Joby Aviation has completed demonstration flights of its electric air taxi over New York City, testing real routes between JFK and Manhattan helipads as it prepares for a future commercial service. The company says its eVTOL could turn a 60- to 120-minute airport trip into a flight of under 10 minutes, though commercial launch still depends on FAA certification. Electrive reports: To launch operations in New York City, Joby acquired Blade Urban Air Mobility last year. Blade already enables helicopter flights for affluent travelers between Manhattan and airports such as JFK or Newark in just five minutes, avoiding up to two hours of traffic and typical airport hassles. Joby aims to replace this service with quiet, electric air taxis as soon as possible, transitioning Blade's existing customers to the new technology.

However, introducing a new aircraft into commercial service requires a years-long certification process, overseen in the US by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Joby is now in the final phase of FAA certification. Following a series of demonstration flights in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company has tested its air taxi in New York City on real flight routes and under real-world conditions. During these tests, Joby demonstrated the acoustics and performance metrics critical for entering the urban air taxi market.

During these demonstration flights, Joby's air taxi took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and landed at various helipads across the city, including Downtown Skyport and the helipads at West 30th Street and East 34th Street in Midtown, where Blade Air Mobility's premium passenger lounges are located. These locations represent some of the commercial routes Joby plans for New York [...]. Fun fact: Joby's eVTOL aircraft are over 100 to 1,000 times quieter than a conventional helicopter, operating at roughly 55-65 dB during takeoff and landing compared to 90+ dB for helicopters.

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MacRumors reports that Apple has effectively paused work on Vision Pro after the M5 refresh failed to revive demand. The team has reportedly been reassigned and the company is now shifting focus toward smart glasses instead. From the report: The Vision Pro has been criticized for its high price tag and its uncomfortable weight. The device is over 1.3 pounds, and even with the more comfortable Dual Knit Band that Apple added to redistribute weight, it continues to be hard to wear for long periods of time. The M5 chip added a 120Hz refresh rate, 10 percent more rendered pixels, and around 30 additional minutes of battery life, but the price tag stayed at $3,499, and it ended up not selling well. The Vision Pro has been unpopular since it first launched, and Apple only sold around 600,000 units in total. Insider sources told MacRumors that Apple has received an unusually high percentage of returns, far exceeding any other modern Apple product.

[...] If Apple finds a way to create a much cheaper, more comfortable VR headset in the future, the Vision Pro line could be revived, but right now, the company has no plans to launch a new model. Apple has not discontinued the Vision Pro and is continuing to sell the M5 model. Instead of continuing to experiment with virtual reality, Apple is working on smart glasses that will eventually incorporate augmented reality capabilities, but the first version will be similar to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with AI and no integrated display.

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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 writes: California's long-delayed high-speed rail project is now facing renewed scrutiny after state leaders revealed a dramatically higher price tag, now estimated at roughly $231 billion, nearly seven times the original $33 billion projection approved by voters in 2008. The revised figures have reignited talks in Sacramento over whether the project can realistically be completed, how long it will take, and whether the state can continue to fund it at this scale.

Senator Strickland pointed to comments from Lou Thompson, former chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority peer review group, who recently criticized the latest draft business plan. Thompson wrote that the 2026 draft plan "has reached a dead end," arguing that the project has drifted far from its original vision due to escalating costs, delays, and unfunded gaps. Under current projections, assuming funding and construction proceed as planned, service between San Francisco and Bakersfield could begin around 2033, while the full Los Angeles to San Francisco connection could extend to 2040.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A controversial bill in Colorado that would have undone some repair protections in the state has failed. The bill had been the target of right-to-repair advocates, who saw it as a bellwether for how tech companies might try to undo repair legislation more broadly in the US. Colorado's landmark 2024 repair law, the Consumer Right to Repair Digital Electronic Equipment, went into effect in January 2026 and ensured access to tools and documentation people needed to modify and fix digital electronics such as phones, computers, and Wi-Fi routers. The new bill, SB26-090, would have carved out an exception to those repair protections for "critical infrastructure," a loosely defined term that repair advocates worried could be applied to just about any technology.

