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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Who's eligible. New Voices seeks stand-out artists who can demonstrate a consistent and committed studio practice, intellectual curiosity and professional drive, and a clear interest in and connection with printmaking. Applications are encouraged from artists based in a U.S. state or territory, who are of any race, ethnicity, national origin, age, physical ability, gender identity or expression, sexuality, or other experience or identity; who engage printmaking in their practice through concept, materials, or techniques; and who work without institutional support.

Who's eligible. This fellowship provides opportunities for independent artists to engage the public in critical issues impacting Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) across the country. AAPI Fund will consider a variety of art forms, such as music, video, visual arts, performing arts, poetry, and more.

AAPI Fund will be funding fellowships of $30,000 each to hire five fellows to produce work with the potential to break through mainstream media and catalyze conversations around themes of Solidarity, Belonging, and Voting Together.

Who's eligible. Creative Engagement is an arts funding program operated by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) that provides seed grants to individual artists and nonprofit organizations for projects and activities that offer Manhattan communities diverse artistic experiences. Each year, the program supports over 150 arts projects in Manhattan, including concerts, performances, public art, exhibitions, screenings, festivals, workshops, readings and more.

Funding is provided for projects in the performing, literary, media, and visual arts, ranging from folk/traditional forms to contemporary and socially-engaged artistic practices.

Eligible applicants must meet the Core Eligibility Requirements (eg. individual artists must be based in Manhattan and at least 18 years old, nonprofit organizations must be based in Manhattan and have proof of nonprofit status, etc.) in addition to the City, State and/or Howard Gilman Foundation funding requirements.

Who's eligible. UMEZ Arts Engagement is a grant program designed to enhance the diversity and frequency of arts and cultural presentations in Upper Manhattan. The program provides direct support for these activities to Upper Manhattan’s artists and nonprofit arts organizations under the guiding principle that support for artists of diverse disciplines, practices, cultural backgrounds, and career stages contributes to the vibrancy and sustainability of the communities in which they live and work.

Funding is provided for projects in the performing, literary, media, and visual arts, ranging from folk/traditional forms to contemporary and socially-engaged artistic practices. Supported activities include concerts, performances, festivals, public arts, screenings, exhibitions, readings, and more.

Eligible applicants must meet the Core Eligibility Requirements (eg. individual artists must reside in Upper Manhattan and at least 18 years old, nonprofit organizations must be based in Upper Manhattan and have 501(c)3 status, etc.) in addition to the City, State and/or Howard Gilman Foundation funding requirements.

Who's eligible. The Photo Urbanism Fellow must be based in New York City and be available to participate in meetings with the Design Trust, NYCHA, the Fund for Public Housing, and NeON Photography.  Applicants must also be at least 21 years of age and eligible to work legally in the United States. Full-time students are not eligible due to possible time restraints, but part-time students may submit. 

Applicants with 5-7 years of photography experience, as well as experience teaching and youth engagement, are preferred.

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., and currently living and working in Boston and resided there for at least two years.

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.

Who's eligible. In addition to residing and creating full-time in one of the six New England states, applicant's must also have a CreativeGround profile with DANCE as the primary discipline. 

Eligible opportunities may include, but are not limited to: residencies; research trips; conferences; workshops or other trainings that build creative or administrative skills; tour planning; publication expenses; fees associated with music/musicians; process documentation or archival projects; videography/er or photo shoots/documentation and editing; artist fees needed to prepare the work for a presentation opportunity; hiring a consultant; mentorship.

Who's eligible. Individual dancemakers working in improvised, communal, or choreographed forms who are at least be 21 years old and work in Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Jasper, Kane, Kendall, Kenosha, Lake, McHenry, Newton, Porter, and/or Will County in the Chicagoland area.

Who's eligible. Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career individual artists and writers who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. Work published or exhibited on websites and blogs alone does not constitute a sufficient record of accomplishment for the competition.

Mid-career scholars, writers (poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, playwrights), visual and media artists including photographers and film/video makers, and performing artists including choreographers and composers are eligible to apply. Refer to the application guide for a full list of eligible art careers.

Who's eligible. Individual jazz artists who are at least 18 years old, working solo or working with a composer-led or collective jazz ensemble which consists of 2–10 musicians, reside in a U.S. state or territory, and are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

Jazz Road Tours supports small, three- to six-site tours that take place in the U.S. (state or territories) at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. Eligible tours must reach at least three (3) separate venues and either cover a total distance of at least 250 miles or more or reach at least one site which is 250 miles from the applicant’s home base.

