Artist Grants & Residencies for Media Artists, Sound Artists, Native American Artists and More!

Greetings all. Today's selection of opportunities are brought to you by: re-title.com, womenarts.org, artisttrust.org and Mirabee's periodic sniffing around....Happy 4th of July!

(ARTISTS/MULTIMEDIA) Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT—November-April—Residencies of 2-4 weeks for film, video, and multimedia artists (in addition to visual artists of all types). Organization provides housing, studio, and stipend ($500 per month). Residents are responsible for deposit ($75, refunded on artist’s arrival), food, travel, and materials.

***I just heard from a Mira's List fan that this place no longer gives out stipends so please check with them first before applying. Sometimes things change season to season in this economy. Application available on website: www.nps.gov/wefa

Deadline: July 15, 2011

FEE: $25.
Weir Farm Trust
735 Nod Hill Rd.
Wilton, CT 06897
T: (203) 761-9945, FAX: (203) 761-9116
evanswft@optonline.net
allenwft@optonline.net
www.nps.gov/wefa

(ALL) Fogo Island Arts Corporation Residency Program 2012-2013—The Fogo Island Arts Corporation is a new contemporary art venue on the east coast of Canada. The Arts Corporation runs two distinct yet complementary programs, the Residency program and the Production program. Both programs encourage dialogue between visiting artists and local people to share experiences and perceptions.

The Fogo Island Arts Corporation's mission to bring together local communities and the international art scene is reflected in the accommodations and work space provided to Residency Program participants. Striking new studios are being built at locations across the island. Living spaces are provided in refurbished traditional homes located in nearby communities on the island.

how to apply

Visual artists, curators, writers and filmmakers can apply for residencies on Fogo Island in 2012 – 2013. Residencies are from 3 to 6 months. Visiting professionals are provided with a studio (work space) and a house to live in. Individuals selected to the program can apply for stipend to cover materials and living costs on the island and for travel (to and from Fogo Island only).
For more info, go to: http://artscorpfogoisland.ca/?page_id=6

Deadline: 31 July, 2011

Fogo Island Arts Corporation Application Committee
Highway 334, suite 100 NL - A0G 2X0
Newfoundland Canada
tel: +1 709 270 0011
info@artscorpfogoisland.ca
http://www.artscorpfogoisland.ca

(WASHINGTON ARTISTS) Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award – Awards of $25,000 to individual artists in any discipline who reside in Washington State and are originating new work, experimenting with new ideas, taking risks and pushing the boundaries in their fields. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and have a minimum of 5 years in their professional art practice. A letter of recommendation is also required. See website for complete guidelines and application instructions. Artist Trust, 1835 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122, Contact: Miguel Guillén, Program Manager, T: (206) 467-8734 ext. 11, Miguel@artisttrust.org, http://artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/money#arts_innovator_awards. Deadline: July 25, 2011

(ALL) Yaddo (year-round, Saratoga Springs, NY) – Residencies of an average of 5 weeks for writers, media artists, visual artists and performing artists working at the professional level in their fields. Facilities include dance/choreography studios, exhibition/installation spaces, metal shop, music studio, and performing arts space. Residency provides housing, meals, studio, travel assistance, and materials stipend. Artists responsible for additional materials or travel costs. FEE: $30. Yaddo, P.O. Box 395, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, T: (518) 584-0746, FAX: (518) 584-1312, yaddo@yaddo.org, www.yaddo.org. Deadline: August 1, 2011

(ALL) AMA Grant—AMA supports mobility within the African continent by providing the costs of travel, visa and travel insurance for the duration of stay. AMA supports all artists and cultural operators living and working in Africa for travels within and between the African regions. It supports the travel of artists and cultural professionals working in the following artistic fields:

- Performing arts : theatre, dance, story telling...etc
- Music
- Visual arts
- Cinema
- Literature

Art Moves Africa (AMA) aims to facilitate cultural and artistic exchanges within the African continent. AMA offers travel funds to artists, arts professionals and cultural operators living and working in Africa to travel within the continent in order to engage in the exchange of information, the enhancement of skills, the development of informal networks and the pursuit of cooperation. Deadline : 01 September, 2011
More Information: http://www.artmovesafrica.org/

(MEDIA ARTS/SOUND ARTISTS/SCULPTORS) Nodar Artist Residency Program—Binaural is a Portuguese non-profit Cultural Organization founded in 2004 with the aim of promoting the exploration and research in sound / visual and new media arts, focusing on the crossing of media and languages and on the articulation between the artistic production and the surrounding context, particularly through its activities in the rural space of Nodar.

