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Here are the upcoming opportunities for October 2021. Best of luck!
Media Arts Assistance Fund for Organizations
Wave Farm, in partnership with NYSCA Electronic Film & Media is accepting applications for their Media Arts Assistance Fund for organization. For organizations, MAAF provides funds to support technical strategies for online development as well as to hire outside consultants to support organizational and professional development. Eligible organizations have missions specific to the media arts, dedicate the majority of their programming to technology as an art form, and are current NYSCA grantees. Priority will be given to NYSCA Electronic Media and Film grantees, applications from multi-disciplinary organizations, which incorporate technology as an art form will be considered on a case-by-case basis. A maximum request for each application is $2,500.
Geographic Focus
New York
Deadline
October 1, 2021
Artadia Awards: Atlanta
Artadia is accepting applications for the next round of Artadia Awards. The Artadia Awards provide exposure, financial support, and critical validation to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose. Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the partner cities for any artist who has lived within that city for a minimum of two years and is not currently enrolled in art school. Currently, they are accepting applications for Atlanta-based artists.
Geographic Focus
Atlanta, GA
Deadline
October 1, 2021
SciArt Initiative Residency: The Bridge
SciArt Initiative is accepting applications for their collaborative residency program. "The Bridge" is a four-month long virtual residency program that runs from September through January. Matched based on fitness from an open call application, each pair is composed of professionals who are in the arts, the sciences, or both. Residents are required to keep a weekly blog on their activity and projects, documenting the collaborative process over time. In four months, residents accomplish as much as is natural to their synergy; some pairs end their work together at the conclusion of the residency, some pairs continue their work indefinitely. As a virtual residency program, collaborative potential is not limited by geography. Processes and projects unfold physically where residents are located, and virtually online through resident's blogs.
"The Bridge" is open internationally to artists, scientists, technologists, and creative professionals.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 1, 2021
The David Prize Nominations
The David Prize is a celebration of individuals and ideas to create a better, brighter New York City. Open to any individual working in the five boroughs, the David Prize welcomes those with the grit and vision to change communities, culture and future for good. Five New Yorkers will receive $200,000 each, no strings attached. Currently, you can nominate a candidate for the award.
Nominees should have serious plans to contribute and a divergent and unique vision for how to make NYC a place where people yearn to live, and concrete ideas about how to achieve it. Nominees should also have demonstrated capacity and have a track record of extraordinary work.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
October 1, 2021
The Dots Between Fall Cohort
The Dots Between is accepting applications for its fall cohort. This financial coaching program is for artists who have started to bring in more resources than ever before and need to establish the financial and business structures that will support their long term career growth. The program includes three sessions with a financial planner, three workshops on art business practices and 1:1 mentoring with BIPOC arts leaders and small group discussions led by past fellows.
This is a free program for up to 30 BIPOC artists in the Southwest with 10 spots for BIPOC artists located across the US.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
October 1, 2021
PA SHARP: Recovery and Growth Grants
Through PA SHARP, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council will provide up to $20,000 in flexible funding to support the growth and recovery of the humanities in Pennsylvania. This is an opportunity to reimagine, reinvent, and re-envision humanities work through planning, capacity building, and creative programming. In addition to grants for Programs and General Operations and Capacity Building, PHC will partner with grantees to develop a special statewide learning network, the PA SHARP Learning Network, that fosters resource sharing, networking, professional development, and mutual support.
Geographic Focus
Pennsylvania
Deadline
October 1, 2021
In Cahoots Residency and Residency Grants
In Cahoots Residency provides housing and studio space to both emerging and professional artists in a variety of mediums, with a focus on artist books, letterpress, printmaking, writing, and collaboration. The residency hosts from three to five artists at a time in 1-week, 2-week or 4-week sessions. Residents are provided private individual guest houses (with kitchens and full bathrooms) and 24-hour access to the spacious shared studios or the individual writing studio.
They welcome printmakers, book artists, letterpress printers and writers to apply as individuals. They also encourage collaborative teams or groups of up to 5 to apply as well.
