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Funding for Individual Artists

This is a list of foundations that provide funding to individual artists. Please contact them directly for more specific information about their programs.

 

The Roy W. Dean Writing Grants

The Roy W. Dean writing grants have been created just for filmmakers, writers and artists like you.  The grants take you to New Zealand for 30 days to write in the quiet of the South island. The grants provide housing at Wye Cottage, food and gas money, a round trip ticket for the time that best suits you and you will be in the beautiful rolling hills of Marlborough County. You may be in the country but you are connected to the world via your Mitsubishi RUV, fast computer, internet, Phone, fax and SKY TV!  They are looking for writers who need uninterrupted time to create.  See their website at www.fromtheheartproductions.com for next deadline and full information.

 

Artist Trust

Offers grants and fellowships to Washington State artists in all disciplines.

 

Artist Trust
1835 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA  98122-2437
(phone) 206-467-8734    Toll Free. 1-866-21-TRUST
(fax) 206-467-9633
Email: info@artisttrust.org
Website: www.artisttrust.org
 

Creative Capital

Offers grants to individuals in the performing & visual arts, media, new fields.
Grants
: Up to $20,000
 

 

Creative Capital

65 Bleecker Street; Seventh Floor
New York, NY 10012
(phone) 212-598.9900  

(fax) 212-598-4934
Email: info@creative-capital.org
Website: www.creative-capital.org  
 

 

Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.

Grants of up to $1,500 to poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, visual artists, and for a mixed-genre category (illustration and text) to feminist women in the arts. Application fee is $20. Two application deadlines each year: December 31 (art and fiction) and June 30 (nonfiction and poetry). Fund does not maintain email, phone, or website. To request application materials, write to the postal address and be sure to include a SASE.

Susan Pliner, Executive Director

Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.

P.O. Box 309

Wilton, NH 03086

 

The Puffin Foundation

Grants to individuals in Literature, photography, performing arts.

Grants: Up to $2,500

 

The Puffin Foundation
20 East Oakdene Avenue
Teaneck, NJ  07666-4198
(phone) 201-836-8923 

(fax) 201-836-1734
Email: puffingrant@mindspring.com

Website: www.puffinfoundation.org

 

The Kentucky Foundation for Women

Grants to feminist artists in Kentucky.

Grants: Up to $5,000; most $3,000

 

The Kentucky Foundation for Women
1215-A Heyburn Building
332 West Broadway
Louisville, KY 40202
(phone) 502-562-004 

(fax) 502-561-0420
Email: kfw@kfw.org
Website: www.kfw.org

 

Independent Television Service (ITVS)

Grants for independent film and video for television.

Grants: $20,000 - $250,000

ITVS
51 Federal Street
San Francisco, CA  94107-1378
(phone) 415-356-8383
Email: itvs@itvs.pbs.org
Website: www.itvs.org

 

Xeric Foundation

Publishing support for comic book creators
Grants: Up to $5,000

Xeric Foundation
351 Pleasant Street, Suite 214
Northampton, MA  01060
(phone) 413-585-0671
Email: xericgrant@aol.com
Website: www.xericfoundation.com

 

Lambda Literary Foundation

Awards for published work only.

 

Lambda Literary Foundation

16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10E

New York, NY 10001
(phone) 646-239-9790

Email: asklambda@earthlink.net
Website: www.lambdaliterary.org

 

Film Arts Foundation

Grants to Bay Area filmmakers only.


145 9 th Street, #101
San Francisco, CA 94103
(phone) 415-552-8760 

(fax) 415-552-0882
Email: info@filmarts.org

Website: www.filmarts.org

 

The Leeway Foundation

For Philadelphia area women artists.  Disciplines rotate each year.

Grants: $5,000 to $50,000

 

The Leeway Foundation
123 S. Broad Street, Suite 2040
Philadelphia, PA  19109

(phone) 215-545-4078 

(fax) 215-545-4021
Email: info@leeway.org
Website: www.leeway.org
 

Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation

Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation (LVF) provides one-time grants to individuals working in the fine arts (excluding photography, film, and video) and in the literary arts, including playwriting. Also supports certain unaffiliated scholarly and/or research projects. Grants ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 are awarded on the criteria of merit and need; the foundation is especially concerned with those who have no other source of funding. Send email or SASE to request current guidelines (email is preferable and quick).

Diana Braunschweig, Executive Director

Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation

4001 Inglewood Ave., Suite 101-309

Redondo Beach, CA 90278  

Email: lvf@earthlink.net

No phone calls

NOTE:  Many state arts agencies also fund individual artists.


The Fund for Women Artists
3739 Balboa Street #181
San Francisco, CA 94121
Phone: (415) 751-2202
Website:  www.womenarts.org
Email:  info@womenarts.org