Upcoming Grant Deadlines and Opportunities (4/17/19)
By Aisha Jordan, Program Associate at Fractured Atlas
The American Music Therapy Association is accepting applications for the 2019 Arthur Flagler Fultz Award Application.
Description: The purpose of the Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Fund is to encourage, promote, and fund music therapy research and/or to conduct research on new and innovative music therapy treatments. With grants of $20,000 the Fund seeks to support research in the field of music therapy in the following areas:
- Clinical Research — To explore lines of inquiry that contribute to informing best practices in music therapy.
- Health Services Research — To assess the role of music therapy practice in the context of emerging health care delivery models.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: May 3, 2019 at 5pm (EST)
The Face Foundation is accepting applications for Jazz & New Music Creative Grants.
Description: The program encourages applications for projects resulting in the creation of new works. Commissions to French composers and collaborations between French and American musicians will be supported up to 10,000 dollars.
- Projects must take place between September 1, 2019 and August 31, 2020
- Commissions may include arranging, composing, rehearsing, performing, and recording.
- Works presented must be composed by living composers.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: May 5, 2019
Berkeley Film Foundation is accepting applications for the 2019 film and video grant program.
Description: The Berkeley FILM Foundation (BFF) is pleased to announce the 2019 film and video grant program. The mission of the BFF is to nurture, sustain and preserve the thriving local film community and provides grants for social, historical and innovative documentary, animation and dramatic work(s).
The BFF fund will support Bay Area emerging and established independent filmmakers whose work combines intellectual clarity with creative use of the medium.
Geographic Focus: Bay Area, CA
Deadline: May 13, 2019 at Noon (PT)
The Watermill Center is accepting applications for its 2020 Artist Residency Program.
Description: The Watermill Center’s Artist Residency Program began in 2006, when The Center officially opened as a year-round facility. Each year, collectives and individual artists in visual and performing arts, literature and research take up residence at The Center to live and develop works that critically investigate, challenge and extend the existing norms of artistic practice. Artists-in-Residence share their creative process with the community through open rehearsals, workshops and artist talks.
Artists-in-Residence receive access to an extensive collection of resources central to the Watermill experience: 20,000 square feet of rehearsal/design spaces and outdoor stages; a theater production archive; The Watermill Center Study Library; The Watermill Center Collection; and The Center’s eight-and-a half acre landscaped grounds and sculpture gardens.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: May 13, 2019
Leeway Foundation is accepting applications for its Transformation Award.
Description: The Leeway Transformation Award celebrates women and trans artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia who create art for social change and have done so for the past five years or more, demonstrating a commitment to art for social change work. The Transformation Award is a $15,000 unrestricted award (it is not project-based) open to women and trans people working in any art form.
The Leeway Transformation Award is a two-stage process; Stage 1 is open to all eligible applicants. A national peer review panel will evaluate applications and select applicants to invite to Stage 2.
Geographic Focus: Greater Philadelphia: Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County.
Deadline: May 15, 2019
The City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program is accepting applications for their Individual Artist Project FY2019–2020.
Description: The Individual Artist Project grant category supports Oakland-resident individual artists producing art activities in Oakland that culminate in a local public outcome for the benefit of the community. Such activities may include, but are not limited to, performances of dance, music or theater, visual art and public art projects, classes and workshops, exhibitions, and literary activities. The request amount is $4,999.
All arts and cultural activities for which FY 2019–2020 Cultural Funding Program support is requested must occur within the City of Oakland between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020.
Geographic Focus: Oakland, CA
Deadline: May 15, 2019 at 5:00pm
The Creative Capital and Andy Warhol Foundations are accepting applications for the Arts Writers Grant Program.
Description: The Arts Writers grant supports both emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in four categories — articles, blogs, books and short-form writing — these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to self-published blogs. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: May 20, 2019
California Arts Council is accepting applications for their Emerging Arts Leaders of Color Fellowship.
Description: The California Arts Council (CAC) is piloting a new fellowship program to strengthen the field of arts and culture in California. The California Emerging Arts Leaders of Color Fellowship Program Administering Organization will develop and administer a statewide pilot program designed to invest in the future of a creative California by uplifting an inclusive workforce in arts and culture and supporting the vibrancy of the organizations that are creating and preserving the cultural identities of all California communities.
The CAC recognizes the historic marginalization of people of color within the field of arts administration and acknowledges that the barriers to the arts and culture field among people of color intersect with socio-economic status, geographic isolation, gender identity, and disability. Some identified barriers to careers in the arts include the culture of unpaid internships within the arts, inaccessible educational requirements by employers, or geographic and/or social isolation from cultural institutions with paid staff opportunities.
Geographic Focus: California
Deadline: May 21, 2019
The Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for the 2019 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant.
Description: The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grants of up to $15,000 each, for artists working in photography and photo-based art. Recipients will be determined by a panel of distinguished guest judges on the basis of artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future achievement in the medium in its widest sense. The Foundation seeks to support artists/photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field, who are professionally active or employed in the field. The entry fee for this grant is $25.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: May 31, 2019
The Pollination Project is accepting applications for Seed Grants.
Description: The Pollination Project seeks to unleash the goodness in every person. Through a daily practice of generosity and giving, The Pollination Project makes seed grants — 365 days a year — to social-change agents who seek to spread compassion in their communities and in the world for the benefit of all.
The Purpose of a Pollination Project Seed Grant is to support passionate, committed people with an early-stage social change vision. It funds individuals and community groups, and you do not need to be a registered or established organization to apply.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: Rolling
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