Each year the Artwork Archive team goes on a mission to find the best art opportunities, grants, and calls-for-entry for the upcoming year.
Below you will find a list of the top artist residencies, international open calls, artist grants, exhibition opportunities and art competitions that we believe will benefit artists in 2024!
Remember, you can now save the important deadlines for your favorite opportunities right in your Artwork Archive account.
When you find a call that interests you, simply click ‘Add to Schedule' and the call's deadline will be automatically added to your Schedule. You'll also receive weekly reminders to keep you on top of your game.
We will be updating this list throughout the year, so make sure to bookmark the page, check back often, and let us know if there is an opportunity that should be listed!
Are you in the US and looking for the best opportunities in your region?
You can find Artwork Archive’s guides to the artist opportunities in your region using the guides below:
Midwestern United States Guide
Southwestern United States Guide
May 17, 2024 Ends today
McKnight Fellowships for Ceramic Artists
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: May 17, 2024
- Award Info: Two $25,000 grants will be awarded in 2024.
- Eligibility: State
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Sculpture
- Location: Minneapolis, MN 55406, United States
The McKnight Artist Fellowship for Ceramic Artists supports outstanding Minnesota ceramic artists who identify with any methodology—whether it be functional, sculptural, or relational—all techniques are welcome. The intent of this program is to recognize and support mid-career artists living and working in Minnesota who demonstrate a sustained level of accomplishment, commitment, and artistic excellence.
Fellowship support may be pursued for, but not limited to: experimenting with new techniques and materials; purchasing materials and equipment; collaborating with other artists; or pursuing education, exhibition, or travel opportunities. The 2024 Fellowship recipients will deliver a workshop and at the culmination of the grant period, will be featured in a catalogue and group exhibition at Northern Clay Center that will also travel to 3 – 5 sites around the state of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. This program is made possible by the generous support of the McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
May 17, 2024 Ends today
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: May 17, 2024
- Award Info: Up to $3,000
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline
- Location: NY, United States
The Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants have been updated, so please read these guidelines fully before deciding whether to apply.
For Essential Expenses: Incurred between September 1, 2023 and August 30, 2024
As of July 2023, the Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $3,000 to eligible dancers facing dire financial emergencies, due to the loss or lack of recent/current live performance work, because of circumstances outside of their control. Common circumstances include cancelled performances, cutbacks or cancellations of dance engagement contracts, loss of touring opportunities, and ongoing shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact.
“Dire financial emergencies“ include the lack or imminent endangerment of essentials such as housing, medicine/healthcare, utilities, and food. This grant program aims to provide dancers with greater stability to move forward by covering up to three months of essential expenses, recognizing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dance sector.
Please note: the need far outpaces available funds; an application is not a guarantee of a grant. In each cycle we will distribute approximately $68,000 in total funding.
ELIGIBILITY
There are three eligibility criteria in this program: Individual, Artistic, and Emergency. You need to meet all three areas, as of the cycle’s deadline, to apply.
1 – Individual Eligibility
Applicants must:
Be 21 years or older
Reside in the United States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory
Be an artist in need, having an adjusted gross income of $75,000 or lower for an individual, or $150,000 for joint filers, averaged over the last two federal tax returns.
Not be enrolled in any degree-seeking program.
Not have received a Rauschenberg Medical or Dancer Emergency Grant previously.
Demonstrate current and ongoing activity as a professional dancer (defined below).
2 – Artistic Eligibility
Applicants must:
Be a professional dancer. You need to have been working as a paid, live dance performer for at least the last five years (since 2019), in any stage/performance style, including aerial, ballet, hip-hop, jazz, modern, tap and traditional/folk. You may apply if you perform in a variety of settings (for instance: ticketed stage performances, free street festivals, and music videos), as long as you have performed in live, public-facing performances regularly since 2019 (at least one paid engagement annually).
You do not need to be a full-time dancer, or receive your primary income through your dance performance.
Inactivity, or online/streaming activity, during COVID, and during the last six months, is allowable.
Performances in educational/academic settings, social dance, competitive settings, clubs or other commercial settings, exotic dance, commercials, and industrials cannot be considered in this history of performing.
Self-produced online presentation, and/or performances shared solely through personal websites, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook or other online platforms are not eligible.
If you perform your own work live, your resume needs to clearly indicate that you were BOTH the choreographer and dancer.
3 – Emergency Eligibility
Applicants must:
Be experiencing a dire financial emergency that has occurred within approximately the last six months. This is defined as the lack or imminent endangerment of essentials such as housing, medicine/healthcare, utilities, food and/or transportation. Your expenses must be direct, out-of-pocket expenses for you individually.
The dire financial emergency needs to be the result of a loss or lack of current/recent (in the last six months) work as a paid dancer because of circumstances beyond your control. Common circumstances include canceled performances, cutbacks or cancellations of dance engagement contracts, loss of touring opportunities, and ongoing shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact.
The expenses for which you are requesting funds must be incurred and paid within the U.S. (including D.C., Tribal Nations and U.S Territories).
In each cycle, we can consider emergencies that have occurred within approximately the last six months. The earliest date for an eligible emergency is listed in the cycle’s information.
HOW EMERGENCY EXPENSES WORK:
You may request up to $3,000 for eligible essential expenses, for up to a three-month consecutive period, ranging from six months before the grant deadline through six months after the grant deadline. Expenses can be already paid by you, can be owed, or can be coming up in the near future.
NYFA reserves the right to determine eligible and reasonable expenses to support through this grant program.
