🍁 FALL * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo

Innovate Grant's Fall 2026 award cycle offers one $1,800 grant to a visual artist and one $1,800 grant to a photographer. Eighteen honorable mentions, nine in art and nine in photography, will be featured on its website. Winners and honorable mentions also receive ongoing promotion. Visual artists and photographers worldwide may apply.

Applicants must be visual artists or photographers aged 18 or older; applicants from around the world are eligible. All media and genres within this scope are accepted. Listed fields include applied arts, architecture, design, digital, drawing, fashion, installation, interdisciplinary work, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, video, visual arts, and public art. Applicants retain rights to submitted work. An artwork/portfolio is listed among application materials. All applications must be submitted through the online application; email applications are not accepted. The application fee is $35 USD and is non-refundable. No participation or additional fees are stated. Awards are one $1,800 USD grant to a visual artist, one $1,800 USD grant to a photographer, and 18 honorable mentions, nine in each category. The detailed call specifies December 15, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time as the deadline; the listing header instead shows December 16, 2026 at 04:45 UTC, which is an inconsistent cutoff.