We welcome you to submit to any of these categories free of charge.
Information can be sent through the form on the contact page. Make sure you include all applicable information such as deadline dates, location, web address and/or contact information, and a short description.
DEADLINE: ONGOING
DEADLINE: ONGOING
February 28th : for Exhibition in the Spring season of the following year
August 31st : for Exhibition in the Fall season of the following year
PEC (Program for Emerging Curators)
ISE Cultural Foundation
New York
PEC (Program for Emerging Curators) is an opportunity for emerging curators to undertake the challenge of presenting a show in a non-profit art gallery in New York. The Ise Cultural Foundation gallery will select proposals submitted by curators. Curators selected through the program will present their exhibit in the ISE Cultural Foundation gallery space in SOHO.
• The length of exhibition at the gallery in SOHO, NY is for 5-6 weeks.
• The size of the gallery is approximately 2000 SQ/FT.
• Up to $2,000.00 grant is available to cover the cost of exhibition.
http://iseny.org/usr_helio1/curators.php
DEADLINE: ONGOING
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. This program was conceived in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist, and we hope these individuals will consider applying. Twelve grants are awarded each year. Applications are reviewed by a panel of five professionals in the arts who have no affiliation with the Foundation.
http://www.gottliebfoundation.org/
DEADLINE: ONGOING
The Pollock Krasner Foundation
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. 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 of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist.
DEADLINE: ONGOING
Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts
Grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists' organizations and their cultural institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts. The program also supports the creation of new work through regranting initiatives and artist-in-residence programs.
http://www.warholfoundation.org/
DEADLINE: ONGOING
Black Rock Arts Foundation Grants
BRAF funds highly interactive, community-driven works of art. They fund art that is accessible to the public, civic in scope and prompts the viewer to act. They like art that can be experienced in more ways than visually. They are fans of art that is meant to be touched, heard or experienced, as well as viewed. They prioritize funding art that involves the audience in its creation and presentation. Does this sound like your artwork? Apply for a grant in 2011!
http://www.blackrockarts.org/grants
DEADLINE: ONGOING
Charles A. Lindbergh Fund
Awards up to a total of $10,580 per year to individuals whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs' vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment.
http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/
DEADLINE: ONGOING
Documentary Photography Project Distribution Grants
Open Society Institute
This grant is offered to documentary photographers who have already completed a significant body of work on issues of social justice to collaborate with a partner organization and propose new ways of using photography as a tool for positive social change. Grants of $5,000 to $30,000 are awarded.
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/focus_areas/distribution/guidelines
DEADLINE: ONGOING
FEAST: Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics
This recurring, public dinner is designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging artmakers. At each FEAST, participants pay a sliding-scale entrance fee for which they receive supper and a ballot. Diners will vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. At the end of dinner, the artist whose proposal receives the most votes will be awarded funds collected through the entrance fee to produce the project. The work is then presented during the next FEAST.
DEADLINE: ONGOING
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Providing funding for visual and performing artists who have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public, or who incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects underway and close to completion. This program does not support life-related emergencies such as paying for food, rent, medical bills and other basic necessities.
http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grant_programs/immediate_needs
DEADLINE: ONGOING
February 1 – March 1, 2011: Open submissions for projects in Film/Video and Visual Arts
February 1 - March 1, 2012: Open submissions for projects in Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts
Creative Capital Foundation
Supports work with the potential for significant artistic and cultural impact. They seek to act as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas. Open to US citizens. Rotates mediums annually.
http://www.creative-capital.org/
DEADLINE: BY DATE
DEADLINE: NOV. 30, 2010
NYFA 2011 Fellowships
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Artists' Fellowships are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. Grants are awarded in 15 artistic disciplines, with applications accepted in five categories each year.
http://www.nyfa.org/
DEADLINE: JAN. 14, 2011
World Peace Annual Photography Contest
Alexia Foundation
$15,000 for the production of a proposed project. The Alexia Foundation seeks to "provide the financial ability for a photographer to produce a substantial picture story that furthers the foundation's goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding." If you've received a grant or award exceeding $1,000 in the previous year, you're not eligible. Judges look for entries that conceive concise, focused and meaningful story proposals.
