Amount(s) rewarded. $500–$5000

Application fee. NA 

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. $500–$1000

Application fee. NA 

Who's eligible. Technical Assistance grants are available for special, one-time needs that are small in scale, and unexpected, for activities that are art-oriented or directly support art-oriented outcomes. 501(c)(3) nonprofit entities, or a public institution, such as schools or municipal governments, located in Alabama are eligible to apply. 

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

Application fee. NA 

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. Up to $10,000

Application fee. NA 

Who's eligible. Chula Vista is looking for arts projects that provide enriching and accessible cultural opportunities for the City’s residents and visitors. Chula Vista individual artists, arts organizations, and small businesses are encouraged to apply. It is strongly recommended that grant projects are collaborative, promote cultural equity and inclusion, and address community aspirations. 

Eligible applicants include:

• Individual artists who reside in Chula Vista.

• Tax-exempt, non-profit organizations located in the City of Chula Vista. NOTE: Organizations not located in Chula Vista may be eligible if the arts project is held in Chula Vista.

• Educational institutions located in the City of Chula Vista.

• Religious organizations located in the City of Chula Vista. NOTE: Religious organizations not located in Chula Vista may be eligible if the arts project is held in Chula Vista.

• Performance groups, visual arts groups or other cultural arts-related groups and organizations affiliated with Chula Vista educational institutions (e.g., choirs, bands, etc.).

• City of Chula Vista departments, boards, and commissions.

• For-profit businesses located in the City of Chula Vista. Businesses must be a legally operating business located in a commercial or industrial space and independently owned and operated with the principal office located within the City of Chula Vista city limits.

Amount(s) rewarded. $500–$5000

Application fee. NA 

Who's eligible. The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is an experimental grant-making program that supports artists and artist-journalist teams producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. The funds distributed to artists will assist with research, travel, and other expenses many media outlets struggle to cover, allowing stories that are often out of reach in today’s climate to be produced.  Artists with longer-term, research-intensive projects are also encouraged to apply. Applicants must have an existing commission letter from an editor.

Amount(s) rewarded. $500–$3000

Application fee. NA 

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. $1500

Application fee. NA 

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 $1000

Application fee. NA 

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.

Application fee. NA 

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).

Application fee. NA 

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. Up to $30,000

Application fee. NA 

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. $1000/month

Application fee. NA 

Who's eligible. Stochastic Labs awards fully sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, and shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc). Residents become part of Stochastic’s creative community, participating in weekly dinners and invitation events.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $20,000

Application fee. NA 

Who's eligible. Projects can be in any medium. Stochastic Labs encourages proposals from creative coders, deep learning enthusiasts, AR/VR auteurs, game and app developers, neuroscientists, bio-designers, roboticists, data artists, musicians, animators, animal behaviorists, physicists, and world builders of all kinds.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $500–$1000

Application fee. NA 

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. $5,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is proud to partner with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to administer Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants, a new emergency grant program for professional dancers. “Dire financial emergencies“ include the lack or imminent endangerment of essentials such as housing, medicine/healthcare, utilities, and food. If you were displaced due to COVID-19, expenses to enable you to return to your working home base are eligible. You must demonstrate an urgent and critical need for emergency support in your application.

Applicants must demonstrate recent and sustained activity as a professional dancer (in any stage/performance style, including aerial, ballet, hip-hop, jazz, modern, tap, and traditional/folk) over the last 3-4 years in public-facing performances. Inactivity, or online/streaming activity, during COVID is allowable. Must also:

• Live in one of the 50 states, a Tribal Nation, a U.S. Territory, or the District of Columbia on the grant deadline

• Be 21 years of age or older on the grant deadline

• Have adjusted gross annual income of $75,000 or lower for an individual, or $150,000 for joint filers, averaged over the last two federal tax returns

• Provide a W-9 with a Social Security Number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) or EIN if you are funded

• Not be enrolled in a degree-seeking program

• Request expenses that have been/will be incurred in the U.S.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Women of color who are making a difference in their communities – one to an undergraduate student, and another to a woman who is working on an exciting project that celebrates diversity and inclusion. 

