Grants & Scholarships
Virginia Commission For The Arts- Artist Fellowship
$5,000 Artist Fellowships to be Awarded in Literary Arts for Poetry.
The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) has announced the opening of its 2021-2022 Artist Fellowship program, this year highlighting Literary Arts, and most specifically, POETRY. All eligible Virginia-based poets are encouraged to apply.
USArtists International
USArtists International supports performances by U.S. artists at impactful international festivals and performing arts marketplaces outside the United States and its territories. The program supports the engagements of exemplary solo artists and ensembles across all performing arts disciplines including dance, music, theater, multidisciplinary work, and folk/traditional arts.
Earmarks Are Back!
For the first time since 2011, Congress has reinstated member-directed spending, commonly known as congressional earmarks. Because of this change, members of Congress now have the opportunity to direct about $15 billion toward projects in their home districts….
Wallace Foundation Five year, $53 Million Initiative
When facing strategic challenges, how can and do arts organizations of color leverage their experience and histories of community orientation to increase their resilience while sustaining their relevance?
We are currently seeking eligible arts organizations of color* to join us in a new initiative that will explore this question. We are also seeking researchers to study the organizations' efforts.
American Rescue Plan Grants to Organizations
The Rescue Plan’s Grants to Organizations program will be carried out through one-time grants to eligible organizations including, but not limited to, nonprofit arts organizations, local arts agencies, arts service organizations, units of state or local government, federally recognized tribal communities or tribes, and a wide range of other organizations that can help advance the goals of this program.
Newark Arts Festival: Call for Artists & Curators
Now in its 20th year, will celebrate “Creative Resilience,” as it returns to in-person programming. NAF amplifies the voices of established and emerging Newark artists, gallerists, creative entrepreneurs.
NYSCA FY2022 Funding Opportunities
NYSCA's Music Program fosters the performance, creation, and interpretation of music in communities throughout New York State. It offers support for public performances by established and emerging music organizations representing a broad spectrum of musical expression.
Black Artist Fund
The Black Artist Fund is a nonprofit organization giving money directly to Black artists to combat systemic inequity in art.
Chamber Music America 2022 ARTISTIC PROJECTS PROGRAM
Artistic Projects was created to offer opportunities for small ensembles and presenters, based in the five boroughs of New York City with operating budgets under $250,000, to bring their creative ideas to completion and to compensate artists appropriately for their work. The projects funded through this program will represent the artistic visions, concepts, and priorities of the applicants, regardless of musical genre or style. Projects may include performances, recordings, new compositions, and residencies among other artist-generated ideas. If the proposed project is interdisciplinary, small ensemble music must be at the centerpiece of the work and not serve as an accompaniment to another discipline.
South Arts Jazz Road Grants
Emerging and mid-career jazz artists from anywhere in the United States take your music to places it’s never been with a grant from Jazz Road, a national initiative from South Arts.
City Artist Corps Grants
City Artist Corps Grants are intended to support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. The program will distribute one-time $5,000 grants to over 3000 artists to help sustain their practice and engage the public across New York City’s five boroughs this summer beginning July. Artists working in any discipline are eligible to apply.
Black Artist + Designers Guild (BADG)
Creating for Black Futures
What is your dream project proposal centered on your personal vision of the ancestral continuum of the Global African Diaspora? Through the Creative Futures Grant, Black Artists and Designers Guild is providing opportunities to four selected undergraduate and graduate Black students in Architecture, Design and Fine Art to receive the $5000 award, a chance to join the cannon of Black Art & Design and bring their art and design dreams closer to becoming reality.