Max’s Kansas City Project

The Max’s Kansas City Project provides emergency funding and resources to professionals in the creative arts. Individuals who have made their living through their art form either professionally or personally and demonstrate a financial need for medical aid, legal aid or housing.  The maximum grant is $1,500.

Artists Fellowship

Grants for emergency aid to visual artists and their families, primarily in New York.

Visual Aid

Encourages San Francisco Bay Area artists with life-threatening diseases to continue their creative work. Grants take the form of vouchers for art supplies. Other assistance is also available.

Visual Aid
116 New Montgomery St., Ste. 640
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 777-8242
Email: visaid@visualaid.org
Website: www.visualaid.org

Ruth Talaber Artists’ Emergency Fund

Emergency grants to $500 for visual artists in Illinois facing fire, flood, medical and other unexpected, catastrophic events. Must join CAC to qualify.

Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Inc.

Immediate support to professional craftspeople facing career-threatening emergencies such as fire, theft, illness, and natural disasters.

J. Happy Delpech Foundation

Grants of up to $250 to artists in the Midwest with AIDS or serious illness.

Photographers & Friends United Against AIDS

Apply to the Critical Needs Fund

The Actors Fund

Provides a list of health insurance and medical emergency resources for artists in all disciplines, organized by state.

Change, Inc.

Emergency grants for artists in all disciplines needing help with rent, medical expenses, utility bills, fire damage, etc. Grants up to $1000.