Applications for the Creative Capital Award are due on March 8. Artists working in all disciplines are welcome to apply for $50,000 in project funding, networking opportunities, career development sessions, and more. The Creative Capital Award application is a several-month process that happens on an annual basis, and occurs on the following timeline. February: Open...Read More
National Dance Project Grants provide funding to artists/companies to create new dance works and touring subsidies to the U.S. organizations who bring those works to their communities. Now in its third decade, National Dance Project is widely recognized as one of the country’s major sources of funding and field building for dance. NDP has invested more...Read More
The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system. The fellowship is available through three categories: advocacy, media, and youth, and funding ranges from $57,500–$127,500. The Fellowships Program is part of a larger effort within...Read More
The Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange (CACHE) at the Northwest Arkansas Council will award competitive grants up to $20,000 through another Bridge Fund for small and mid-sized arts and culture nonprofit organizations challenged by COVID-19. Click here for more information and to apply.Read More
The Puffin Foundation Ltd. provides grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy. For the upcoming grant cycle, they will only be accepting applications in Video/Film and Environmental. Average grants are approximately $1,250. The maximum grant size is $2,500. Interested applicants are...Read More
Texas Folklife’s Apprenticeship Program fosters the continuity of traditional arts in Texas by providing awards of $3000 for artist mentors to train apprentices. Each award supports intensive, one-on-one training for individuals who demonstrate skill for and dedicated commitment to a specific traditional art or cultural practice. If selected, the artist mentor and apprentice (the “artist...Read More
The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant is an annual grant of $7000 that will be awarded to self-identified lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. Work can be experimental animation, experimental documentary, experimental narrative, cross-genre, or solely experimental. Applicants must be based in the U.S. This grant was established by Hammer in 2017 to give needed support...Read More
Artists 360 is a grant designed to elevate and energize greater Northwest Arkansas artists by providing them with $7,500 grants to support creative projects, learning opportunities to develop entrepreneurship skills and build sustainable creative practices, and connections to a dynamic regional artist network. Grants are available to practicing artists and student artists of all disciplines...Read More
Charlotte Street Foundation has we have teamed up with Spencer Museum of Art, and Arts KC again to announce another round of open applications for Rocket Relief emergency grants. Another cycle of Rocket Relief grants is now available for individual artists in the Kansas City-area (within 80 mile radius) who find themselves needing financial assistance as they navigate...Read More
The Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship is an opportunity that funds apprenticeships between a master artist/tradition-bearer and one or more apprentices. The master artist and apprentice(s) apply as a unit and present a plan for their apprenticeship over the coming year. Applications are due August 31, 2020. Click here for more information and to apply.Read More
