Grants, Fellowships, Foundations and Funding
A residential art center in Stuttgart providing artists with material, organisational and spiritual support, the Akademie Schloss Solitude is "an international and inter-disciplinary cultural institution which brings together artistic production, theoretical reflection, and the public in novel ways [and] constitutes a meeting point for artists from the world's various continents and cultures, as well as for representatives of different artistic fields and positions." [qtd. from http://www.akademie-solitude.de/institutional/?l=e&id=1]
"A monthly email newsletter listing art contests & competitions, art scholarships & grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs & internships, call for entries/proposals/papers, writing & photo contests, residencies, design & architecture competitions, auditions, casting calls, fellowships, festivals, funding, and other opportunities (including some that take place on the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages." [qtd. from http://www.xensei.com/users/adl/]
An independent intellectual community with an emphasis on contemporary art and aesthetic theory.
ArtPace provides artist residencies in San Antonio, Texas. "Each year, twelve artists are invited to live and work at ArtPace, where they are provided with unparalleled resources: a living stipend, materials budget, studio space, living space and workshops, as well as technical assistance." [qtd. from http://www.artpace.org/foundation/index.jhtml]
APF "collaborates as producer/curator with selected artists who propose ambitious artworks [and] endeavors to assist with projects that extend the physical, financial, or typical boundaries of art institutions. The intention is to incorporate pivotal artwork into diverse public arenas while simultaneously supporting the visions of contemporary artists. Upon completion, these projects are available for public viewing/use and APF strives to ensure that they are properly recognized. In addition, the organization will eventually give grants directly to promising young artists so that they may complete a body of work for public exhibition." [qtd. from http://www.artproductionfund.org/mission_statement.html]
"ArtsEdge supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ArtsEdge helps educators to teach in, through, and about the arts." [qtd. from http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html]
"The Broad Art Foundation operates as an educational and lending resource for contemporary art and is dedicated to building a collection that reflects the scope and diversity of the art of our time." [qtd. from http://www.broadartfoundation.org/purpose/index.html]
"The purpose of The Brown Foundation, Inc. is to distribute funds for public charitable purposes, principally for support, encouragement, and assistance to education, community service, and the arts." [qtd. from http://www.brownfoundation.org/index2.html]
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
"The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts is a research institute that fosters study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, and architecture from prehistoric times to the present. Part of the National Gallery of Art, the Center encourages study of the visual arts from a variety of approaches by historians, critics, and theorists of art as well as by scholars in related disciplines of the humanities and social sciences." [qtd. from http://www.nga.gov/resources/casva.htm]
Center for Arts Management and Technology
The Center's mission is to "investigate existing and emerging information and communication technology, and to stimulate thinking about the practical application of this technology for arts managers." [qtd. from http://www.artsnet.org/camt/mission.html]
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
A nonprofit organization that exists to oversee endowment funds established by members of the Buffalo, New York community.
"The Nathan Cummings Foundation is rooted in the Jewish tradition and committed to democratic values and social justice, including fairness, diversity, and community. They seek to build a socially and economically just society that values nature and protects the ecological balance for future generations; promotes humane health care; and fosters arts and culture that enriches communities." [qtd. from http://www.ncf.org/aboutncf/about.html]
"The Dactyl Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that sponsors programs designed to develop an aesthetic that is informed by science, history and philosophy and that takes into consideration both the intellectual and intuitive responses to art." [qtd. from http://www.dactyl.org/info.html#stmnt]
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
The Foundations provide "financial assistance 'within the limits of their budgets and the discretion of their Trustees, to certain educational, cultural, scientific and religious institutions' within the United States and its possessions." [qtd. from http://jvm.com/davis/FND.HTM]
"De Ateliers is an independent artists' institute which is run by visual artists. It focuses on the artistic development of young, talented artists from within the Netherlands and abroad." [qtd. from http://www.de-ateliers.nl/eng/profiel.html]
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
The Foundation sponsors annual grants for scholars and organizations studying art history, Venetian history and civilization, and the performing arts.
"The mission of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is to support and encourage those educational, cultural, social and environmental values that contribute to making our society more humane and our world more livable." [qtd. from http://www.grdodge.org/main.html]
"Fabrica is the Benetton Research and Development Communication Centre [and is] situated outside Treviso in North Italy. Led by an international team, Fabrica supports the creative development of young artist/researchers from all over the world [and invites] young artists to participate in a range of communication activities in cinema or graphics, design or music, as part of Colors Magazine, or within new media or photography." [qtd. from http://www.fabrica.it/information/introduction.html]
"Flintridge Foundation is committed to nourishing individualism, honoring diversity in society and nature, supporting creativity, and promoting just and cooperative partnerships so that human beings may evolve more effectively toward wholeness and the natural environment toward sustainability." Their program areas are: Community Services, Conservation, Theatre and Visual Arts [qtd. from http://www.flintridgefoundation.org/about/mission.html
"The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Our goals are to: strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement." [qtd. from http://www.fordfound.org/]
"The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed." [qtd. from http://fdncenter.org/about/]
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
"The mission of the Graham Foundation is to nurture and enrich an informed and creative public dialogue concerning architecture and the built environment." [qtd. from http://www.grahamfoundation.org/]
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
"The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts." [qtd. from http://www.gf.org/]
"The main aim of the Foundation is to promote research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography. This aim is achieved by means of donations and grants for scientific research, through the awarding of an international prize in photography, and by distributing scholarships and grants for research projects in photography." [qtd. from http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/indexe.html]
Willam Randolph Hearst Foundations
The charitable goals of the two Hearst Foundations reflect the philanthropic interests of William Randolph Hearst: Education, Health, Social Service, and Culture. Within these four areas, the Foundations assist institutions in providing opportunities to underserved and underrepresented populations.
