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Sludge Thunder, World Record Catch, Oil on wood panel, 16 x 13 inches

The $1000.00 Working Artist Grant / Art Purchase Award — Call for Artists Submissions Deadline: November 30, 2026

The Working Artist Grant / Art Purchase Award is a one-time art award intended to disperse small but vitalizing bursts of funding to support an artist's ongoing art making process.

This award is available to all artists worldwide, working in all traditional and new visual arts mediums, including but not limited to: conceptual, installation, drawing, painting, prints, sculpture, glass, mixed media, new media, photography and video. We regret that we do not accept submissions for music, performance or dance.

We make it super simple to submit your work— send us your website, or 5 images (each under 1 mb), along with your name and contact information to: submissions@workingartist.org . No written proposals or CV's are required unless the artist would like to include them. There is no application form.

There is a submission review fee of $25.00, payable here:

which helps offset the costs of this effort to fund meaningful work by serious artists.

If selected as our winner, we ask that the award recipient be willing to exchange one of their original works or smaller series of original works for inclusion in our collection in return for our award. Work considered by the artist as of equal value, and available for acquisition can be negotiated upon receipt of the award. We do pay the artist's shipping costs. Please send us your best work for review.

Participants agree by completing their submission to limited use of their images or other representation of their artwork and general information to be featured on this site and corresponding promotional media. All rights will be retained by the artists.

Featured Working Artist Award Recipients

Jamey Hart, Dial, Grass from neighboring lawns, wire, glues, alarm bell cups, wood, nails, gum wrappers, cricket, pencil, recomposition, other things, 16 x 16 x 2.5 inches

Hannah Demma, Chromethesia 1, Handmade paper with color pencil and hand-cutting, blue Lokta backing sheet, 20 x 16 in., 2025

Ronald Gonzalez, Small Figure 2, Bricolage/Sculpture, 2025

Iz Schrader, Loves, from Gas Stations Series, Ballpoint on paper, 2025

Anthony Corraro, A Moment, Dyed earth through silkscreen, Ephemeral work, 2024

Philip Denker, Shadow Weaver, Pen on bristol, 22 x 22 inches, 2019

Jo Cosme, Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!, Mixed Media, Installation, 2022 - Ongoing

Lynda Ray, Fault Lines 10, Encaustic 16 x 20 x 1.5 inches, 2024

Lauren Blankstein, Don't Be Shy, Acrylic, ink, pencil crayon, roofing paper, 24.5 x 23.5 inches, 2022

Robert Mirek, 801 (from Mutations series), Mixed media over basswood panel, 16 x 20 x 1.75 inches, 2023

Kevin Couliau, Giants of Africa, Photography series and limited edition art book, 2024

Hanako O'Leary, Venus Jar 10: My Beauty, Izanami Series, Clay, 13 x 9 x 9 inches, 2023

Claire Downes Whitehurst, Rockcandy, Monotype and colored pencil on kozo paper, 9 x 8 inches

Amin Pakparvar and Mehraneh Salimian, Height of the Kite, Short Documentary Film, 2024

Beizar Aradini, Americanized, Thread, 7 x 17 in. 2017

Nola Parker, Millstone 5, 16 x 12 inches, gouache on paper, 2020

Alma Haser, Twins 3, from Twins photography series, 2022

Yoonhee Choi, b-print #3, linetape on paper, 10 x 6.5 inches, 2015

Kelda Martensen, Decisions on Brightness, Monotype, Woodblock, Collage, 50 x 30 inches, 2021

Bradley Marshall, It Hurts Bc it's Cold, Steel, enamel, UV print on Acrylic, 40.5 x 28 x 34 in., 2021

Barbara Campbell Thomas, Inscape, Collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced and machine-stitched fabric, 72 x 60 in., 2020

Cameron Lings, Evidence of Consequence, from Generative Statistic Sculptures, Wood, the World's Blackest-Black Paint and a Glass Petri Dish, 2021

Michael Acker, La Primavera, Collaged photographs, Inkjet on watercolor and mulberry papers, watercolor, acrylic, 41.5 x 36.5 in., 2020

Michael DeLuca, Bridge, Pastel on paper, 9 x 7 inches, 2020