Eligible expenses include:
Rental housing (deposits, rent)
Utilities
Food
Medical/dental/mental healthcare and insurance premiums
Transportation (car payments, insurance, ride shares/taxis, mass transit)
Expenses essential to maintaining your abilities as a dancer (class fees, dance gear/shoes, physical therapy)
Rehearsal/studio space rental for teaching or choreographing (including insurance/utilities)
Other essential expenses which you can specify
Ineligible expenses include, but are not limited to:
Mortgage payments
Expenses related to other family members (i.e. food, healthcare, child/parent-care)
Non-essential expenses including credit card debt or student loans
Purchases of vehicles or other equipment
While housing and utilities expenses may be requested for your general household, other eligible expenses may only be requested for your own individual purposes. If you receive a grant, you will be required to certify your use of the funds for the expenses itemized in your application, and provide copies of your tax returns for the last two years you have filed.
Please check back here, or sign up for NYFA’s bi-weekly NYFA News email, to receive updates on any potential future cycles.
If you have questions, contact the Rauschenberg Grants Coordinator at [email protected] or 212-366-6900 x 239.
INFORMATION SESSION
In this recorded information session, Mollie Quinlan-Hayes, Program Coordinator, Rauschenberg Grants, will review the guidelines and application form of the Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants and responds to frequently asked questions.
View the recorded information session.
ABOUT
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is proud to partner with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to administer Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants, an emergency grant program for professional dancers. Robert Rauschenberg was committed to assisting fellow artists in need of emergency aid, ultimately establishing the nonprofit foundation Change, Inc. in 1970. Recognizing the particularly extreme impact the pandemic and its ongoing effect has had on dancers, the Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants have been created.
ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
NYFA is committed to supporting artists from every background, and at all stages in their creative careers. We strongly encourage artists of color, LGBTQ+ artists, artists with disabilities, and artists living outside of the East and West coasts to apply.
To request an accommodation or assistance in applying, please email [email protected] or call 212-366-6900 ext. 239. We ask that requests for accommodation be made as soon as possible, preferably two weeks prior to the deadline, to allow adequate time for staff to support you in submitting an application on time.
May 17, 2024 Ends today
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: May 17, 2024
- Award Info: up to $5,000
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: NY, United States
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need* who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography. Only generative artists are eligible—artists creating their own, independent work, with recent and ongoing opportunities for the public to experience that work.
*To be eligible to apply, your average adjusted gross income for the last two years you’ve filed tax returns must be no greater than $75,000 ($150,000 for joint filers).
Please note: Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants are not for lost wages, living expenses, or medical care for individuals other than the artist. Visit NYFA’s Emergency Grants page for a regularly-updated list of emergency resources.
Please note: The need for emergency funding far outpaces available funds. An application to this grant program is not a guarantee of a grant award. In each cycle, we will distribute approximately $150,000 in total funding.
For Emergencies Occurring: October 1, 2023 and after
There are three eligibility criteria in this program: Individual, Artistic, and Emergency. We recommend you check all of these before taking the time to complete the application. If you meet the requirements, you should next review the application guidelines for instructions on submitting an application. You can also learn how the funding decisions are made, read our Frequently Asked Questions, and view a video information session.
1 – Your Individual Eligibility. You Must:
Be a generative artist creating work in visual arts, film/video/digital/electronic arts (not a performer), or choreography
Be 21 years or older on the cycle’s deadline
Reside in the United States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory
Have an adjusted gross income of $75,000 or lower for an individual, or $150,000 for joint filers, averaged over the last two federal tax returns
Your medical emergency and treatment must occur in the U.S. (including D.C., Tribal Nations and U.S. Territories)
Demonstrate current and ongoing activity in your artistic discipline
Not have received a Rauschenberg Medical or Dancer Emergency Grant previously
Not be enrolled in any degree-seeking program
2 – Your Artistic Eligibility.
You need to create original work in at least one of the eligible disciplines, AND have recent and sustained artistic activity.
Recent and sustained is defined as activity over the course of at least the last five years, since 2019, with multiple opportunities for the public to experience your work during this time. This can be through exhibits/screenings/performances/activities in art spaces, galleries, local businesses, art houses/film series, public art installations, public spaces, museums, fairs/festivals, community projects, and/or residencies with public-facing components. Student exhibits, performances, and other activities are not considered. We do not accept portfolios/work samples. Reduced activity during the pandemic is acceptable.
If self-produced online presentations or sales of your work are your sole platform, such as Instagram or YouTube, we cannot consider your application eligible.
Eligible Artistic Disciplines
Only artists creating work in visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts or choreography may apply to this grant program. The applicant must be the primary maker of the creative work—for film/video, only the publicly named director and/or producer or credited co-maker are eligible. Editors, cinematographers, assistant producers, television producers, screenwriters, television/film performers and crew members, dance performers, et al are not eligible.
Works which are intended for commercial or mass production, or are work-for-hire projects, are not eligible. These include music videos, television shows, graphic and fashion design, commissions, and industrial films.
Please review the definitions for the eligible disciplines:
Choreography
Visual Arts
Film/Video/Electronic/Digital Arts
3 – Your Emergency and Expenses Eligibility.
In this program, an emergency is a one-time, unexpected, non-chronic condition as a result of illness, violence, an accident or triggering event, or sudden medical event, that requires treatment to ensure your health or life, and which without treatment has extreme impact on your daily life and ability to carry out/return to your creative practice.
In each cycle, we can consider emergencies that have occurred within approximately the last six months. The earliest date for an eligible emergency is listed in the Cycles information. The medical emergency and treatment must occur in the U.S. (including D.C., Tribal Nations and U.S. Territories).
How emergency expenses work:
You may request funds for related, eligible expenses incurred for up to 12 months from the date of the emergency. For example, if an emergency occurred on December 15, 2023, you can request funds for eligible expenses through December 14, 2024. Funds may be requested for expenses which you have already incurred, or will incur; which you have already paid for or have not. Whether or not you have insurance, you can request funds for your own out-of-pocket expenses. If you have not yet received a diagnosis or treatment because of lack of funding or the timing of this application, you may still apply. If you haven’t yet received a diagnosis or treatment, and/or your documentation isn’t on hand, provide as much information about your condition as possible, including estimates of treatment costs in your local area, if possible. If you receive a grant, you will be required to submit copies of paid bills/receipts for all funded expenses. You may also be required to submit a copy of your two most recently filed tax returns, demonstrating your adjusted gross income.
