Americas

The Delegation of the European Union to Canada and the Global Centre for Climate Action at OCAD University have partnered to support artists, designers and scholars across Canada and the EU to develop a site-specific projection artwork for the Canada Malting Silos, located on Toronto’s waterfront, to present at Nuit Blanche on 4 October 2025.

Science Gallery Monterrey (Mexico) invites artists, researchers, community activists and critical thinkers to submit existing, interdisciplinary artistic and research projects for the next exhibition centred around the theme of CONSCIOUSNESS. The exhibition will open in October 2025.

The National Gallery of Canada’s General Idea Fellowship encourages and supports advanced research in contemporary art.

CopenhAustin is an annual arts residency exchange programme of one queer performance artist/organiser based in Texas and one queer performance artist/organiser based in Denmark.

The 2025 call for applications for the Circular Culture programme is once again open to support cultural festivals that champion sustainability. Led by the British Council in Latin America and the Caribbean, this programme offers both financial and training resources to promote artistic exchange between LATAC and the UK, in the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

Dance and movement arts professionals based in Spain and/or Portugal are invited to submit their projects for the selection of 11 artistic and/or research residencies (technical residencies are excluded) to be carried out between April and November 2025 (six of them in Lugo of which three will be for applicants aged 30 and under and five on an exchange basis with structures in Spain, Portugal and Costa Rica).

The Goethe-Institut USA is currently preparing a bid to provide technical assistance to the Transatlantic Rising Stars Project.

‘Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies’ at A Studio in the Woods (New Orleans, USA) invite artists to explore the connections within collective ecosystems and use the power of imagination to heal the wounds in the relationship between ourselves and our communities.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) and Civis Foundation (a Galvan Initiatives affiliate) are calling for applications for the second round of the The Democracy Cycle, a commissioning programme designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy.

The EU-funded UNESCO programme Transcultura: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity launches a call for applications for young artists and tourism entrepreneurs from the Caribbean to participate in its Creative Tourism Capacity-building and Training Workshops in St George, Grenada (24–28 February 2025) and Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines (17–21 March 2025).

Arts/Industry has been connecting artists with the resources, technology, and materials of Kohler Co., and providing a place to explore new ideas, processes, and perspectives. Artists from all disciplines are encouraged to apply.