Women Who Create is a mentorship program for and by women of color in the creative industries. Our mission is to break down systemic barriers through mentorship to uplift, inspire, and empower creative women of color.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5,000 to $10,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Organizations with a 501(c)(3) status, including those with an arts, culture, and humanities focus. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Applicants may be arts organizations, local arts agencies, arts service organizations, local education agencies (school districts), and other organizations that can help advance the goals of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Applicant organization must be a first-time applicant to the NEA or be a previous NEA applicant that was not recommended for funding in any of the three most recent Fiscal Years (FYs 2020, 2021, or 2022), and have completed a three-year history of arts programming prior to the application deadline.

Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000–$40,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Project proposals must be for sites located within the United States, Tribal Nations, and U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Projects must be for public buildings or buildings owned by a charitable institution; otherwise, there are no restrictions.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. The Take Notice Fund is open to all BIPOC artists/collectives and culture bearers, at any career stage, who are primary residents of the state of Louisiana and are currently active in conceiving and creating new original work. Artists must identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color (BIPOC). Individual artists, as well as ensembles/collectives/collaboratives, may apply. For ensembles/collectives/collaboratives to apply, a majority of artists within the collective must meet all eligibility criteria independently, and the collective must have a demonstrated history of creating new work collectively and submit a single application, with funds shared equally. Artists may apply either as individuals or as collective members. Members of a collective may not apply for the same project individually.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. CALI Catalyst applicants can be individuals or teams of individuals. Applicants must be an artist or arts worker (e.g., arts administrator, cultural producer, culture bearer, creative, cultural practitioner, teaching artist, or specialized technician); and be a full-time resident of California. Additionally, an applicant’s action must have taken place or commenced (i.e., the action is still in progress) on or after January 1, 2020.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $10,000

Application fee. $15 (can be waived by written request submitted by April 25)

Who's eligible. Visual artists who self-define as under-recognized, are at least 21 years old, and are neither currently enrolled in an art degree program, have been enrolled in the past 12 months, nor are preparing to enroll in the next 12 months. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000 

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Organizations with a 501(c)(3) status, including those with an arts, culture, and humanities focus. 

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $15,000 made up of an exhibition production budget of $10,000 and an honorarium of $5,000 to be divided between the curator and participating artists

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. The Latinx Project (TLP) welcomes proposals for a 3-month Fall or Spring exhibit on all topics/themes of relevance and impact to the Latinx community. In honor of next year's 5th year anniversary celebration of our founding, TLP is especially interested in projects that explore the past and futures of Latinx art. Exhibition proposals are encouraged to include 5– 10 artists who work in the media of drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, textile, site-specific installation, and/or video. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Enrollment or affiliation with a university is not required. Fellows should be comfortable communicating in English for the purposes of the fellowship and the final published text must be in English. Visual AIDS welcomes research proposals that focus on artists, creative communities, and cultural sites that have been lost to the ongoing AIDS crisis. Research on historically excluded and lesser-known artists will be prioritized. Research fellows will work with Visual AIDS to develop a piece of original writing to be published on our website, drawing on primary sources in the Visual AIDS Archive Project and related resources.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000/month

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. An applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals.  Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Projects must also advance a scholarly argument through digital means and tools.

Amount(s) rewarded. $25,000 + institutional guidance and professional development, research support, and  studio space

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. The program gives emerging artists of African and/or Afro-Latinx an unparalleled opportunity to develop their practice in an eleven-month residency, and offers audiences the chance to view this work in annual exhibitions. Artists cannot be in school or committed to another residency while in this program.

Amount(s) rewarded. $80,000 each year, for up to two years

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Creative people with diverse perspectives and expertise to enable transformational experiences in support of the Library’s Digital Strategy, developing work inspired by the Library’s collections that demonstrate possibilities of how the Library relates to and enriches the work, life and imagination of the American people. Residents are expected to do research with Library collections, create a unique digital work that may be hosted on the LC Labs website, host a public program, and serve as an ambassador for the Library during their tenure. The Library anticipates the residency will begin September 2022.

The Innovator in Residence application process has two phases: 1) a 3-page concept paper and 2) an invitation-only full proposal. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000 honorarium, $5000 budget for solo presentation at NYU

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Emerging or mid-career artists with an interest in shaping the contemporary/historic dialogue surrounding Latinx Art & Culture. Since The Latinx Project doesn't currently offer artist studios, this opportunity is best for artists who maintain a research/digital practice and can pursue material heavy projects elsewhere. Selected artist will be part of the NYU academic community for 4–6 months of the academic year.