Grants and Other Funding Sources for Individual Artists
Funding Portals
Art Opportunities Monthly
http://www.artopportunitiesmonthly.com
Lists art competitions, fellowships, residencies, etc. A subscription is $20.00 per year.
The Fund for Women Artists
https://www.womenarts.org/funding-resources/index/
This website has a list of approximately 200 funding sources.
Colorado 2009-2010 Grants Guide
https://crcamerica.org/resources/colorado-grants-guide/
Community Resource Center produces the annual Colorado Grants Guide Online, the most comprehensive database of funders that support Colorado-based community organizations. Paid subscription gives you unlimited access to search funder database, the ability to create a “Favorite” funders folder and free technical assistance articles and resource lists. Also available at more Colorado libraries.
Individual Artist Grants
National Endowment for the Arts
https://www.arts.gov/grants
In most areas, funding is limited to organizations. Direct awards to individuals are made only through the Literature Fellowships, NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, NEA Opera Honors and NEA National Heritage Followships in the Folk & Traditional Arts.
The Aaron Siskind Individual Photographers Fellowship Grants
http://www.aaronsiskind.org/grant.html
The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of fellowship grants of up to $5,000 each for individuals working in still photography and photography-based media.
The Alexia Foundation for World Peace
http://www.alexiafoundation.org/
The Alexia Foundation for World Peace Annual Photography Contest offers grants to students and professionals for the production of a proposed project. The Alexia Foundation seeks to provide the financial ability for a photographer to produce a substantial picture story that furthers the foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding.
College Art Association
http://www.collegeart.org/fellowships
The CAA’s Professional Development Fellowship for Master of Fine Arts Candidates was initiated to help M.F.A. students to bridge the gap between graduate study and professional careers. Fellows are honored with a one-time grant of $15,000 to help them with various aspects of their work.
Langlois Foundation
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology annually awards two grants to individuals making an exceptional contribution to advancing knowledge at the crossroads of art, science, and technology, or to individuals whose projects are highly original or innovative. Projects proposed by scientific researchers, computer scientists, or engineers must involve a partnership with an artist.
Puffin Foundation
http://www.puffinfoundation.org
Puffin Foundation Grants are open to emerging artists in the fields of art, photography, music, theater, dance and literature whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired. Average Puffin Foundation grants range from $1,000 to $2,500.
Foundation for Contemporary Art
http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grant_programs/artists_grants.html
Grants to Artists are administered by a confidential nomination and selection process. Applications and informal nominations are not accepted. FCA awards Grants to Artists in the following fields: dance, music/sound, theater/performance art, poetry and the visual arts. Artists are suggested and selected by their peers.
Artist Trust
http://www.artisttrust.org/grants/FELL
Fellowship awards $7,500 to practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and demonstrated ability. The Fellowship is a merit-based, not a project-based award. Fellowship
recipients must present a Meet the Artist Event to a community that has little or no access to the artist and their work. Fellowships are awarded in two-year cycles: Music, Media, Literature and Crafts disciplines are awarded in odd-numbered years (2009). Emerging Fields & CrossDisciplinary, Performing, Visual and Traditional & Folk Arts Fellowships are awarded in even numbered years (2010).
Colorado
Colorado Creative Industries
http://coloradocreativeindustries.org/
Artist Residences
TransArtists
http://www.transartists.nl/
Trans Artists is a knowledge centre on artist-in-residence opportunities. Here you can find all about facts, use and value of international artist-in-residence programs as well as other opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere ‘for art’s sake’.
Res Artis
http://www.resartis.org/
Res Artis is the largest existing network of artist residency programmes, representing the interests of more than 300 centers and organisations in 50 countries worldwide that offer to international artists facilities and conditions conducive for making art.
MacDowell Colony
http://www.macdowellcolony.org/
The MacDowell Colony nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination.
Colorado Residencies
AndersonRanch Art Center
http://www.andersonranch.org/residencies/
Colorado Art Ranch
http://www.coloradoartranch.org/residences.htm
PlatteForum
http://www.platteforum.org/
RedLine
http://redlineart.org/
Grantwriting Resources
Colorado Common Grant Application and Users Guide
http://www.coloradocommongrantforms.org/nonprofits/index.html