Upcoming Grant Deadlines and Opportunities
by Aisha Jordan, Program Associate at Fractured Atlas
If you are interested in applying for 2019 MAP Fund, please read through this blog post for information about our review process and internal timeline.
Humanities New York is accepting submissions for their Action and Quick Grants
Description: The Humanities New York Action Grants offer up to $5,000 to produce public-facing humanities projects that encourage audiences to reflect on their values, explore new ideas, and engage with others across the state. These grants require organizations to demonstrate a match of at least one-to-one.
They aim to:
- Connect audiences more deeply to the communities where they live and work.
- Solidify community partnerships and diversify audiences.
- Creatively employ the tools of the humanities to respond to issues and ideas capturing the imagination and passion of New Yorkers today.
The Humanities New York Quick Grants of $500 are now available for in-person public humanities programs. These matching grants are intended for small and volunteer-run organizations. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis while funds last.
Geographic Focus: New York
Deadline: February 1, 2019
Artadia is accepting applications for contemporary visual artists in Los Angeles
Description: Artadia Awards are open to all visual artists living and working throughout one of Artadia’s Award Cities. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all visual media and at any stage in their career are strongly encouraged to apply. Artadia Awardees will be selected through a two-tiered jury process that combines local expertise with outside perspective from leading national and international curators and artists. A preliminary panel of curators and artists evaluates all online submissions and selects five Finalists. Then, a second panel of curators from the Award city conduct studio visits with the Finalists, gaining a broader context for the artists’ work. From the Finalist pool, two artists are selected to receive an unrestricted Artadia Award of $10,000.
The Artadia Awards application process is open to all visual artists who:
- Live and work in designated city.
- Have resided in the program city for at least two years prior to the application deadline.
- A practice that engages a dialogue between the artist’s indigenous world and the surrounding culture
- Not currently enrolled in an art-related degree program or long-term residency, nor planning to attend an art-related degree program or long-term residency in the coming year.
- Are not related to Artadia staff or directors in any way.
- Have not received an Artadia (formerly The ArtCouncil Inc.) Award for $10,000 or more in the past.
The Awards are based on merit: defined as a rigorous engagement with a set of ideas embodied in materials, a depth of practice and a clearly articulated and developed voice.
Geographic Focus: Los Angeles, CA
Deadline: February 1, 2019 at midnight PST
Chamber Music America is accepting applications for it’s New Jazz Works Program
Description: Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program provides grants to U.S. jazz ensembles to create, perform, and if desired, record new works. The new work may be composed by the ensemble leader or another member of the ensemble.
The Board of Directors of Chamber Music America has made diversity, inclusion, and equity a primary focus of the organization’s work. CMA seeks to fulfill its vision for the future, where people of all races, religions, genders, and abilities are able to fully participate in the performance, presentation, and enjoyment of the many styles of small ensemble music. Therefore, CMA’s goal in this program is, through the panel review process, to arrive at a final slate of grantees that is representative of the field in terms of race, gender, and style of jazz. Read CMA’s Statement of Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: February 1, 2019, 9:00 PM EST
National Parks Arts Foundation is accepting applications for their residency programs at Death Valley National Park.
Description: This is a month long January residency in the heart of Death Valley National Park. Artists will stay at the historic Stovepipe Wells Village, in a comfortable room, with all the amenities, including internet and use of the pool and other facilities, plus the artists will have all meals covered at the employee dining lounge. The residency includes a $2000 stipend.
Stovepipe Wells Village includes the Badwater Saloon and Toll Road Restaurant, as well as the Stovepipe Wells General Store.
The TEN FINALISTS FOR THE FINAL ROUND we be selected and announced. These will listed on the NPAF website and on our social media on March 30th, 2019. The finalists will then have a month to submit their detailed proposals for the residency, along with other artwork they may have completed in the meantime.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: February 10, 2019
ARC3409 Arts Studios is accepting applications for their Artist Residency Program
Description: The Artist Residency Program provides below-market work space for artists in the local Virginia and Washington, DC metro area. The program provides an opportunity for collaboration between artists and their community. This includes, but is not limited to, exhibition space, retail space, performance space, educational programs, and other ways to contribute to the cultural vibrancy of Arlington, VA. Artists that will be a good fit for this residency are those who are community-minded and understand the importance of the arts in a sustainable and vibrant society. Studios do not include living quarters, only studio/work space.
Geographic Focus: Arlington, VA and Washington, DC
Deadline: Ongoing, pending available space
National Parks Arts Foundation is accepting applications for their Artist Residency at Fort Union National Monument.
