FIVE WINGS ARTS COUNCIL Individual Artist Grant
The Five Wings Arts Council makes grants from $100 to $500 to individual artists in Region 5 to help artists take advantage of arts related opportunities. Artists (18+ yrs old) working in the visual, literary, or performing arts may request support for short-term opportunities (not routine work i…Learn More
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Boroughwide Grants The Council offers three community arts regrant programs to artists and organizations throughout the borough of Manhattan: Creative Curricula, Fund for Creative Communities, and Manhattan Community Arts Fund (MCAF) . We administer these programs in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), with additional support from Citigroup Foundation.
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Sacramento Region Community Foundation Announces Grant and Capacity Development Opportunities for Arts Organizations
Grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to nonprofit arts organizations working to create art experiences in the community, and develop professionals in the field through workshops, symposia, and related resources….
Deadline: Various
Posted: February 3, 2009
Princess Grace Foundation-USA Offers Support for Emerging Artists in Theater, Dance, and Film
Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to help artists working in theater, dance, or film grow in their specific discipline, to offset their educational or artistic fees, and/or to create new works….
Deadline: Various
Posted: January 28, 2009
National Museum of the American Indian Invites Applications for Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program
Awards of up to $15,000 will be given to Native American and Native Hawaiian artists working to increase the knowledge and appreciation of contemporary Native American arts through publication, performance, and personal artistic development….
Deadline: Various
Posted: October 22, 2008
ASCAP Foundation Invites Entries for Young Jazz Composer Awards
A shared award of $25,000 will be given to U.S. residents under the age of 30 who have composed a jazz piece….
Deadline: December 1, Annually
Posted: October 9, 2008
NAMM Foundation Offers Funding for Music Making and Research
Support will be provided to community music-making programs, scientific researchers investigating the effects of making music, and music programs for seniors and school-aged children….
Deadline: Various
Posted: October 3, 2008
Bush Foundation Announces Categories and Informational Meetings for Artist Fellowship Program
Grants of up to $48,000 each, plus an additional $2,000 for implementing an individual communications strategy, will be awarded to literary, music, and other performing artists residing in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota….
Deadline: Various
Posted: September 3, 2008
New York Foundation for the Arts Accepting Applications for Artists’ Fellowships
Fellowships of $7,000 will be awarded to New York artists working in the disciplines of poetry, printmaking/drawing/book arts, nonfiction literature, sculpture, crafts, digital/electronic arts, and film…..
Deadline: Various
Posted: August 25, 2008
New York Foundation for the Arts Offers Discounted Office Space to Artists and Arts Organizations
The new program offers affordable workspace to NYFA-affiliated artists and organizations working in various genres; once accepted into the program, participants can rent at $200 a month or $550 for three months on a renewable cycle….
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: June 10,
North Dakota Council on the Arts Announces Technology Grant Program
The new program will give grants of up to $600 each to North Dakota nonprofit arts organizations to support development of their Web sites, equipment purchases, and software upgrades….
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: June 1, 2009
Community Leaders Invited to Apply for Preserve America Community Designation
Grants of up to $150,000 will be awarded to counties with an elected governing official, unincorporated communities, cities of 200,000 or more residents, and tribal communities working to preserve cultural and natural American heritage….
Deadline: Quarterly
Posted: August 24, 2008
Guitar Center Music Foundation Offers Support for Music Instruction
Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to nonprofit music programs in the United States providing music instruction to people of any age in underserved communities….
Deadline: Open
Posted: June 16, 2008
Nominations of New York City Arts Organizations Invited for Union Square Arts Award
Grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to arts organizations making a significant contribution to the lives of low-income youth, families, and their communities in New York City…..
Deadline: Nominations are reviewed in the order received.
Posted: February 5, 2008
Princess Grace Foundation-USA Announces Availability of Applications for 2008 Awards in Theater, Playwriting, Dance, Choreography, and Film
Grants will be awarded to individual artists across the United States; theater and dance awards will be in the form of scholarships, apprencticeships, and fellowships, while film awards are scholarships by invitation only….
Deadline: Various
Posted: January 28, 2008
MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Invites Applications from Chicago-Area Organizations
Operating grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to arts and culture organizations that have budgets of $500,000 or less and reside in and serve the Chicago metropolitan area….