Rural Architechtures: The 2012 Nodar Artist Residency Program will specifically explore the interactions between landscape, architecture and sound in the rural context of the Gralheira Mountains, municipality of São Pedro do Sul.

12 art projects by individual artists or collectives will be selected. The art works will acoustically "activate" different types of rural constructions, through the creation of context-specific sound installations and sculptures. Deadline: 15 September, 2011

Application Form
http://www.binauralmedia.org/news/en/artist-residency/application-form

Nodar Artist Residency Center: Associação Cultural de Nodar, Nodar – Caixa Postal 119, 3660-324, S. Martinho das Moitas, Portugal
Tel. +351 232 357 060
http://www.binauralmedia.org/

(NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS) First Peoples Fund Invites Applications for Artist in Business Leadership Program—The First Peoples Fund’s Artist in Business Leadership Program is designed to help entrepreneurial Native American artists develop their marketing and business skills and build self-sustaining, arts-based businesses.

This one-year, self-directed program provides a working capital grant of up to $5,000 to support work on a marketing plan/strategy or business goal as defined by the artist applicant. Additional program benefits include technical assistance, a professional network of peers, and travel expenses to FPF’s professional development workshops. The fellowship places emphasis on new works to stimulate creativity and a renewal of energy in Native art expression.

Applicants must be members of a Northern Great Plains tribe located in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Nebraska, the Eastern Plateau region of Idaho, Oregon, or Washington; a tribe from the Great Lakes region of Minnesota, Michigan, or Wisconsin; a tribe belonging to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard states; or a Hawaiian or Alaska Native. Affiliated Canadian First Nations artists are also eligible. For complete program information, eligibility rules and application procedures, visit the FPF Web site: http://www.firstpeoplesfund.org/artists_artist_in_business_leadership.html

(NEW MEDIA) New Arts in Media Grant—The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications for their new Arts in Media category open to mobile technology, digital games, and other platforms. Grants are available to support the development, production, and national distribution of innovative media projects about the arts and media projects that can be considered works of art. Grants generally will range from $10,000 to $200,000, based on the platform and the complexity and scope of the project. For more info, go to: http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/AIM-presentation.html Deadline is September 1, 2011.

(PHOTOGRAPHERS) Vision Quest Residency—Vision Quest Photo Workshops announces a new yearly grant of a one-week photographic artist’s residency. This grant provides mid-career fine-art photographers a retreat-like experience to work on their art, reflect on their artistic direction, make new photographs, plan new career paths, or to simply have time away from work/family/life pressure and stress. Photographers can use this time to move their art or career forward or to reflect on where they are at and where they are headed.

The artist will stay in a very private retreat in the woods along the banks of a pristine sand-bottom river, located near Grantsburg, Wisconsin (about an hour drive from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul). The residency will include a private consultation, in person or via phone, with Vision Quest Photo Workshops founder and director Douglas Beasley before the week begins and after its conclusion. For more details please visit the website. For more info, go to: http://www.vqphoto.com
Contact: 651-644-1400

CALLING WOMEN BOOK ARTISTS, COMPOSERS, EMERGING ARTISTS, INDIGENOUS MUSICIANS AND MORE!

For your weekend reading pleasure....(thanks to Artist Trust for a couple of these)

(ARTISTS) Franklin Furnace Grants: Each year Franklin Furnace awards grants to emerging artists, allowing them to produce major works in New York. Grants may range between $2,000 and $10,000 depending upon funding received by Franklin Furnace. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, funded projects must be presented in New York. Full-time students are ineligible. Complete application information is available at http://www.franklinfurnace.org/ Deadline: April, 4, 2010.

