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Top Opportunities for Artist Grants
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock. The Foundation is pleased to report that since its inception in 1985, it has awarded over 4,500 grants totaling nearly 74 million dollars to artists in 77 countries. Pollock-Krasner Foundation has 4 various types of grants. You can learn more about the different types of grants they offer by clicking here or you can just keep and go to the application by clicking here.
The Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists
The Harpo Foundation was established in 2006 to support emerging visual artists. The foundation seeks to stimulate creative inquiry and to encourage new modes of thinking about art. We view the definitions of art and artist to be open-ended and expansive. The Foundation’s grant program awards 7-10 grants annually. Grants are made directly to artists to support their development and to non-profit organizations in support of new work by artists. The Foundation also supports two residency fellowship programs. The Native American Residency Fellowship program provides residency opportunities at the Vermont Studio Center to support the development of artists and the potential for inter-cultural dialog. The Emerging Artist Residency Fellowship program supports residency opportunities at the Santa Fe Art Institute for visual artists 25 years and older who need time and space to explore ideas and start new projects. Grants offered by Harpo Foundation click to apply: GRANTS FOR VISUAL ARTISTS, EMERGING ARTIST RESIDENCY, NATIVE AMERICAN, and NEW WORK PROJECT GRANTS
Artadia is a national non-profit organization that identifies innovative visual artists and supports them with unrestricted, merit-based financial awards and connections to a network of opportunities. Since 1999, Artadia has awarded over $5 million in unrestricted funds to over 325 artists in 7 cities. Artadia was founded in San Francisco in 1999 by Christopher E. Vroom and a group of art collectors and philanthropists who recognized that visual artists could benefit from increased financial and professional support. After relocating to New York in 2002, the organization’s mission increased its geographical scope, expanding its grant-making program to artists living and working in seven unique urban communities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Today, in its six active Award cities, Artadia annually awards unrestricted, merit-based grants directly to artists through a curator-driven process. The organization also presents the Art & Dialogue series, which features studio visits and public programs showcasing Artadia’s Awardees, and the Artadia Fellowship, which supports immigrant and refugee artists with connections to Artadia Awardees in the Houston art community. Grants offered by Artadia click to apply: Artadia Award
The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
Adolph Gottlieb, one of the artists known for initiating the Abstract Expressionism movement, achieved artistic and financial success far beyond his early expectations. But, he had several colleagues who, despite their artistic achievements, were not able to support themselves financially. The Gottlieb Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. Grants offered by Gottlieb click to apply: INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT GRANT
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships
The United States Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1925 as a memorial to a son who died April 26, 1922. The Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. The Foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications each year. Although no one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition, there is no prescreening: all applications are reviewed. Approximately 175 Fellowships are awarded each year.Grants offered by John Simon Guggenheim click to apply: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Artist Grant has supported and funded artists since 2017 (see the work of past grant recipients below). All too often, society expects artists to work for free when other types of professionals receive fair compensation for their work. Artists deserve fair compensation. To that end, our charitable organization funds the efforts of artists to continue their important work and contributions to society. Grants offered by Artist Grant click to apply: Artist Grant
Performing Arts Grants
Here are some grants for artists specializing in the performing arts, from music and dance to theatrical productions.
Jubilation Foundation grants
Art discipline: Music and dance projects
Amount: $5,000 per year for two years
Special notes: The only requirement is that applicants live within the U.S. Jubilation Foundation performing arts grants are given to individual artists with “an exceptional talent for helping young people feel fully alive through rhythm—as expressed in music and dance.” The foundation’s goal is to promote well-being and the joyful side of human nature through music and movement.
APAP Cultural Exchange Fund
Art discipline: Performing arts
Amount: $2,000 for individuals, or up to $10,000 for groups
Special notes: Supports artist to travel outside the U.S. to collaborate with international artists
The Association of Performing Arts Professionals gives travel grants to help American artists travel abroad to collaborate, build partnerships, and experience art from around the world in its cultural context. There are no limitations on the countries the artist can travel to, but APAP encourages applicants to consider choosing a country in Africa, Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East.