Eligible expenses include, but are not limited to, these out of pocket costs to the artist:
Provider (hospital/doctor/dentist/clinic) bills, including co-pays
Tests/diagnostics/assessments/consultations to determine necessary treatment
Physical/occupational therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic
Prescription drugs specifically for the emergency medical condition
Emergency dental work
Transportation expenses to/from appointments/treatments
Grants cannot be requested for non-emergency medical conditions; ongoing medical/psychological/psychiatric treatment; wellness visits; regular check-ups, annual exams or procedures; standard vision care or eyeglasses, or hearing aids, or medical equipment (unless required as a direct result of an emergency injury/surgery/condition); elective procedures; insurance purchase/premiums; herbal/supplement/dietary/experimental treatments; or any non-medical expenses, even if the result of an emergency.
Grants cannot be requested for treatment, prescriptions, or other expenses related to a chronic condition, or a progressive/age-related condition such as arthritis or cataracts, unless there are extenuating circumstances which cause an unexpected and severe worsening of the condition. Example: A recent traumatic incident triggered a flareup of an existing mental health condition.
Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that last one year or more and require ongoing medical, dental, or mental health attention or limit activities of daily living or both.
Funds go directly to the artist, not a medical provider, unless there is a specific reason to do otherwise, with pre-approval from NYFA. Grant awards are routinely paid via direct deposit.
ABOUT
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is proud to partner with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to administer the Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants. Robert Rauschenberg was committed to assisting fellow artists in need of emergency medical aid, ultimately establishing the nonprofit foundation Change, Inc. in 1970. In this spirit, this program is designed to serve artists in financial need who otherwise may delay critical treatment or incur substantial and perhaps overwhelming debt. We recognize the urgency of caring for and helping one another and, while artists are famously self-sufficient, we encourage you to ask for support when needed.
To request an accommodation or assistance in applying, please email [email protected]. We ask that requests for accommodation be made as soon as possible, preferably two weeks prior to the deadline, to allow adequate time for staff to support you in submitting an application on time.
May 21, 2024 4 days left
The JGS Fellowship for Photography
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: May 21, 2024
- Award Info: $8,000 cash grant
- Eligibility: State
- Categories: Photography
- Location: New York, New York 10018, United States
- Online Only: Yes
The Fellowship is awarded to five artists working in traditional and experimental photography or any form in which photographic techniques are pivotal. The support for this funding is provided by The Joy of Giving Something (JGS).
May 30, 2024 13 days left
The Boynes Monthly Art Award [May 2024]
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: May 30, 2024
- Entry Fee: $10
- Award Info: $100 USD cash, a published interview, a winner's certificate and a feature in our newsletter
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
The Boynes Monthly Art Award is a monthly art competition for artists worldwide. Every month 3 artists will win $100 USD cash, a published interview, a winner's certificate and a feature in our newsletter!
May 2024 Theme : Water
The theme "Water" invites artists to explore the multifaceted aspects of water, both literally and metaphorically. Artists may depict water in various forms, including oceans, rivers, lakes, and rain, as well as its symbolic representations such as purification, life, tranquility, or turbulence. This theme encourages creativity and allows artists to delve into the profound relationship between humanity and water, addressing environmental, cultural, and emotional dimensions. Artists are challenged to capture the fluidity, movement, and transformative power of water through their chosen medium, whether it be painting, photography, sculpture, or mixed media.
Artists are required to submit:
Name
Email
Artist Bio (Max 500 words)
Portfolio (Max 6 images/videos)
Optional (recommended)
Artist Website
Art Social Media Handles
You can begin your application and return to it as you please, however it must be submitted by the posted deadline.
Please also note that you can request to edit a submission after you have submitted but before the final deadline.
Please note that entering our Monthly Art Award does not affect your application to the Boynes Artist Award in any way. This application is separate and also has no bearing on judging in the Boynes Artist Award.
May 31, 2024 14 days left
The Jonathan and Barbara Silver 2024 Grant for Writing on Sculpture
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: May 31, 2024
- Award Info: The Foundation is offering one $20,000 grant for 2024.
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Jonathan Silver (1937-1992) was a sculptor, art historian and art critic. He was passionately engaged with sculptural form and process and with histories and theories of sculpture.
The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation is committed to supporting the field of sculpture. The JBSF grant program operates on a 2-year cycle, with alternating grants that support writing in even years and sculpture in odd years. Applications are now open for writing on sculpture, and the recipient will be announced later in the year. The sculpture grant application will be available in 2025.
The recipient of the writer’s grant will be able to demonstrate a serious commitment to writing about sculpture, through fresh writing and thinking on the history, aesthetics, purposes, imagination and/or situation of sculpture.
Supported categories of writing include essays and books. Types of writing that are supported include art criticism, art history, memoir, psychoanalytical study, philosophical meditation and literary study.
The project is expected to be completed within 1 year of receiving the award.
May 31, 2024 14 days left
Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: May 31, 2024
- Award Info: The $10,000 individual grant
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Upperville, VA 20184
The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2 - 5 week stay at Oak Spring. While at OSGF, the Fellow will be able to meet with staff, explore our 700-acre landscape and our efforts in sustainable land management, and visit our rare book library that holds over 19,000 objects, including many examples of botanical art.