(COMPOSERS/PERFORMERS/SOUND ARTISTS) Common Ground Grants: The Common Ground program is inclusive, and therefore encourages Indigenous composers, performers, and sound artists working in diverse genres/mediums to apply. Artists are encouraged to take risks in their creative endeavors. Common Ground is designed to fill the gap in funding for artists who are particularly interested in creating work without the burden of artistic compromise. Common Ground aims to give timely aid to those indigenous musicians who are strongly dedicated to their art, who show artistic merit, and who propose an excellent project.

Common Ground is open to Indigenous makers of new music; composers, performers, sound artists, and songwriters. Complete grant guidelines and application information is available at http://www.fnci.org/. Deadline: April, 1, 2010.

(COMPOSERS/MUSICIANS/ENSEMBLES) CMA Classical Commission Program: Chamber Music America, the national service organization for the chamber music profession, is accepting applications for its Classical Commissioning Program from CMA member ensembles and presenters for commissions of new chamber works. The program provides support to U.S.-based classical/contemporary ensembles, presenters, and festivals that commission American composers to create new chamber works. Applicants must be organization-level members of CMA.

CMA defines chamber music as music for small ensembles (two to ten musicians) whose members perform one to a part, generally without a conductor. Compositions may represent a diverse musical spectrum including contemporary art music, world music, and works that include electronics. New works created through this program must be performed a minimum of three times in the United States. The program provides funding for the composer's fee (awards of $5,000 to $20,000 each), the ensemble's rehearsal honorarium ($1,000 per ensemble musician), and copying costs (awards of up to $1,000 each). For more information and guidelines, please go to: http://www.chamber-music.org/. Deadline: April, 9, 2010.

(WOMEN BOOK ARTISTS) The National Museum of Women in the Arts Library Fellows Program: The objective of the Library Fellows program is to encourage and promote the creation of artists’s books and to support NMWA’s Library and Research Center and book art programs. The Library Fellows program provides up to $12,000 annually for the production of an artist book in an edition of 125. An additional $1,000 is provided for the artist to create 500 copies of a promotional brochure for the book, as well as $1,000 for the artist to travel to the Library Fellows’ annual meeting to present her book upon completion.

The artist who is responsible for the overall creation, design and realization of the book must be a woman. Technical assistance in developing the book edition by both women and men is acceptable. Collaborative projects between two or more artists are allowed. Only new books will be considered. Previously published books or books that are versions of books previously published or planned for publication will not be considered. Complete proposal guidelines are available at http://www.nmwa.org/library/program.asp Deadline: June, 30, 2010.

URGENT DEADLINES FOR MEDIA ARTISTS, INDIGENOUS ARTISTS AND MORE!

(FILM/MEDIA ARTISTS) Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds: Provides film and new media artists who are residents of New York State with grants up to $2,500 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative moving-image and sonic art projects, and works for the web and new technologies, ranging from film and video to interactive media performance. Works must be surprising and creative, and must approach the various media as art forms. All genres are eligible. Individuals may apply directly and do not need a sponsoring organization. Undergraduate students ineligible. Application requires a project description, resume, and support materials. See website for complete guidelines and application. Sherry Miller Hocking, Program Director, Experimental Television Center Ltd., 109 Lower Fairfield Rd., Newark Valley, NY 13811, T: (607) 687-4341, etc@experimentaltvcenter.org, www.experimentaltvcenter.org. Deadline: March 15, 2010!

(INDIGENOUS ARTISTS) National Museum of the American Indian Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program / Artist Leadership: Supporting wide range of arts activities with goal of increasing knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of contemporary Native American arts. Awards of $6,000-$7,000 enable indigenous artists to research, document, network, and develop life skills to enhance artistic growth and strengthen career development. Two-part program includes visit to Washington, D.C., to conduct research and to receive professional training services, as well as an artist-facilitated community project to share knowledge learned from visit. Eligibility: Must be an indigenous artist of the Western Hemisphere who is recognized by the their community and can demonstrate significant artistic accomplishments; may work in any media (visual, media, performance arts, literature, etc.) Artist Leadership Program, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Cultural Resources Center, Community and Constituent Services Department, 4220 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746-2863, T: (301) 238-1557, FAX: (301) 238-3200, ALP@si.edu, http://www.nmai.si.edu/icap/leadership.html. Deadline: April 5, 2010,

(ALL) Art Farm Residencies: Art Farm (June 1-November 1, 2010, Marquette, NE) – Residencies of an average of 2-3 months for artists working in visual arts, electronic arts, film and video, multi-media, and performance art, as well as writers. Residency provides housing and some materials. Artist responsible for food, travel, and other materials. (402) 854-3120, af@artfarmnebraska.org, www.artfarmnebraska.org. Deadline: March 15, 2010!

