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Funding Resources/Funding
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Funding
for Visual Artists - National Funders
Center
for Craft, Creativity and Design
American
Craft Research Projects
This
fund aims to increase the number of creative scholars and practitioners
interested in pursuing craft studies and research and supports research
that demonstrates the relevance of craft within contemporary culture.
Project Research Grants are provided for research on American studio
craft. Proposals are welcome from academic researchers, independent scholars,
doctoral students, and museum curators. Graduate Research Grants
are provided to graduate students working on a thesis or dissertation
that relate to the goals of the Craft Research Fund. Grants: Project Research Grants of $10,000-$15,000;
Graduate Research Grants of up to $5,000.
UNCA
Kellogg Center
1181
Broyles Road, PO Box 1127
Hendersonville,
NC 287939
Phone: (828) 890-2050
Fax: (828) 890-2060
Email: info@craftcreativitydesign.org
Website: www.craftcreativitydesign.org
The
George and Helen Segal Foundation
Provides grants of $5,000 and $10,000 to painters, photographer, and sculptors.
Deadline is in October of each year. For New Jersey residents only.
The George and Helen Segal Foundation
136 Davidson's Mill Road
North Brunswick, NJ 08902
Phone: (732) 951-0950
Fax: (732) 821-5877
Email: segalfoundation@comcast.net
Website: www.segalfoundation.org
Black
Rock Arts Foundation
This new, national, non-profit arts organization will furnish artists
with direct financial aid for the production and display of interactive
artworks in communities and venues across the United States and around
the globe. The Black Rock Arts Foundation is devoted to promoting a revival
of art's culture-bearing and connective function by removing art from
its context in the marketplace and reintegrating it into communal settings.
Grants to $3,000.
Black Rock Arts Foundation
3450 3rd Street, Ste. 2A
San Francisco, CA, 94124
Phone: (415) 626-1248
Email: info@blackrockarts.org
Website: www.blackrockarts.org
Biennial Grants for Mature Women
Grants of $1,000 to visual artists, writers and musicians over the age of 35. NOTE: Next grants awarded in 2012. Write for guidelines.
National League of American Pen Women, Inc.
1300 17th St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 785-1997
Fax: (202) 452-8868
Email: nlapw@nlapw.org
Website: www.nlapw.org
Creative
Capital
Grants to individual artists in the performing and visual arts, media,
new fields. Disciplines rotate, so that grants are given to visual
artists every other year.
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: grants@creative-capital.org
Website: www.creative-capital.org
The
Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Provides grants to individual painters and organizations that support the visual
arts, in alternate years. As of January 2009, the foundation has temporarily suspended its grantmaking programs while building a facility for an artist residency program; check back for updates. In the interim, candidates are encouraged to contact one of the following partner organizations:
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
1414 Art Center Ave.
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168
Contact: Jim Frost
Phone: (386) 427-6975
Fax: (386) 427-5669
Email: program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org
Website: www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
724 South 12th St.
Omaha, NE 68102
Contact: Mark Masuoka
Phone: (402) 341-7130
Fax: (402) 341-9791
Email: info@bemiscenter.org
Website: www.bemiscenter.org
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
944 Fort Barry
Sausalito, CA 94965
Contact: Holly Blake
Phone: (415) 331-2787
Fax: (415) 331-3857
Email: info@headlands.org
Website: www.headlands.org
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
PO Box 613
Johnson, VT 05656
Phone: (802) 635-2727
Fax: (802) 635-2730
Email: info@vermontstudiocenter.org
Website: www.vermontstudiocenter.org
The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
188 Bell Road
New Berlin NY 13411
Phone: (607) 847-8158
Fax: (607) 847-8158
Email: bgolden@goldenfoundation.org
Website: www.goldenfoundation.org
Artadia
- The Fund for Art and Dialogue
Unrestricted cash fellowships and a national network of support provided to visual artists in participating cities. Cities: Boston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, and Chicago.
Artadia
210 Eleventh Avenue, Suite 503
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 727-2233
Fax: (212) 352-9979
Email: info@artadia.org
Website: www.artadia.org
The
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
Giving exclusively to needy and worthy individual working artists (painters,
sculptors, artists who work on paper, including printmakers) who have
embarked on professional careers; grants may be used for professional
or personal requirements.