SB26-090 was introduced during a Colorado Senate hearing on April 2 and was supported by lobbying efforts from companies such as Cisco and IBM. It passed that hearing unanimously. The bill then passed in the Colorado Senate on April 16. On Monday evening, the bill was discussed in a long, delayed hearing in the Colorado House's State, Civic, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee. Dozens of supporters and detractors gave public comments. Finally, the bill was shot down in a 7-to-4 vote and classified as postponed indefinitely. "While we were making progress at chipping away at the momentum for it, we had still been losing," said Danny Katz, executive director of the local nonprofit consumer advocacy group CoPIRG. "So, we took nothing for granted, and I believe the incredible testimony from the broad range of cybersecurity experts, businesses, repair advocates, recyclers, and people who want the freedom to fix their stuff made a big difference."

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Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub's frequent outages have made it "no longer a place for serious work," prompting him to move his Ghostty terminal emulator project elsewhere after 18 years on the platform. The Register reports: "I've been angry about it. I've hurt people's feelings. I've been lashing out. Because GitHub is failing me, every single day, and it is personal. It is irrationally personal," he wrote. The reason for his ire is the service has become unreliable. "For the past month I've kept a journal where I put an 'X' next to every date where a GitHub outage has negatively impacted my ability to work," he wrote. "Almost every day has an 'X'. On the day I am writing this post, I've been unable to do any PR review for ~2 hours because there is a GitHub Actions outage."

Hashimoto penned his post a few days before an April 28 incident that saw pull requests fail to complete due to an Elasticsearch SNAFU. Incidents like that mean Hashimoto has decided GitHub "is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day." "It's not a fun place for me to be anymore," he lamented. "I want to be there but it doesn't want me to be there. I want to get work done and it doesn't want me to get work done. I want to ship software and it doesn't want me to ship software."

The developer says he wants GitHub to improve, but "I also want to code. And I can't code with GitHub anymore. I'm sorry. After 18 years, I've got to go." He's open to a return if GitHub can deliver "real results and improvements, not words and promises." But for now, he's working to move Ghostty to another collaborative code locker. "We have a plan but I'm also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS)," Hashimoto wrote. "It'll take us time to remove all of our dependencies on GitHub and we have a plan in place to do it as incrementally as possible."

He's doing the equivalent of leaving a toothbrush at a former partner's house by leaving a read-only mirror of Ghostty on GitHub, and by keeping his personal projects on the Microsoft-owned service. But Hashimoto's moving his day job somewhere new. "Ghostty is where I, our maintainers, and our open source community are most impacted so that is the focus of this change. We'll see where it goes after that," he concluded.

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Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: Federal survey data shows that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Some educators and parents say this is a good thing -- students shouldn't spend six or more hours a day at school and still have additional schoolwork to complete at home. But the research on homework is complicated. Some studies show that students who spend more time on homework perform better than their peers. For example, a longitudinal study released in 2021 of more than 6,000 students in Germany, Uruguay and the Netherlands found that lower-performing students who increased the amount of time they spent on math homework performed better in math, even one year later.

Other studies, however, suggest homework has minimal outcomes on academic performance: A 1998 study of more than 700 U.S. students led by a researcher at Duke University found that more homework assigned in elementary grades had no significant effect on standardized test scores. The researchers did find small positive gains on class grades when they looked at both test scores and the proportion of homework students completed. More homework was also associated with negative attitudes about school for younger children in the study. "The best educators figured out a long time ago that we can control what we can control," and that's what happens during the school day, Superintendent Garrett said, not homework. "There has been a shift away from it naturally anyway, and I felt like this made it equitable across our entire school system." "The best argument for homework is that mathematical procedures require practice, and you don't want to waste classroom time on practice, so you send that home," said Tom Loveless, a researcher and former teacher who has studied homework.

