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The Ms. Foundation https://forwomen.org/
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund (Money for Women Grant)
Barbara Deming was a feminist, lesbian, poet, writer, and nonviolent activist during the civil rights and women’s movements. Founding the Money for Women Grant in 1975, Deming hoped to give financial and moral support to creative women in her same field of work. Twice a year, the fund awards $500 to $1,500 to individual feminists who partake in writing and visual art that focuses on uplifting other women.
Anonymous Was a Woman Grant
In order to fight on behalf on women artists and demonstrate the importance of women supporting women within the art world, Susan Unterberg lifted her anonymity as the creator of this grant in July of 2018. She awards $25,000 to ten women each year. The applying artist must be over the age of 40 and at a critical junction in their career. Winners are chosen based on the quality of their work as well as their accomplishments, originality, and growth.
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Adolph Gottlieb was part of the small group of artists who initiated the Abstract Expressionism movement, allowing him to achieve artistic and financial success far beyond his expectations. Adolph and his wife Esther were known for always lending a helping hand. They created two individual-support grants, which are available to mature artists who can no longer create their work without financial aid.
A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art
Art discipline: Any
Amount: $20,000
Special notes: Applicants must be 25 or older
A Blade of Grass is an organization that provides resources for talented artists who “serve as innovative conduits for social change.” Its fellowship program is designed to support artists in creating work that highlights social problems, and focuses on funding projects that challenge unfair power dynamics. Along with the financial support, the fellowship grants artists an expenses-paid two-day orientation retreat in NYC to meet fellow artists as well as the organization’s staff and board.
Anything Art Grant
Art discipline: Any
Amount: $1,000
Special notes: $35 entry fee to submit up to three works
Specto Art Space, an art gallery in Virginia, offers this unrestricted art grant to help artists with all the expenses involved with creating great art. It also offers winning artists the option of being included in the gallery’s shows and promotional materials.
Awesome Foundation Grants
Art discipline: Any
Amount: $1,000
Special notes: Has 90 chapters that each give out a $1,000 art grant monthly
The Awesome Foundation is an international organization with 90 chapters. Each of the chapters offers a $1,000 art grant every month. The foundation funds all types of art projects as well as initiatives in community development and technology. “Many Awesome projects are novel or experimental, and evoke surprise and delight,” their website says. “Awesome sometimes challenges and often inspires.”
Each chapter tends to fund projects that contribute to their own communities, so it’s best to apply to a chapter near you. However, there are no restrictions based on location and you can apply to multiple chapters.
Burning Man Global Art Grants
Art discipline: Any
Amount: Up to $10,000
Special notes: Focuses on interactive and community-driven artworks
The Burning Man organization (yes, the one behind the annual festival) offers art grants to help fund projects around the world. It focuses on art projects that are accessible to the public and that encourage the viewers to experience it in other ways than just visually. They love art projects that can be touched, heard, or experienced. These artist grants can range between $500 and $10,000 dollars, but most often they fall between $3,000 and $6,000.
Creative Capital Grants
Art discipline: Any
Amount: Up to $50,000 and career development services
Special notes: Focuses on large-scale, long-term projects
Creative Capital is an arts organization that supports artists across the U.S. with funding, counsel, and career development services. It typically awards grants for artists with plans for large or long-term projects. Most of the projects that get funded have a timeline between three to five years.
Grants for Female Artists
These artist grants aim to recognize exceptional women in a variety of art fields.
The Bennett Prize
Art discipline: Figurative realist painting
Amount: $50,000
Special notes: Involves creating a traveling exhibition of paintings
The Bennett Prize awards $50,000 to a female artist to help her create a solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings that will travel the country. It aims to assist female painters who haven’t yet gotten full recognition, including new artists and those who have been painting for many years.
Inge Morath Award
Art discipline: Photography
Amount: Varies
Special notes: Focuses on long-term documentary photography projects
This annual award is given to a female photographer under the age of 30 to help in completing a long-term photography project. The specific guidelines change year to year, but they focus on photo essays that document different cultures and contemporary issues.
Money for Women
Art discipline: Visual arts and literature
Amount: Up to $1,500
Special notes: Artists should have substantial work done on their project before applying
Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund is a feminist granting agency that has been around for over 40 years. It gives grants to individual feminist women in the arts to help them complete ongoing projects. The website specifies that, when applying for a grant, the project should already be well underway and the artist should have substantial work to show. (Projects that are not eligible for this grant include play scripts, videos, and work that will be self-published.)
NLAPW Art Grant for Mature Women
Art discipline: Any or all media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, original works on paper, photography, or sculpture
Amount: $1,000
Special notes: Entry fee of $35
This grant for female artists is intended to encourage mature, talented women to pursue their artistic goals. The money can go towards anything that will help with their creative efforts. In addition to this visual arts grant, NLAPW also offers separate $1,000 grants for mature women in music and literature.
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