Grants, Fellowships & Scholarships: Art
The following listings apply exclusively to current art students or very recent graduates.
Residencies provide time, space, and resources for artists to develop their own work. They are also a great way to meet other artists and create a sense of community.
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Graduate School
Antonio Cirino Memorial Scholarship
Awards offered to Rhode Island residents/artists who need financial assistance to acquire education toward a master’s or doctorate in order to pursue a teaching career in the arts.
Award: $2,000 - $12,000 USD (range; renewable)
Eligibility: Rhode Island resident; financial need; graduate student
Deadline: Visit websiteCollege Art Association, Professional Development Fellowships
Supports promising artists, designers, craftspersons, historians, curators, and critics who are enrolled in MFA, PhD, and other terminal degree programs nationwide.
Award: $10,000 USD
Eligibility: Current CAA members; U.S. citizens or permanent residents
Deadline: November 10Studio Art Centers International (SACI) In-House Scholarships
Several scholarship opportunities are available for undergraduate and graduate study All SACI scholarships are based on both
Award: Depends on scholarship
Eligibility: Demonstrate financial need; outstanding artistic and academic ability
Deadline: Depends on scholarshipThe Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships
The Museum offers several art-related fellowships for students pursuing graduate or professional degrees in the arts.
Award: Varies; based on fellowship
Eligibility: Bachelor’s Degree; open to international students
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Practice / Project Support
Artist in the Marketplace (AIM)
Provides professional development opportunities to emerging artists residing in the New York metropolitan area.
Award: Visit website
Eligibility: Visit website
Deadline: October 9Arts International Artists Exploration Fund
Enables individual U.S. performing artists to pursue opportunities abroad that further their artistic development.
Award: $1,000 - $3,000 USDCreative Time Fellowships
Offers a number of different fellowship opportunities for young people in the visual arts.
Award: Visit website
Eligibility: Visit website
Deadline: Visit websiteElla Lyman Cabot Trust
Supports persons with charitable, religious, artistic, educational, and scientific projects that promote the good of others.
Award: No formal limit. Range of $15,000 - $25,000 USD
Eligibility: Visit website
Deadline: Early April and Early NovemberElizabeth Foundation for the Arts
EFA is dedicated to providing artists across all disciplines with space, tools and a cooperative forum for the development of individual practice.Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
Aids artists in the early stages of their careers. Work must be representational.
Award: Based on the information contained in the application form
Eligibility: Work with painting, drawing, sculpting or printmaking
Deadline: Available throughout the yearFoundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant Program
Emergency Grants provides prompt funding for innovative visual and performing artists.
Award: $500 - $2,500 USD
Eligibility: U.S. social security number; must have committed performance or exhibition opportunities
Deadline: Within 6-8 weeks of your presentation dateFord Foundation
Most foundation grants to individuals are awarded either through publicly announced competitions or on the basis of nominations from universities and other nonprofit institutions. In all cases, recipients are selected on the merits of their proposals and on their potential contribution to advancing the foundation’s program objectives.Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship
Awarded annually to a select number of exceptional American artists and musicians who plan to pursue their studies in Paris.
Award: €10,000 stipend; rent-controlled artist atelier; on-site performance and exhibition facilities
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens; between 21 and 29 years of age; propose a unique and detailed artistic project; Bachelor’s degree
Deadline: January 31Kala Art Institute - Printmaking Fellowship Program
Awards artists time, space, and financial support for their work.
Award: $3,000 USD; access to Kala’s facilities (up to 6 months); one Kala class
Eligibility: Not enrolled in a degree granting program
Deadline: Visit websiteLEF Foundation – New England
Funds the work of independent documentary film and video artists in the region, and to broaden recognition and support for their work, both locally and nationally.
Award: $5,000 USD pre-production; $15,000 USD production
Eligibility: Projects must be long format; running times of 40 minutes or more; must reside in New England
Deadlines: Production & Post-Production Letter of Inquiry January 26; Pre-Production Proposal June 1Pollock-Krasner Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grants for recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both.
Award: $5,000 to $30,000 USD
Eligibility: Must complete eligibility quiz
Deadline: Available throughout the yearRecharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art
Promote cross-cultural craftsmanship preservation and create dialogues between antiques, high jewelry, fine arts, and technology.
Award: $5,000 USD
Eligibility: Must be working in the New Surrealist style; must be painters; bachelor's or master's degree programs are eligible
Deadline: Visit websiteRome Prize - American Academy in Rome
Supports innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities.
Award: Stipend; room and board; individual workspace
Eligibility: U.S. Citizen; bachelor’s degree
Deadline: November 1; November 15 for an additional feeSocrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship
Opportunity for rising artists to experiment with ambitious, large-scale public art.
