the Caribbean and its diaspora whose projects would benefit from access to the institutional resources of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University (FIU-LACC), and Green Space Miami.
DEADLINE: June 1st 2026
WRITERS PRIZE
The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. In addition to a $30,000 cash award, the winner receives an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester, without the expectation that he or she teach traditional courses. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students.
DEADLINE: June 1st, 2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Call for outdoor sculpture, site-responsive installation + performance-based activations for a temporary exhibition + happening across the full landscape at Haskell Public Gardens in New Bedford, MA. Ambrosia/salad will be a temporary, experimental outdoor exhibition at Allen C. Haskell Public Gardens, opening with an evening of performance and activations across the land.
DEADLINE: June 3rd, 2026
FILM & TV RESIDENCY
The BRIClab: Film + TV residency track incubates innovative and ambitious documentary filmmakers working on short-form, episodic, or feature-length non-fiction films. Three residencies will be awarded to create opportunities for emerging to mid-career filmmakers.
DEADLINE: June 5th, 2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Now in its fourth iteration, LUMINEX is a world-class outdoor art and technology exhibition of renowned artists that offers the opportunity for creative voices to connect with the public at-large. NOW Art initiated this experience as an artist-led public art exhibition and response to revitalizing our community.
DEADLINE: June 5th, 2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award teams up with Bookmobile to offer the chance to have your work published as a standalone book for free. Six projects will be selected—each by a different artist, illustrator, or photographer—at zero cost to the individual.
DEADLINE: June 5th, 2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SaveArtSpace is proud to present Home Is Where I Make It, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York, NY, opening July 24, 2026, curated by The Unapologetic Street Series & Amy Quichiz.
DEADLINE: June 8th, 2026
TEACHING ARTIST RESIDENCY
Each year, ProjectArt seeks professional artists who are both committed to their art career and passionate about utilizing their talents to inspire the next generation of young creatives. Each 9-month residency runs September-June. The program culminates with a Joint exhibition showcasing the student and Resident Artist work at a professional venue, stipend, and professional development workshops
DEADLINE: June 9th, 2026
HOSTING EXHIBITION CURATOR GRANT
The Teiger Foundation Hosting Grant supports US-based curators or artistic directors presenting a contemporary visual art exhibition or project that originated elsewhere.
DEADLINE: June 10th, 2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PEI Transgender Network is accepting written and visual submissions for its third Trans Anthology.
DEADLINE: June 14th, 2026
POETRY PRIZE
The University of Akron Press offers the Akron Poetry Prize, a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives $1,500 and publication of their book as part of the Akron Series in Poetry.
DEADLINE: June 15th, 2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Ridgewood Off Kilter Film Festival is an outlet for off-kilter films. Films that are unusual, independent and artful… shared in a collaborative community to encourage and support creation. ROFF will be happening at 2-3 venues in Ridgewood, Queens.
DEADLINE: June 15th, 2026
POETRY AWARD
Established in 1975, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is a $25,000 award that recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. The prize includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to approximately twenty five hundred Academy of American Poets members.
DEADLINE: June 15th, 2026
OPEN CALL FOR PERFORMANCE
The International Human Rights Art Festival is calling for performance submissions from Queens based artists.
DEADLINE: June 15th, 2026
AWARD FOR PLAYWRIGHT AND SCREENWRITERS
The Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award is an $8,000 cash grant to be awarded to one (1) New York State-based playwright or screenwriter who self-identifies as LGBTQ+.
DEADLINE: June 16th, 2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SaveArtSpace is proud to present Ode to Womanhood, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York, NY, opening August 7, 2026, curated by Ceres (Diaja).