General Art Grants
These art grants are open to most artists, meaning there are few restrictions on geography, art discipline, or subject matter.
The Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Awards
Art discipline: Visual arts (except video)
Amount: $1,500
Special notes: Up to seven awards are granted annually
This foundation gives unrestricted cash awards to help individual artists who are working on or planning a new visual art project. Between four and seven artist grants are given out each year. Applicants have to be living and working in the U.S to be eligible.
Radcliffe Fellowship Program
Art discipline: Any
Amount: Up to a $70,000 stipend and $5,000 to cover project expenses
Special notes: Involves living at Harvard University for a year
Each year, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program chooses 50 talented artists and scholars to convene at Harvard University for a full academic year. There they can work on individual projects while benefiting from a multidisciplinary community.
Applicants from any discipline and who focus on any subject matter are welcome to apply. However, there are some subjects that are of special interest to the Radcliffe Institute. For instance, artists whose work involves women, gender, and society will have a better chance of getting chosen.
Sustainable Arts Foundation Awards
Art discipline: Any
Amount: Up to $5,000
Special notes: Only artists with children are eligible
This foundation aims to support artists with families by providing financial awards to parents that are pursuing creative work. Parents often put aside their creative impulses to meet the demands of raising a family, so the foundation’s goal is to encourage parents to continue with their creative passions.
Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Grant
Art discipline: Artistic and journalistic photography
Amount: $10,000
Special notes: Open to any emerging photographer
The Emerging Photographer grant is intended to support photographers who will become tomorrow’s icons. Recipients can use the money to support themselves as they move forward in their work and continue making a mark. In addition to the Emerging Photographer Grant for artists, which is open to any emerging photographer, Burn Magazine offers a $10,000 award specifically for photographers who are 25 and under. If you apply for the Emerging Photographer grant and meet the age requirement, you’ll automatically be eligible for the award.
A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art
Art discipline: Any
Amount: $20,000
Special notes: Applicants must be 25 or older
A Blade of Grass is an organization that provides resources for talented artists who “serve as innovative conduits for social change.” Its fellowship program is designed to support artists in creating work that highlights social problems and focuses on funding projects that challenge unfair power dynamics. Along with the financial support, the fellowship grants artists an expenses-paid two-day orientation retreat in NYC to meet fellow artists as well as the organization’s staff and board.
Anything Art Grant
Art discipline: Any
Amount: $1,000
Special notes: $35 entry fee to submit up to three works
Specto Art Space, an art gallery in Virginia, offers this unrestricted art grant to help artists with all the expenses involved with creating great art. It also offers winning artists the option of being included in the gallery’s shows and promotional materials.
W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
Art discipline: Documentary photography
Amount: $35,000
Special notes: Helps photographers working on major photographic essays. This art grant provides photographers some financial freedom to carry out major photographic essays. The grant was established in 1978 following the death of American photo essayist Gene Smith.
The artist grant is given to photographers whose work demonstrates a commitment to documenting the human condition. A panel of judges selects a recipient whose work follows in the tradition of Smith’s “concerned photography and dedicated compassion.”
Awesome Foundation Grants
Art discipline: Any
Amount: $1,000
Special notes: Has 90 chapters that each gives out a $1,000 art grant monthly. The Awesome Foundation is an international organization with 90 chapters. Each of the chapters offers a $1,000 art grant every month. The foundation funds all types of art projects as well as initiatives in community development and technology. “Many awesome projects are novel or experimental, and evoke surprise and delight,” their website says. “Awesome sometimes challenges and often inspires.”
Each chapter tends to fund projects that contribute to their own communities, so it’s best to apply to a chapter near you. However, there are no restrictions based on location and you can apply to multiple chapters.
