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. Currently prioritizing artists directly impacted by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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. Up to $12,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. The BFF fund supports East-Bay based emerging and established independent filmmakers whose work combines intellectual clarity with creative use of the medium. We support both narrative and documentary works that have a social consciousness and addresses complex issues of our time. All applicants must live or work in the cities of Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond, and Oakland. Applicants must be the director or producer of a film in Production, Post-Production or Distribution. Genres considered:

• Short Form Animation (30 minutes or less)

• Short Form Narratives (30 minutes or less)

• Short Documentary (40 minutes or less)

• Long Documentary (over 40 minutes)

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $5000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. The BFF fund supports East-Bay based emerging and established independent filmmakers whose work combines intellectual clarity with creative use of the medium. We support both narrative and documentary works that have a social consciousness and addresses complex issues of our time. All applicants must live in the cities of Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond, or Oakland, and must be currently enrolled in a full-time film studies program in the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco or Marin. Films must be in Production, Post-Production or Distribution. Genres considered:

• Short Form Animation (30 minutes or less)

• Short Form Narratives (30 minutes or less)

• Short Documentary (40 minutes or less)

• Long Documentary (over 40 minutes)

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Three grants will be awarded to still photographers and videographers reporting stories of forced displacement, with the aim of producing a narrative photoessay and/or short‑form documentary of no longer than 10 minutes (or a series of shorter vignettes of equivalent length). Proposed projects can be new or ongoing work.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Four grants will be awarded with a specific concentration in subject matter or medium: one for a project with a news focus, one for a sports project, one for an arts & entertainment project, and one for a video or multimedia project.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. These $5,000 grants will support photography projects — either new or in-progress — from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity. Of the grants available, at least one be earmarked for a nonbinary or transgender photographer.

Three grants supported by Nikon USA will be open to work from any genre — photographers will be asked to self-identify the subject matter or medium of their submission in the application. 

Four grants will be awarded through the Getty Images Inclusion Grant and selected in conjunction with Diversify Photo.

Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Photographers who can demonstrate a long-term commitment to their story. Additional consideration will be given to applicants who are engaged with the communities they cover beyond traditional journalistic documentation.  

Amount(s) rewarded. $2500–$25,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. The Creator Awards support individual artists to realize a significant visual arts project that will advance their careers. These projects should be bold ideas that speak to our community and our times.

Amount(s) rewarded. $50,000-$150,000/year for two years to four nonprofits or fiscally-sponsored organizations; $25,000/year for two years to four Philadelphia-based artists

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Art Works is designed to support arts, culture and creativity — particularly those working with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) individuals and those in other under-served communities. Art Works is the inaugural program from the Forman Arts Initiative and will provide direct grants to artists and organizations that shine a light on Greater Philadelphia’s rich diversity. Artists and organizations interested in applying must operate in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery or Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania or Burlington or Camden counties in New Jersey. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Any practicing artist or artist collective, at any point in their career, residing in all 50 states, the sovereign tribal nations within US borders, and territories including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Applicants cannot currently be enrolled in a degree-granting program or school. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $15,000–$50,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Individual writers who are at least 25+ and must be:

• a US citizen, permanent resident of the United States, or a holder of an O-1 visa (if your application advances to the final round, you will need to submit current documentation);

• applying for a project about contemporary visual art;

• an art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or a writer in an outside field who is strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts; and,

• previously published according to the specific publication requirements for the project type one is applying for.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000

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. $3000–$6000 

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Applicants must be at least 21 years old, reside in the Bay Area, and identify as Filipino or be of Filipina/o/x descent. Projects must be presented in SOMA Pilipinas, San Francisco, CA, at one of our venues or a venue of your choosing in the SOMA district. Proposed projects must not incite violence or promote hate language. Projects must begin by July 2022 and be completed by December 2022.

Amount(s) rewarded. $25,000–$100,000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Artistic Production Grants are awarded twice annually to individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions to support new artistic commissions that take place

outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in non-traditional

exhibition environments. Individual artists or producing organizations seeking

production funding must have a confirmed exhibition venue or presenting partner.

If the project takes place in the United States, the featured artist(s) may be US-based or international. If the artist is internationally-based, then the project must take place in the United States. If you are a nonprofit entity (American or international) applying for support for a project outside the United States, your proposal must feature the work of a US-based artist. 

Organizations must provide proof of nonprofit status.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. This grant, as with all Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) grants, is intended to help writers working with speculative literature. Applicants need not have prior publishing credits to apply.

Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000

Application fee. NA

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. 

• Currently living and working within the city’s eligible counties and must have resided in the city's eligible counties for at least two years prior to the application deadline (contact award organizers if you were temporarily relocated due to COVID-19).

• Not currently be enrolled in an art-related degree program, nor be planning to attend an art-related degree program in the coming year.

Amount(s) rewarded. $2000 and two months of studio space in Baltimore, Maryland

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Ibura is an opportunity for a researcher to embed themselves into the Blue Light Junction community. Researchers from all backgrounds are welcome to apply. Researchers are defined as someone who is curious, questioning, and actively pursuing a line of inquiry, who may also identify as an artist, organizer, scientist, architect, designer, healer, archivist, curator, dancer, performer, etc. 

Amount(s) rewarded. Studio space

Application fee. No, but visual artists awarded the residency will be asked to pay a $100 deposit which includes keys & clean walls.

Who's eligible. Visual artists using any medium/s are invited to apply. Bear in mind the studio is limited in size, 114 sq ft (14’x 8′ ft), so the size of your work must fit within this space. Additionally, the studio is not sound proof, so anyone working with sound must use headphones or maintain low volume.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1200, plus studio space for 10 months on the 28th floor of 4 World Trade Center

Application fee. NA

Who's eligible. Visual artists using any medium/s are invited to apply. Sculptural practice is possible, however, there are no facilities for woodworking, casting, no heavy power tools, or separate fabrication areas. Cannot be currently enrolled in school as an undergraduate or graduate student during the time of the residency.