(W) NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANTS
Deadline: March 5, 2009
$20,000 grants in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
http://www.arts.endow.gov/grants/apply/Lit/Calendar.html
(W-translation) National Endowment for the Arts, Translation Project Grants
www.arts.endow.gov/features/writers/index.html
Eligibility info: http://www.arts.endow.gov/grants/apply/LitTranslation/eligibility.html
Translation Project Grants of up to $25,000 each are available to published translators of literature for projects that involve the specific translation of prose (fiction, creative nonfiction, drama) or poetry (including verse drama) from other languages into English. Translations of writers and of work insufficiently represented in English are encouraged. All projects must be creative translations of published literary material into English; the work to be translated should be of interest for its literary excellence and value. Priority will be given to projects that involve work not yet translated into English. Applicants must meet specific prior-publication requirements. Write to Translation Project Grants, Information Management Division, Room 815, at above address or see web site for additional information and guidelines.
(ALL) Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize
The Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize, established in 2002, is a biennial prize honoring the creative process, Creativity in Motion. This prize celebrates a visionary creative work in process, recognizing the power of original thought and expression in possibly enriching the world around us. The work or project must be under way at the time of application. This prize is open to all fields of creativity, including, but not limited to, the arts, cultural affairs, education and science. The award of $40,000 is available to U.S. citizens and can be used in any way the recipient chooses. Check website for deadline.
http://cim.ou.edu/
(PHOTO) Ultimate Eye Foundation grants
Offers two grants of $5,000 each: one for digital photography, using both a camera and a computer to create images realistic or fanciful; and one for figurative photography celebrating the human figure using a camera and any photographic or digital techniques. Applicants must submit only their own work, be over eighteen years of age, and not a full time student at any college or university. Applicants cannot be related to any member of Ultimate Eye Foundation.
1534 Plaza Lane #356, Burlingame, CA 94010.
grants@UltimateEyeFoundation.com
http://www.ultimateeyefoundation.com
(ACTORS) Screen Actors Guild's Catastrophic Health Fund
Offers grants to eligible Screen Actors Guild members and their dependents suffering from catastrophic illness or injury who are unable to afford the Screen Actors Guild's health plan. Open only to Screen Actors Guild members. 323-549-6773(A)
(A) Richard Florsheim Art Fund
Fund for established artists over 60 to help pay for exhibits, catalogs, or purchase by non-profits. Grants of $1000 - 20,000.
Contact: August L. Freundlich, President, 4202 E Fowler Ave, USF 30637, Tampa, FL 33620. Telephone: 813-949-6886.
Freundli@hotmail.com
http://www.csuohio.edu/uored/FUNDING/RichardFAFund.htm
(M) Musicians Foundation, Inc.
Providing financial assistance to those who need help in meeting current living, medical and allied expenses.
Musicians Foundation, Inc., 875 Sixth Ave., Suite 2303, New York, NY 10001. 212-239-9137.
http://www.musiciansfoundation.org/
(A) Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
This program provides studio space for free in New York City (Tribeca) to visual artists for periods of up to one year. Up to 14 artists are awarded non-living studio space.
For more information, send SASE to the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 830 North Tejon Street, Suite 120, Colorado Springs, CO 80903. Tel. 719-635-3220. Fax 719-635-3018. sharpeartfdn@qwest.net
http://www.sharpeartfdn.org/
(PERF. ART) Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art
Franklin Furnace awards grants of $2,000-$5,000 to performance artists, allowing them to produce major works anywhere in the State of New York. Artists from all over the world are invited to apply.
info@franklinfurnace.org
http://www.franklinfurnace.org/
(A) Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
The purpose of the Foundation is to aid talented young artists in the early stages of their careers. Awards are limited to candidates working in the following: painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture.
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, 1814 Sherbrooke St., West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3H 1E4. 514-937-9225.
greenshields@bellnet.ca
http://www.calarts.edu/~stdafrs/web/greenshields.html
(A) Durfee Foundation: Artist Resource for Completion Grants
ARC grants provide rapid, short-term assistance of up to $2,500 to individual artists who live in Los Angeles County. Funds must be used to enhance work that is near completion and scheduled for presentation within six months of the grant application deadline. Artists in any discipline may apply. Applicants must have a secure invitation from an established organization to present their work. There are four grant cycles per year.
1453 Third Street, Suite 312, Santa Monica, CA 90401
admin@durfee.org
http://www.durfee.org/programs/index.html
(PHOTO) Documentary Photography Project Distribution Grants
This grant is offered to documentary photographers who have already completed a significant body of work on issues of social justice to collaborate with a partner organization and propose new ways of using photography as a tool for positive social change. Grants of $5,000 to $30,000 are awarded.
Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
yyamagata@sorosny.org
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/focus_areas/distribution/guidelines
(A/COLLAB.) Creative Work Fund
Funds for artists and non-profit organizations to create new art works through collaborations. It celebrates artists as problem solvers and the making of art as a profound contribution to the strengthening of communities. Grants range from $10,000 to $35,000. Limited to artists living in and organizations based in San Francisco and Alameda, CA counties.
One Lombard Street, Suite 305, San Francisco, California 94111-1130 Tel: 415-398-4474. http://www.creativeworkfund.org/
(CRAFTS) Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF)
CERF accomplishes its mission to strengthen and sustain the careers of craft artists through direct financial and educational assistance to craft artists, including emergency relief assistance, business development support, and resources and referrals on topics such as health, safety, and insurance.
info@craftemergency.org
http://www.craftemergency.org/
(A) Capelli D'Angeli Foundation
Offers fellowship grants of up to $500 each to artist who are in treatment or are survivors of cancer and are creating art in all media. Grant recipients and award amounts will be determined after a thorough review of the artist's work in slide form and the artist statement. Download a pdf application form on their web site.
P.O. Box 656, Canton, CT 06019, 860-693-6208
capellifoundation@yahoo.com
http://www.capellidangelifoundation.org
(PHOTO/W) Changing Ideas
This organization assists charities and other individuals, including photographers and journalists, by providing support to achieve lasting, effective change. They provide imaginative solutions to humanitarian issues, and are unlike most grant giving organizations in that they also mentor, monitor, and support projects from their genesis to their completion.
awards@changingideas.org
http://www.changingideas.org
(ALL) Charles A. Lindbergh Fund
Awards up to a total of $10,580 per year to individuals whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs' vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment.
Charles A. Lindbergh Fund, 2150 Third Avenue North, Suite 310. Anoka, MN 55303-2200. Phone: 763-576-1596
info@lindberghfoundation.org
http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/
(A) CEC ArtsLink Award
Supporting exchange between artists and art organizations in the United States, Eastern/Central Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. Recipients are selected through a competitive peer-panel review process. Three awards are offered: ArtsLink Residencies, Independent Projects, and ArtsLink Projects. Awards are available to artists, arts managers, curators, presenters and non-profit arts organizations. Five-week residencies at US arts organizations are offered. Awards are funded through public and private sources including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Ohio Arts Council, the Kettering Fund, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Polish Cultural Institue and the Romanian Cultural Institute.
Mailing address: CEC ArtsLink, Inc., 435 Hudson Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10014, USA. Telephone: (212) 643-1985. Fax: (212) 643-1996. Russian Office: Ul. Rubinshteina 6-1, St. Petersburg, 191025 Russia. Telephone/Fax: +7-812-315-4558.
al@cecartslink.org
http://tools.isovera.com/organizations.php3?orgid=100&typeID=869&action=printContentTypeHome&User_Session=5f08039953986d46090a954fdaa44b80
(A) Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
Launched in 2001, this organization promotes knowledge sharing, networking and financial independence for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs by providing business training, grants and loans, and incubating innovative projects that create new program knowledge, tools and practices for artists in the field. Tapping leading experts from both the nonprofit and commercial business sectors, CCI develops next generation tools and support systems that artists need.
244 S. San Pedro Street, Suite 401, Los Angeles, CA 90012, phone 213-687-8577, fax 213-687-8578
info@cciarts.org
http://www.cciarts.org/funding.htm
(A) Bronx Council on the Arts
Bronx recognizes its own (BRIO) Individual Artists Grant offeres awards of $2500 each to artists who are at least 18 years old, not enrolled in art school, and live in the Bronx.
The Bronx Council for the Arts. Telephone: 718-931-9500.
Melissa@bronxarts.org
http://www.bronxarts.org/
(W) Banff Mountain Grants Program
Supporting projects that communicate the stories of mountain landscapes as places of ecological, inspirational, and cultural value, and that celebrate the spirit of adventure, this grant supports the concept that mountain stories are unique in the world. Individuals or organizations may apply for grants of up to $5000 (Canadian dollars) to fund projects that creatively interpret the environment, natural history, human heritage, arts, philosophy, lifestyle, and adventure, in and of the mountains.
Box 1020 Stn 38, Banff, Alberta, Canada T1L 1H5, Fax: 403-762-6277
mountainculture@banffcentre.ca
http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainculture/grants/
(W) AWP WC&C / Scholarship Competition / Seeks Entries
AWP Writers' Conferences & Centers is conducting its annual competition to provide scholarships for emerging writers who wish to attend a writers' conference, center, retreat, festival, or residency. The scholarships will be applied to fees to attend any of the members of WC&C, an association of conferences, colonies, and festivals for writers. Two scholarships of $500 will be awarded. Submissions in fiction and poetry will be considered. Separate submissions in each genre are permitted.
