Amount(s) rewarded. $500–$5000

Who's eligible. Creators of visual work (especially in video, photography, illustration, graphic design, and/or product/interface design (UI/UX)), who are proficient in English (except for Japanese candidates, who must be proficient in Japanese), at least 18 years old (no advanced degree needed), and owner of a PayPal account or bank account in their name.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $15,000; most typically $5000

Who's eligible. 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. An artist must be able to demonstrate a minimum involvement of ten years in a mature phase of their work. Artists must work in the disciplines of painting, sculpture or printmaking.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Who's eligible. The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Additional grants in a variety of categories or "chapters" are given out, including grants for projects taking place in specific global and U.S. cities.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Who's eligible. The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Additional grants in a variety of categories or "chapters" are given out, including grants for projects taking place in specific global and U.S. cities.

For this chapter, The Awesome Foundation is interested in "proposals where a strong connection to the water has been established and where you can provide us with a clear sense of your project’s anticipated reach."

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $1000

Who's eligible. The Colorado Artist Relief Fund supports artists experiencing economic distress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Disciplines include visual, digital, film, music, performing, and teaching. Artists will need to show that their incomes are being adversely affected due to the cancellation of events, classes, performances, and other creative work.

Grant funding may be used for basic expenses including food, rent, medical costs, childcare. It may also be used for the development of skills, applications, or equipment that will allow you to transition your income-generating practices to online or virtual platforms or practices.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000–$500,000

Application fee. NA 

Who's eligible. Epic Games is looking to support anyone doing amazing things with Unreal Engine or for the 3D graphics ecosystem. Grants cover a variety of endeavors from game development, architecture projects, and film/TV production, to academic uses and software tool development.

Amount(s) rewarded. $500–$3000

Who's eligible. Emergency Grants is a multi-disciplinary program that supports visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature. Artists who apply must:

• Have unanticipated, sudden 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.

Amount(s) rewarded. $250, $500, $1000

Who's eligible. Any resident of the San Francisco Bay Area who has worked professionally or vocationally in local theatre or has been an active participant in the theatre community, regardless of the income derived from work in the theatre (with two years' experience minimum in the last five years), and has received a diagnosis of a terminal or life-threatening medical illness or condition is eligible to apply for the program.

Amount(s) rewarded. Reimbursement of up to 50% of the requested travel expenses, not exceeding $500.

Who's eligible. Artists currently in the creation or touring period of work supported by an NDP Production Grant; and curators, presenters, residency directors, or related staff (such as program or production staff) to either travel to see works currently eligible for NDP presentation support to determine if they will be able to present the NDP work in their community or to bring a currently-funded NDP artist to their community for meetings and advance planning to lay the groundwork for touring the NDP project.

Amount(s) rewarded. Reimbursement of up to 70% of the requested travel expenses (typically in the range of $700–$1000, but no maximum).

Who's eligible. Arts presenters and curatorial staff considering NTP projects are eligible to apply for travel support to see the project. Additionally, NTP Creation and Touring Grant recipients may apply for travel funds for themselves or invite others to apply for the purpose of promoting, publicizing, or otherwise advancing their NTP funded project.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1500

Who's eligible. Projects created by or for audiences of underserved communities, or offers an innovative approach to the arts, historic preservation, or King County heritage and offers public benefit to King County residents and visitors.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000–$30,000

Who's eligible. 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.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $500–$1000

Who's eligible. smART ventures seeks to widen arts and culture participation, particularly of

diverse or underserved communities. Individuals (including youth), groups, organizations, or communities of interest that offer a potential arts or cultural impact within the city of Seattle and need start-up or final investment funds for proposed public events are able to apply. Organizations do NOT have to have 501(c)(3) non-profit status to apply.

Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000 + private studio 

Who's eligible. Bay Area-based painters in the early stages of their career who can show dedication to their practice. Designed to support the artist over a full year, the Tournesol Award provides a generous stipend, private studio, and access to Headlands’ creative community. The award year culminates in a funded final project of the artist’s choice, typically in the form of an exhibition or a publication.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $12,000

Who's eligible. East Bay-based filmmakers of short form narratives (30 minutes or less) who are at least 18 years old and the primary creator of the work (director or producer), and whose project submitted for consideration is in either the production, post-production, or distribution

stage.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $12,000

Who's eligible. East Bay-based filmmakers of short form animation (30 minutes or less), short documentaries (40 minutes or less), and/or long documentaries (over 40 minutes) who are at least 18 years old and the primary creator of the work (director or producer), and whose project submitted for consideration is in either the production, post-production, or distribution

stage.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $5000

Who's eligible. East Bay-based student filmmakers of short form animation (30 minutes or less), short documentaries (40 minutes or less), and/or long documentaries (over 40 minutes) who are at least 18 years old and the primary creator of the work (director or producer); who are currently enrolled in full-time film studies program in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco or Marin; and whose project submitted for consideration is in either the production, post-production, or distribution stage.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $600

Who's eligible. California artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers, and San Francisco/San Jose nonprofit arts administrators for professional development activities that build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and/or strengthen the financial resilience of the grantee’s practice, area of cultural production, or arts organization.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000 + an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.

