Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000

Who's eligible. Applicants must be creators of visual work with a professional portfolio of visual creative work, impacted by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine (i.e., either a refugee or an internally displaced person due to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a current resident of Ukraine, or someone financially supporting either of the former), able to communicate in English, are at least 18 years old (no advanced degree needed), and own 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 (10) 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. $2500

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. Up to $30,000 $50,000 

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. $3500 

Who's eligible. In addition to being a full-time and current Oregon resident, writers must self-identify as a writer of color, and write in at least one of the following categories: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama (includes scripts for television or film), and young readers’ literature. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $3500

Who's eligible. In addition to being a full-time and current Oregon resident, writers must self-identify as a woman or gender non-conforming, and write in at least one of the following categories: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama (includes scripts for television or film), and young readers’ literature. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $7500–$10,000

Who's eligible. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and an enrolled member, or able to provide proof of lineal descendancy, of a U.S. federally recognized tribe, a state recognized tribe, or be an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian.

The program's purpose is to develop independent, satisfied, and credible Native artist entrepreneurs who are generous in spirit. Through the Artist in Business Leadership Program, artists get the technical support, professional training, and working capital they need to pursue arts business development goals for themselves and their families as they seek to start or grow a thriving arts business.

Amount(s) rewarded. $7500–$10,000

Who's eligible. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and an enrolled member, or able to provide proof of lineal descendancy, of a U.S. federally recognized tribe, a state recognized tribe, or be an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian.

Through First Peoples Fund’s Cultural Capital Program, culture bearers in tribal communities receive financial and technical support to further their important work of passing on ancestral knowledge and cultural practices within their tribal communities.

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. $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, several with rolling deadlines, including grants for projects taking place in specific global and U.S. cities.

Funds must be used towards a project and not towards an individual's medical needs, rent, utilities, home repairs, car trouble, appliances, etc.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000 each to 6 fellows

Who's eligible. Applicants must be at least 21 years old and have the commitment and proven ability to sustain the traditions of Black storytelling; identify as an oral tradition culture bearer and reflect the story-sharing traditions of family and/or community; be engaged in ongoing work that collects, creates, and preserves Black life and lore in Appalachia; be available to be interviewed by NABS staff; be able to present an educational program/presentation of their choosing; and be able to present at the National Festival of Black Storytelling and Conference.

Amount(s) rewarded. $25,000 to prize winner, and $2500/each to 4 semi-finalists

Who's eligible. Applicants must be located in and producing in Texas, whose work represents heritage craft found across Texas which includes, but is not limited to: pottery, enamelwork, quilting, woodworking, leathersmithing (boots, belts), basketry, lampworking and glassblowing, silverwork, embroidery, textile creations, and visual arts.

The Nest Heritage Craft Prize is unique for its recognition of skill and technique, and celebration of cultural value. The Prize winner will demonstrate technical mastery, as well as a thoughtful connection to cultural tradition through a one-of-a-kind handcrafted piece.

Amount(s) rewarded. $3000 for a first place winner, and $1000/each to two runners up

Who's eligible. Entries should be a single piece of prose, written in English, not exceeding 1,500 words, and must have been written or published within the last year.

Amount(s) rewarded. $2000

Who's eligible. Individual poets who live in upstate New York and have published a book of poems in English between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022 that's at least 48 pages long.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000

Who's eligible. Individual, living poets who are either U.S. citizens; residents of the U.S. for the ten-year period prior to September 1, 2023; or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Legal Permanent Status (LPS), or any subsequent categories designated by the U.S. authorities as conferring similar enhanced status upon non-citizens living in the United States.

The Academy of American Poets First Book Award is given to honor an individual poet’s first book of original poetry written in English. Applicants must be living poets who have neither published, nor committed to publish a book-length collection of poems (48 pages of poems or more) with a registered ISBN, either in the United States or abroad. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Who's eligible. Any adult, whether a teacher or not, who is over the age of 18. The submitted story must be between 6 and 749 words, previously unpublished, and feature a K–12 teacher as the protagonist or narrator.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5,000-$35,000

Who's eligible. Administered by RedLine, Arts in Society (AiS) is a grant program supporting cross-sector work through the arts across Colorado. AiS is open to nonprofits and individuals who reside in the state of Colorado. Applicants do NOT need to be an arts organization. 

Primary applicants must be from Colorado. Organizations or artists outside the state of Colorado who are interested in applying must partner with an organization within the state in order to be eligible.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5,000-$35,000

Who's eligible. Administered by RedLine, Arts in Society (AiS) is a grant program supporting cross-sector work through the arts across Colorado. AiS is open to nonprofits and individuals who reside in the state of Colorado. Applicants do NOT need to be an arts organization. 

Primary applicants must be from Colorado. Organizations or artists outside the state of Colorado who are interested in applying must partner with an organization within the state in order to be eligible.

Amount(s) rewarded. $6000

Who's eligible. Artists who legally reside in Florida, who work in any visual media or level of professional accomplishment, who can commit to obligations related to the education and mentorship of Palm Beach State College students (additional funds of $1,000 per event for the facilitation of either a lecture presentation and/or community engagement workshop will be provided), who is willing to donate one work or a limited-edition original print to the HMS Fine Arts Study Art Collection, and who will commit to participating in a Biennale at the HMS Fine Arts Gallery.

Amount(s) rewarded. $3000

Who's eligible. Professional dancers facing dire financial emergencies, due to the loss or lack of current live performance work, because of circumstances outside of their control. “Dire financial emergencies“ include the lack or imminent endangerment of essentials such as housing, medicine/healthcare, utilities, and food. This grant program aims to provide dancers with greater stability to move forward by covering up to three months of essential expenses, recognizing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dance sector. You must demonstrate an urgent and critical need for emergency support in your application. Artists of color, LGBTQ+ artists, artists with disabilities, and artists living outside of the East and West coasts are strongly encouraged to apply.