OSGF intends to award the Fellowship to an exceptional artist whose works show remarkable promise to contribute to a deeper understanding of the natural world, and humankind’s place in it. The Fellow will be scheduled to visit when there are other Interdisciplinary Residents or Fellows on-site. This scheduling will allow the Fellow to join in communal meals, and optional activities and field trips with other artists, ecologists, researchers, or scholars working on projects related to OSGF’s mission. Beyond time devoted to their projects, a Fellow’s typical day at Oak Spring might include a walk to enjoy the landscape or birds; an appointment to visit the Oak Spring Library; and/or a morning spent volunteering at the BCCF or in the formal garden. These optional activities provide Fellows time to learn from, and interact with our staff. None of these activities are required, and we understand that some Fellows might want to spend most of their time in their writing or working independently. We support and enable Fellows to use their time as they best see fit.
May 31, 2024 14 days left
Causability Grant
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: May 31, 2024
- Award Info: $5,000
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Causability recognizes that creatives are often asked to donate their art or time to nonprofits without payment. This mindset can contribute to an undeserved or ‘starving artist’ stereotype.
We are changing this.
By empowering creatives, nonprofits and communities can benefit much more from collaborating together on a project rather than just creatives one-time ‘gifting’ their art away.
Therefore, we’re offering three $5K grants to empower and encourage cause collaboration:
Each grant is $5000.00 providing creatives the ability to collaboratively develop an creative related event, program or fundraiser with a local nonprofit.
June 1, 2024 15 days left
San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Awards
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 1, 2024
- Award Info: three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $15,000
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: San Francisco, California
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: we consider the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect our country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color.
In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers, such as inclusion in prominent exhibitions (e.g. five Awardees were featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and six in 2019).
June 9, 2024 23 days left
Great Meadows Foundation Artist Professional Development Grants
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 9, 2024
- Event Dates: August 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
- Award Info: Grants range between $500 and $6,000.
- Eligibility: Regional
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: KY, United States
- Online Only: Yes
Artist Professional Development Grants promote the growth and development of visual art in Kentucky by helping improve the critical skills, resources, knowledge, and connections of fine artists. APDG Grants support and forward artists’ careers by encouraging them to engage with the broader contemporary art world and raising the bar for art being produced in the region. Developing fine artists’ awareness of and participation in the national and international contemporary art world, this program aims to strengthen the level of critical discourse among artists in the state.
June 10, 2024 24 days left
Chamberlain Award
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 10, 2024
- Entry Fee: Regular (May 7–June 10): $25
- Award Info: a fully sponsored artist residency and $10,000 prize
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Sausalito, CA 94965, United States
Chamberlain Award is a fully sponsored artist residency and $10,000 prize to support an artist working in the social practice discipline. This award supports artists employing non-traditional media to creatively engage with social concerns of the day.
Program Goals
• To invest in individuals at the cutting edge of the social practice field, whose artwork creates dialogue and social
change.
• To support artists to explore and experiment in order to take their work to the next level.
• To build a nurturing and dynamic community of local, national, and international artists and thinkers.
• To encourage artists to develop ideas and work within the context of the Marin Headlands, a part of Golden Gate
National Recreation Area.
• To bring national and international artists to the Bay Area to engage and have cross-cultural exchange with local
artists and audiences.
Program Details
• Fully sponsored 6- to 10-week residency
• Paid roundtrip airfare
• 100- to 2000-sq.-foot studio
• Private bedroom in shared house
• A maximum two week stay for families in the Family House (by request only and subject to availability)
• Five chef-prepared meals per week
• Access to vehicles on-site
• Facilities access: Basic woodshop; audio/video equipment; artists’ library with computers, scanner, and printer
• Wi-Fi in designated spaces
• Up to 15 Artists in Residence living on-site
• Up to 8 other local Headlands artists working in studios on-site
• Participation in monthly “Show & Tell” nights
• Participation in seasonal Open House
• Access to Headlands Public Events
• Field trips to Bay Area museums, galleries, and cultural venues
• Become part of Headlands Alumni Network
June 10, 2024 24 days left
2025 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Visual Arts and Curatorial Work
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 10, 2024
- Award Info: $50,000
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: New York, NY 10021, United States
- Online Only: Yes
The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant visual artists and three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant curators who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field.
Who Should Apply:
You were born outside the United States to non-American parents
You are not more than 38 years old
You have 5 years of professional experience in visual arts or curatorial work and possess a strong track record of creative and high-caliber work
June 10, 2024 24 days left
Wyoming Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowships 2024
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 10, 2024
- Award Info: $5,000 unrestricted awards of merit
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Cheyenne, WY 82002, United States
The Wyoming Arts Council's Visual Arts Fellowships are $5,000 unrestricted awards of merit, based on the artist’s portfolio, honoring the work of Wyoming visual artists whose work reflects serious and exceptional aesthetic investigation. Artists working in any media, including film and video, may apply. Applications are juried by noted artists, curators, and others in the visual arts from outside the state. Up to three fellowships may be given each year, and jurors may also select honorable mentions. Recipients of the Visual Arts fellowships exhibit their work in the Wyoming Arts Council Biennial Exhibit, held every two years at a major visual arts institution or museum in the state. The winners of this year's fellowship will exhibit in 2025. The exhibition is curated by one of the jurors, who serves on the panel for two years. Applicants must be Wyoming residents. The deadline to apply is June 10, 2024.
JURORS
Ginger Shulick Porcella In January 2023 Ginger Shulick Porcella was named as the Executive Director of Creative Growth Art Center, the premier organization for contemporary artists with developmental disabilities. Porcella most recently was the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Franconia Sculpture Park and the founder/co-curator of the 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial. She has led nonprofit arts organizations in New York, California, Minnesota, and Arizona, and has curated critically acclaimed museum exhibitions such as: Amir H. Fallah: Scatter my Ashes on Foreign Lands; Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality and the Occult in Contemporary Art; and Dazzled: OMD, Memphis Design and Beyond. Her exhibitions have been positively reviewed in Frieze, The New York Times, and Hyperallergic and in 2015 she was named the “Voice of the Year” by the San Diego press for her visionary leadership in transforming the arts and cultural ecosystem of Southern California and Baja, Mexico.
