Thanks so much for all your sweet notes and congratulatory emails about my upcoming wedding and my book launch (the first is in September, the second is in January). I have been so busy and will continue to be so I think the best I can do this summer is just post as much as I can when I get announcements sent to me.
The following opportunities are from Funds for Writers, Women Arts, and my pal and sticker kitty Cathy Tedford.
(WRITERS) Authors League Fund Emergency Funds: The Authors League Fund was established by the Authors League of America, Inc., to help career authors and dramatists in the United States and in financial distress due to an urgent situation. The Fund makes interest-free loans to professional writers in need; for example, writers with health problems and inadequate health insurance, or older writers whose income has ceased. Loan-seekers must show need and documentation of their professional status. Method of contact: telephone, letter or email. staff@authorsleaguefund.org www.authorsleaguefund.org Main Phone: (212)268-1208 / Main Fax: (212)564-5363 ***I got one of these once! It really helped.
(MEDIA ARTS) The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Media Fund / Open Door Completion Fund – Awards averaging $20,000 - $30,000 to independent media producers for completion of provocative and engaging projects intended for public TV broadcast and in final post-production phase. Projects should appeal to Asian American viewers AND to a broader TV audience. CAAM considers most genres, including drama, documentary, experimental, animation, and mixed genre. Applicants must submit a full length rough cut. Projects must be standard broadcast length. See website for application guidelines and procedures. Center for Asian American Media, Attn: Media Fund 2007, 145 Ninth Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94103, T: (415) 863-0814 ext. 106, mediafund@asianamericanmedia.org, http://mediafund.asianamericanmedia.org. Receipt Deadline: August 12, 2010
(ALL) NEA Access to Artistic Excellence Grants – Supports projects that encourage and support artistic creativity, preserve our diverse cultural heritage, and make the arts more widely available in communities throughout the country. Particularly relevant are projects that demonstrate innovation by generating new forms of art making, new directions in the field, and/or innovative uses of creative resources, as well as those that extend the arts to underserved populations. Open to arts organizations in all disciplines; see website for complete guidelines (specific to each discipline) and application instructions. National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20506, http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Artsed.html. Deadline: August 12, 2010
(FILMMAKERS) San Francisco Film Society / Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants Program (Fall, 2011) – Provides funding for narrative feature films made in the San Francisco Bay Area that, through plot, character, theme, or setting, significantly explore human and civil rights, anti-discrimination, gender and sexual identity, and other urgent social justice issues of our time. Grants support screenwriting and script development, preproduction, and post-production expenses. In addition to a cash grant, recipients will receive a range of benefits through the society’s filmmaker services programs. Applicants must be in a key creative role (screenwriter, producer, or director), be at least 18 years old, have a strong connection to the San Francisco Bay Area, and be SFFS members at the Filmmaker Pro level or above (membership is $90/year and can be purchased at time of application). Full-time students ineligible. Application process begins with submission of Letter of Inquiry on the SFFS website; finalists will be asked to submit further materials. SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants, c/o San Francisco Film Society, 39 Mesa St., Ste. 110, San Francisco, CA 94129, http://www.sffs.org/filmmaker-services/grants-and-prizes/sffskrf-filmmaking-grants.aspx. Deadline (LOI): August 13, 2010
(LANDSCAPE ARTISTS/DESIGNERS) CDAN Research Grants: Think Landscape 2010: Fundación Beulas, through the CDAN, is launching in 2010 its first research grants, for the purpose of promoting studies of the theoretical aspects of landscape, encouraging drafting general projects that may pave the way for further studies. The research projects that may be awarded this grant will address the generic theme of landscape, conceived in all its facets: artistic, aesthetic, historical, geographical, patrimonial, economical, territorial, biological, etc.The grant is intended for individual researchers, from the European Union and Latin American countries, who demonstrate their experience, such as doctoral professors, though it is not necessary that they be attached to a university. This grant consists of 15,000 euros. All the documents must be written in Castilian Spanish. For more info, please go to www.cdan.es or email: info@cdan.es
Deadline is September 20th 2010, in person or by post, at the following address:
Centro de Arte y Naturaleza
Fundación Beulas
Avenida del Doctor Artero, s/n
22004 Huesca