Deadline: Various
Posted: January 15, 2008
National Geographic All Roads Film Project Offers Seed Grants for Indigenous Filmmakers
The All Roads Film Project will award grants of up to $10,000 to film projects by and about indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers from all reaches of the globe….
Deadline: Quarterly
Posted: January 8, 2008
NAMM Foundation Announces New Grant Initiatives for Music Makers and Researchers
Support will be provided to individuals and organizations for efforts that support the foundation’s mission of advancing active participation in music making….
Deadline: Various
Posted: November 12, 2007
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Arts Program Announces National Projects Fund
Grants of up to $200,000 will be awarded to individual nonprofits and consortia working to strengthen the health of dance, jazz, presenting, or the theater arts….
Deadline: Open
Posted: August 29, 2007
American Councils for International Education Offers Support for Policy Relevant Research
Fellowships of $25,000 will be awarded to U.S. graduate students, faculty, and post-doctoral scholars conducting foreign policy-relevant research in Belarus, Central Asia, Russia, the South Caucasus, Ukraine, or Moldova….
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: August 23, 2007
District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Offers Folk & Traditional Arts Mini-Grant Program
Grants of up to $1,000 will be awarded to artists and arts organizations providing folk and traditional arts projects in close consultation and collaboration with their communities….
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: August 22, 2007
Surdna Foundation Arts Program Announces Request for Proposals for Creative Writing Residencies for Teens
Established artists’ communities that serve creative writers will be awarded funding to develop summer retreats lasting at least two weeks for teens…
Deadline: Open
Posted: June 24, 2007
Meet The Composer Accepting Applications for Creative Connections
Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to U.S. composers working in any genre of music or sound art for public performance or discussion of their original work….
Deadline: Quarterly
Posted: February 28, 2007
Theatre Communications Group Announces Deadlines for Career Development Programs for Theater Directors and Designers
Professional development grants of $22,500 each will be awarded to fourteen talented stage directors and designers wishing to pursue a career in American not-for-profit professional theater….
Deadline: Various
Posted: November 21, 2006
Bush Foundation Announces Artist Fellows Program
Fifteen artists working in literature, music composition, scriptworks, or film/video that reflects diverse communities in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, or northwestern Wisconsin will receive $48,000 for a fellowship of up to two years….
Deadline: Various
Posted: August 26, 2006
Green Foundation Seeks Grant Proposals
Tax exempt, public charity organizations are eligible to apply for funding in the arts, education, and health and scientific research….
Deadline: Open
Posted: September 23, 2005
Leeway Foundation Offers New Grant Programs for Women and Transgendered Artists in the Philadelphia Region
The Leeway Foundation has announced the Leeway Transformation Award and the Art and ChangeGrant, two new funding programs designed to celebrate the power and vision of women artists creating change in the Philadelphia area….
Deadline: Various
Posted: March 2, 2005
Luce Fund in American Art Offers Support for Scholarly Exhibitions and Publications
Each proposed project must result in a tangible product that can be added to the body of scholarship in the field of American art….
Deadline: March 1, annually (Letter of Inquiry)
Posted: October 6, 2003
Sundance Fund to Support International Documentary Projects
The Sundance Documentary Fund is dedicated to supporting international documentary films and videos focused on current and significant issues and movements in contemporary human rights, freedom of expression, social justice, and civil liberties….
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: November 18, 2002
Grants and Other Funding Sources for Individual Artists
Individual Artist Grants
The Gunk Foundation Grants for Public Art
http://www.gunk.org/
The Gunk Foundation is interested in supporting projects that make it out of the museum, gallery and alternative spaces, and into the spaces of daily life. For example, work that is shown in the spaces of public transportation, city streets, or work places and is seen by people “outside” of the art and academic worlds. The Foundation is looking for non-traditional, thought-provoking public work that is site specific. PLEASE NOTE: The Grants for Public Art Program has been temporarily suspended.
Creative Capital
http://www.creative-capital.org
The foundation seeks funding requests for artist projects in either media, performing and visual arts, or in emerging fields (which includes all forms of digital work). Disciplines are funded in alternate grant cycles.