Libby Garon has worked as the Gallery Director at Walker Fine Art (WFA) for the past 7 years and strives to connect beautiful artworks with collectors who love them. WFA is a 22-year-old mid to advance career gallery in the heart of Denver’s museum district showcasing original contemporary art, which features group exhibitions from a diverse roster. As Gallery Director, she works to build strong relationships with collectors and artists that are founded on trust. Her goal is to learn about her clients to guide them towards collecting artwork that reflects their authenticity, either through resonating with the subject matter, aligning with their passions, or telling an aspect of their life story. Everyday WFA works to ensure that their exhibitions align with their mission: to give our artists a space to connect with the greater public presenting work that uplifts, heals, and is emotionally evocative, while also constantly navigating the balance between commerce and creativity.
As an art lover, Libby has been fortunate to have the arts as a constant in her life. She began her art path studying studio art with a focus in printmaking at Mount Holyoke College in MA, and interning at Dieu Donne Paper Mill and Lower East Side Print Shop in New York, assisting artists including Kara Walker, Ann Hamilton and Ursula Von Rydingsvard. As often as she can, Libby continues to make and sell her own work and appreciates having both perspectives of the artist and the arts professional.
Libby is an active arts advocate and strives to share her passion for the arts in everything that she does. She now has been in the Denver arts community for over a decade working, jurying, guest curating and serving as a board member for institutions including Art Students League of Denver, Access Gallery, Golden Triangle Neighborhood Association, PlatteForum, 5280 Trail- Acoma Segment, Curtis Center, Denver Lights and numerous Denver Art Museum committees including Culture Haus, Denver Art Conservation Committee and Museum Friends.
Application Requirements
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Applications must be submitted through CaFE (callforentry.org). Mailed or emailed submissions will not be accepted.
Artists working in any visual media are invited to apply, including: experimental (conceptual/new media), graphic (printmaking/book arts), painting, sculpture, installation, photography (includes experimental, color, black & white, photocopy and computer), clay, fiber, glass, leather, metal, paper, plastic, wood, mixed media, film or video.
Artists may submit up to ten work samples, of which up to two may be detail images, if appropriate.
Film/video applicants may submit up to 4 samples, and have the option to submit stills. Jurors will only be required to watch up to 10 minutes of a film/video submission.
Work must have been created within the past 5 years.
Applicants are asked to submit an artist’s statement and to verify that they meet the eligibility requirements.
Please ensure your name does not appear anywhere on the application or work samples, except where specifically requested, to preserve the anonymous nature of the judging.
WHAT IF YOU WIN AN AWARD?
You’ll receive $5,000 up front.
Fellowship recipients agree to participate in the 2025 Wyoming Arts Council Biennial Exhibition, and are included in the catalog produced.
You’ll sign a contract that verifies you’re eligible to receive this award.
You’ll need to supply a bio and a head shot for publicity.
You will retain all rights to this work and the work you produce during the grant period.
You must create an impact statement, due August 31, 2025, sharing with the Wyoming Arts Council how this award helped you and what you accomplished during the year you received it.
June 10, 2024 24 days left
Chiaro Award 2025
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 10, 2024
- Entry Fee: Regular (May 7–June 10): $25
- Award Info: a fully sponsored artist residency and $15,000 prize for a mid-career painter
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting
- Location: Sausalito, CA 94965, United States
The Chiaro Award is a fully sponsored artist residency and $15,000 prize for a mid-career painter residing in the United States. The Chiaro Award residency includes a private studio, and inclusion in a dynamic network of Headlands’ creative practitioners and thinkers.
Headlands’ Artist in Residence (AIR) program awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 50 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, comfortable housing, and travel and living expense reimbursements. AIRs become part of a dynamic community of artists participating in Headlands’ other programs, allowing for exchange and collaborative relationships to develop within the artist community on campus.
Program Goals
• To support and have a meaningful impact on the lives and careers of accomplished painters creating exceptional and exemplary work.
• To bring outstanding painters into a nurturing and dynamic professional network of creative practitioners and
thinkers.
• To encourage artists to develop ideas and work within the context of the Marin Headlands, a part of Golden Gate
National Recreation Area.
• To bring national and international artists to the Bay Area to engage and have cross-cultural exchange with local
artists and audiences.
Program Details
• Fully sponsored 6- to 10-week residency with an award of $15,000
• Paid roundtrip airfare
• 750 square foot studio
• Private bedroom in shared house
• A maximum two week stay for families in the Family House (by request only and subject to availability)
• Five chef-prepared meals per week
• Use of Headlands’ vehicles
• Facilities access: basic woodshop; audio/video equipment; artists’ library with computers, scanner, and printer
• Wi-Fi in studio and designated spaces
• Up to 15 Artists in Residence living on-site
• Up to 8 other Headlands’ artists working on-site
• Participation in monthly “Show & Tell” nights
• Participation in seasonal Open House
• Access to Headlands Public Events
• Field trips to Bay Area museums, galleries, and cultural venues
• Become part of Headlands Alumni Network
June 20, 2024 34 days left
Innovate Artist Grant
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 20, 2024
- Entry Fee: $35
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Innovate Grant distributes (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer.
Our newly increased $1,800.00 grants act as mighty sparks of financial support that ignite your creative development.
Our grant cycles are open (4) times a year (Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall) giving you more opportunities to access the support you need.
Our process is simple so you spend less time on the application and more time making your important work.
June 21, 2024 35 days left
$1,000 Evolution Grant
Grants & Fellowships
- Organization: Art Fluent
- Submission Deadline: June 21, 2024
- Entry Fee: 35.00
- Award Info: $1,000
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Art Fluent’s grant cycle is now open to individual artists through an international open call. The Evolution Grant will provide unrestricted funding to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art.