Ariel Taylor Smith, senior director of the Center for Policy and Action at the National Parents Union, said: "The thing they point to is that it's an equity issue, and not all parents have the same availability and ability to support their students. I would make the argument that if a kid is really far behind in school, that's an equity issue. They need the additional time to practice." Kids, she said, "need more practice ... Sometimes, you do have to practice the boring stuff, like math."

"The interesting issue for folks to consider is not should there be more homework, but should there be better homework," said Joyce Epstein, who has studied homework and is the co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. "Better homework in math might be knowing the fact that kids don't have to be practicing for hours, 10 to 20 examples," when they could establish mastery in less time.

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De ene na de andere instantie waarschuwt voor de beschikbaarheid van schoon drinkwater. Ook de Raad voor de leefomgeving en infrastructuur schrijft in een nieuw rapport dat „ingrijpende maatregelen” nodig zijn. Hoe kunnen die eruit zien?

De meeste voorzitters van de Fed, de Amerikaanse centrale bank, stappen op als hun termijn afloopt, maar Jerome Powell doet dat niet. Hij blijft naar eigen zeggen aan als gouverneur omdat hij vreest dat de politieke aanvallen op de Fed vanuit de regering-Trump nog niet voorbij zijn.

De natuurbrand die rond het middaguur ontstond op het militaire oefenterrein bij ’t Harde, op de Veluwe, is grotendeels onder controle.

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ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength

GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks.…

Second try's a charm?

Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.…

Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security

Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online.…

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We hadden vanavond natuurlijk Willie Nelson kunnen feliciteren met zijn 93e of een uitvoerig vertoog kunnen wijden aan de Dag van de Dans (hé macarena) maar dat zou een dans op het graf betekenen van Een Groot Schrijver: Hafid Bouazza - vandaag precies vijf jaar dood. Een warme week als deze is uitermate geschikt, om niet te zeggen ideaal om in zijn oeuvre te duiken en in vervoering te raken door die uit Bouazza's bijzondere bovenkamer ontsproten hypnotische zinnen en explosieve woordenschat. Meegezogen in de diepte van zijn taal en omarmd door de totale vrijheid van zijn zijn zie je een zwoele zomer lang op blote voeten voor je, met verschaald bier, bloedheet woestijnzand, drankzucht en deliria, vochtige ogen van sigarettenrook, dadels om de honger te stillen en een eeuwige nacht zonder rust maar met een voortdurend groot dromen. Ofschoon zijn poëtische, lyrische schrijfstijl niet zozeer toegankelijk is voor iedereen, verdient Bouazza's megatalent een veel prominentere plek in de literaire canon - zie ook zijn prachtige vertalingen.

Enfin, de liefhebber kan hem vanavond weer eens bewonderen of zijn islamkritieken doorspitten. Die trekt dan Paravion, De voeten van Abdullah, Momo, Meriswin, Spotvogel, De vierde grondslag, Niets dan zonde, Venus en Adonis of Othello (Shakespeare-vertalingen), Om wat er nog moet komen (yum), Salomon, De Akker en de Mantel, Heidense Vreugde uit de boekenkast of wacht op het Verzameld Proza dat in september verschijnt. Schrijven deed hij immers net zo goed als drinken, alleen komt aan alle goeds vroeg of laat een eind. En omdat het mooiste In Memoriam al is geschreven geven we de maestro snel zelf het woord, zijn magische woord en nemen we er vanavond een op hem. Of twee. Proost.

Toen een woordkunstenaar nog een (knappe) woordkunstenaar was

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Met Komrij en de afgelopen zondag overleden Dick Matena

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Over drank en zijn boek Meriswin

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Muziek!

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Oprecht interessante bespreking btw: 'wanneer mag je jezelf een expert noemen?'