Burning Man Global Art Grants
Art discipline: Any
Amount: Up to $10,000
Special notes: Focuses on interactive and community-driven artworks
The Burning Man organization (yes, the one behind the annual festival) offers art grants to help fund projects around the world. It focuses on art projects that are accessible to the public and that encourage the viewers to experience it in other ways than just visually. They love art projects that can be touched, heard, or experienced. These artist grants can range between $500 and $10,000 dollars, but most often they fall between $3,000 and $6,000.
CEC ArtsLink Independent Projects Awards
Art discipline: Performing, design, media, literary and visual arts
Amount: $5,000
Special notes: The artist must be based in another country and plan on traveling to the U.S.
CEC ArtsLink gives art grants to international artists to help them come to the U.S. to collaborate with an American artist or organization. Their criteria for choosing an artist include the artist’s plans for sharing the benefits of the experience with artists and institutions in their home country.
Creative Capital Grants
Art discipline: Any
Amount: Up to $50,000 and career development services
Special notes: Focuses on large-scale, long-term projects
Creative Capital is an arts organization that supports artists across the U.S. with funding, counsel, and career development services. It typically awards grants for artists with plans for large or long-term projects. Most of the projects that get funded have a timeline between three to five years.
Puffin Foundation Artist Grants
Art discipline: Any
Amount: Up to $2,500
Special notes: Focuses on under-represented artists
This organization aims to provide grants for emerging artists who are “often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy.” It also focuses on new artists and specifies that established artists are less likely to be considered for a grant. They look for “projects that seek to enrich and inform the public on important subjects such as the physical environment, social justice, civil rights and other contemporary issues facing the country (and the planet), that some organizations might hesitate to fund.”
FCA Grants to Artists
Art discipline: Visual arts, performance art/theater, music/sound, poetry, dance
Amount: $40,000
Special notes: Grants are given to support artists, not specific projects
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts awards several artist grants annually across five different art fields. Recipients are chosen on the merit and imagination of their past work, and what effect the recognition and support of a grant will have on their careers.
These artist grants are not given to fund specific art projects. Instead, they are meant to support artists financially while they pursue whatever artistic endeavors they wish, including developing new ideas, starting new projects, and completing ongoing projects.
Grants for Female Artists
These artist grants aim to recognize exceptional women in a variety of art fields.
Money for Women
Art discipline: Visual arts and literature
Amount: Up to $1,500
Special notes: Artists should have substantial work done on their project before applying
Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund is a feminist granting agency that has been around for over 40 years. It gives grants to individual feminist women in the arts to help them complete ongoing projects. The website specifies that, when applying for a grant, the project should already be well underway and the artist should have substantial work to show. (Projects that are not eligible for this grant include play scripts, videos, and work that will be self-published.)
The Bennett Prize
Art discipline: Figurative realist painting
Amount: $50,000
Special notes: Involves creating a traveling exhibition of paintings
The Bennett Prize awards $50,000 to a female artist to help her create a solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings that will travel the country. It aims to assist female painters who haven’t yet gotten full recognition, including new artists and those who have been painting for many years.
Grants for Sculptors
These grants are worth checking out, whether you’re an unknown or well-established sculptor.
Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant
Art discipline: Sculpture
Amount: Up to $50,000
Special notes: Three grants are available every year
This grant for artists was established in 1988 to enable sculptors to devote a substantial amount of time to the development of their work. The foundation offers three grants of up to $50,000, $20,000, and $10,000. Applicants can be at any stage of their career development. The grant winner is chosen primarily on the quality of work submitted. Also taken into consideration is the proposal included in the grant application.
Alex J. Ettl Grant
Art discipline: Figurative or realist sculptures
Amount: $5,000
Special notes: Includes promotion in art magazines
The National Sculpture Society (NSS) sponsors a number of annual artist grants for sculptors. One is the Alex J. Ettl Grant. It involves an unrestricted $5,000 grant, a half-page ad in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, and a quarter-page ad in Sculpture Review magazine. It is awarded to a sculptor who has shown a commitment to sculpting as well as outstanding ability.
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