How To Get A Visual Arts Grant Introduction

Visual Arts Grants

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Here is a list of ten recommended Grants:

10 Awards Artists should Apply For:

1. Pollack-Krasner

The Pollock-Krasner 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. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will consider need on the part of an applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living, including medical expenses. The size and length of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Grants range from $1,000 to $30,000.
http://www.pkf.org/; deadline: Rolling

2. CityArtists Projects

The Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture offers individual artists projects awards. Individual artists are the heart of a creative community. The CityArtists Projects program provides funding for artists to develop and present their work. The program focuses on different disciplines in alternating years. Awards ranging up to $10,000 support new works, works-in-progress or finished works, and all projects include a public presentation.
http://www.seattle.gov/arts/funding/individual.asp; deadline: February 17, 2009

3. Artist Trust GAP (Grants for Artist Projects) Program

The GAP Program provides support for artist-generated projects, which can include (but are not limited to) the development, completion or presentation of new work. GAPs are open to artists of all disciplines and offer a maximum of $1,500 for projects. An inter-disciplinary panel of artists and arts professionals selected from around Washington State select GAP recipients. GAP applications are available early December.
http://www.artisttrust.org deadline: February 20, 2009

4. 4Culture

4Culture Supports Art Projects for King County for new dance, music, theater, media, literary and visual arts experience. They offset expenses related to their project such as: a photographer buying a new printer; a composer paying musicians to learn and perform their work; a writer paying an editor for their latest book of poems. By providing this funding, 4Culture supports the ordinary needs of extraordinary projects.
http://www.4culture.org/; deadline: March 2, 2009 (Groups) and March 9, 2009 (Individuals)

5. Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship

The Fellowship Program awards $7,500 to practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and demonstrated ability. The Fellowship is a merit-based, not a project-based award. Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowships are awarded in two-year cycles. Music Arts, Media Arts, Literary Arts and Craft Arts are awarded in odd-numbered years (2009). Emerging Fields & Cross-Disciplinary Arts, Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Traditional & Folk Arts are awarded in even-numbered years (2010). A selection panel of three artists and arts professionals in each discipline select the Fellowship recipients.
http://www.artisttrust.org deadline: TBD

6. Creative Capital

The Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is a three-year pilot program designed to support writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to individual authors. The first program of its type, it was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture.
http://www.creative-capital.org/; deadline: May, 2009

7. Betty Bowen

Betty Bowen (1918–1977) was a Washington native and enthusiastic supporter of Northwest artists. Her friends established the annual Betty Bowen Award as a celebration of her life and to honor and continue her efforts to provide financial support to artists of the region. Since 1977, SAM has hosted the yearly grant application process by which the selection committee chooses one artist living and working in the Northwest (Washington, Oregon and Idaho) to receive an unrestricted cash award.
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/bettybowen; deadline: August, 2009

8. Fulbright Award

Is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide.
http://us.fulbrightonline.org/; deadline: August, 2009

9. Rome Prize

The American Academy in Rome is a center that sustains independent artistic pursuits and humanistic studies. It is situated on the Janiculum, Rome's highest hill. Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to 15 emerging artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature, Musical Composition, or Visual Arts).
http://www.aarome.org/prize.htm; deadline: November 1, 2009

10. Puffin Foundation

Since its founding in 1983, the Puffin Foundation Ltd. has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy. Application forms are not available electronically, but require a SASE (#10 self-addressed stamped envelope) first be sent to Puffin Foundation Ltd., 20 Puffin Way (formerly East Oakdene Ave.,Teaneck, NJ 07666-4111).
http://www.puffinfoundation.org/; deadline: December, 2009

These are my recommended international grants:

U.S.

Fulbright Program

http://www.iie.org/Template.cfm?section=Fulbright1
The U.S. Fulbright Student Program is designed to give recent B.S./B.A. graduates, master's and doctorial candidates, and young professionals and artists opportunities for personal development and international experience.

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.

Canada

CanadianArtsNet

http://www.canadianartsnet.com/resources/funding
This website contains a page of links to arts funding sources for Canadian artists. National funding sources are listed as well as funding sources in each of the provinces.

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.

The Nordic Artists' Centre

http://www.nkdale.no/howtoapply.html
The Nordic Artists' Centre gives artist from around the world an opportunity to live and work in in a community of artists with full accomodation provided. The residency award also includes a monthly stipend and a travel allowance.

Funding news?

What I'm really looking for is an uncensored news feed that streams information about all new funded projects as the funding is granted. All I can find so far is the ACE press release feeds, which I've put in the right column here for want of anything better.

You can find these feeds and the ACE view of Press relations at their Virtual Press Office. http://press.artscouncil.org.uk/