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Na een meerdaags redactieberaad is de conclusie als volgt: Mauro Matt moet blijven. Onderstaand een samenvatting van de notulen: 

- Ze doceert geen genderstudies, maar biochemie, en op zulke faculteiten lopen van oudsher de minst gekalibreerde paradijsvogels rond. 
- Ze kan blijkbaar lesgeven want in 2022 won ze met twee collega's de 'Vice-Chancellor’s Education Award' voor hun eerstejaars workships. 
- Maar laten we eerlijk wezen: Matts prothetische borstenharnas ipv implantaten is niet zozeer een kwestie van genderidentiteit, maar van een zeer publiekelijk geëtaleerde fetisj te weten 'Autogynephilia', wat overigens ook geldt voor heel veel transgenders, maar dat is een andere discussie.
- Om bovengenoemde redenen is er maar één conclusie mogelijk: Matt mag inclusief prothetische borstenharnas blijven, maar moet zich voortaan wel volledig in niqaab hullen, het blijft immers een islamitisch land en die gebruiken heeft hij te respecteren.

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Van Dexter Morgan/Pewdiepie naar... iets nieuws

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Scenerium 2026 Art Award: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeatured
Where will your art take us? From landscapes and seascapes to cityscapes and imagined worlds, Scenerium 2026 invites artists worldwide to capture the essence of place and turn it into a visual journey. Through natural scenes, urban energy, and visionary environments, this juried opportunity celebrates art that draws viewers in and places them inside the world you create. Selected artists receive a smart online exhibition, Artsy feature, global promotion, catalogue, art magazine publication, press release, visitor engagement, editorial reviews, audience feedback, and exclusive awards.
Learn more and submit: www.gallerium.art/scenerium
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 7, 2026.

The Hopper Prize $4,500 Artist GrantsFeatured
The Hopper Prize is accepting submissions for $4,500 and $1,000 artist grants. Six grants totaling $13,000 USD are available. Two artists will each receive $4,500, and four artists will each receive $1,000. All media is eligible. Additional exposure is available via a 30-artist shortlist, online journal, and Instagram, currently reaching over 165,000.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PDT May 12, 2026.

 

Open Calls

SaveArtSpace Billboard Art Open Call (International)
SaveArtSpace presents Wild & Free, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York City, opening June 26, 2026, and curated by Gigi Chen. The theme is related to the close connection between nature, mythology, and civilization. There is a $10.99 per image application fee.
Deadline: May 7, 2026.

YICCA Art Prize (International)
This competition is open to all media and techniques and geared toward emerging artists, with a total prize pool of €4,500. The application fee varies depending on the number of images submitted and starts at €50.
Deadline: May 7, 2026.

CIFRA Award (International)
CIFRA welcomes any form of digital art, and the only condition is that it must be possible to submit as a video. Per the theme “RestArt Reality,” applicants can share screen-native works that engage with pseudo-evidence, invented archives, alternative chronologies, reconstructions, “false” testimonies, and more. Five winners each receive €1,000.
Deadline: May 8, 2026.

Cass Art Prize (U.K. and Ireland)
The Cass Art Prize 2026, presented by The Cass Group, aims to champion contemporary art from across the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland with a top cash prize of £10,000. Additional awards total more than £20,000, including a Students Award, an Art Educators Award, and more. Winning works will be included in a group exhibition at The Bomb Factory, Marylebone, London, in Autumn 2026.
Deadline: May 8, 2026.

Sunshine Coast National Art Prize (Australia)
The acquisitive Sunshine Coast National Art Prize is a dynamic visual arts award reflecting outstanding contemporary 2D and new media arts practices in Australia. The top prize is AUD $25,000, and the entry fee is AUD $45.
Deadline: May 10, 2026.

Get Published in Artistonish: Visibility, Engagement, and Sales (International)
The 70th issue of Artistonish Contemporary Art Magazine, published in May 2026, will feature a juried selection of contemporary artworks from around the world, showcased online and on premium glossy pages in print. Each selected work is presented with a full-page image and a dedicated QR code for deeper engagement. Artists will be featured on Artsy, receive a certificate of achievement and exclusive artwork badges, and be promoted through extensive outreach with lasting online visibility in the global art community. Learn more and submit: www.artistonish.com/calls
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 11, 2026.

