Grants and Services
Charles & Anne M. Lindbergh Foundation grants up to $10,580 for projects that advance the balance between nature and technnology. Not for creation of a particular work of art.
Charles & Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
2150 Third Ave North, Suite 310
Anoka, MN 55303-2200
Chenven Foundation: Up to $1000 to US craft artists.
Ruth Chenven Foundation, Inc.
7 Park Ave., Room 103
New York, NY 10016
Creative Capital is a new, national organization that will manage a revolving, tax-exempt fund, designed to support artists creating original work who are pursuing innovative, experimental approaches to form and/or content in the visual, performing, and media arts. Awards range from $5,000-20,000.
Creative Capital Foundation
65 Bleecker Street, 7th floor
New York, NY 10012
212/598-9900
212/598-4934 (fax)
Florsheim Art Fund: up to $20,000 to mature (60 or over) professional artists.
Richard Florsheim Art Fund
Univ. Of South Florida
PO Box 3033
Tampa, FL 33620
http://sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net/FlorsheimMerger.htm
Gunk Foundation Public Art Grants. Up to $5000 to support provocative projects integrated into daily life, e.g. art on public transportation, city streets, work places.
The Gunk Foundation/Critical Press
Attention: Nadine Lemmon
PO Box 333
Gardiner, NY 12525
914/255-8252
E-mail: info@gunk.org
Web: http://www.gunk.org
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and financial need, whether professional, personal or both. Applications are accepted from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time and range from $1,000 to $30,000.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
863 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Application online at http://www.pkf.org
Puffin Foundation grants of $400-2,500 for US artists to support creative and innovative initiatives that will advance progressive social change.
Puffin Foundation, Dept AC
20 E Oakdene Ave
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Women's Studio Workshops Book Art Grants. Six-week residency grants for production of limited-edition bookwork on site includes housing, $1,800 stipend, $450 materials stipend. Book Production Grants for off-site projects for publication of smaller-scale projects, up to $750.
Women's Studio Workshop
PO Box 489
Rosendale, NY 12472
914/658-9133
Emergency/Other Assistance
Artists Health Insurance Resource Center a project of the Actor's Fund of
America and the NEA to create a health insurance resource center for the arts community nationwide, with a goal of helping artists and arts organizations gain access to information which will help them obtain the best and most economical health insurance. The primary means of accessing this information is the Actor's Fund website.
The Actors Fund of America
729 Seventh Ave, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10019
800/798-8447
Craft Emergency Relief Fund provides immediate support including loans, booth fee waivers, discounts on materials/equipment to professional craftspeople facing career threatening emergencies.
CERF
PO Box 838
Montpelier, VT 05601
802/229-2306
Emergency assistance available to (painting/sculpture) artists working in mature phase for 10+ years whose needs are result of unforseen, catastrophic incidents. Typical grant $4,000.
Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.
380 West Broadway
New York, NY 10012
Emergency grants to artists. $100-500 for medical, living or other.
Change, Inc.
PO Box 705
Cooper Station
New York, NY 10276
212/473-3742
Exchanges/Travel
Artslink Collaborative Projects are designed to encourage mutually beneficial artistic collaboration between US artists and their counterparts in Center and Eastern Europe.
ArtsLInk
CEC International Partners
12 West 31st Street
New York, NY 10001-4415
Email: artslink@cecip.org
American-Scandinavian Foundation awards for study in Scandinavia. Applications must have well-defined research or study project.
American-Scandinavian Foundation
725 Park Ave
New York, NY 10021
212/879-9779
US-Mexico Fund for Culture provides grants of $2,000-25,000 to artists, researchers and scholars, independent groups and non-profit cultural institutions for projects in the visual arts, dance, theater, music, literature, media arts, cultural studies, libraries.
US-Mexico Fund for Culture
Londres 16, PB
Col Juarez 0600, Mexico
DF, Mexico
Email: usmexcult@lanta.apc.org
Rome Prize Competition Fellowships for independent study and advanced research in the fine arts and humanities in architecture, conservation, graphic design, historic preservation, industrial design, landscape architecture, set design, visual arts, history of art. Fellowships range from 6 months to 2 years, with stipend range of $9,000 to $17,800.
American Academy in Rome
7 East 60 Street
New York, NY 10022-1001
Fellowship type awards
Aaron Siskind Foundation Open to US photographers not currently enrolled in a degree granting program using still-photography based media. Several grants of up to $5,000 awarded annually to photographers based on past accomplishment and the promise of future achievement. Funds must be used to support the artists creative endeavors.
The Aaron Siskind Foundation
%School of Visual Arts
MFA Photo
214 East 124th Street
New York, NY 10010
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation awards to representational or figurative artists working in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture in the early stages of their careers. Awards of $12,500 Canadian. (We only accept images on CD. We do not accept slides anymore.)