Who's eligible. Awarded on a bimonthly basis, the Community Impact Micro Grants (Micro Grants) provide funding to non-profit organizations or individual artists for arts & cultural projects and activities that enable Nassau and Suffolk communities to experience and engage with the performing, literary, media, and visual arts.

These Micro Grants provide year-round funding opportunities to arts-centered programs and projects that have a demonstrable impact on their community. Funding priorities include funding of immediate, stand alone, or short term projects; funding that supports materials, artist fees, venue rental, etc. for ongoing programming; and supporting programs/projects that include and serve underrepresented communities.

Who's eligible. Los Angeles-based artists (individual or collective) with well-established studio practices who are in any stage of their career, who have been residing in the city for a minimum of 5 years. Applicants must be professional artists not currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program. Artists not currently represented by a commercial gallery in Los Angeles are encouraged to apply.

Who's eligible. This grant supports the creation of new work. The project development end date must be at least 3-6 months post award date to ensure that the project is still in development at the time the grant is awarded.

Theater artists apply to receive support for both the development and U.S. touring [virtual or in-person] of artist-led, ensemble, devised theater projects. Grants support the development of the project, costs and incentives needed to establish a plan for touring, and subsidies for presentation of the work. Funded projects are expected to complete an evaluation within one month of the project premiere as designated in the contract.

Ensembles must have nonprofit status or a contract with a nonprofit fiscal agent.

Who's eligible. The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building—including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets). Visual artists at work on a book project are also welcome to apply. 

Who's eligible. Professional artists in dance, music, or theater who are either a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and resides in a state or territory of the U.S., be invited to perform in an international event, and either be fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)3 nonprofit or be registered as a 501(c)3 nonprofit.

USArtists International supports in-person performances by American artists at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States. 

Who's eligible. Since 2013, the Working Class Writers Grant has been awarded annually to speculative fiction writers who are working class, blue-collar, financially disadvantaged, or homeless, who have been historically underrepresented in speculative fiction due to financial barriers which make it hard to access the writing world.

Who's eligible. True/False is looking for dynamic, original large-scale installations, projections, and performance work that have the flexibility to be modified to work in a variety of locations and unconventional venues, such as lobbies, hallways, balconies, outdoor alleyways, and street enclosures.

Installations are temporary (the Fest is 4 days; art installations are rarely up for longer than 6 days) and site-specific. There are a variety of sites available. Some are interior, some exterior; some sites require that the art be suspended, others allow for art to be placed or secured to the ground, and some have the potential to combine both. Most locations have access to power. Almost all of the art installations we exhibit are located in either public or privatately-owned spaces that large groups of people move through or spend time in.

Who's eligible. The Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing celebrate works in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and poetry. 

For fiction and nonfiction applicants: Books eligible for consideration must be published during the submission year and cannot be self-published, asks readers to engage with or reflect on the complexities of the American South, and has a narrative that is ultimately uplifting or suggests hope or optimism. 

Poets may submit one original, unpublished poem no longer than three pages that evokes the American South.

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., and currently living and working in Atlanta and resided there for at least two years.

Who's eligible. Individual artists who are at least 18 years old, currently reside in Delaware and have lived in Delaware for at least one year, and who are not a currently-enrolled student.

Who's eligible. The theme of this open call is, "What is human about technology?" Eyebeam seeks artists to explore the creative potentials of technologies that support and enhance the best of human intelligence and imagination. In particular, we are interested in supporting those artists whose efforts consider the impact of technology on individuals and communities who face additional barriers to access and inclusion.

Who's eligible. The Luschei Prize for African Poetry awarded by the African Poetry Book Fund aims to honor and promote African poetry written in English or in translation and to recognize a significant book published each year by an African poet. The Prize is open to any book of original poetry, in English (including works of translation), that is 48 pages or more in length, published during the previous calendar year by any African writer.

Per the Fund, an “African writer” is someone who was born in Africa, who is a national or resident of an African country, or whose parents are African.

Self-published books and books published by the APBF and its African Poetry Series are ineligible.

Who's eligible. The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative is intended to assist published fiction and nonfiction authors, published poets, playwrights, screenwriters, translators, and published journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies.

Who's eligible. Through Re:Generation, Monument Lab is seeking to build a cohort of ten teams that reflect a broad diversity of commemorative practices, participatory research models, and geographic contexts, and are especially interested in applications from underrepresented groups and regions. For the 2024 Re:Generation round, preference will be given to teams operating in states which have passed legislation limiting the teaching of accurate and diverse American history.