CALENDAR
Applications due by Friday, June 21, 2024 at midnight MST.
AWARD
$1,000 to one visual artist each grant cycle.
Unrestricted funds applied toward any expense to enhance the artist’s ability to create work.
APPLICATION FEE
$35. The application fee is non-refundable. It helps defray the costs of administering this grant so we can continue to support and fund artist’s creative projects.
ELIGIBILITY
This call is open to artists worldwide, both amateur and professional. Once an artist is awarded an Evolution Grant, they will not be eligible to apply again.
RULES
Open to ALL fine art mediums (oil, acrylic, watermedia, pastel, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, photography, sculpture, fiber, wood, ceramics, digital art). AI will not be accepted. There is no restriction on style, genre, or subject matter. Work that is copied or done under the guidance of an instructor is not eligible.
SELECTION PROCESS
You will be asked to submit a body of work between 8-20 pieces, along with an artist statement and artist bio.
Applications are reviewed based on a body of work. This jury type allows artists to submit as many media samples as allowed, and all media are submitted into one application.
ENTRY PROCEDURE
Entry is done through CaFÉ, a web-based service that allows artists to upload images and organize their artwork for submissions to galleries. To apply, you must leave our website and go to the CaFÉ website at www.callforentry.org, where you can create a FREE artist account. You will add your details and upload your images to CaFÉ, and then you can submit work to The Evolution Grant. If you have any questions about entering, please contact us at [email protected] we are happy to walk you through the process.
MEDIA PREPARATION
Please only submit properly cropped images of your work that are in focus. We have a free resource for artists for tips on how to get high quality images of your work. Visit www.art-fluent.com/resources for a free download. CaFÉ also offers tips on their blog which you can find here www.callforentry.org/photographing-artwork/.
All images must be in JPEG/JPG format using CaFÉ guidelines. The image size must be 1,200 pixels or greater on the longest side. Maximum file size is 5 mb.
NOTIFICATION
Notification will be done by email, everyone who submits will be notified of their results. If, for any reason, you do not hear from us by Friday, July 18, 2024, please check the filters in your email account. Notification emails are sent to the email on file with CaFÉ.
REQUIRED FORMS
Cash awards over $600 are subject to federal income tax withholding within the United States. A W-9 form must be filled out by the winner and submitted to Art Fluent, Inc.
REGULATIONS
By entering through CaFÉ, you agree to be added to Art Fluent's email list for upcoming artist opportunities. By submitting images, you agree that the images are your own work, nothing copied, you own all rights to the images, and take full responsibility for the content of all images, including the likeness of recognizable individuals. The actual artwork will remain the property of the artist, our mission is to promote artists and their work. Upon grant distribution, you allow Art Fluent the right to reproduce your work on our website, social media, and where appropriate, to help promote further online opportunities. Art Fluent will always credit you and your copyright wherever feasible. We will not use your image for any other purpose without the artist's permission.
June 21, 2024 35 days left
2024 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP)
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 21, 2024
- Award Info: $1,500
- Eligibility: State
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: WA, United States
- Online Only: Yes
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) are unrestricted project-based grants of $1,500 awarded to 65 artists working in all disciplines across Washington State.
Funding may be used for but not limited to artist fees, materials, equipment, space rental, travel for research, documentation, professional development opportunities, marketing and promotion, support to continue a current project, support to start a new project, and many other needs related to your project.
June 30, 2024 44 days left
The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 30, 2024
- Award Info: Queer|Art’s first international grant provides an award of $10,000 for the winner and $1,250 for distinguished finalists, to support the creation of new work by emerging LGBTQ+ photographers.
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Photography
- Location: New York, United States
- Online Only: Yes
Queer|Art’s first international grant provides an award of $10,000 for the winner and $1,250 for distinguished finalists, to support the creation of new work by emerging LGBTQ+ photographers. Named in honor of photographer Robert Giard (1939-2002), a portrait, landscape, and figure photographer whose work focused on LGBTQ+ lives and issues, the grant focuses on supporting emerging LGBTQ+ photographers whose projects address issues of sexuality, gender, or LGBTQ+ identity.
The grant was organized in partnership with The Robert Giard Foundation from 2020 until 2022 when the Foundation ceased operations. The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers supports and promotes self-taught, early career or otherwise emerging LGBTQ+ artists, awarded on a yearly basis. This support is vital for emerging artists, who may lack the financial resources or institutional support available to more established artists. The 2024 Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers is made possible with the generous support of Joan Cadden, Glenn Stancroff, and the Robert Giard Foundation. After five years, 2024 will be Queer|Art’s final year hosting the Robert Giard Grant.
The judges for the 2024 Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers: editor-in-chief of Them Sarah Burke, interdisciplinary artist Jess T. Dugan, historian and curator Jacqueline Francis, and photographer Tommy Kha. After five years, 2024 will be Queer|Art’s final year hosting the Robert Giard Grant.
Cover image: Lines of a Golf Course (1979) by Robert Giard. Courtesy of the Estate of Robert Giard and Queer|Art.
June 30, 2024 44 days left
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: June 30, 2024
- Award Info: $10,000 grant
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists, a $10,000 grant, supports visual artists who are self-identified Black trans women. This grant is made possible entirely through support provided by visual artist Mariette Pathy Allen, whose body of photographic work over the last forty years has been squarely focused on expanding cultural consciousness around gender and transformation. The development of this grant was stewarded by consultant and writer Aaryn Lang, working in collaboration with Mariette Pathy Allen, Serena Jara, and Queer|Art. In order to further recognize finalists for their artistic achievements, Queer|Art is pleased to announce that the grant will also provide a $1,250 award to four distinguished finalists.