Abbey Mural Prize (International)
The Abbey Mural Prize awards grants to support the creation and restoration of public murals in the United States. Juried by artist and architect members of the National Academy, the Abbey Mural Prize supports projects with grants typically ranging from $10,000 to $40,000. Artists may be from anywhere, but the murals must be in the United States, Tribal Nations, or U.S. territories, including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Deadline: May 18, 2026.

2027 Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize Award Exhibition (International)
The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize was established to recognize excellence in contemporary craft, with a focus on the theme of transformation. The 2027 prize will be awarded for an artwork in small metals. This program offers $5,000, and there is a $45 application fee to submit up to six pieces.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 31, 2026.

BEERS London Group Exhibitions (International)
This is an opportunity for artists working across all media to apply to be a part of a group exhibition at BEERS London. BEERS’ objective is to discover new, compelling, and contemporary work to present at its gallery. There is a £10 application fee.
Deadline: June 1, 2026.

21st Edition of Arte Laguna Prize (International)
Apply for this unique opportunity to exhibit your work at the Arsenale Nord in Venice. The finalists’ exhibition will take place from November 6 to 29, 2026. The jury will select 120 finalist artists, including the winner of the first prize of €10,000, among other awards. The application fee is €97.60 (VAT included) for artists under 35 years old and €122 for those 35 and older.
Deadline: June 30, 2026.

 

Grants

Franklin Furnace Jacki Apple Award (New York City)
The Jacki Apple Award grants $10,000 to fund a project in performance, media, exhibition, and/or publication by a New York City-based artist working in performance art.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 1, 2026.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
This unique place-based program will award up to ten artists and arts workers a comprehensive three-year support package in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Each awardee will receive up to $150,000 in financial support, along with a private studio, a $36,000 housing stipend, a $1,500 studio move-in stipend, a $3,600 studio assistant stipend, a $3,600 health and wellness stipend, and access to shared facilities and professional resources designed to sustain ambitious, community-engaged practices over time.
Deadline: May 7, 2026.

Serendipity Arts Food Matters Grant (India)
Individual artists or collectives are welcome to apply for this grant of up to 1 Lakh (about $1,050) that emphasizes a knowledge network and supports inquiry into food practices across India. The grant invites researchers, artists, writers, practitioners, and collectives to pursue projects that explore culinary practices at the intersections of literature, politics, technology, and culture.
Deadline: May 8, 2026.

Fundación Botín Art Grants (International)
The Fundación Botín offers six scholarships for artists of any nationality with an expected duration of nine months and a grant of €23,000 each, in addition to medical insurance. One grant is reserved for an artist who is Spanish or a resident in Spain, under 30 years of age, who wants to spend time abroad. Grants cover a period of nine months. Applicants need to register online and also submit physical materials by mail, which must be postmarked by May 8.
Deadline: May 8, 2026.

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants (U.S.)
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography. Applications for the Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants (up to $3,000) are also open through May 19.
Deadline: 5 p.m. EDT on May 12, 2026.

JGS Fellowship for Photography (New York)
The JGS Fellowship for Photography is an $8,000 cash grant open to New York State photography artists living and working outside of New York City.
Deadline: 5 p.m. EDT on May 19, 2026.

ArtPrize Artist Seed Grant (International)
The Artist Seed Grant program supports exceptionally talented emerging artists and designers, helping them bring compelling work to ArtPrize 2026 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Each selected artist or designer will receive $2,000 to assist with artwork creation and logistical costs, ensuring they can fully participate in the event. These grants help maintain ArtPrize’s accessibility for artists worldwide and at all career stages. In addition to grant opportunities for Grand Rapids-area artists, a venue exhibition grant is also available. Deadlines vary.
Deadline: May 30, 2026.

The Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (International)
This program provides one-time financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs resulted from an unforeseen catastrophic incident and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Awardees typically receive $5,000 and up to $15,000.
Deadline: Rolling.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (International)
The foundation welcomes applications from painters, sculptors, and artists working on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for one year and range up to $50,000. The artist’s circumstances determine the size of the grant, and professional exhibition history will be considered.
Deadline: Rolling.

 

Residencies, Fellowships, & More

The Martin House Creative Residency Program (U.S.)
This competitive program is open to applicants who seek the resources to support ongoing projects or the creation of new work, with special emphasis on the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Martin House. Creative makers who are selected to participate will generally spend two to four weeks on site. Residents will receive a stipend of $5,000, and travel expenses of up to $1,000 will also be provided to residents from outside New York’s Buffalo-Niagara region.
Deadline: May 13, 2026.

Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles Residency (Los Angeles)
This residency is open to emerging and mid-career artists working in all disciplines across Greater Los Angeles. For four months, the artist-in-residence has access to a studio in the Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles office to support their existing practice or a new project. At the end of the residency, an exhibition will be held, and at least one work will be incorporated into the permanent collection. The resident will receive $5,000 per month, for a total of $20,000, plus a materials allowance.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 14, 2026.

Dieu Donné Workspace Residency Program (New York City metro area)
With a focus on experimentation and collaboration, Dieu Donné’s Workspace Residency provides three artists the opportunity to explore paper pulp as an artistic medium. The program includes an introduction to papermaking, six days in the studio with a dedicated collaborator, and a $600 stipend.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 15, 2026.

Women’s Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant (International)
The Studio Residency Grant is a six- to eight-week residency for artists to create new work in any of our studio disciplines: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, or photography. WSW invites applications from artists at any stage in their careers, and the grant includes a stipend of $350 per week, up to $500 for materials used during the residency, up to $250 for travel within the continental U.S., free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access. Applicants may also opt to be considered for a Studio Workspace Residency or the Anita Wetzel Residency Grant by checking the corresponding box on their application.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 15, 2026.

Monson Arts Residency Program (International)
Monson Arts, in Monson, Maine, supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing them time and space to devote to their creative practices over the course of two or four weeks. A cohort of artists and writers receives private studios, private bedrooms in shared housing, all meals, and a $500 stipend ($250 for two-week programs).
Deadline: May 15, 2026.

Center for Craft — Craft Archive Fellowship (International)
Four fellowships of $5,000 will be awarded to support archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the United States. Funding is intended to support independent research, and proposals are welcome from a range of scholars—both emerging and established—including artist-researchers. Artists may be based anywhere, but must be able to earn taxable income in the U.S.
Deadline: May 20, 2026.

VIA Art Fund Artistic Production Grants (International)
VIA’s Artistic Production Grants fund the production of newly commissioned works of visual art exhibited beyond museum walls, in the public realm, or in non-traditional exhibition environments.  These grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify VIA’s three core values of Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement. Grant amounts range from $25,000 to $100,000.
Deadline to submit letter of inquiry: May 21, 2026.

Grantham Foundation Visual Arts Residency (International)
Grantham Foundation supports established artists whose practices or approaches recognize environmental issues. The four-week residency, which takes place in Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Québec, includes a grant of CAD $5,000 to $10,000, depending on the scope of the project.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 27, 2026.

Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence (International)
A program of Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a two- to five-week stay at Oak Spring in Upperville, Virginia.
Deadline: May 31, 2026.

Headlands Center for the Arts Residencies (International)
The Artist in Residence program at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 50 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, housing, travel, and living expenses.
Deadline: June 1, 2026.

Residencia Corazón (International)
Residencia Corazón is an independent, artist-run residency in La
Plata, Argentina—a home for artists since 2006. The program welcomes visual
artists, writers, curators, and creative researchers from around the
world for one- to three-month residencies. Each stay is fully personalized, and fees range from $800 to $1,500 per month.
Deadline: Rolling.

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