Institute of Museum amd Library Services
"IMLS is an independent Federal agency that fosters leadership, innovation, and a lifetime of learning by supporting the nation's museums and libraries." [qtd. from http://www.imls.gov/about/abt_mission.htm]
International Music and Art Foundation
Established with the belief that, after all, our greatest legacy to future generations is art, the International Music and Art Foundation makes grants to facilitate the improvement and dissemination of the visual and performing arts, as well as the study and preservation of art and culture from the past. [qtd. from http://imafoundation.homestead.com/]
The Kress Foundation devotes its resources to advancing the history, conservation, and enjoyment of the vast heritage of European art, architecture, and archaeology from antiquity to the 19th century. [qtd. from http://www.kressfoundation.org/kress/index.html]
Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology
"The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology operates a Centre for Research and Documentation [that] seeks to document history, artworks and practices associated with electronic, digital media arts and make this information available to researchers in an innovative manner. The CR+D also strives to make public the findings of the Daniel Langlois Foundation’s research and the research conducted through its assistance programs. One of the centre’s goals is easy on-line access to documents of all kinds (articles, photographs, video, audio), particularly documentation on the works and research projects supported by the Foundation and documentation drawn directly from its archives." [qtd. from http://www.fondation-langlois.org/f/CRD/index.html]
"The Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities. The foundation recognizes the profound and often unquantifiable value of the creative process and is willing to take risks and make substantial investments in ambitious and experimental thinking. Understanding that globalization threatens all cultures and ecosystems, the foundation is particularly interested in projects that encourage freedom of inquiry, imagination, and expression. The foundation supports this mission with long-term special projects requiring multi-year commitments of funding and technical assistance in the areas of contemporary visual art, literature, indigenous communities, and issues of cultural freedom." [qtd. from http://www.lannan.org/about/about.htm]
"Leeway supports individual women artists, arts programs and arts organizations, focussing on the Greater Philadelphia region, in order to help them achieve personal and community transformation." [qtd. from http://www.leeway.org/html/intro.html]
"Locus+ is a visual arts commissioning agency that works with artists on the production and presentation of socially engaged, collaborative and temporary projects, primarily for non-gallery locations [. . . creating] new opportunities for artists whose work is issue-based to work in different contexts and across formats." [qtd. from http://www.locusplus.org.uk/index2.html]
"The purpose of the Foundation is to 'aid and promote such religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes as may be in the furtherance of the public welfare or tend to promote the well-doing or well-being of mankind.' Under this broad charter, the Foundation currently makes grants on a selective basis to institutions in higher education; in cultural affairs and the performing arts; in population; in conservation and the environment; and in public affairs." [qtd. from http://www.mellon.org/about.html]
"The Nádasdy Foundation for Arts and Environment is an international not-for-profit organization promoting artistic creativity, environmental responsibility and their essential interaction. [. . .] The Foundation's mission is to establish the Nádasdy Academy for Arts and Environment in Hungary, in a self-sustaining habitat to serve as an international model. Both the Foundation and the Academy will undertake to demonstrate that art and our diverse cultures are an essential part of our environment and that environment is an integral part of culture. The two are therefore irrevocably linked. Our culture is our environment and our environment is our culture and must always be considered, nurtured and brought back into balance as one. [qtd. from http://www.cyberus.ca/%7Enadasdy/]
National Culture and Arts Foundation
A non-profit organization whose goals include providing locale for cultural-artistic endeavors,
encouraging cultural-artistic work, and improving cultural-artistic levels.National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is "an investment in America's living cultural heritage and serves the public good by nurturing the expression of human creativity, supporting the cultivation of community spirit, and fostering the recognition and appreciation of the excellence and diversity of our nation's artistic accomplishments." [qtd. from http://arts.endow.gov/learn/]
National Endowment for the Humanities
"The NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, and public programs in the humanities." [qtd. from http://www.neh.fed.us/whoweare/index.html]
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
The NFAA's mission is "to identify emerging artists and assist them at critical junctures in their educational and professional developments, and to raise appreciation for, and support of, the arts in American society." [qtd. from http://www.nfaa.org/aboutnfaa.htm]
New York Foundation for the Arts
"Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) gives more money and support to arts organizations and artists of all disciplines than any other comparable organization in the country: nearly $10 million in grants and services annually. Its Fellowships of $7,000 each go to as many as 170 New York State artists every year from a field of 16 disciplines, covering the visual, performing, and literary arts. NYFA also gives grants and services to strengthen small arts organizations and provides artists with career development support through workshops, hotlines, and print and electronic publications." [qtd. from http://www.nyfa.org/about.html]
"The Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Inc. is committed to the support of all aspects of the creative process for a worldwide community of artists and was inspired by Pauline Oliveros' philosophy that 'Creativity is the vital spirit of public and personal growth.'" [qtd. from http://www.pofinc.org/]
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