Grants:
$5,000-$20,000
The
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
863 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Phone: (212) 517-5400
Fax:
(212) 288-2836
Email: grants@pkf.org
Website: www.pkf.org
Adolph
and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Individual support program for painters, sculptors, and printmakers who
have worked at least 20 years in a mature phase of their art, and are
in current financial need. Emergency assistance program for
painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have worked at least 10 years
in a mature phase of their art and are in current financial need which
is the result of a recent emergency occurrence such as a fire, flood or
medical emergency.
Grants: $2,000 - $20,000
Adolph
and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
380 West Broadway
New York, NY 10012-5115
Phone: (212) 226-0581
Fax: (212) 226-0584
Email: sross@gottliebfoundation.org
Website: www.gottliebfoundation.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 he 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 that encourage emerging artists whose works, due to their genre
and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired. Grants: Up to $2,500
The
Puffin Foundation
20 Puffin Way
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Phone: (201) 836-8923
Fax: (201) 836-1734
Email: puffingrant@mindspring.com
Website: www.puffinfoundation.org
John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowships for advanced professionals in the creative arts.
Grants: Approximately $36,000
John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
90 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 687-4470
Fax: (212) 697-3248
Email: fellowships@gf.org
Website: www.gf.org
E.D.
Foundation
Grants to individual professional artists, sculptors, and printmakers.
Grants:
$2,500 to $5,000
E.D.
Foundation
P.O. Box 628
Woodmere, NY 11598
Application
address:
E.D.
Foundation, 414 Devon St., Kearney, NJ 07032
Elizabeth
Greenshields Foundation
Funds representational or figurative artists working in the early stages
of their careers in painting, drawing, printmaking, or sculpture only. Applicants must have started or completed art school training or must
demonstrate, through work and future plans, a commitment to making art
a lifetime career. Funds may be used for any art-related purpose
including study, travel, studio rental, purchase of materials, etc. NOTE: Images must be submitted on CD only; slides are no longer accepted.
Grants: Up to $12,500 (Canadian $).
Elizabeth
Greenshields Foundation
1814 Sherbrooke St. West, Suite #1
Montreal, Quebec
H3H 1E4 CANADA
Phone: (514) 937-9225
Fax: (514) 937-0141
Email: greenshields@bellnet.ca
Website: www.calarts.edu/~stdafrs/web/greenshields.html
Elizabeth
Foundation for the Arts
EFA Studio Center: Provides subsidized artists' studios in New York City.
Grants Program for Individuals in the Visual Arts: Grants to artists in
all media except photography, video/film, and crafts.
Note: Grants are not currently being given. Check the web site regularly for updates.
Elizabeth
Foundation for the Arts
P.O. Box 2670
New York, NY 10109
Phone: (212) 563-5855
Fax: (212) 563-1785
Email: grants@efa1.org
Website: http://efa1.org/GIVA/?Page=GIVA-Home
NFAA
Fellowships in the Visual Arts
Offers fellowships in the visual arts in six-month cycles, renewable
for 2 years. Available to artists ages 18-40 practicing professionally
for 1-5 years. Open to US citizens or permanent residents.
National
Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
777 Bricknell Ave., Suite 370
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (305) 377-1140
Toll Free:
(800) 970-ARTS
Email: info@nfaa.org
Website: www.nfaa.org
The
Gunk Foundation
Grants for public arts projects - intended to challenge the current market-dominated
system of art production and to move art into the "public realm." NOTE: As of Spring 2011, the grants program is still suspended until further notice; check back for updates.
The
Gunk Foundation
P.O. Box 333
Gardiner, NY 12525
Phone: (914) 255-8252
Website: www.gunk.org
Application
address:
The Gunk Foundation
94 McKinstry Rd.,
Gardiner, NY 12525
Virginia
A. Groot Foundation
Grants
to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture. Artists may be at any stage of career development, or older at the time of the application deadline.
Virginia
A. Groot Foundation
P.O. Box 1050
Evanston, IL 60204-1050
Email: virginia@virginiagrootfoundation.org
Website: www.virginiaagrootfoundation.org
Xeric
Foundation
Grants to self-publishing Comic Book Creators. Note: As of January 2009, website was under construction. Check back for updates.
Xeric
Foundation
351 Pleasant St., PMB 214
Northampton, MA 01060-3900
Phone: (413) 585-0671
Email: xericgrant@aol.com
Website: www.xericfoundation.org
Aaron
Siskind Foundation
Individual Photographer's Fellowships of up to $5,000.
