If you sell your arts and crafts in an Etsy shop and your work and livelihood have been halted by Hurricane Harvey, then you may be able to get some support.
If you weren’t impacted by Hurricane Harvey maybe you can help–Etsy tweeted and also sent out email announcements that they are matching your donations:
Find out more at Cerf+ here.
Nicole McGarrell, the person who coordinates marketing partnerships for the fund, wrote–I am writing on behalf of The Clark Hulings Fund For Visual Artists to let you know about our unique Business Accelerator Grants for visual artists, and to ask you please to share this information with Artist Marketing Resources’s network. The fund provides professional working artists with direct financial assistance and support to help them become as skilled at managing their businesses as they are at creating their artwork (details below). Additionally, I’ve attached a flyer that has information about the grant.
The Clark Hulings Fund 2015 Business Accelerator Grant
The fund offers targeted financial assistance and business support to professional visual artists to help them boost their careers and succeed as managers of their art businesses. Applicants must detail exactly how the grant would help them undertake, improve, or expand a specific project. Examples of activities covered by the grant include mounting, casting, creating marketing materials, and transporting work to an exhibition. The fund does not support performance, literary or commercial work.
Timing: Applications accepted from September 1 through 30, 2015
Winners and finalists announced in November 2015
Amount:Two $5,000 grants (no fiscal sponsorship required)
Requirements: Applicants must be professional painters, artists working on paper, and/or sculptors who:
Employ traditional media (not including photography, film, or video)
Have had their work published and/or exhibited professionally
Are pursuing specific opportunities or projects for which financial support from CHF would make a substantive difference.
For submission guidelines and additional information, please visit www.clarkhulingsfund.org/guidelines
Support Artists by Hosting your site with The Present Group/TPG.
The Present Group is continuing its mission of finding new ways to fund artists through Web Hosting.
Over a quarter of every hosting fee TPG receives goes toward new arts grants.
Here’s how it works:
What you get:
Find out more here.
Normally, we spring fully developed programs on our readers. But with this one, we are letting you in on the project and getting feedback as the project develops.
There is no shortage of artists around the world who would love to receive funding for exhibitions. There are many exhibition spaces who want to work with us, as well, so that we can assist artists to successfully show in their programs. The need is clear and present and made apparent to us daily.
There is much to be done. Guidelines and procedures need to be discusses, drafted and put into place within our project plan.
The first action phase of this new scholarship program is fundraising. We need donors, supporters and backers to create the scholarship fund. To support our scholarship campaign click here.
Help us get the ball rolling!
We’re using the Megafounder platform that takes 0% of funds raised and allows for an ongoing campaign with no all-or-nothing goal amount to set and reach, and no ending deadline date. We expect such lack of restrictions to allow our project to evolve, change and mature. Your web and mobile donations to our scholarship fund are processed via Stripe, which accepts payments from users globally in 139 currencies.
Artists around the world need support. Our new scholarship has no geographic restrictions. We understand, that in the Bahamas, where one Bahamian dollar equals one US dollar, there may be less need. But in Argentina, where it takes $8.52 Argentine Pesos to equal one US dollar– ( The currency symbol for the Argentine Peso is the dollar sign the same as it is for the US dollar)–the un-equal currency exchange rate my cause hardships. If an artist in Argentina wishes to participate in an online US-based exhibition opportunity that requires a submission fee of say $35.00 US dollars, the artist will have to pay $298.20 Pesos to participate. In the Czech republic it takes $22.34 CZK or Kruna to equal one US dollar. So that $35.00 fee comes to $781.90 CZK. Both relatively large amounts of money in those countries. Perhaps you’ve never consider this before, but now you get the idea of how even paying a relatively small amount in US dollars can be a huge limiting factor to artists outside the US wishing to gain more international visibility.
The goal of our scholarship fund is to remove limiting fee obstacles for artists. With this new scholarship fund we will use monies raised to pay the exhibition fee for a select number of international artists, as well assist artists with promotional and other expenses.
Artist Marketing Resources will be administrating this new scholarship fund for visual artists, working in conjunction with ArtWorld and Exhibitions Without Walls. We will offer a portion of our scholarship fund to cover the submission fees for a limited number of photographers and digital artists wishing to submit their art for online exhibitions with Exhibitions Without Walls. The scholarship fund also seeks to assist artists working in all media to exhibit in a physical gallery space in Amsterdam, New York City, and other locations via the ArtWorld exhibition projects. There are no fees to exhibit with the ArtWorld exhibition program.
We understand that some artists may be unable to participate due to the expenses to ship their artwork to gallery spaces and to travel to attend the exhibition to meet with gallerists and collectors. The goal of the scholarship fund is to provide needed assistance to artists.
As we said, the first phase of this new scholarship program is to raise funds. Help support artists here.
Once a balance of funds is available we will begin administering payments for artists as these funds allow. Follow this blog for updates and calls to artists for future funding opportunities.
Artist Promotions Scholarship Fund.
