Opportunities to Submit Your Work & Apply for Grants

The City of Santa Monica,  is inviting proposals from organizations, arts and cultural producers, collectives, groups, and individuals interested to collaborate with the City and artists to create and implement art projects or events in the city of Santa Monica as part of its Art of Recovery (AoR) grant initiative.

DEADLINE: Nov 20, 2025

The City of Los Angeles (COLA) Independent Master Artist Grant Program allows accomplished artists to create a new “mid-career” solo work with the freedom to re-focus on themselves and their core impulses. The COLA-IMAP grant category honors a spectrum of the City’s avant-garde artists 

DEADLINE: Oct 31, 2025

The Department of Arts and Culture’s Civic Art Division invites artists to submit qualifications for the design of a mural that will be painted on the façade of the Vermont Corridor, Site 2 building in Koreatown. 

DEADLINE: Oct 31, 2025 

The City of Santa Monica is offering between $500 and $5,000 to support free, public events within city limits between July & December 2025 for their 150th Anniversary 

DEADLINE is rolling through Nov 10, 2025. 

Check back often to see new opportunities to apply for.  Reach out if you have any opportunities you'd like to share here.