(ALL) NYFA Affordable Workspace Program: New York Foundation for the Arts Affordable Workspace Program (New York, NY) – Open to artists and arts organizations who have been directly affected by the recession – through loss of office space, employment, etc. Activity must be arts, literary, or culture-related; artists and organizations working in all genres are welcome to apply. Workspaces at NYFA are private and equipped with high-speed wireless internet access. Meeting space is available by appointment. Workspace also includes a free printing quota of 200 pages per month (discounted printing fee for larger printing projects), discounted rate for copying, fully equipped kitchen (including coffee and tea!), and individual phone service with additional fee. Applicants must complete an application form (available on website) and include a CV and 2 professional references. Contact: Maria Villafranca, Program Officer, New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay St., Ste. 740, Brooklyn, NY 11201, T: (212) 366-6900 x251, mariav@nyfa.org, http://www.nyfa.org/level2.asp?id=158&fid=1.

***Thanks to WomenArts for the above notices! http://www.womenarts.org/news_funding/filmenews60.htm#Funding WomenArts (formerly known as The Fund for Women Artists) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women artists get the resources they need to do their creative work. Created in 1994 by Martha Richards, the organization has raised over $4 million and created a website that provides free networking, fund-raising and advocacy services to over 500,000 visitors a year. For more information about their programs, please see the About Us section of their website at www.WomenArts.org/share.

NATIVE AMERICAN FELLOWSHIPS, DANCE GRANTS, BIG MONEY FOR FILMMAKERS AND MORE!

Greetings all...naturally, the announcements below have the usual Mira's List annoying formatting issues due to her inability to figure out the easy transition from Word doc. to Blog (great solutions from people who use PCs but not Macs...oh well). Anyway, the following announcements are from the Artist Trust, The Chicago Artists Resource, the Foundation Center and my own little meandering through cyberspace....happy hunting....more to come of course. And by the way, thanks for the donations this week! Cheers,

Mira

(ALL) Artistay Residency in France: Artistay is a service for artists, writers, architects, academics, art teachers, curators, etc looking for a short term stay as part of a residency program in France in order to realize a personal artistic project. Artistay works with several art places in France - artists residencies, writers retreats, art colonies, art centers, etc., offering a professional support to artists from all over the world. Residencies can last anywhere from two weeks to six months. Artistay service is free of charge. For more information visit: http://artistay.com/home.html.

(FILMMAKERS) Cinereach Grants: Cinereach is now accepting letters of inquiry and sample work for their winter grant cycle. The deadline is December 1, 2009. They will request full proposals from selected projects in January. Grants range from $5,000 to $50,000 and are awarded to films at any stage. For more information, visit their website: http://www.cinereach.org/.



(PERFORMING ARTS) Travel Subsidy Grants: Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Arts Presenters, the Cultural Exchange Fund (CEF) Travel Subsidy Program is a travel subsidy program awarding grants from $2k - $10k to assist US-based presenters working to build partnerships and collaborations with international touring artists, companies, and their collaborators. In promoting the display of work by artists from around the world in its own cultural context, APAP strongly encourages travel to the the following locations: the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. More info: artspresenters.org

(DANCERS) Free Rehearsal Space for Chicago Dancers/Choreographers: DanceBridge is an initiative of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs to support Chicago's professional dance artists and choreographers and is now accepting proposals for its Winter 2010 sessionDanceBridge, an initiative of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Its goal is to foster the creation of new and innovative work by Chicago-based dancemakers/choreographers. DanceBridge offers 10-12 hours/week of free rehearsal space in the Dance Studio of the Chicago Cultural Center for 12 week periods in the winter, summer, and fall. Application Deadline: November 13, 2009 for the Winter session, January 11 - April 9, 2010. Guidelines as well as the application can be found at www.cityofchicago.org/CulturalAffairs. On the left side of the screen, there is a link "Apply to DanceBridge."