The Aaron Siskind Individual Photographers Fellowship Grants
http://www.aaronsiskind.org/grant.html
The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of fellowship grants of up to $5,000 each for individuals working in still photography and photography-based media. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
The Alexia Foundation for World Peace
http://www.alexiafoundation.org/
The Alexia Foundation for World Peace Annual Photography Contest offers grants to students and professionals for the production of a proposed project. The Alexia Foundation seeks to provide the financial ability for a photographer to produce a substantial picture story that furthers the foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding.
The Gordon Parks International Photo Competition
http://www.gordonparkscenter.org/photocontest.asp
Fort Scott Community College began the Gordon Parks Photography Competition to honor Fort Scott’s most famous photographer, Gordon Parks. Each year the Committee awards prizes of $1,000, $500, and $250 to photographers whose images reflect important themes in the life and the work of Gordon Parks, such as social injustice, the suffering of others, and family values.
College Art Association
http://www.collegeart.org/opportunities/type/1/
The CAA’s Professional Development Fellowship for Master of Fine Arts Candidates was initiated to help M.F.A. students to bridge the gap between graduate study and professional careers. Each fellow receives support over a period of two years: In the first year, CAA grants $5,000 to each fellow to use during the final year of his/hers MFA program. In year two, CAA helps each fellow search for employment at a museum, art center, college, or university. Upon securing a position, CAA provides a $10,000 subsidy to the employer as part of the fellow’s salary. Also lists other fellowships, awards,and grants
American Craft Council
http://www.craftcouncil.org/
The Emerging Artist Grant Program was founded to provide support for artists in the beginning stages of their careers. Funding is available to emerging artists working in all craft media (clay, glass, fiber, metal, wood and mixed media) to support the creation of a new body of work, travel and research, or to attended professional development workshops.
The Center for Documentary Studies
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/grants/index.html
Duke University seeks applications for the annual $10,000 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, awarded to a collaborative team consisting of a writer and photographer who are in the formative or fieldwork stage of a documentary project.
The Fund for Women Artists
http://www.womenarts.org/fund/
This website has a list of aproximately 200 funding sources.
Langlois Foundation
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology annually awards two grants to individuals making an exceptional contribution to advancing knowledge at the crossroads of art, science, and technology, or to individuals whose projects are highly original or innovative. Projects proposed by scientific researchers, computer scientists, or engineers must involve a partnership with an artist.(Did not accept applications for grants in 2004.)
Liquitex “Excellence in Art” Purchase Award Program
http://www.liquitex.com/awardprograms/eia/eia.cfm
The Liquitex Excellence in Art Purchase Awards have been established to recognize those artists whose pursuit of excellence is demonstrated through their creative use of color, concept and media, with an artwork completed primarily in acrylics. Awards totaling over $15,000 in cash and products will be made to artists demonstrating skill and creativity in the use of acrylic paints.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
http://www.onassis.gr/english/scholars/foreign.html
The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation seeks applications for grants from foreign full members of Academies of Science, university professors and researchers, artists, and translators of Greek literature, and for scholarships from postgraduate students and Ph.D. candidates. The aim of the program is the dissemination of the Hellenic language, culture, and history abroad. Grants are awarded in the fields of humanistic sciences, political science, law, economics, architecture, and the arts, and provide roundtrip airfare, accommodations, and a monthly allowance.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
http://pkf.org/grant.html
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation’s mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have as professional artists over a significant period of time. The Foundations welcome, throughout the year, applications from visuals artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines.
Women’s Studio Workshop
http://www.wsworkshop.org/_art_opp/artopp.htm
WSW offers a variety of grants and residency opportunities for artists working in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, photography, and ceramics.
Puffin Foundation
http://www.puffinfoundation.org
Puffin Foundation Grants are open to emerging artists in the fields of art, photography, music, theater, dance and literature whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired. Average Puffin Foundation grants range from $1,000 to $2,500.
Connecticut
LEF Foundation
http://www.lef-foundation.org
LEF operates within two regional areas: California and New England. Each region has unique areas of interest and funding priorities. Please refer to the specific guidelines for the region from which you are applying. For projects in development outside these two regions, please contact the main office in California. LEF Foundation, 1095 Lodi LN., Saint Helena, CA 94574.