In Cahoots also offers grants to help offset the costs of attendance.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 1, 2021
Grants for Artists' Practice
To facilitate creative practices processes, Mophradat is introducing a revised version of what was the Grants for Artists program to provide artists with flexible financial support and connect participating artists with their peers engage in a structured dialogue over three sessions throughout the grant period. The program will provide approximately ten grants of either $2,500 or $5,000 covering periods of research, residencies, production of new work, curating and presenting shows, amongst other forms of artistic work. This grant is open to all contemporary arts activities or projects by artists or other arts practitioners from or living in the Arab world, or relevant to the region.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 1, 2021
East Bay Fund for Artists
The East Bay Community Foundation is accepting applications for their Fund for Artists. Since its creation in 2003, the East Bay Fund for Artists has partnered with more than 9,500 community donors and more than 200 organizations to commission new works by over 300 local artists. The East Bay Fund for Artists has leveraged almost $3.1 million in new financial support for the arts in the East Bay.
In 2019, the East Bay Fund for Artists at the East Bay Community Foundation refined its programmatic focus to invest in individual artists and arts organizations rooted in low-income communities of color and other disadvantaged communities, to commission new works that advance racial justice and social equity.
Grants will range in size from $1,000-$16,000. Applications are accepted from both artists and organizations. Individual artists must work with a fiscal sponsor and organizations must either have 501(c)(3) status or a fiscal sponsor.
Geographic Focus
Alameda and Contra Costa counties, CA
Deadline
October 4, 2021
Dance Advancement Fund
Made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation and Howard Gilman Foundation, the purpose of the funding initiative from Dance/NYC is to address the inequitable distribution of resources in the dance field and advance its resilience and thriving.
Applicants are eligible to apply if they are a dance maker focused on the creation and/or performance of dance, with a history of at least three years of dance-making activity in the metropolitan NYC area, have an annual expense budget between $10,000–$500,000 for FY 2020 (actual), FY 2021 (actual), and FY 2022 (forecasted); and can provide proof of current 501(c)(3) status or fiscal sponsorship status.
Geographic Focus
New York City metro area (including Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester counties in New York State plus Bergen and Hudson counties in New Jersey)
Deadline
October 4, 2021
National Sculpture Society Awards
The National Sculpture Society is accepting applications for several awards.
The Marilyn Newmark Memorial Grant is a $5,000 prize for a sculptor specializing in animal sculpture.
The Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant is a prize of $5,000 awarded annually to a sculptor who has demonstrated outstanding ability as a sculptor and who has created a body of work inspired by nature which includes works of sculpture in bas-relief and in the round.
The Alex J. Ettl Grant is a prize of $5,000 awarded to a figurative or realist sculptor.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
October 4, 2021
Craft Research Funds
The Center for Craft is accepting applications for several funding opportunities.
The Craft Research Funds Artist Fellowship will provide two artists with awards of $20,000 to support research projects that advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice. Proposals are welcome from mid-career artists, artisans, designers, makers, sculptures, and so on, who identify their practice within the field of craft.
The Craft Research Fund Exhibition Grant will provide grants up to $15,000 to support exhibition research that encourages, expands, and supports scholarly craft research in the United States. Proposals are welcome from museums, nonprofit galleries, and independent curators.
The Craft Research Fund Project Grant will provide grants up to $15,000 to support projects that encourage, expand, and support scholarly craft research in the United States. Proposals are welcome from academic researchers and independent scholars. Grant funds may be used for research related expenses including travel, honoraria for contributors, salary for independent researchers, and/or support documentation such as images or rights to use images or text, as part of the research yet to be completed.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
October 4, 2021
Make | Learn | Build
The Make|Learn|Build grant program from the regional Arts & Culture Council supports artists, creatives, organizations, and businesses in making work, gaining skills, or building up a business as we continue to respond to community needs. This grant program is designed to address the various ways the arts community in the tri-county Portland region need support.
This grant offered funding for artists and arts-based business/organizations in three categories: the creation of work in any artistic discipline, artistic or administrative learning, skill building, or professional development, and a transition or pivot for an arts business or operations, including purchase of equipment or staffing costs.
Geographic Focus
Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties
Deadline
October 6, 2021
Foundwork Artist Prize
The Foundwork Artist Prize is an annual juried award started in 2019 to recognize outstanding practices by contemporary artists. The prize is open to artists working in any media. This year, two honorees will receive unrestricted $10,000 grants and studio visits with the distinguished jurors who include leading curators, gallerists, educators, and artists.
To be considered for the 2021 Foundwork Artist Prize, artists need to create an artist profile on Foundwork with six (6) or more artworks published on their profile page, by 5:00 pm PT, October 10, 2021. They will also need to keep their profile published on Foundwork throughout the entire selection period.