(PERFORMING ARTISTS AND WRITERS) Kresge Foundation's Detroit Fellowships: The Kresge Foundation's Kresge Arts in Detroit initiative provides financial support for eighteen Kresge artist fellowships annually. Each fellowship consists of a $25,000 award and customized professional development opportunities for emerging and established metropolitan Detroit artists working in the visual, performing, and literary arts.

Applications are now being accepted for fellowships in the performing and literary arts. Performing Arts includes choreography, music composition (in all genres — classical, country, electronic, folk, hip-hop, jazz, rap, rock, etc.), performance art, spoken word, sound art, and interdisciplinary work within the above disciplines. Literary arts include art criticism in all disciplines (including literary, performing, and visual arts), creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, playwriting, and interdisciplinary work within the above arts disciplines. Deadline Feb. 26, 2010. http://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/.

(NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS) Expressive Arts Grants: NMAI's Expressive Arts program awards grants of up to $10,000 to support the creation and presentation of new works through the collaboration of two or more Native artists. Awards will specifically support the creation of new works for public performance that may include, but is not limited to, music, dance, spoken word, electronic media, costume design, mask making, set design, performance art, photography, painting, and other forms of expressive culture. The award is open to all indigenous peoples who hold citizenship in the Americas. Deadline: January 15, 2010. Complete program information is available at the National Museum of the American Indian Web site.

(ALL) Black Metropolis Research Fellowships: The Black Metropolis Research Consortium is accepting applications for two fellowship programs: One-or two-month fellowships plus a stipend of up to $3,000 will be offered to scholars, artists, educators, writers, and researchers for studies relating to African-American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics. http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=272300024. Deadline: January 11, 2010.

(DANCERS) NEFA Production Grant: The New England Foundation for the Arts invites dance artists and companies to apply for a Production Grant for 2010. NEFA grants are highly competitive and award approximately 20 grants each year. The grants range from $25,000 to $40,000. Production grants will also receive touring support for the season following their works creation. The deadline for the first round for the grant process is March 2, 2010.

It is essential that the project applying for production grants engage audiences, explore collaborations within or across disciplines and involve creative and dynamic partnerships with one or more U.S. presenter partners. Touring grants also available. Visit the website for more information. Complete information can be found here: http://nefa.org/grants_services/production_grants.

(WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS) Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Documentary Prize: The year 2010 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. The Lange-Taylor Prize is offered to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. By encouraging such collaborative efforts, the Center for Documentary Studies supports the documentary process in which writers and photographers work together to record the human story. For more information, go to: http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/index.html. Deadline: January, 31, 2010.

(ALL) Puffin Foundation Grants: The Puffin foundation is accepting grant proposals from emerging artists in the fields of art, music, photography, theater, and video. For more information, go to: http://www.puffinfoundation.org/grants/prospectiveapplicant.html. Deadline is December 15, 2009. This grant does not provide funding for the writing of books, nor does it provide for travel.

LATE-BREAKING DEADLINES FOR MUSICIANS, WRITERS AND ARTISTS

Good morning to you all... I still am having formatting problems when I switch from a word doc or from an email to my blog post. The font size changes and other snafoos occur. I'm doing my best to figure this out...sorry once again if things look a little off. Drives me crazy! Anyway, below are some upcoming fall deadlines...best wishes, Mira.

(WRITERS) Biography Fellowships
The Leon Levy Center for Biography is offering resident fellowships at the Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City for the academic year beginning September 2010. Awards include writing space, access to research facilities and a $60,000 stipend. Deadline is October 15, 2009. For more information, go to: www.leonlevycenterforbiography.com.

The following announcements are from Kathleen Bitetti from Artist Alliance, an arts advocacy group. Check them out: www.artistalliance.us. Thanks Kathleen!

