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Funding for Visual Artists - Regional Funders

 

Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists

Oregon only. The artistic categories rotate and include Media and Multi-Arts, Visual Arts and Music and/or Dance. Grants up to $4,000. Emphasis on women of color and lesbians. Note: As of January 2009, the fund is temporarily suspended; check back for updates.


MRG Foundation
2705 E. Burnside, Suite 210
Portland, Oregon 97214
Phone: (503) 289-1517

Fax: (503) 232-1731
Email: 
info@mrgfoundation.org
Website:  www.mrgfoundation.org

 

Artist Trust

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
 
 

Artists Resource Trust (ART)

The fund supports mid-career visual artists living in New England who can demonstrate a strong, sustained body of work. Also supports nonprofit organizations that wish to commission new work or purchase existing works by mid-career artists living in New England.
Grants range from $1,500 - $10,000.

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
271 Main Street, Suite 3
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Phone: 1 (800) 969-2823
Email:
info@berkshiretaconic.org
Website: www.berkshiretaconic.org
 
 

Kentucky Foundation for Women, Inc.

Giving to feminist visual artists in Kentucky working in painting, sculpture, puppetry, crafts, photography exhibits, multi-media, with the goal of bringing about social change through the arts.

 

Kentucky Foundation for Women, Inc
1215 Heyburn Bldg.
332 W. Broadway 
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 562-0045
Fax: (502) 561-0420
Email:
kfw@kfw.org
Website: www.kfw.org

 

 

Bush Foundation

Awards for artists who live and work in MN, SD, ND and western WI. Provides artists with significant financial support that enables them to advance their work and further their contributions to the communities. Disciplines rotate biannually.

 

Bush Foundation
E-900 First National Bank Bldg.
332 Minnesota St. 
St. Paul, MN 55101
Phone: (651) 227-0891
Fax: (651) 297-6485
Email:
info@bushfound.org
Website: www.bushfoundation.org 

 

The Melton Arts Foundation

Support for individual artists to improve or enhance skills, or to fund public performances, exhibitions, recordings or publications. Awards also in recognition of exceptional literary, artistic, musical or similar past achievement in Washington, DC only.

 

The Melton Arts Foundation
2086 Hunters Crest Way
Vienna, VA 22181

 

Franz and Virginia Bader Fund

Provides grants to visual artists (including photographers) who are at least 40 years old and who live within 150 miles of Washington, DC. In 2006, the Fund awarded 3 grants totaling $60,000. Annual application receipt deadline is September 15.

 

              Franz and Virginia Bader Fund

              5505 Connecticut Ave. NW, #268

              Washington, DC 20015-2601

              Phone: (202) 288-4608

              Fax: (202) 364-3453

              Email: grants@baderfund.org

              Website: www.baderfund.org

 

Jerome Foundation

Giving limited to MN and New York, NY. Supports emerging visual artists' exhibitions, fellowships, and workshops. Except for Media Fellowships, artists must apply through a non-profit fiscal agent.

 

Jerome Foundation
400 Sibley Street, Suite 125
St. Paul, MN 55101-1928
Phone: (651) 224-9431
Fax: (651) 224-3439
Email:
info@jeromefdn.org
Website: www.jeromefdn.org

 

The Leeway Foundation

Grants to emerging and established Philadelphia-area women and trans artists in any medium of art, with a focus on arts and social change.

 

The Leeway Foundation
The Philadelphia Building

1315 Walnut St., Suite 832
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: (215) 545-4078
Fax: (215) 545-4021
Email:
info@leeway.org
Website: www.leeway.org

 

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts

Grants of $5,000 to visual and literary artists in central and western New York State.

 

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
435 Ellis Hollow Creek Road
Ithaca NY 14850
Phone: (607) 539-3146

Fax: (607) 539-3147
To email, use the form at:
www.saltonstall.org/contact/index.php
Website: www.saltonstall.org

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