Award: Open studio; monetary support; institutional guidance
Eligibility: Visit website
Deadline: Visit websiteThe AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts
Opportunity to study at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg in Austria.
Award: Tuition; up to $1,000 USD of travel expenses; housing; stipend for meals
Eligibility: Current graduate student; Non-U.S. Citizens welcome to apply
Deadline: Visit websiteThe Artists' Fellowship, Inc.
Emergency aid to artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement or unexpected extreme hardship.
Award: Need based
Eligibility: Professional fine artist; current and documented need
Deadline: Available throughout the yearThe Bogliasco Fellowships
Supports the Arts and Humanities by providing residential fellowships at its study center in Italy’s most vibrant, historic crossroads.
Award: Living quarters; private studio; full board for study at the Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy
Eligibility: Demonstrate significant achievement in your discipline; bachelor’s degree
Deadline: January 15 (fall); April 15 (spring) – Residencies
April 1 (fall); July 1 (spring) – FellowshipsThe Franklin Furnace Fund
Award grants to emerging artists, allowing them to produce major performance art works in New York.
Award: $2,000 - $10,000 USD
Eligibility: Not a current full-time student
Deadline: April 1The Jerome Foundation
Supports the creation, development, and production of new works by emerging artists. The Foundation makes grants to not-for-profit arts organizations for artists in Minnesota and New York City.
Award: Varies; based on program
Eligibility: Reside in Minnesota and the five boroughs of New York City
Deadline: Varies; based on programThe Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship
Provides meaningful opportunities for individuals in the fine and applied arts to enhance their professional status, to aid their pursuit of an advanced degree, or to finance a special project within the field.
Award: Up to $20,000 USD
Eligibility: Visit website
Deadline: Visit websiteThe Puffin Foundation
Provide grants to artists and art organizations that are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their genre and/or social philosophy.
Award: $1,250 - $2,500 USD
Eligibility: Visit website
Deadline: December 30The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
Provides a working studio space and community for artists.
Award: Year-long rent-free non-living studio space
Eligibility: U.S. Citizen, permanent resident or visa holder; 21 years or older; professional artist
Deadline: Visit websiteThe Stained Glass School Scholarships
The SGAA actively works for the betterment of the craft of stained glass and architectural art glass through various programs.
Award: $600 - $1,000 USD; depending on scholarship
Eligibility: Current bachelor student
Deadline: Visit websiteU.S. - Japan Creative Artists Fellowship Program
Grant making agency that supports research, education, public affairs and exchange with Japan. Its mission is to support reciprocal people-to-people understanding, and promote partnerships that advance common interests between Japan and the United States.
Award: $20,000 USD; up to $2,500 for one round trip flight
Eligibility: U.S. Citizen or permanent resident; live and work in U.S.; professional creative artist
Deadline: Visit websiteUS - Mexico Foundation Dreamers without Borders
Provides the opportunity to attain a greater understanding of the importance of the binational relationship, while strengthening the participants’ pride in their heritage.
Award: Participants are hosted cost-free in Mexico
Eligibility: DACA recipients; Permanent Residents and U.S. citizen of Mexican origin
Deadline: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basisWhitney Museum of American Art - Independent Study Program (ISP)
The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing an art practice, curatorial work, art historical and architectural scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production.
Award: $1,800 USD per year
Eligibility: Graduate student; undergraduate students; international applicants
Deadline: April 1 -
Female Artist Support
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program
Supports women who wish to pursue independent work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts.
Award: $31,000 USD stipend; tuition and health fees; work space
Eligibility: Visit website
Deadline: Visit websiteMoney for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
Grants to individual feminists in the arts (writers, and visual artists).
Award: $500 - $1,500 USD
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens; primary residence in U.S. or Canada
Deadline: January 31, 2020 (Visual Art, Fiction and Mixed Genre); January 31, 2020 (Nonfiction and Poetry)The A.I.R. Fellowship Program
Support underrepresented and emerging self-identified women artists in New York City.
Award: Visit website
Eligibility: Resident/commuting distance of NYC; 18 years or older; not enrolled in degree program
Deadline: October 21The Shirley Holden Helberg Grants for Mature Women
Support for talented women to pursue further education or other goals which affect their creative efforts. Established to promote professionalism in Art, Letters, and Music.
Award: $1,000 USD
Eligibility: Women artist; must be age 35 or older
Deadline: September 30Women in Animation Scholarship Program
Provides scholarship funds for female students who demonstrate artistic talent, a passion for animation, financial need, and a promising future in the field of animation.
Award: $1,500 USD
Eligibility: Sophomore – Seniors; 2.85 GPA; current member of WIA mu
Deadline: September 30