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
1814 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite #1
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3H 1E4
514/937-9225
email: greenshields@bellnet.ca
Kansas Arts Commission Fellowships ($5,000) and Mini-Fellowships ($500)
awarded in various disciplines yearly.
Kansas Arts Commission
700 SW Jackson Street, #1004
Topeka, KS 66603
785/296-3335
email: kac@arts.state.ks.us
Research
American Antiquarian Society Fellowships for pre-1877 American historical research by creative and performing artists. Residency of 4-8 weeks. $1,200/monthstipend + travel expense allowance.
Artist Fellowship Program
A.A.S.
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
508/752-5813
email: cmm@mwa.org
Guggenheim Fellowships. Grants for scholars/artists for research in the arts.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
90 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10016
212/687-4470
Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Grant for Glass Research. Awarded for project support in scholarly research on the history of glass and glassmaking. Grant amount: $5,000. Grant may be used for travel, living eexpenses and other costs involved with conducting research or publishing it. Deadline: February 1 of the year in which funding is requested.
The Corning Museum of Glass
One Museum Way
Corning, NY 14830-2253
The Institute for Studies in the Arts (ISA) is an interdisciplinary research center in the College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University. The ISA provides an environment that supports individual inquiry and collaboration among artists, scholars, and technologists to invent new forms of art experience and processes for creating and teaching the arts.
Studio/Exhibition Space/Residencies
Anderson Ranch Arts Center provides full and partial scholarships for summer workshops for individuals.
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
PO Box 5598
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
970/923-3181
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts residency program provides living/work studio lofts and monthly stipends to accepted applicants. Application deadline for residencies from September 2001-February 2002 is September 30, 2000.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 South 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
402/341-7130 (voice)
402/341-9791 (fax)
E-mail: bemis@novia.net
CT Graphicarts Center awards 5 days of free studio time and stipend of $250 to printmakers, book artists and papermakers.
Connecticut GraphicArts Center
299 West Ave
Norwalk, CT 06850
The Clay Studio/Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship 2000-01 One year
residency at the Clay Studio, Phildelphia, September thru August. Includes
180 sq. ft. studio space, access to kilns, clay, glaze materials,
opportunity to teach for pay at the studio school, a solo exhibition.
Monthly stipend of $500. Applications mustinclude a resume, statement of
intent, 10 slides. An in-person interview might be requested of the
finalists. Must have application form. For guidelines SASE to:
The Clay Studio
139 N Second St
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215/925-3453
E-mail: info@theclaystudio.org
Creative Artists Network provides two-year service grant affiliations for visual artists which includes 5-6 group exhibitions with no commissions, annual seminar series, paid teaching and mural painting opportunities, technical assistance in grant writing, taxes, legal research, employment.
Creative Artists Network
PO Box 30027
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215/546-7775
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation provides free studio space (but not living space) in New York City (Tribeca) to visual artists for up to one year.
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
711 North Tejon St, Suite B
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719/635-3220
NFAA Fellowships in the Visual Arts are open to emerging artists age 18-40 who have been practicing professionally for at least one year but not more
than five and are US Citizens. Fellows receive 4 months of studio space, housing, $1,000 monthly stipend and funds for supplies.
National Foundation for Achievement in the Arts
800 Brickell Avenue, Suite 500
Miami, FL 33131
800/970-2787
Ucross Foundation Residency Program The Ucross Foundation Residency Program provides individual workspace, living accommodations, uninterrupted time and the experience of the historic High Plains landscape to selected artists and writers: painters, poets, fiction writers, composers, sculptors, photographers, playwrights, and those working in interdisciplinary forms. The Program's mission is to encourage exceptional creative work and foster the careers of serious artists. Residents are chosen by a rotating panel of professionals in the arts and humanities. The quality of an applicant's work is given primary consideration in the review process.. Applicants from around the U.S. and the world are invited to work on individual or collaborative projects for two to eight weeks at the confluence of Piney, Clear and Coal Creeks.
Vermont Studio Center fellowships for 4-week residencies for painters, sculptors and printmakers. Private studio, room/board.
Vermont Studio Center
PO Box 613
Johnson, VT 05656
802/635-2727
Women's Studio Workshop Artist's Fellowships. Two to eight week sessions from September thru June. Available in water-based screen printing, intaglio, photography, papermaking, letterpress and ceramics. Awards are designed to privide artists with concentrated work time to explore new ideas in a dynamic and cooperative community of women artists in a rural environment.
For application send a SASE to:
Women's Studio Workshop
PO Box 489
Rosendale, NY 12472
914/658-9133