2026 Richards Family Prize
Deadline
October 31, 2025
2 days left
Application Fee
FREE
Rewards
Multiple Rewards
Interest
High
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About This Opportunity
The Griffin Museum is pleased to announce its call for the 2026 scholarship for mid career artists, the **Richards Family Prize**.
We are proud to support emerging, mid-career and professional talents in the field of photography. We support visual artists with dynamic and creative ideas that challenge and progress the art form forward to new heights in vision and technology. Our support of photography is broad, from Fine Art to Documentary and Photojournalism, from digital to film-based works and cameraless images. The **Richards Family Prize** is a scholarship support mid-career photographers producing work that is creative and original.
This $4,000 scholarship is open to professional and mid-career photographers worldwide. We define _“professional”_ as any photographer who earns the majority of their income from photography. We define _“mid-career”_ as any photographer with some visibility in exhibitions, gallery representation and scholarship and residency success in their photography career.
In addition to the scholarship funds, the Richards Prize includes a published catalog by Griffin Museum Press and an exhibition in December 2026\.
What You'll Get
Types: CASHPRIZE
$4,000 scholarship
Application Requirements
- CV
- ARTIST_STATEMENT
- ARTWORK_PORTFOLIO
- PROJECT_DESCRIPTION
- APPLICATION_FORMS
Eligibility
Geographic Requirements
Massachusetts, MA, US
Other Requirements
The scholarship is open to creative artists and photographers who have produced individual works of photography, installation, moving images or sculpture works and/or are in the process of producing larger bodies of work. We are looking for candidates who are serious about photography and whose creative practice will benefit from this scholarship. There is no age limit. There are no residency requirements. There is no application fee. This scholarship is for professional and mid-career photographers and creative artists. Well-established photographers are individuals in mid-photography-careers and are seen by the public and peers as distinguished in the field of photography and have many accomplishments as a photographer. Employees of the Griffin Museum or their immediate families, Griffin Museum board members and jurors’ immediate families and those immediate families of Griffin board members or jurors’ paid employees are not eligible.
Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, Massachusetts , US
Verified Organization
Active since 2020
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Don't miss out on this opportunity. Applications close on October 31, 2025.