The llluminations Grant is administered through Queer|Art with a rotating panel of judges, each of whom will conduct a studio visit with the winning artist as part of the award’s focus on supporting creative and professional development. Judges for the 2024 grant cycle include M. Lamar, Tourmaline, and jaamil olawale kosoko. Queer|Art staff will also provide the winning artist and finalists with consultations and further access to many of the tools they have developed in conjunction with the organization’s cornerstone creative and professional development program, Queer|Art|Mentorship.
Cover image details: NYC Gay Pride by Mariette Pathy Allen, courtesy Queer|Art.
September 15, 2024 121 days left
Boston Artadia Awards
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: September 15, 2024
- Award Info: three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $15,000
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Boston , Massachusetts
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: we consider the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect our country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color.
In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers, such as inclusion in prominent exhibitions (e.g. five Awardees were featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and six in 2019).
October 1, 2024 137 days left
Atlanta Artadia Awards
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024
- Award Info: three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $15,000
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: we consider the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect our country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color.
In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers, such as inclusion in prominent exhibitions (e.g. five Awardees were featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and six in 2019).
November 1, 2024 168 days left
Houston Artadia Awards
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
- Award Info: three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $15,000
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Houston, Texas
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: we consider the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect our country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color.
In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers, such as inclusion in prominent exhibitions (e.g. five Awardees were featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and six in 2019).
Ongoing
Austin Creative Alliance (ACA) Artists Emergency Relief Fund-Deadline ONGOING
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: $1,000
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Cultural sector workers based in Greater Austin facing verifiable and immediate housing, food or healthcare insecurity (including travel, lodging and procedure expenses related to reproductive care) may apply for up to $1000 in unrestricted funds. The funding pool is limited, so applicants are asked to carefully consider the amount they request. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, and are subject to verification and available funds. A short phone interview may be required. Priority will be given to ACA members. Repayment is not required, but artists who receive funding may be asked to support the ACA Community in the future.
DEADLINE IS ONGOING
Ongoing
POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist's professional work and personal expenses and amounts range up to $30,000.
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
The Foundation provides financial resources for visual artists to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses.
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.
Ongoing application.
Ongoing
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000; an award of $5,000 is typical
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
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 IS ONGOING
Ongoing
Emergency Grants max’s kansas city project
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: Max’s Emergency Relief & Resource Fund is a one-time grant of between $500 and $1000 to assist self-employed artists who have a steady work history, but who are experiencing a temporary financial set back.
- Eligibility: State
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Kingston, New York 12402, United States
- Online Only: Yes
Max’s Emergency Relief & Resource Fund is a one-time grant of between $500 and $1000 to assist self-employed artists who have a steady work history, but who are experiencing a temporary financial set back. MKCP assistance is designed to resolve this short term crisis, whatever it may be, and the applicant will again gain employment in the near future. Individuals seeking assistance must be residents of New York State. Exceptions are made in some cases if applicant was affiliated with Max’s Kansas City. Applicants whose arrears are so serious that assistance will not allow them relief from their difficulties are not eligible for assistance. Please be specific as to what bill the grant is needed for. Grants of financial assistance do not go to the applicant. Payment goes directly to creditor/third party. Please note, although MKCP Emergency Grant does cover medical bills, it does not cover psychotherapy costs unless the psychotherapist is an MD. MKCP only covers housing, medical and legal aid. The application and support materials must be sent by snail mail!
Ongoing
Pop Culture Collaborative grants: PROGRAM AREA 1: ARTISTS ADVANCING CULTURE CHANGE
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: Grant/funding
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: New York, New York 10008, United States
THE POP CULTURE COLLABORATIVE’S VISION AND PURPOSE
Throughout America’s history, the most transformative cultural shifts—from slavery abolition to Reconstruction, “I Have A Dream” to “Yes We Can,” #BlackLivesMatter, the DREAM-ers, and Love Is Love—have been achieved by movements and leaders who have awakened people’s deep yearning to belong in a pluralist America. In each case, the tug-of-war between belonging and exclusion sparked a portal moment—a cracking open of the public imagination about what this nation is capable of becoming.
We believe our nation is on the precipice of another historic breakthrough: a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the American people to decisively choose to move in the direction of pluralism and justice. How will we respond to this call for transformation? Will we submit to authoritarian narratives that entice us to retreat back into the systems of exclusion and violence that stain our past, or will we step boldly through the portal and onto the path towards our pluralist future?
Americans have the opportunity to ask: What society do we yearn to create and who can we empower to lead the way? If, as civil rights scholar Vincent Harding once said, America is “a country that has yet to be born,” the pop culture for social change field can help prepare and guide millions of people through this process of becoming something new by clearing away the detritus of our nation’s past, replacing fetid, crumbling ideas and norms with ones rooted in justice, care, and connection.
Together, artists, organizers, strategists, and researchers can create the stories that help the American public understand and interpret the choices we face through the lens of our shared commitment to becoming a pluralist nation.
Over the long-term, the Collaborative is working to support the growth of a pop culture for social change field capable of building the yearning in most Americans (more than 150 million people) to actively co-create a just and pluralist society in which everyone is perceived to belong, inherently, and is treated as such. The Pop Culture Collaborative defines a pluralist society as a culture in which the majority of people in a community and nation are engaged in the hard and delicate work of belonging together in a just and equitable society.
GRANT ELIGIBILITY
Individuals/organizations with fiscal sponsorships as well as nonprofits and for-profits in the United States are eligible for Pop Culture Collaborative grants.