Further info and submission guidelines:
http://www.awpwriter.org/contests/wccscholarship.htm
Deadline: March, 30, 2009
(W) The Marguerite and Lamar Fellowship for Writers / Seeks Applicants
The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians awards fellowships for writers to spend time in McCullers' childhood home in Columbus, Georgia, to honor the contribution of writers’ residences to McCullers’ work. The fellowships are intended to afford the writers in residence uninterrupted time to dedicate to their work, free from the distractions of daily life and other professional responsibilities.The fellowships are intended to afford the writers in residence uninterrupted time to dedicate to their work, free from the distractions of daily life and other professional responsibilities.
The Fellow will be provided with a stipend of $5,000 to cover costs of transportation, food and other incidentals. Fellowship recipients will be required to introduce or advance their work through reading or workshop/forum presentations. The Fellow will work with the McCullers Center Director to plan a presentation near the end of the residency. Info at: http://www.mccullerscenter.org/fellowships.htm
Deadline: April, 1, 2009
(A) Black Rock Arts Foundation / 2009 Grant Cycle / Call to Artists
Black Rock Arts Foundation's seeks submissions from artists for their 2009 grant cycle. BRAF grants to individual artists or artist collectives that create interactive artworks and involves the audience in its creation.
Application and guidelines at: www.blackrockarts.org/grants/2009-grant-cycle
Contact Information:
Josie Schimke, Program Development Assistant, Black Rock Arts Foundation
1900 Third Street, First Floor, San Francisco CA 94158. Email: josie@blackrockarts.org
Phone: 415/626-1248
Deadline: March, 13, 2009
(ALL) The KHN Center for the Art / Residency Program
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE offers 2 to 8 week residencies for writers, visual artists, and music composers. Housing, studio space, $100/week stipend. Approximately 50 residencies awarded per year. Two deadlines each year: postmarked March 1 for the following July - December 15; postmarked September 1 for the following January-June 15. $25 application fee.
See website for complete information, guidelines, application:
www.KHNCenterfortheArts.org.
Deadline: March, 1, 2009
(ALL-NATIVE ARTS) Native Arts @ NEFA / National Native Artist Exchange
The National Native Artist Exchange, a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), provides support for Native artists residing in any of the 50 United States to travel to different regions of the country so that they may exchange artistic knowledge and skills with other Native artists. Travel grants will be awarded up to $1500.
Deadline: 4/1/09
This fund is designed to encourage and assist American Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian artists, and provides an opportunity for Native artists to teach, learn, and collaborate in traditional and/or contemporary Native art forms through travel from one region to another across the nation.
Program information at: http://www.nefa.org/grantprog/nativearts/nativeartistexchange.html
Website: www.nefa.org
Deadline: April, 1, 2009
(PHOTO) 7th Vevey International Photo Awards / Call for Artists
The Vevey International Photo Awards is a competition of photographic projects with a first prize of 30,000CHF (approx. 20,000 Euros). It is organized by the Fondation Vevey, ville d'images as part of the festival Images'. The purpose of the competition is to promote outstanding personal work that is original and unconventional.
Juries composed of Swiss and international experts in the fields of film and photography will meet in May and June 2009 to examine the projects submitted and select those which are considered to be outstanding in terms of quality or originality. The projects that receive awards will be completed and shown at the next edition of the festival Images in September 2010.
For more information check online at www.images.ch
Deadline: April, 30, 2009
(A—GBT) Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice/ Astraea Visual Arts Recognizes the work of contemporary lesbian visual artists, in the following categories: sculpture, painting in any medium, print, drawing, work on paper, mixed media.
Guidelines and application forms are available online at: http://www.astraeafoundation.org/grants/grant-applications-and-deadlines/#visual_arts. Go to the link to request the guidelines and application for the Astraea Visual Arts Fund. You will fill out a short form, and then you will be able to download an application in .pdf format with your required unique ID#.
For more information, please contact us at: 212-529-8021, ext. 22 or via email at: grants@astraeafoundation.org. Deadline: March, 2, 2009
Organization: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
116 E. 16th St., 7th Fl, New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 529-8021 Fax: (212) 982-3321
Email: grants@astraeafoundation.org
Website: www.astraeafoundation.org
Contact: Lorraine Ramirez
(W) Creative Capital, Warhol Foundation / Arts Writers Grant / Call for Applications
The 2009 grant cycle for the Art Writers Grant open April 27, 2009 Online (only): 10:00 a.m. EST
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is designed to support writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to individual authors. The first program of its type, it was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture. The Arts Writers Grant Program issues awards for books, articles, short-form writing, and blogs/new and alternative media projects and aims to support the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary visual art, from general-audience criticism to academic scholarship.
For more information please go to:
http://www.artswriters.org/home.php
http://www.artswriters.org/guidelines.php
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is spearheaded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its broader Arts Writing Initiative and administered by the Creative Capital Foundation.
PO Box 19515, Seattle, WA 98109-1515, Fax: 206.217.9887
Deadline: June, 8, 2009