14 Arts Funding Grants and Fellowships - USA
Foundations and Grant Organizations in the USA supporting artists with funding, fellowships, residencies, materials, work spaces, and career and business advice and support. A snippet from Gigslist’s upcoming grants directory..
Aaron Siskind Foundation - Open to photographers using still-photography based media. Eligible to US citizens not currently enrolled in a degree granting program. Several grants awarded annually to photographers based upon past accomplishments and the promise of future achievement. Funds must be used to support the artist's creative endeavors. http://www.aaronsiskind.org
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation - Two grants for painters, printmakers and sculptors: 1) Individual support grant-20 yrs mature phase of art. 2) Emergency assistance grant-10 yrs mature, victim of catastrophic incident such as fire, flood, or medical emergency. No Geographical restrictions. Open to USA residents and International Artists. http://www.gottliebfoundation.org
Agape Foundation - Agape Foundation founded in 1969 is a nonprofit tax-exempt foundation that raises and distributes funds to groups and projects (not individuals) working for nonviolent social change in California. Agape provides seed grants, loans and fiscal sponsorship to organizations addressing the following six areas: Peace, Human Rights, Environmental Protection, Economic Justice, Progressive Arts, Media and Grassroots Organizing Support. http://www.agapefn.org
American Center for Artists - The American Center for Artists is an electronic magazine that focuses on the biography and autobiography of famous and emerging writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and other artists. It also presents new and reprinted works by these artists as well as articles about them. Provides a listing of both public and private organizations that give grants and other forms of support to artists. http://www.americanartists.org
Americans for the Arts Emergency Relief Fund - Arts agencies affected by disasters. Financial assistance to victims of a major disaster for the purpose of helping them rebuild the arts in their community. Relief funds are distributed directly to local arts agencies and other cultural relief efforts. Local arts agencies may use relief funds to assist with their own recovery as well as to provide needed services and funding to local nonprofit arts organizations and individual artists. http://ww3.artsusa.org/get_involved/emergency_relief_fund/default.asp
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
A Room of Her Own Foundation - Open to female visual artists for an award payable over two years. For more information, visit the website. As Modern-day counterparts of Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare’s Sister, and The Wild Woman, we encourage and celebrate dialogue and art which springs from a source of resolute awareness— our creative selves, our native wisdom, and our legacy. http://www.aroomofherownfoundation.org
Artadia - Encourages innovative practice and meaningful dialogue across the United States by providing visual artists in specific communities with unrestricted awards. Artadia has active awards programs in the following cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Awards are granted in participating cities on a rotating basis. Artadia Awards are unrestricted. The award money can be used however the artist sees fit. http://www.artadia.org
Artists' Fellowship - The Artists' Fellowship, Inc. is a private, charitable foundation that assists professional fine artists (painters, graphic artists, sculptors) and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement. http://www.artistsfellowship.com
Arts Link - Arts Link Collaborative Projects are designed to encourage mutually beneficial artistic collaboration between US artists and their counterparts in Central and Eastern Europe. Open to individual artists and non-profit arts organizations. http://www.cecartslink.org
California Arts Council - The California Arts Council helps maintain California's unique identity by investing in organizations that keep its artistic energy thriving and make its diverse communities healthy and vibrant. Program-specific details, dates, guidelines, staff contacts, and more can be found at http://www.cac.ca.gov
Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) - CCI helps self-employed artists, small arts businesses and the nonprofit arts sector start, manage and grow their own businesses. http://cciarts.org
Creative Capital's Artist Toolbox - Creative Capital’s unique model is based on the core principle that time and advice are as crucial to an artist’s success as funding. We provide each awardee artist with a flexible, individualized program of advisory support and partner with them to determine how funding and services can best work in concert to help them achieve their goals. http://www.creative-capital.org
Creative Work Fund - Funds for artists and non-profit organizations to create new art works through collaborations. It celebrates artists as problem solvers and the making of art as a profound contribution to the strengthening of communities. Grants are limited to artists living in and organizations based in San Francisco and Alameda, CA counties. http://www.creativeworkfund.org
A snippet from Gigslist’s upcoming grants directory.. Part of billions of dollars $ up for grabs ever year..
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