Description: The National Parks Arts Foundation’s artist residency will take place in Northern New Mexico in April of 2019. Containing the remnants of three different fortresses of the period 1860–1880, Fort Union National Monument, located in Mora County near Watrous, NM, was the hub of commerce, national defense, and migration at the final stretch of the Santa Fe Trail. The richly evocative ruins of a post-civil war era adobe fort, it became a National Monument in 1954 under the Eisenhower administration. The fort is close to the high plains and grasslands of Eastern New Mexico, the amazing Historic Victorian Town of Las Vegas, and the Santa Fe Trail outpost of Wagon Mound.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: February 15, 2019
Open Meadows Foundation is accepting applications for project support.
Description: Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization seeking projects that promote gender/racial/economic justice. The projects must be led by and benefit women and girls, particularly those from vulnerable communities. Open Meadows Foundation funds projects that do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual identity and expression, age or ability. It offers grants up to $2000 to projects that:
- Are designed and implemented by women and girls
- Reflect the diversity of the community served by the project in both its leadership and organization
- Promote building community power
- Have limited financial access
Organizational budget should not exceed $75,000. Small and start-up organizations are strongly encouraged to apply.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: February 15, 2019
California Humanities is accepting applications for it’s Quick Grants opportunity.
Description: Humanities for All is a grant program that supports locally-initiated public humanities projects. This program responds to the needs and interests of Californians, encourages greater public participation in humanities programming, particularly by new and/or underserved audiences, and promotes understanding and empathy among all our state’s peoples in order to cultivate a thriving democracy.
Quick Grants (between $1,000 and $5,000) will be awarded three times a year for small-scale public humanities activities and projects that will take place within a one-year period from the award date. Projects should be grounded in the humanities, show potential to provide high quality humanities learning experiences for participants and audiences, and demonstrate capacity for successful implementation. Appropriate formats include but are not limited to community dialogues, reading- or film-and-discussion groups, oral history or nonfiction writing or story-sharing workshops, and other types of activities.
Geographic Focus: California
Deadline: February 15, 2019
National Parks Arts Foundation is accepting applications for their Artist Residency at Hawaii Volcanoes.
Description: NPAF is now offering summer Hawaii Volcanoes National Park residencies for a one-month term in June.
The National Parks Arts Foundation is excited to continue its artist-in-residence program at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. The Park boundaries include two legendary and sacred volcanoes. Kilauea and Mauna Loa, as well as rainforests and mysterious and ever-changing active lava flows. This is a unique dramatic environment for all artistic media to flourish and to inspire breakthroughs in process and result.
The residency includes a $2000 stipend, a studio, housing, events, and publicity.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: February 15, 2019
The Harpo Foundation is accepting applications for their Native American Residency Fellowship.
Description: This Fellowship program was established in 2011 to support the development of visual artists and the potential for inter-cultural dialog. Each year, the Foundation awards two residency fellowships to Native American visual artists at the Vermont Studio Center. Each Fellow receives a one-month residency, which includes room and board, a private studio, and a $500 travel stipend.
Founded by artists in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is the largest international artists’ and writers’ Residency Program in the United States, hosting 50 visual artists and writers each month from across the country and around the world. The Studio Center provides 4–12 week residencies on an historic 30 building campus along the Gihon River in Johnson, Vermont, a village in the heart of the northern Green Mountains.
Two fellowships are awarded annually to Native American Visual Artists who demonstrate:
- Strong artistic ability
- An evolving practice this is at a pivotal moment in its development
- A practice that engages a dialogue between the artist’s indigenous world and the surrounding culture
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: February 15, 2018
1888 Center is accepting applications for its California Writing Residency.
Description: 1888 + Heritage Future.org bring you the California Writing Residency. California writers from the coast and valleys to the forests and deserts are invited to apply for three two-week residencies in the mountains of Lake Arrowhead where the creative environment will nurture your craft and help carry on the tradition of the California voice.
Geographic Focus: California
Deadline: February 28, 2019
I-Park Foundation Is accepting applications for it’s fully funded Artist In Residence Program: 2019 Environmental Art Residency & Biennale
Description: The Artist in Residence Program offers residencies from May to December. The typical residency lasts four weeks and includes six artists, all of whom arrive and depart at the same time, ensuring a deeply shared experience. Residents are given a private bedroom in a renovated 1840s farmhouse, a private studio, and chef-prepared dinners four nights a week.
Residencies are offered in:
- Visual Arts: painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, book arts, mixed media, site-responsive art, installation
- Music Composition/Sound Art: concert music (all genres), sound sculpture, mixed media, architectural sound design, film scoring, instrument design
- Creative Writing: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, literary criticism, mixed media
- Moving Image: film, video, documentary, animation, computer art, virtual reality, interactive, installation, mixed media
- Architecture/landscape design: design projects, competition proposals, dissertations, model building, site-responsive/ecological installations, theoretical investigations
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: February 28, 2019
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