2 images of ball rollers via freedigitalphotos.net
The Emerging Photographer Fund grant is designed to support continuation of a photographer’s personal project. This body of work may be of either journalistic mission or purely personal artistic imperatives. The primary intent is to support emerging photographers who will become the icons of tomorrow.
An esteemed jury will award a $10,000 grant.
THE DEADLINE FOR THE 2014 EDITION IS JULY 31, 6PM PST ($25 Entry Fee)
Burn Magazine has also re-opened their Submissions section. This gives all photographic artists a chance once again to have your work viewed and in consideration for Burn online and Burn in print. Photographs in all categories may be submitted.
Want more opportunities for Photographers? Our 85 page list of Photographers Resources, including International Photography Representatives and Photographer Agents, Gallerists, Publishers, Magazines and More, is available here.
The Artist Collective project is truly thinking outside the box with their Artists Collective Los Angeles County Medical Marijuana Delivery Service. Based in West Hollywood, the ArtistsCollectiveLA.org Delivers Pot To Fund A Community Arts Organization.
Artists Collective is a different kind of medical marijuana service. They’re an art project in and of itself. They aspire to create a medical marijuana non-profit where a considerable percentage of their proceeds go toward funding grants for artists, writers, performers, and musicians.
The Clark Hulings Fund for Burgeoning Visual Artists helps early-stage professionals seize opportunities to drive their careers forward by providing targeted support at pivotal moments. The Fund strives to improve the prospects of up-and-coming individuals and enable many more people to encounter and be enriched by their work.
The Fund considers proposals from professional artists who have secured tangible prospects for advancing their careers but lack sufficient financial resources to capitalize on those opportunities. Examples include but are not limited to: the completion of work due to a gallery, museum, or private collection, the transportation of work or of the artist to an exhibition of that artist’s material, the management of logistical or technical requirements to realize a project, etc.
Who Should Apply?
Professional painters, sculptors and artists working on paper who: Employ traditional media, not including photography, film or video. Have had their work published and/or exhibited professionally. Have been hired or commissioned to create new work. Have received opportunities to exhibit their work.
Submission Requirements:
Fiscal Sponsor: The Fund cannot make awards to individuals.
Artist Statement
Request for Support, including a detailed proposal and images, if available
Examples of previous work
Resume/CV
Supporting materials, if relevant (letter of intent from a gallery, commission statement, referrals, references, etc.).
Review Process
A group of five panelists will review the proposals of qualified applicants and advise on specific grants to be made during each cycle. One of the five will be a director of the Fund, either Mary or Elizabeth Hulings. The other four will be members of the visual art community (i.e., artists, critics, curators, gallerists, publishers, scholars, private collectors, etc.). The goal is to have as broad a representation as possible.
Award Amounts and Cycle
The Fund aims to distribute its first award in November 2013. Beginning in 2014, two awards will be given per year, one in each category (1-painting, drawing and works on paper, and 2-sculpture). Grants will be given of up to $5,000, depending on the need stipulated in the request. Individuals who receive an award will not be eligible to apply again for five years.
Application submission window- September 1-30, 2013
Deadline: Monday September 30th, 2013
Artists can apply annually, beginning 1st of April. This year 2013, the deadline for applications is the 15th of June. Usually more time is allowed for applicants to submit, but due to high number of applications last year, the application period has been reduced. For the first time, the foundation has a dedicated online application tool for all artists applying for the program on their website: http://www.lepsien-art-foundation.com/
Basic criteria for the application:
The candidates must already have a degree from a recognized national or international art college/university and must have already gained some first public recognition (e.g. exhibitions, publications, etc.). Applicants should not be older than 39 years at the time of applying for the grant program.
An integral part of the grant program is the provision of studio spaces in the Art House Düsseldorf, Germany (http://www.the-art-house.eu/) where the five awarded artists will work together for the period of the program. Furthermore the program includes the production and publication of limited art editions (Edition Lepsien Art Foundation) jointly with all grant holders. At the end of the grant program a joint exhibition of all artists will take place and an annual catalogue will be published with the Kerber Group in connection with the final exhibition.
Harpo Foundation receives many more applications than it is able to fund. Therefore, as a way to guide applicants through an open process, the foundation uses a 2-step application process to review proposals submitted by artists, non-profit institutions and fiscal sponsors.
2013 Letter of Inquiry for Individual Artists
2013 Letter of Inquiry for Organizations and Fiscal Sponsors
For more information about the foundation’s guidelines and process, please visit www.harpofoundation.org.