To be considered, proposals must engage, affect, center, and/or support at least one or all of our multi-community focus areas: people of color, immigrants, refugees, Indigenous peoples, and/or Muslims, particularly those who are women, queer, transgender, and/or disabled. Initiatives with an intersectional and intentional focus on gender justice, LGBTQIA rights, disability, democratic fairness, pluralist values, and economic justice are highly prioritized. The Collaborative seeks grantee partners working at the intersection of pop culture and social change who:
Are artists, activists, organizations, strategists, researchers, and/or others who identify culture change as a clear outcome of their work and pop culture strategies as a critical aspect of their culture change efforts.
The Pop Culture Collaborative provides grants to artists and organizations or companies that support artist cohorts, from various disciplines, locations, and industries to bring their artistic vision to mass audiences, while also contributing to field-wide efforts to build public yearning for a pluralist America.
We seek to create a large, networked community of artists who believe that their creative work and leadership have the power to inspire millions of Americans to actively co-create a pluralist society.
Areas of interest include:
Supporting artists and cultural organizations to conceptualize, develop, and produce creative works that can help build public yearning for pluralist culture in America.
Supporting artists to gather for shared learning, networking, community-knitting, and power-building, especially spaces that bring artists into direct and meaningful connection with frontline activists and culture change strategists.
Helping artists and organizations develop the methodology, networks, infrastructure, pipelines, and leadership skills needed to redistribute access and power in their respective industries to historically excluded communities.
The Pop Culture Collaborative accepts proposals by invitation only. However, we have created a simple process for potential grantees to self-evaluate whether they are a match with the Collaborative’s goals and guidelines, and if so, to submit an idea for our consideration. It is important to note that an idea submission is not a proposal. The Collaborative will respond only to idea submissions that the staff team has reviewed and deem a potential match.
Ongoing
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: The grants range from $500-$3,000
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
Created in 1993 to further FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists 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. Our mission is to support experimental artistic practices.
Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.
Ongoing
The Jar of Love Fund
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: microgrants
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
ARTNOIR is excited to announce our microgrant initiative, The Jar of Love Fund, is currently accepting applications once again. The Jar of Love Fund is intended to provide relief for artists, curators, and cultural producers of color. The Jar of Love Fund has distributed over $100,000 USD and first launched in 2020 in response to the unprecedented times of uncertainty, unrest, and the subsequent adverse impact on our community.
For the past decade, ARTNOIR has worked tirelessly to be an agent of social change catalyzing equity across the arts and culture industries. As an organization based on the foundation of community first, we want to do our part to provide love and care for artists, curators and cultural producers of color when they need it most. The unrestricted grant is designed to help remove some of the burden of thought and free up mental and spiritual capacity to continue creating and collaborating in strength. The arts and culture are the bedrock of any society. These are spaces that invite us to think critically and engage in rigorous discourse around the tough challenges we face as a community. As we reflect on the decade worth of work we have done as an organization, it is imperative that we utilize our network and resources to ensure that creatives have the capacity to create and be the spark of joy we need in our lives.
We are committed to ensuring that artists, curators and cultural producers of all gender expressions, sexual orientation, disability status, and socioeconomic class have access to the fund and will actively work to ensure outreach is targeted to groups otherwise excluded from resources of this nature. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis as funds become available. Microgrant amounts are determined on a case-by-case basis depending on the scale of the project.
Ongoing
Creative Debut’s Black Artist Grant
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: £500
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
The Black Artists Grant (BAG) offered by Creative Debuts as a no-strings attached financial support to help black artists. They can spend the grant on whatever they want – be that make new work, buy equipment or materials, travel, research, visit exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.
This grant has been set up because black artists are systematically under-supported by the art world; by institutions, curators, the artist-led scene, major and minor funding bodies, the market, art schools, and by audiences too.
Ongoing
The Awesome Foundation
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: 1,000
- Eligibility: International
- Online Only: Yes
The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. At each fully autonomous chapter, the money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and given up front in cash, check, or gold doubloons.
Ongoing
Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) Emergency Relief and Get Ready Grants
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: varies
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline
- Location: Montpelier,, Vermont
The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) emergency relief grant focuses on artists working in craft or materials-based folk/traditional disciplines that are 18 years or older and have resided and worked in the U.S. or U.S. territories for the past 2 years. These artists must have experienced a recent, unforeseen, career threatening emergency. Emergency Relief is available year-round.
The Get Ready Grant program provides individual craft artists grants up to $500 to conduct activities that will help safeguard their studios, protect their careers and prepare for emergencies. Artists are encouraged to use the Risk Assessment activity to generate ideas. Priority will be given to applications from people who identify in the global majority or as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)* and folk and traditional artists. Get Ready Grants are available multiple times a year. Check the website for deadlines.
Ongoing
Boynes Monthly Artist Award
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Entry Fee: $10
- Award Info: $100
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
"This monthly initiative was launched to give all emerging artists around the world even more chances to win cash, publication and more!
Every month we will choose 3 artists to win $100 cash, a published interview with our Art Director & Founder Chantal Boynes, a winner’s certificate and a feature in our Newsletter going out to almost 40,000 artists, gallerists and art lovers. Each month artists will submit to a theme with all artists practicing 2D & 3D mediums welcome to apply.
Ongoing
Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund
Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: Ongoing
- Award Info: US $10,000
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
We established the Community Fund to provide support to professional creators during times of extraordinary hardship.
This year, we have witnessed the unprovoked, violent attacks on Ukraine and the tragic loss of innocent lives. As we see continue to see this tragedy unfold, we believe we have a responsibility to support professional creators during the growing humanitarian crisis and refugee situation in the region. We will now be focusing our Community Fund efforts on providing support to those creators who have been directly impacted by the unjustified invasion of Ukraine.
If selected, you will receive US$10,000 from the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund. While applicants can use the money granted to them by the Community Fund at their full and lawful discretion, the purpose of the award is to allow recipients impacted by the invasion of Ukraine to support themselves and their families during this time of conflict. See the full list of qualification criteria here. https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/creative-residency/community-fund.html