(MUSICIANS/MUSICOLOGISTS) Grammy Foundation Grants
DEADLINE OCTOBER 1st!: Funded by the Recording Academy, the Grammy Foundation Grant Program administers grants annually to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The foundation will also award Scientific Research Project grants up to a maximum of $20,000 each to organizations and individuals to support research on the impact of music on the human condition. Examples might include the study of the effects of music on mood, cognition and healing, as well as the medical and occupational well-being of music professionals and the creative process underlying music. Priority is given to projects with strong methodological design as well those addressing an important research question. The Foundation's Archiving and Preservation Project grants support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The Archiving and Preservation area has two funding categories: Preservation Implementation ($20,000 maximum award each); and Planning, Assessment, and/or Consultation ($5,000 maximum award each).

A Letter of Inquiry is now required before submission of a full application. Inquiries must be received by no later than October 1, 2009. If the project is recommended for further consideration, the applicant will be invited to submit a full application in early November. Full applications will be due within approximately four weeks of notification and wards will be announced in March 2010. For more information, please go to: http://www.grammy.com/GrammyFoundation/

(FILMMAKERS) Native American Film Awards
National Museum of the American Indian seeks submissions of films on Native American Veterans. The National Museum of the American Indian is seeking submissions of four-minute films about Native American veterans that illustrate the impact and meaning of participation in the military for native peoples. All types of nonfiction film, including documentary, experimental, and animation, will be accepted. Prizes will be awarded to winners, and selected films will be shown on Veterans Day 2009 during a special program at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Deadline October 18, 2009. Visit the Web site of the National Museum of the American Indian for further information: http://www.americanindian.si.edu/fvc/veterans/

(ARTISTS) NYFA Award for Excellence in Painting
New York Foundation for the Arts Announces New Award for Excellence in Painting. As part of this year's New York State Artists' Fellowships program, the New York Foundation for the Arts has announced a special award for excellence in painting. The Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting will provide two painters with an award of $20,000 each. The award is open to painters of all nationalities, provided they are residents of New York State. All those who apply to Fellowships program will automatically be considered for the Award for Excellence in Painting. The awards will first be presented in 2010 and on a biennial basis thereafter. The Artists' Fellowships painting category accepts work that involves painting of any kind upon any surface. The deadline for the painting category is November 3, 2009. Visit the NYFA Web site for complete award information and Artists' Fellowships program guidelines: http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=658&fid=1&sid=1

GRANTS FOR EMERGING WRITERS AND ARTISTS AND MORE!

Greetings all...I am still very busy the next two weeks but I'll try to keep up with postings as best I can. Below are a couple ones with deadlines coming up so check them out. I hope you are all having a great summer...best wishes, Mira

(WRITERS) Emerging Voices Program
Emerging Voices is an intensive eight-month program involving writers in the early stages of their literary careers. The program offers a $1,000 stipend and includes one-on-one sessions with mentors, seminars on topics such as editing or working with agents, master classes with a renowned novelist, courses in the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension, one-month teaching residencies, a monthly book group, and literary readings. It culminates in a public reading and reception. No age restrictions; selection is not based solely on economic need. Deadline: August 14, 2009 for the 2010 cycle. Materials must arrive in the PEN offices by the submission deadline—no exceptions. EMERGING VOICES PEN USA, c/o Antioch University, 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City CA 90230. Phone: (310) 862-1555. Fax: (310) 862-1556. Email: ev@penusa.org. Website: http://www.penusa.org.

***a note on this one: I'm not sure if Pen gives more than $1,000. They say on the website that it is an eight month fellowship but I don't know if that means more money. Double check about their funding. The fellowship award might just be in the form of the other opportunities they offer, such as master classes.

(ARTISTS) Santo Foundation Artists Grants
Santo Foundation is offering two $2,500 grants to individual visual artists working in any area of expression, including film, media arts and performance art. The Santo Foundation was established to recognize and assist the careers of individual artists. Its mission is to provide individual grants, travel stipends and artist-in-residence/studio exchanges in major cultural centers. Open to all undergraduate, graduate students, emerging artists and mid-career artists. International candidates are welcome to apply. For more information, go to: http://www.santofoundation.org/. Deadline: July, 31, 2009.