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
http://www.cultureandtourism.org/cct/site/default.asp
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Artist Fellowship program is designed to encourage the continuing artistic development of Connecticut’s finest creative artists who are seriously committed to their art form and who have a demonstrated history of professional activity in the state. Twenty to thirty-five awards are made each year in the amounts of $5,000 and $2,500. Visual artists are eligible for this program during odd numbered years.
Delaware
Delaware Division of the Arts
http://www.artsdel.org/grants/default.shtml
The Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships are awarded to applicants residing in Delaware for at least one year and at least 18 years of age.
District of Columbia
The District of Columbia Comission on Arts and Humanities
http://dcarts.dc.gov/dcarts/site/default.asp
The Arts Commission offers funding for the arts in the District of Columbia. The Artist Fellowship Program offers grants to individuals in a broad range of artistic endeavors. Individual fellowships support individual artists who make significant contributions to the arts and who promote the arts in the District of Columbia through artistic excellence. Fellowship artist disciplines rotate on a biannual basis. In 2005, fellowships will be awarded in Media, Visual Arts, and Crafts.
New York
Jerome Foundation
http://www.jeromefdn.org
The Jerome Foundation makes grants to support the creation and production of new artistic works by emerging artists, and contributes to the professional advancement of those artists. Open to residents of Minnesota and New York City. Individual grants are available in Media Arts, and for travel or study.
Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council
http://www.larac.org
Individual Artist Grants are available to individual artists residing in Warren or Washington County. One grant of $2500 is available for artists who reside in Washington County, and a grant of $2500 and another for $1000 are available to artists who reside in Warren County. These proposals must be for the creation of new art that will impact the community creatively or involve the community in the creative process.
New York Foundation for the Arts
http://www.nyfa.org/home.html
New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowships awards grants of $7,000 in sixteen separate disciplines to individual originating artists in New York State. Through Artists & Audiences Exchange, each fellowship recipient performs a public service activity in collaboration with a non-profit organization located in New York State. The Foundation also offers Career Advancement Mini-Grants($100-$600).
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
http://www.artsnet.org/pca/
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts offers funding opportunities and services for Pennsylvania artists. Opportunities include individual fellowships up to $10,000 and an annual catalogue of Fellowship Recipients.
Leeway Foundation
http://www.leeway.org/
The Leeway Foundation was established to promote the welfare of women and benefit the arts. Awards to individual women artists are offered in a selected visual or literary discipline each year. Specific grants are available for emerging and established women artists. There is also a Window of Opportunity Grant which help artists take advantage of unique, time-limited opportunities that could significantly benefit their work or increase its recognition.
Pew Fellowships in the Arts
http://www.pewarts.org/index.html
Pew Fellowships in the Arts awards grants of $50,000 to artists working in a wide variety of performing, visual, and literary disciplines which rotate on a four-year cycle. The primary function of the fellowships is to free artists from other activities-literally to “buy time”-so they can focus on creative development for an extended period. Up to twelve fellowships are awarded annually to artists living and working in the five-county Philadelphia area.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
http://www.arts.ri.gov/grants/index.php
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts makes direct grants to Rhode Island artists. Grants to individuals include Fellowships and Folk Arts apprenticeships. Proposals for funding for individual artists are also considered.
LEF Foundation
http://www.lef-foundation.org
LEF operates within two regional areas: California and New England. Each region has unique areas of interest and funding priorities. Please refer to the specific guidelines for the region from which you are applying. For projects in development outside these two regions, please contact the main office in California. LEF Foundation, 1095 Lodi LN., Saint Helena, CA 94574.
England
Arts Council England
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/individuals
Arts Council England’s Grants for the arts are for individuals, arts organizations, national touring and other people who use the arts in their work. They are for activities that benefit the people in England or that help artists and arts organizations from England to carry out their work.
France
The Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarships at the Foundation des Etats-Unis
http://nfrance.com/~am17204/framset.html
The Foundation des Etats-Unis annually awards up to four Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarships to American visual artists and musicians. The grant is designated for study at the graduate level and allows young, talented musicians and artists to continue their studies in Paris. The stipend covers room and board for one academic year (October-June) at the Foundation.