Aaron
Siskind Foundation
c/o School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography
209 E. 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (609) 348-5650
Fax: (609) 348-8867
Email: grant@aaronsiskind.org
Website: www.aaronsiskind.org
Nadine
Blacklock Nature Photography Fellowship for Women
One month-long artist fellowship for a woman nature photographer to allow
her access to the subject matter found at the Sanctuary with a $2,000
stipend. Also funds Emerging Artist Fellowships for Minnesota artists.
Nadine
Blacklock Nature Photography Fellowship for Women
The Blacklock Nature Sanctuary
3853 County Line Road
P.O. 426
Moose Lake, MN 55767-0426
Phone: (612) 823-6257
Fax: (612) 823-2637
Email: jorda021@tc.umn.edu
Website: www.blacklock.org
En
Foco, Inc.
New Works Photography Awards to assist photographers in the creation or
completion of quality in-depth photographic work that explores themes
emanating from their personal experiences. Applicants must be of
African, Asian, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander, or Aleutian
heritage. Work can be in any photo-based style or genre (documentary, autobiographical, landscape, abstract, digital, pinhole, alternative processes, etc).
En
Foco, Inc
1738 Hone Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 931-9311
Fax: (718) 409-6445
Email: info@enfoco.org
Website: www.enfoco.org
Fifty Crows International Fund for Documentary Photography
(Formerly Mother Jones Fund)
The fund awards four grants of $5,000 each to "emerging documentary photographers whose outstanding ability in visual storytelling leads us to a better understanding of our common humanity."
Fifty Crows
989 Market St. Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 391-6300
Email: andy@fiftycrows.org
Website: www.fiftycrows.org
W.
Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, Inc.
Grant program that provides photographers with the financial freedom to carry out or complete major photographic essays. As of 2011, grant was $30,000.
W.
Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, Inc.
c/o International
Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 768-4682, ext. 515
Website: www.smithfund.org
Erna
and Victor Hasselblads Foundation
Research Grants in Photography promote scientific research,
education and projects within the field of photography. Open internationally
to photographers, cultural theorists, historians, curators and researchers.
Grants:
50,000 - 500,000 Swedish kronors ($6,000 - $60,000).
Erna
and Victor Hasselblads Foundation
Ekmansgatan 8
SE-412 56 Goteborg, Sweden,
Phone: + 46-31-778-2150
Fax: + 46-31-778-4640
Website: www.hasselbladfoundation.org
The
Ruth Chenven Foundation
Grants of up to $1,500 to artists and craftspeople for current and new projects in the visual arts. Applications may be downloaded from the website and must be received by July 31; to receive an application by mail, request must be made prior to May 31. See website for most up-to-date contact and application procedure information.
The
Ruth Chenven Foundation
Email: pbunten@chenvenfoundation.org
www.chenvenfoundation.org
Women's
Studio Workshop, Inc.
Awards an Artists' Book Residency to assist artists working in Women's Studio Workshop studios to produce a limited edition book work. The grant includes a stipend of $2,000 to $3,000 for six to eight weeks, materials up to $500, access to all studios, travel costs (within the Continental US), and housing. Also has various other residency opportunities; see website for all opportunities.
Women's
Studio Workshop, Inc.
P.O. Box 489
Rosendale, NY 12472-0489
Phone: (845) 658-9133
Fax: (845) 658-9031
Email: info@wsworkshop.org
Website: www.wsworkshop.org
Library Fellows Artist Book Program
The Library Fellows Program encourages and promotes the creation of quality book art. The program provides funds for the creation of new artists' books by book artists or artists of other media who are interested in creating a book. Up to $12,000 for one project per year. Deadline: January 31, annually. Note: As of Spring 2011, the program is still under revision; check back for updates.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005-3970
Phone: (202) 783-7365
Website: www.nmwa.org/library/
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Astraea's Visual Arts Fund supports the work of contemporary lesbian visual artists within the U.S.
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
116 East 16th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 529-8021
Fax: (212) 982-3321
Email: grants@astraeafoundation.org
Website: www.astraeafoundation.org
* Many state arts
councils also provide fellowships to individual artists. For an alphabetical
listing of state and regional councils with links to web sites go to:
www.arts.gov/partner/state/SAA_RAO_list.html
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