(ARTISTS) Artloft/Connor Meigs Art Award
The Connor Meigs Art Award is a merit award to help a young artist launch his or her career. Open to new BFA graduates. It includes a month-long solo exhibit (with no commission charged on sales), professional mentoring, invitations, mailing, artist's reception, lodging, and a $1,000 honorarium. More of an educational experience, it also includes studio visits with working artists. 2009 BFA graduates who wish to apply should send a resume, artist statement, art list and 10 images on slides or CD, with SASE to: Florence Mill Artloft, c/o Linda Meigs, 5215 Jackson, Omaha, NE 68106. For additional information call: 402/551-1233 or visit: http://connormeigsaward.blogspot.com/
Deadline: September, 1, 2009.

(PHOTOGRAPHERS) Photography Awards Fellowship
En Foco’s New Works Photography Awards Fellowship is an annual program selecting three or more U.S. photographers of Latino, African, or Asian heritage and Native Peoples of the Americas and the Pacific. Three photographers will be selected from an open and national call for entries to receive a $1,000 honorarium, photo-related supplies, technical assistance, a photographer’s page on enfoco.org, an article in Nueva Luz, an En Foco membership, and a culminating group exhibition in New York. Deadline: July 31, 2009. http://www.enfoco.org/index.php/programs/newworks_award/.

(ARTISTS) Subsidized Studio Spaces
Art Center/South Florida offers subsidized studio spaces for emerging artists. Acceptance into the Juried Artist Program hinges upon strength of work, a well conceived artist statement and the potential to benefit from a residency. Applications are reviewed bi-annually.
For more information and to download an application form visit: http://www.artcentersf.org/
Deadline: September, 1, 2009.

***By the way, I've been getting a lot of requests from readers lately to publish their studio space sublet ads. Just so you know, I don't do that as a rule. However, if a program like this one in South Florida offers FREE or partially subsidized studio space, then I am interested. Thanks!

MONTANA RESIDENCIES and ARTIST/WRITER COLLABORATION RESIDENCY

(ALL) MONTANA RESIDENCY FOR ALL DISCIPLINES
Montana Artists Refuge - Residencies Available
Springtime in the Rockies! Special May 2009 vacancies available. Located in tiny Basin, Montana--about halfway between Helena (the state capital) and Butte--the Montana Artists Refuge is a place where visual artists, writers, and musicians find quiet and respite from the rigors of modern life. There are a couple scholarships available for this residency (otherwise it costs money) so check the website for details. Their May 15th deadline is for a fully funded residency in October. Visit: www.montanaartistsrefuge.org for more information.

(NATIVE ARTISTS) RESIDENCY IN MONTANA
Montana Artists Refuge / American Indian Artists Residencies /
All Disciplines
The Montana Artists Refuge calls for artists to apply for the American Indian Artists residencies for 2009. The American Indian Artists Residency (AIAR) is a fully funded month-long program for five Native American artists. Funding includes: rent and stipends for food, materials and travel expenses. AIAR applications can be downloaded from www.montanartistsrefuge.org.
If you have questions, please contact Debbie Sheehan at 406.225.3500 or Visit: www.montanaartistsrefuge.org for more information.
Deadline: June, 15, 2009
Email: mar@mt.net

(A & W) COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCY FOR ARTISTS AND WRITERS
ArtsEdge Residency Project In Philadelphia / Call to Artists & Writers
ArtsEdge is a new collaborative residency project designed to encourage the careers of emergent writers and artists. Residencies last for one year and include a dedicated studio for each writer/artist, living space, and close affiliation with the writing and artistic communities at Penn. During the course of their residencies, writers and artists will be encouraged to develop at least one collaborative project with the Writers House or Fine Arts Department. Qualified applicants may also be considered to teach one course at Penn in the spring semester.
For more info, write to: ArtsEdge Residency, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Or email: residencyproject@writing.upenn.edu
Deadline: April, 15, 2009

These three listings are from ARTIST'S TRUST where you can find many more great things, such as exhibition and publishing opportunities, jobs, internships, etc. And if you live in Seattle, go to one of their grant workshops!