Geographic Focus
Global (except for Argentina, Arizona, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cuba, Iran, Kosovo, Latvia, Macedonia, North Korea, Quebec, Russian, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sudan, Syria, and United Arab Emirates due to regulatory restrictions)
Deadline
October 10, 2021
Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Fellowship
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is accepting applications for the 42nd cycle of the AIM Fellowship program. The AIM Fellowship provides no-cost career-boosting resources to New York City-based visual artists who are at the early stages of their careers and seek to make a serious commitment to artistic practice as a profession.
Through an intensive series of professional development seminars and network-building activities, AIM Fellows are offered intimate access to leading experts and cultural producers who guide artists on the practicalities of developing a sustainable art practice.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
October 11, 2021
Colorado Arts Relief Grant
The Colorado Arts Relief Fund will provide $15.5 million for the second round of funding to support arts, cultural and entertainment artists, crew members, and organizations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding will be distributed through two separate grant applications for individuals and for businesses and organizations.
Colorado Arts Relief Fund grants are open to Colorado-based for-profit, nonprofit, and government organizations or businesses involved in the music, theater, dance, visual arts, literary arts, or film industry. Artists, musicians, dancers, performers, and crewmembers are eligible. Eligible applicants can be employees, 1099 contract workers, sole proprietors, or gig workers. If you received unemployment assistance or federal funding due to COVID-19, you are still eligible to apply for this grant.
Geographic Focus
ColoradoDeadline
October 15, 2021
Artadia Awards: Houston
Artadia is accepting applications for the next round of Artadia Awards. The Artadia Awards provide exposure, financial support, and critical validation to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose. Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the partner cities for any artist who has lived within that city for a minimum of two years and is not currently enrolled in art school. Currently, they are accepting applications for Houston-based artists.
Geographic Focus
Houston, TX
Deadline
October 15, 2021
Artist Grant
Artist Grant provides a $500 grant to one visual artist each grant cycle. Once an artist wins a grant, they may not apply again. They also award 2nd and 3rd place runners-up with $100 each. Runners-up may apply again in a future grant cycle.
Visual artists working in any media may apply: painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture (of any type of material), ceramics, mixed/multiple media, installation, and other new or alternative media. They do not accept submissions for film/video, music, theater, or dance.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 15, 2021
Art Omi Residencies
Art Omi is accepting applications for several residency programs. Through a competitive jury process, residents are chosen, invited to attend at no cost to themselves, except travel. Abundant, catered meals and comfortable, beautiful lodgings are provided in a scenic location in Columbia County, New York. Art Omi is two hours north of New York City by train.
The Art Omi: Architecture Residency program is the first of its kind in the nation. Each winter, Art Omi: Architecture invites 10 early- to mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a full two-week residency on Omi’s campus. Art Omi: Architecture aims to nurture experimentation at the intersection of architecture, art and landscape.
Art Omi: Artists invites artists from around the world, representing a wide diversity of artistic styles and practices, to gather in rural New York each summer to experiment, collaborate and share ideas. Concentrated time for creative work is balanced with the stimulation of cultural exchange and critical appraisal.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 15, 2021
Nancy B. Negley Artist Residency Program at La Maison Dora Maar
The Nancy B. Negley Artists Residency Program, based at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, hosts residencies of one to two months for mid-career professionals in the arts and humanities to concentrate on their fields of expertise. Accepted applicants have access to a private bedroom and bath, and a study or studio in which to work, expenses paid for round-trip travel from a fellow’s home to the Dora Maar House, and a grant based upon the length of stay at Dora Maar House.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 15, 2021
Southern Documentary Fund Production Grant
The Southern Documentary Fund is proud to announce the 2021 SDF Production Grant for documentary makers living and working in the American South. This grant is made possible by the generous support of The MacArthur Foundation. Projects must be non-fiction documentaries. They must be in pre-production, production, or post-production. Proposals for research, development, distribution or engagement funding are not eligible to apply for this grant.
Geographic Focus
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Deadline
October 15, 2021
Denbo Fellowship
This fellowship is designed to offer artists from a range of artistic disciplines an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice, and provides a unique opportunity to complete a new body of work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.
Selected artists will receive up to one month of access to the printshop, typeshop, paper studio and/or bindery, studio access, ten hours of one-on-one technical assistance, and a stipend for travel, materials, and housing.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 18, 2021
The Manifest Prize
Manifest Gallery is accepting applications for its Manifest Prize. Open to works of any media, any genre/style, any size, one work will be selected for the award, featured in the gallery, and published and receive a $5,000 prize. Ten semi-finalist works will also be recognized and published.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 18, 2021
Wherewithal Grant
Wherewithal Grants are a funding source for visual artists in the DC-area. Generously funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its Regional Regranting Program and managed by Washington Project for the Arts, these grants are intended to support a wide range of experimental and multidisciplinary practices, particularly those that emphasize collaboration and discourse.