"The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following broad program areas: conservation; population; science; children, families, and communities; arts; and organizational effectiveness and philanthropy. The Foundation provides national and international grants, and also has a special focus on the Northern California Counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey." [qtd. from http://www.packfound.org/]
PFA "awards grants of $50,000 to artists working in a wide variety of performing, visual, and literary disciplines. The grants provide financial support directly to the artists so that they may have the opportunity to dedicate themselves to creative pursuits exclusively. The program aims to provide such support at moments in artists’ careers when a concentration on artistic growth and exploration is most likely to have the greatest impact on an artist’s long-term professional development." [qtd. from http://www.pewarts.org/aboutpewfellows.html]
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
"The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as artists over a significant period of time. The Foundation’s dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and financial need, whether professional, personal or both." [qtd. from http://www.pkf.org/foundation.html]
The Prospect Hill Foundation has a broad range of philanthropic interests. From July 1, 200 to June 30, 2001, grants were made to organizations active in environmental conservation, nuclear weapons control, and family planning in Latin America, as well as selected social service, arts, cultural, and educational institutions.
"[PAF] is New York's leading presenter of artists' projects, new commissions, installations and exhibitions in public spaces. With twenty-five years of experience and an international reputation, the Public Art Fund identifies, coordinates and realizes a diversity of major projects by both established and emerging artists throughout New York City. By bringing artworks outside the traditional context of museums and galleries, the Public Art Fund provides a unique platform for an unparalleled public encounter with the art of our time." [qtd. from http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/about/about_paf.htm
Res Artis: International Association of Residential Arts Centers
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The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based, global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world. In order to maximize its resources and leverage the Foundation's strengths, grantmaking is organized around four thematic lines of work: Creativity & Culture, Food Security, Health Equity and Working Communities. A cross-theme of Global Inclusion supports, promotes and supplements the work of these themes. In addition, the Foundation supports a number of programs that are developing or in transition, among them the Africa Regional Program, Communication for Social Change, Public/Private Partnerships and Global Philanthropy. [qtd. from http://www.rockfound.org/]
The numerous nonprofit foundations created by the philanthropist George Soros are linked together in an informal network known as the Soros foundations network. At the heart of this network are the "national foundations," a group of autonomous organizations active in more than 50 countries around the world, principally in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union but also in Guatemala, Haiti, and Southern Africa. All of the national foundations share the common mission of supporting the development of open society. To this end, they operate and support an array of initiatives concerned with arts and culture, children and youth, civil society development, economic reform, education, legal reform and public administration, media and communications, publishing, and health care. [qtd. from http://www.soros.org/]
One of the largest private foundations in the United States, the Foundation "makes grants in a number of areas, including education, medicine and healthcare, public policy, human needs, culture and the environment." [qtd. from http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/starr/]
"Surdna's Arts Program is a national initiative focusing on arts and education. Our goals are to: 1) contribute to the ability of young people to explore their own identity and their relationship to the world through high-impact, long-term experiences creating art with accomplished professional artists, and 2) deepen the ability of artists and arts organizations to contribute to the needs of young people and educators." [qtd. from http://www.surdna.org/programs/arts.html]
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
"Today, the Tiffany Foundation makes biennial monetary awards in painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, and craft media-thus continuing the approach of direct grants to artists originally adopted by the trustees in 1946. Emerging American artists and craftspeople are recognized every two years by a series of monetary grants. The awards go to the artists whose work shows promise, but who have not yet received widespread critical or commercial recognition." [qtd. from http://www.tiffanyfoundation.org/homepage.html]
"The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation will seek and fund innovative projects which advance solutions to basic and enduring problems. With an overall emphasis on education, principally in the United States, it will take an active role in three major areas: Art, Environment, and Learning Disabilities." [qtd. from http://www.tremainefoundation.org/about/default.asp]
"The Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds seek to create opportunities for people to enrich themselves through better schools, enhanced community activities, and participation in the arts. Specifically, over the next ten years, the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund will: develop effective educational leaders to improve student learning, provide high-quality informal learning opportunities for children and families in communities, and promote new standards of practice to increase participation in the arts." [qtd. from http://www.wallacefunds.org/frames/framesetoverview.htm]
"The Foundation's objective is to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting cultural organizations that in turn, directly or indirectly, support artists and their work. [qtd. from http://www.wallacefunds.org/frames/framesetoverview.htm]
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