October 2023
October 2023
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Our October 2023 list features 13 grants with deadlines through November 6, 2023. In addition, we've listed 13 grants with rolling application deadlines.
Listings preceded with "++" denote funding opportunities we've added since this list was originally published. Turn on post notifications for @HelloBarkada on Instagram and Twitter to stay in the loop.
For additional opportunities, including fellowships and residencies, check out the lists curated by Creative Capital for October and November 2023, Fractured Atlas for October 2023 and November 2023, Poets & Writers, and Funds for Writers.
As a reminder:
The list is made up of two sections: grants with rolling deadlines, and grants with application deadlines.
A running summary of this series is available on the Resources page.
Grants with application fees are not included.
Grants that take applications on a rolling basis are listed in alphabetical order, while opportunities with deadlines are listed in ascending order by deadline.
Official details for a listed opportunity are available by clicking its hyperlinked title. Click on a listing's down arrow to see our summary, but rely on the official details from the funding organizer's website listing.
Listings that don't note an open date are open as of the publication of this post.
Hello Barkada is not affiliated with any of the opportunities listed. Also, this is not an exhaustive list of art funding opportunities for this time period. This post is intended to serve as an additional resource to your individual efforts to find art funding opportunities.
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TAGS: RESOURCES
GRANTS AWARDED ON A ROLLING BASIS
Listed in alphabetical order. Listings preceded by ">>" spotlight grants added to this section this month.
Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund • Open to artists around the world who are at least 18 years old and impacted by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
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.
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant • Open to painters, printmakers, and sculptors around the world who can demonstrate at least 10 years of work in their art
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.
The Awesome Foundation: Homelessness • Open to artists globally, but must be submitted in English
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.
The Awesome Foundation: On the Water Grant • Open to artists globally, but must be submitted in English
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."
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.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants • Open to visual and performing artists who reside in a U.S. state or territory
Timeline tip. Best to start process at least eights weeks from when funding is needed
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.
Mary Mason Lemonade Fund • Open to current or past theatre practitioners in San Francisco with terminal or life-threatening illnesses
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.
National Dance Project Travel Fund • Open to artists and art staff in the United States
Timeline tip. Application is due 40 days or more prior to the date of departure.
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.
National Theater Project Presenter Travel Grant • Open to art presenters and curatorial staff in the United States
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.
Open 4Culture • Outside of Seattle, anywhere in King County
Timeline tip. Best to start process at least two months from when funding needed
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.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant • Open to artists around the world
Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $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.
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.
GRANTS WITH APPLICATION DEADLINES
Listed in ascending order by deadline. Listings preceded with "++" denote funding opportunities we've added since this list was originally published.
The Awesome Foundation: Disability Grant • Open to artists globally, but must be submitted in English
Amount(s) rewarded. $1000
Deadline. October 15, 2023
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.
Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant • Open to California artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers, and San Francisco/San Jose nonprofit arts administrators for professional development activities
Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $600
Deadline. October 15, 2023, 12:00 p.m. PT
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.
Bronx Council on the Arts: Art Fund • Open to Bronx-based individual artists, artist collectives, & non-profit arts and community organizations
Amount(s) rewarded. $1000–$5000
Deadline. October 31, 2023, 11:59 p.m. ET
Who's eligible. Bronx-based artists, collectives, and nonprofit arts/community organizations that work in any of the following disciplines: dance; film/video/media; folk arts; interdisciplinary arts; literary arts; multidisciplinary projects; music; opera; theater; visual arts/crafts.
Bronx Council on the Arts Community Engagement Grants (CEGs) aim to contribute to the cultural life
of the borough through their support of community based, high-quality arts projects and programs in
all disciplines, genres, and styles.
Bronx Council on the Arts: New Work • Open to Bronx-based individual artists
Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $2500
Deadline. October 31, 2023, 11:59 p.m. ET
Who's eligible. Bronx-based individual artists who practice any of the following disciplines: dance; film/video/media; folk arts; interdisciplinary arts; literary arts; multidisciplinary projects; music; opera; theater; visual arts/crafts.
Bronx Council on the Arts Community Engagement Grants (CEGs) aim to contribute to the cultural life
of the borough through their support of community based, high-quality arts projects and programs in
all disciplines, genres, and styles.
The New Work (NW) fund grants up to $2,500 for the creation of a new work in a community setting.
Artadia Awards: Houston • Open to visual artists who reside in Houston, Texas
Amount(s) rewarded. $15,000 each to three (3) awardees, $25,000 to one (1) awardee
Deadline. November 1, 2023
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 Houston and resided there for at least two years.