Who's eligible. The James Laughlin Award is given to honor a second full-length print book of original poetry in English forthcoming by a living poet based in the U.S. for in the next calendar year, i.e. 2024.

Eligible poets must have previously published a full-length book of poetry; must be contracted to publish a second full-length book of poetry in 2024; and must either be a U.S. citizen, someone who has resided in the U.S. since May 13, 2013, or a person living in the U.S. with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Legal Permanent Status (LPS), or any subsequent categories designated by the U.S. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $15,000

Who's eligible. The Leeway Transformation Award (LTA) provides unrestricted annual awards to women, Trans, and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers who are at least 18 years old, who've lived in the greater Philadelphia area for the past two years (i.e., Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County), and who create art for social change and have done so for the past five years or more, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work.

Amount(s) rewarded. $15,000–$50,000

Who's eligible. Eligible applicants include art historians, artists, critics, curators, journalists,

or writers in an outside field who are strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts. Must be at least 25 years old; a U.S. citizen, permanent resident of the U.S., or O-1 visa holder; and previously published in the category they are submitting to. 

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $100,000

Who's eligible. Artistic Production Grants are awarded to new artistic projects that best exemplify VIA Art Fund's three core values of Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement; that take place outside museum or gallery walls; and take place within the public realm or in non-traditional exhibition environments.

Amount(s) rewarded. At least $14,000

Who's eligible. The Creation Fund supports artists creating a new work in its earliest stages that advances racial and cultural justice, centering relationship-building between artists, presenters, and communities. Eligible projects will ideally be presented between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2026. Applicants must be an artist who has identified an NPN National Partner

that will serve as the project's lead commissioner and at least one other co-commissioner in a different community (defined as 100 miles away) from the NPN Partner/lead commissioner.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Who's eligible. Writers who are at least 50 years of age at the time of application and who are just starting to work at a professional level. These funds may be used as each writer determines will best assist their work.

Per SLF, speculative literature spans the breadth of fabulist or fantastic writing, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy, including ghost stories, horror, folk and fairy tales, slipstream, magical realism, and more. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $15,000

Who's eligible. Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museum, galleries, arts non-profit, the public art realm, etc.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $500

Who's eligible. The Individual Artist Mini-grant is a reimbursement grant that supports established and emerging professional visual, performing, literary, folk/traditional, and/or film/media artists who are at least 18 years old and based in Mississippi by providing funds to assist them with professional development or promotional efforts and marketing materials.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000

Who's eligible. Children's and YA Fiction prose authors who have published one or more novels for children or young adults through U.S. trade publishers that have been warmly received by literary critics but have not generated significant sales, and whose novel-in-progress is set to publish through a U.S. trader publisher after April 1, 2024. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $15,000 

Who's eligible. The PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History recognize literary works of nonfiction that use oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. Submitted projects must be an unpublished work-in-progress of literary nonfiction written in English that will publish after to April 1, 2025.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1500

Who's eligible. The sum of $1,500 will be awarded towards the creation of a unique, one-of-kind, or limited edition work of art in the field of Jewish book arts. According to the award website: 

"Book Arts refers to works of art that originates from a relationship to the book form, ranging from scrolls, accordion-style, illuminated manuscripts, graphic novels or hand-bound printed sheets, as well as hand-made paper, newspapers, comics, ephemera, deconstructed books, photographs, etc.

Jewish Book Arts refers to a work that relates in some way to the greater world of Jewish writings, religion, Jewish thought, history or culture and how words appear in the Jewish tradition. Possible reference points could include: Prayer books, the mezuzah, the ketubbah, Jewish history, sacred texts, the haggadah, etc."

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Who's eligible. The Naomi Anolic Early Career Jewish Visual Arts Award supports Jewish artists who are early in their artistic careers. Eligible applicants must be between 25 and 35 years old and will have demonstrated great potential in painting, drawing, sculpture, and/or mixed media, but not yet have achieved broad success or be considered well established professionally. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000

Who's eligible. Artists at any stage of their career currently conceiving and creating original new artwork; who are at least 18 years old; identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (BIPOC); and have resided in Louisiana for at least five (5) years. Artists may apply as individuals or as a member of an ensemble, group, or collaborative.

The Take Notice Fund (TNF) celebrates generative artists and culture bearers of color living and working in Louisiana whose work demonstrates artistic excellence and dedication to their practices.