Open calls for Glass artists — 13 active grants, residencies and exhibitions with checked deadlines, entry fees and what the funding covers. Updated daily.
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13 active listings for Glass, tagged by how each programme describes the practices it accepts. Add your works to your portfolio, and Call Match checks how well they fit each call’s brief.
GrantFully FundedDanish Arts Foundation
The Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Craft and Design gives working grants to craftspeople and designers — both established makers and those new to the field — so they can develop their practice. A three-year grant amounts to DKK 855,000.
Denmark
FellowshipFully FundedPilchuck Glass School
Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, is an international glass art school running summer workshop sessions, artist residencies and fellowships.
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington, USA
GrantFully FundedOntario Arts Council
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, funds professional artists, collectives and organizations across the province through project grants assessed by peer panels.
Ontario, Canada
CompetitionVetralia
Design contest by Vetralia (Arte Veneziana srl), with the support of Venice Design Biennial, for a glass-led mirror under the theme Reverberation.
Olmo di Martellago, Venice, Italy; showcase Milan Design Week 2027
ResidencyNew Zealand Glassworks
New Zealand Glassworks – Te Whare Tūhua o Te Ao, the national centre for glass, offers one professional glass artist a four-week residency.
Whanganui, New Zealand
CompetitionPartial FundingYosemite Renaissance
Yosemite Renaissance has been running its juried exhibition for over forty years on a single premise: work that engages with Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada as subject rather than as backdrop. The forty-second edition is open to artists worldwide in almost every visual medium — painting, watercolour, pastel, printmaking, photography, digital art, drawing, fibre, glass, wood, jewell...
Oakhurst, California, USA
GrantFully FundedArts Council of Northern Ireland
The Rosy James Memorial Trust Awards, administered by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland since 2014, come from a bequest of over £500,000 by Belfast arts patron Rosemary (Rosy) James to help craft makers create new bodies of work; past recipients include glass artist Scott Benefield and silversmiths Stuart Cairns and Cara Murphy.
Northern Ireland, United KingdomThis includes programs that explicitly specify Glass as the main or one of the priority mediums, ranging from specialized contests to interdisciplinary open calls.
Yes, when they meet the call’s submission rules — each listing spells out the formats and sizes the organiser asks for.
Specialised residencies often offer equipped studios, print presses, darkrooms, labs or technical help — listed with each programme’s facilities.
Send a coherent set of recent works — as many as the call asks for — with the concept, size and materials of each.
Yes. Production grants often set aside a budget for materials and new work — each listing shows the award and what it covers.
No country or region limit in the terms: 9. Limited to named countries or regions: 4. · Data of 26 October 2026 · Each call checked against the organiser’s own page.
Pilchuck Glass SchoolPilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington, USA
FellowshipFree to applyFull tuition, housing, meals and travel
Museum of GlassTacoma, WA, USA (Museum of Glass Hot Shop)
ResidencyFree to applyUp to 5 days of Hot Shop use with a team of up to 3
Ontario Arts CouncilOntario, Canada
GrantFree to applyCA$5,000 / 7,500 / 15,000 by career stage
New Zealand GlassworksWhanganui, New Zealand
FellowshipFree to applyNZ$30/hour × 440 hours (≈NZ$13,200) + glass stipend
Arts Council of Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland, United Kingdom
GrantFree to apply£5,000 each (three awards)
Arts Council of Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland, United Kingdom
GrantFree to apply£20,000 (one award)
Toyama Glass Art Museum
Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
Competition¥3,000,000 Grand Prize; ¥5,200,000 in prizes
New Zealand GlassworksWhanganui, New Zealand
ResidencyFour-week hot-glass residency + solo show
Harbourfront CentreToronto, Ontario, Canada
ResidencyNo stipend; studio licence CAD 110.70/mo
Yosemite RenaissanceOakhurst, California, USA
Competition$4,000 in cash awards + touring show
VetraliaOlmo di Martellago, Venice, Italy; showcase Milan Design Week 2027
CompetitionProduction + Milan Design Week showcase + royalties
Danish Arts FoundationDenmark
GrantFree to applyUp to DKK 855,000 (three-year grant)
NYC Department of Cultural AffairsNew York City, USA
OtherFree to applyEligibility for NYC public art commissions