GRANTS

1. Working Artist / (Summer) Working Art Grant / Call for Applications
Deadline: August 20, 2009

The Working Art Grant is a meager quarterly offering intended to dispurse small but vitalizing bursts of funding to those who find our sum would solve a surprising many problems hindering their ongoing art making process.

The Working Art Grant is available to all domestic as well as international artists working in all media. As a new stipulation for eligibility to receive the Working Art Grant of $500.00, we ask that each prospective recipient be willing to exchange one of their available works of our choosing and with mutual agreement in return for the award.

If you are interested in being considered for this grant, please send 5 digital images or other digital files of recent work (please include artist’s name with file title – file size no larger than 2 MB please) via email. Include a written proposal describing your funding needs, a current résumé or a short biography and send to:grant@workingartist.org. There is no official application form. Instead please provide current contact information in the headings of your documentation.

There is a grant application fee of $20.00 which helps offset the costs of this effort to fund meaningful work by serious artists.

Grant recipients agree by submitting their completed application to limited use of their images or other representation of their artwork and general information to be featured on this site. All rights will of course be retained by the artists.

Applications for the Quarterly (Summer) Working Art Grant must be submitted by August 20, 2009.

For application guidelines please see:
http://www.workingartist.org/art-grant-guidelines.html

2.

POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION, INC.

Grants for artistic merit and demonstrable financial need (professional, personal or both). Mission: to aid individuals who have worked as professional artists for a significant period of time. Size/length of grant determined by the artist’s individual circumstances. The Foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists; no photo, video/film, performance, crafts; does not make grants to students or fund academic study; does not make grants to pay for past debts, legal fees, moving costs, installation costs. Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., www.PKF.org/grant.html ,

email: grants@PKF.org . No phone or in-person inquiries.

3. Artadia http://www.artadia.org

about awards

The Artadia Award is unique, providing substantial financial support, critical validation and broader public exposure for artists across the country:

• Cash awards are granted in participating cities on a rotating basis.
• Awards ranging from $15,000 to $3,000 are unrestricted, and can be used however the artist sees fit.
• Applications are open to all visual artists who reside in Artadia’s participating cities.
• A two-tiered selection process combines local expertise with outside perspectives from leading national and international curators and artists.
• Visiting panelists engage with local artists in their studios, gaining a broader context for their work and facilitating long-lasting relationships.
• A preliminary panel of prominent national and local curators and artists evaluates all the submissions and selects 15 finalists.
• A second panel of curators and artists travels to the participating city and conducts studio visits with each of the finalists. This panel selects the artists who receive Artadia Awards. However used, the Artadia Award is the monetary component of a wider culture of support.

Participating cities with active awards programs are currently:

• Atlanta, metropolitan area
• Boston, metropolitan area
• Chicago, Cook County
• Houston, Harris County
• San Francisco Bay Area

Participating cities will be added strategically to the Artadia network by focusing on regions that demonstrate a commitment to contemporary art. These cities are notable for:

• The active presence of local artists in the community.
• Art institutions recognized for innovative contemporary programming.
• Exemplary schools that prepare artists through undergraduate and graduate programs.