Evaristo African Poetry Prize • Open to African poets
Amount(s) rewarded. $1500 each to 10 winners
Deadline. November 1, 2023
Who's eligible. African poets who have not yet had a full-length poetry book published at the time of submission. Self-published poetry books, chapbooks, and pamphlets are exempt from this stipulation.
Per the website, an "'African writer' is taken to mean someone who was born in Africa, who is a national or resident of an African country, or whose parents are African."
Poems written in English or in English translation will be considered. In the case that the winning work is translated, a percentage of the prize money will be awarded to the translator.
NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music and Theatre • Open to artists who identify as women and who work in the disciplines of digital, film, music, and live or online theatre
Amount(s) rewarded. $20,000–$50,000
Deadline. November 1, 2023
Who's eligible. Applicant must self identify as a woman and be a resident in any of the five boroughs of New York City.
Grants will be given in the following categories:
Fiction Feature (running time of 60 minutes or more) – up to $50,000
Fiction Short (running time of 59 minutes or less) – up to $25,000
Fiction Webisode/Webseries (all forms) – up to $20,000
Documentary Feature (running time of 60 minutes or more) – up to $50,000
Documentary Short (running time of 59 minutes or less) – up to $25,000
Documentary Webisodes/Webseries (all lengths and forms) – up to $20,000
Music (all categories) – up to $20,000
Theatre Production – up to $50,000
PEN America: PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers • Open to emerging fiction writers from the U.S. and around the world, who have published or will publish a debut work of short fiction in a recurring literary magazine, journal, or cultural website
Amount(s) rewarded. $2000 each to 12 writers
Deadline. November 1, 2023
Who's eligible. Stories must be submitted by editors of literary magazines, journals, or cultural websites and published in the English language. Publications may be based and/or distributed anywhere in the world, so long as the story submitted was originally written in and published in English. Authors may not submit their own work.
Stories must have been published or forthcoming in the applicable calendar year, and may not exceed 12,000 words. Editors from eligible publications may only submit a writer’s debut short story. “Debut” is defined as the writer’s absolute first fiction publication in any language, which has undergone an editorial review process and been accepted and published in a literary outlet that the author is not academically or professionally associated with.
Society of Arts + Crafts: Craft Innovation Jump Starter • Open to craft artists who reside in New England
Amount(s) rewarded. $3000 each to two winners
Deadline. November 5, 2023
Who's eligible. Applicants must reside in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont, and must be pursuing ideas in their studio practice that represent something new for them.
Cave Canem: Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize • Open to Black poets
Amount(s) rewarded. $1000, publication by O, Miami Books, 10 copies of the chapbook, a residency in The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel in Miami, and a featured reading at the O, Miami Poetry Festival
Deadline. November 5, 2023
Who's eligible. Black poets with an original chapbook manuscript that is 25–30 pages in length.
Thin Air Magazine: Bird In Your Hands Prize • Open to BIPOC writers
Amount(s) rewarded. $500 and publication in Thin Air Magazine
Deadline. November 5, 2023
Who's eligible. BIPOC writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Submissions must be under 500 words.
CA$H Theatre Grant • Open to Bay Area theatre artists, collaborative teams, and small companies
Amount(s) rewarded. $2500 and $5000
Deadline. Monday, November 6, 2023, 5:00 p.m. PT
Who's eligible. Individual theatre artists, collaborative teams, and small, professionally-oriented theatre companies with operating budgets no greater than $100,000, operating in the Bay Area of California.
Three funds are available:
CA$H Creates grants $2,500 to support the development of artistic projects or capacity-building projects not directly tied to a fully-produced performance of a piece.
CA$H Performs grants $5,000 to support fully-produced performances of artistic projects that are open to the public, or projects that support the creation of multiple works by multiple artists.
CA$H Sustains grants $5,000 to support the general operating costs of a Bay Area theatre company. Sustains applications will only be open once per year, during the fall granting cycle.
Theatre companies, collaborative teams, and individual theatre artists are eligible to apply for CA$H Creates and CA$H Performs, while CA$H Sustains is specifically for theatre companies.
Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant • Open to established sculptors around the world
Amount(s) rewarded. $5000
Deadline. Monday, November 6, 2023
Who's eligible. Sculptors with body of work inspired by nature which includes works of sculpture in the round and in bas-relief. The Bleifeld Grant is for a mature body of work; sculpture created in workshop or instructional settings should not be submitted.
TAGS: RESOURCES
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