Applicants must be visual artists, or artists with a history of presenting their work in visual arts contexts/venues (performance, film, text, and/or sound artists are eligible if their work explicitly engages visual arts discourses). Artists can choose to apply for either a Research Grant or Project Grant (not both) depending on which best supports your practice at this time
Geographic Focus
Washington, D.C.
Deadline
October 18, 2021
The Recharge New Surrealist Prize
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is proud to announce the creation of the Recharge New Surrealist Prize, a $7,000 award for painters living in the United States and U.S. Territories who are working in the New Surrealist style. The award program, formerly known as the Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art, will be administered by NYFA with funding provided by the Gu Family of the Recharge Foundation. Applicants must be painters working in the New Surrealist style, combining imagery in uncanny and unexpected solutions.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 19, 2021
Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund
CCCNSF (Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund), has launched its call for applications for grants of up to $45,000 for Black, Latino and Asian-led community-based organizations throughout New York City whose budgets are between $150,000 and $2 million. Organizations that qualify are able to work with a consultant in capacity-building activities including fundraising planning, new donor development, communications and messaging, and all aspects of board governance including recruitment, leadership development, committee effectiveness and clarification of board-staff roles.
Geographic Focus
New York CityDeadline
October 22, 2021
BIPOC Arts Network and Fund
BIPOC Arts Network and Fund, or BANF, was created to provide resources and networks that support the vibrant Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern and other communities of color of Greater Houston in fully displaying their power, values and traditions. Its goals are achieved through grant funding, advocacy, and community-building networking initiatives that revolutionize the local funding landscape, break down silos within the arts ecosystem, and welcome everyone to support and learn from BIPOC arts communities.
BANF welcomes eligible applicants in Greater Houston’s Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern and other communities of color to apply for grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. Applicants must be BIPOC-founded and led nonprofit organizations with arts and cultural programming, or fiscally-sponsored artist collectives who have a proven track record of work that benefits BIPOC communities.
Geographic Focus
Houston, TX
Deadline
October 22, 2021
Via Art Fund Artist Production Grant
Via Art Fund is accepting letters of intent for its Artist Production Grant. Artistic Production Grants are awarded twice annually to individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions to support new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in non-traditional exhibition environments. Individual artists or producing organizations seeking production funding must have a confirmed exhibition venue or presenting partner. Artistic Production funding ranges from $25,000 to $100,000 (can be lower than $25,000) per project, with grants at the upper levels of funding reserved for permanent or long-term installations, or newly commissioned works that may be gifted to a U.S. public collection. Artistic Production Grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify Via's three core values of Artistic Production, Thought
Leadership, and Public Engagement.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 25, 2021
Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
The Loewe Foundation has opened the call for entries to the fifth edition of theLoewe Foundation Craft Prize, an international award celebrating excellence in craftsmanship.
The Loewe Foundation seeks to recognize uniquely talented artisans whose artistic vision, technical skill and determination to innovate will set new standards for the future of craft. The winning works will be featured in an exhibition and accompanying catalogue in Seoul in Spring 2022.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 25, 2021
Homegrown: Future Visions
Eight selected Midwestern filmmakers will receive $35,000 to produce an 8-10 minute non-fiction short film. The filmmakers will work with Firelight Media from development through distribution, and will receive mentorship by established independent filmmakers. Additionally, filmmakers will be paired with a local public media station for additional editorial and audience engagement support, with a focus on local expertise and communities. Selected films will be distributed through public media with a planned release for Fall 2022.
Geographic Focus
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, or Wisconsin
Deadline
October 29, 2021
City Artist Corps Grants
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to partner with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), to launch 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.
City Artist Corps Grants applications and grant announcements will roll out over the summer in various cycles. For all cycles, artists will be screened for eligibility and grant recipients will be selected by lottery.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
October 31, 2021
Samuel R. Delany Fellowship
CatStone Books is proud to present the annual Samuel R. Delany Fellowship to one author from a community that has traditionally been marginalized in speculative fiction. This can include authors of color, queer authors, female authors, authors with disabilities, and authors living an immigrant experience.
The fellowship will award the selected author with a $10,000 stipend, mentorship from a member of the Advisory Board, and additional resources as requested in order to help the recipient set aside time to work on and complete a speculative fiction project.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
October 31, 2021
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