Paid artist opportunities in Atlanta & beyond
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MARTA Artbound seeks an artist to design and paint a mural on the west side of Arts Center Station on the stage facing West Peachtree Street. Artists will be responsible for their own paint, materials, and supplies (such as ladders and dropcloths).
Deadline: January 30, 2026
Artist fee: $14,000 -
MARTA Artbound seeks an illustrator, graphic, or fine artist to create digital files that will be produced as vinyl graphics to be applied inside Peachtree Center Station.
Deadline: February 6, 2026
Artist fee: $3,000
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The Fulton County Department of Arts & Culture is accepting submissions for their Contracts for Services which provides general operating and project support artists and organizations to produce or present public arts programming.
Deadline: February 3, 2026
Artist fee: $1,000-$50,000
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Exploration of a projection mapping project for Atlanta Downtown's MAP Rover project. Traveling around Downtown Atlanta, the MAP Rover is outfitted with a high-lumen projector and workstation that illuminates city buildings and unexpected places with a digital artwork, film, and photography.
Deadline: February 10, 2026
Duration: April 20 – August 21, 2026
Artist fee: $5,000 -
Project that explores augmented reality for an interactive public art project. The selected artists will have the opportunity to be one of the first projects featured in ATL DTN soon-to-be-launched augmented reality program.
Deadline: February 10, 2025
Duration: July 27 – November 27, 2026
Artist fee: $5,000 -
This residency asks a central question: Can creativity and shared culture be treated as essential parts of public infrastructure, rather than as decoration added afterward? Artists are invited to explore how art and culture can live naturally within public transit spaces and support everyday civic life. This residency is well suited to artists working with experimental, media-based, sound, light, projection or digital work.
Deadline: February 10, 2026
Duration: November 2, 2026 – March 5, 2027
Artist fee: $8,000
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The Artist Creative Practice Grant supports a variety of professional development opportunities including milestone activities in an artist's career that will likely lead to substantial career growth.
Deadline: April 30, 2026
Artist fee: $500-$3,000
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The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.
Deadline: Rolling
Artist fee: up to $15,000
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Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists and poets who:
Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates
Deadline: Rolling
Artist fee: $500 - $3,000