Non-AAARI Opportunities

Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University in collaboration with New York University Special Collections and Asia Art Archive. The Inaugural Ming Fay Research Fellowship supports the production of original, archives-based scholarship on Ming Fay (1943–2025), whose multidisciplinary practice bridged sculpture, drawing, installation, ecology, and transnational cultural histories.

Asian American Arts Alliance’s magazine, The Amp, is looking for a cover artist for their next print issue! Previous editions have featured work by Samia Halaby and Rama Duwaji. A4 offers a modest $500 honorarium for this project.

AFI DWW+ applications are now open. The program is a tuition-free, year-long workshop that supports emerging narrative filmmakers looking to deepen their directing experience or pivot into the director role. The call for applications will close on September 9, 2026. The program will accept up to eight (8) candidates who demonstrate a passion for visual … Read more

The 2026 Art as Witness Fund is seeking to commission new work from artists and culture bearers with commissions ranging from $2,500 to $5,000. The Art as a Witness Fund is an invitation to artists and culture bearers to submit new commissioned work that tells stories of freedom the 250th U.S. anniversary leaves out. The … Read more

The PEAK Writers Fellowship (PWF) discovers and nurtures new and emerging Pasifika writers launching their careers in television. Founded by PEAK Co-Founder, Director, Screenwriter and Showrunner, Dana Ledoux Miller, this is the only writing program in Hollywood created by a Pasifika creative.

The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Japan-US Friendship Commission, supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study … Read more