Jay DeFeo, with an unfinished The Rose, c. early 1960s. The Rose (1958–66) by Jay DeFeo, Whitney Museum of American Art The Rose (1958–66) by Jay DeFeo, Donald Goddard (2004) at abstract-art.com (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Artist-Endowed Foundations, many of which give grants to visual artists or operate gallery exhibition programs and other services for artists, include:
the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation which founded and gives on-going support of Change, Inc., which issues emergency grants to artists in need www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/ The Rauschenberg Foundation also has a Pinterest board where you can add images of your art inspired by Robert Rauschenberg–here is the link.
the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts www.warholfoundation.org/
the Krasner-Pollock Foundation makes grants to individual artists www.pkf.org/
Joan Mitchell Foundation makes grants to individual artists joanmitchellfoundation.org/
Willem de Kooning Foundation www.dekooning.org/
the Keith Haring Foundation www.haring.com/kh_foundation/
Robert Motherwell’s Dedalus Foundation, provides Master of Fine Arts Fellowships http://dedalusfoundation.org/index.php/site/motherwell/
Jerome Hill’s Jerome Foundation–grants to emerging artists http://www.jeromefdn.org/
the Morris Graves Foundation, conducts residency programs http://www.woodsidebrasethgallery.com/artists/morris-graves-foundation/
Other Artist foundations to research: the Adolph Gottlieb Foundation, Hans Hofmann Foundation, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation,The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, George and Helen Segal Foundation, Aaron Siskind Foundation, Walter Lantz Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Herb Block Foundation, Charles E. Birchfield Foundation, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Richard Avedon Foundation, Calder Foundation, Jay DeFeo Trust, Lachaise Foundation, Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Mandelman-Ribak Foundation, Inge Morath Foundation, Niki Charitable Art Foundation, Fredrick and Frances Sommer Foundation, Stillman-Lack Foundation, Camargo Foundation, Edward Gorey Charitable Trust.
The Aspen Institute offers a 2 volume report of artist endowed foundations–here.
Installation art at the Fairgrounds
The Fairgrounds at the National Stadium, Washington DC area, USA, has an opportunity for 10 artists to participate in a Art Installation with 10 Containers at the complex.
Selected artists will have full access to create an interactive art installation patrons will visit interact with. Along with the installations, artists can showcase and sell their
work in the market place area.
No specific theme, innovative, original, and site-specific installations welcome. Artists and curators are invited to submit proposed work, in 2D and 3D media, including
but not limited to drawing, painting, pastel, printmaking, photography, mixed media, and sculpture.
Plan your installation to take advantage of the window’s unique space: which includes large street facing glass panels to the street, side door and open doors to the back.
There will be a 3 month series of art events around which the installation art will be the focus. Opening reception is tentatively the end of July and closing reception is October 5th.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS & TIPS
Interested artists please submit:
Detailed Description of Proposed Project.
A detailed Artist Statement
Visual documentation: 20 images maximum. Please include only recent work that is relevant to the proposed exhibition.
Image files should be in JPEG format
Please submit your complete application to fairgrounds@artwhino.com
The Sketchbook Show is open to all artists.
| The Sketchbook Show Exhibition dates:Friday 24 August – Friday 28 September 2012This exhibition will document daily practice and all the little things artistsrecord that start them off on creative paths.
Submission information Submissions are open to any style of sketchbook that you consider as part of your everyday art-making experience. The exhibition can accommodate myriad book styles— those that need to be under plexi-glass for delicate display, those that students and visitors can actively participate in, those that people can peruse freely. Interested in participating? email allyson at allyson_seal@branson.org with 2-3 scans or photographs of select sketchbook pages. Link: http://www.branson.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=1443 Deadline: Wed Aug 22nd, 2012 Branson, New House Gallery 39 Fernhill Ave Ross, California 94957 United States of America Sketchbook Delivery Options: Books can be dropped off on Monday 20 August at the Douglas Fine Arts Complex. f you choose to mail your book, they must be postmarked by Wednesday 22 August 2012. Please mail them to: Branson attn: Allyson Seal, sketchbook 39 Fernhill ave ross, ca 94957 You may also chose to drop your book off with Allyson Seal in San Francisco (17th street & Potrero in the Mission) on Friday 17 August from 1pm-8pm. |
| Artadia Grant Applications for Chicago Artists Now OpenDear Artists,Artadia Chicago Grant Application Process is now open. Not only does Artadia give grants for $15,000 and $3000 dollars, but winners get a lot of attention and Artadia follows up indefinitely with assistance and publicity for their Grant Recipients. – – – – – –
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Chase and LivingSocial want to help by awarding up to 12 individual grants of $250,000 to 12 small businesses.
Submit your Mission: Small Business℠ application today! Program ends June 30, 2012.
This Side of Paradise -- Wednesday April 4, 6-8pm (Photo credit: 350.org)
Do you have an idea for an exhibition in your neighborhood? Art Every Day’s ongoing 30 Day art challenge to bring art into your community offered a $500 grant to individuals or organizations with an innovative plan. The votes tallied and winner selected for March, but check back to submit an application for their next grant challenge. Your plan receives exposure on their site, votes from readers, and the winner receives $500. to carry out their plan.
On a larger scale, the New York CIty nonprofit No Long Empty has a three-year old project to “draw together the vitality of the contemporary art world and the values of building community” to create a lasting impact on the way people think about their neighborhoods. Beginning April 4, a No Longer Empty exhibition called This Side of Paradise will open in enormous Andrew Freedman House, which now sits largely abandoned, but was created in the 1920’s as a retirement home for broke aristocrats to live out their last days in luxury. Currently, 30 artists are having their way with the building’s numerous rooms, many of which haven’t been touched in years.
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