Scandinavia
The American-Scandanavian Foundation
http://www.amscan.org/index.html
The American-Scandinavian Foundation promotes international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Each year, the ASF wards more than $500,000 in fellowships and grants to individual students, scholars, professionals and artists for projects abroad.
Asia
Asian Cultural Council
http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/programs.html
The Asian Cultural Council supports cultural exchange between Asia and the United states in the performing and visual arts, primarily by providing individual fellowship grants to artists, scholars, and students. Some of the grants listed on this site are for Americans who wish to study in China, Japan, or Taiwan.
Japan Foundation
http://www.jfny.org/jfny/arts.html
The Japan Foundation Artist Fellowships provide artists the opportunity to pursue creative projects in Japan for 2 to 6 months.
RFP: Art Culture Nature Retreat
Wednesday, 26th of July (1pm) to Sunday, 30th of July, 2006 (1pm).
Location: Light on the Hill Retreat Center, a beautiful center in 236 acres of rolling hills. Van Etten, NY. http://www.fostersolutionsinc.com/loh/We invite ecologists, activists, environmental artists, bio artists, community artists, academics and others to an intensive retreat. In five days in up-state New York, we will find time to reflect on art making, scientific methods, ecological politics, and on their relationships to contemplative practices. The focus of the retreat is on practical exploration: we are looking for proposals for activities such as art workshops, guided botanical explorations, talks and walks, meditations, participatory performances, ritual work, ecological skill- sharing, traditional environmental practices. The exact shape of the retreat will emerge as your proposals begin to come in.
Please send us your name and contact details, a proposal of what you would like to do, show or present (up to 250 words, for 1-2 hour section leader, 10-min show and tell, 15 min performance slot, gallery exhibit, or other), a brief bio statement with a note about your experiences running workshops (if that‚s what you are proposing), and any other information you think will be useful for us. Please do not send large (<750k) files with visuals.
Send to: pkuppers@bryant.edu, by February 5th, 2006 (early submission encouraged).
More info: Susan Monagan <smonagan@ithaca.edu>
Please find below The New York Community Trust’s 2009 Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking applications for the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund.
The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust provides support for talented, culturally diverse, economically disadvantaged young people who are seriously dedicated to a career in the arts.
We are changing this year’s program as follows:
- The Trust is issuing a single RFP for Advancing the Professional Development of Disadvantaged Young Artists at the Post-College Level.
- We will not be making grants at the Pre-College Level this year.
Please direct any questions you may have about the 2009 Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund’s RFP for Advancing the Professional Development of Disadvantaged Young Artists at the Post-College Level to Kerry McCarthy, program officer for Arts & Historic Preservation, at (212) 686-0010 x520.
Thank you for your continued interest in The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust.
Sincerely,
Joyce Bove
Senior Vice President
Grants and Special Projects
Request for Proposals 2009 Click her for more:
Advancing the Professional Development of Disadvantaged Young Artists at the Post-College Level in All Artistic Disciplines
Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust
909 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10022
More Grants….
NYFA FISCAL SPONSORSHIPS FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS WHO WANT TO DO FUNDRAISING
Princess Grace Foundation-USA Offers Support for Emerging Artists in Theater, Dance, and Film
Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to help artists working in theater, dance, or film grow in their specific discipline, to offset their educational or artistic fees, and/or to create new works….
Deadline: Various
Posted: January 28, 2009
NEC Rep: Training for Professional Artists and Collaborators
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District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Offers Folk & Traditional Arts Mini-Grant Program
The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities‘ Folk & Traditional Arts Mini-Grant program is designed to provide quick-response grants of up to $1,000 each to artists and arts organizations practicing or supporting folk traditions.
The Folk Arts Program supports projects that are developed in close consultation and collaboration with the communities whose traditions are to be presented. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to use folklorists, ethnomusicologists, or other specialists for documentation, program development, interpretation of presentations, and program production.
Link to Complete RFP
Deadline: Rolling
Posted: August 22, 2007
GRANTS FOR EDUCATION AND YOUTH PROGRAMS
Build-A-Bear Workshop Giving Programs Accepting Grant Applications for 2009
Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to charities in the United States and Canada working to support families, children, animals, and the environment….
Deadline: Various
Posted: February 12, 2009
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