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Funding Resources for Artists

New England Foundation for the Arts

American Masterpieces: Dance (AMD)
http://www.nefa.org/grantprog/americanmasterpieces.html
American Masterpieces: Dance is the dance component of a major initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. The AMD project celebrates the extraordinary and rich evolution of dance and choreography in the United States.

Expeditions
http://www.nefa.org/grantprog/expeditions/index.html
Expeditions funds the development and presentation of cross-disciplinary touring projects for New England communities. Grants are made to New England-based nonprofit organizations to support planning or touring of projects with performing, literary, and/or visual arts components.

Meet the Composer/New England
http://www.nefa.org/grantprog/expeditions/index.html
Meet the Composer/New Englandoffers grants to nonprofit organizations in New England to provide meaningful interaction between composers and audiences, in conjunction with performances of the composer's work.

National Dance Project
http://www.nefa.org/grantprog/ndp/index.html
National Dance Project provides grants for the production and touring of contemporary dance work by regionally and nationally significant artists in the United States and abroad.

Native Arts @ NEFA
http://www.nefa.org/grantprog/nativearts.html
Native Arts @ NEFA supports Native American artists in New England and nationally through grantmaking and network development.

New England States Touring (NEST)
http://www.nefa.org/grantprog/nest/index.html
New England States Touring (NEST) provides support to New England-based nonprofit organizations for performances, readings, and related community activities by artists with NEST-eligible profiles on MatchBook.org.

Presenter Travel Fund
http://www.nefa.org/grantprog/presenter/index.html
Presenter Travel Fund provides monetary assistance to arts programmers or curatorial staff in New England so that they may investigate new or unfamiliar work outside of their home community. Applicants may apply for funding to help cover the expense of attending festivals, showcases, conferences, or other cultural events.

Public Art
http://www.nefa.org/grantprog/publicart.html
Public Art at NEFA supports public art projects through planning or implementation grants awarded to community-based nonprofit organizations for engagement with individual artists. Organizations funded through NEFA’s public art programs represent a broad array of nonprofits, including the arts, the environment, community development, youth, and education.

New York Foundation for the Arts

SOURCE
http://www.nyfa.org/source/content/search/search.aspx?SA=1
NYFA Source is the most extensive national directory of awards, services, and publications for artists. Listings include over 4,200 arts organizations, 2,900 award programs, 4,200 service programs, and 900 publications for individual artists across the country. More programs are added every day.

Rhode Island Foundation

MacColl Johnson Fellowship
http://www.rifoundation.org/Nonprofits/GrantOpportunities/MacCollJohnsonFellowship/tabid/362/Default.aspx
The Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund provides up to three $25,000 artist fellowships each year, rotating among composers, writers, and visual artists on a three-year cycle. In all three disciplines, the fellowships are awarded to Rhode Island artists whose work demonstrates exceptional creativity, rigorous dedication, and significant artistic merit.

Professional Development Grants
http://www.rifoundation.org/Nonprofits/GrantOpportunities/tabid/175/Default.aspx
The Foundation offers Professional Development Grants of up to $1,000 to help nonprofit leaders and staff participate in opportunities that enhance their knowledge, skills, and leadership capabilities. Must be an artist working in partnership with a non-profit organization.

LEF Foundation

Moving Image Fund
http://www.lef-foundation.org/page.php/id/126
LEF New England launched the Moving Image Fund in 2002 to support independent film and video artists creating work in all genres.  In the current transition from a broader to a more defined funding strategy, LEF will focus its funding on documentary filmmaking, with the goal of applying the learning from this deeper investment in one genre.

National Funding Organizations

Art Deadlines
http://www.artdeadlineslist.com
Art contests and competitions, art jobs and internships, art scholarships, grants and fellowships, art festivals, call for entries/proposals/projects, and other opportunities, in all disciplines, for art students, art teachers, and artists of all ages. A subscription to the paid/premium list guarantees you will be the first to view announcements and have access to all announcements.

Authors League
http://www.authorsleaguefund.org/
Since 1917, the Authors League Fund has been helping professional writers and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income or other misfortune.

Creative Capital
http://creative-capital.org
Creative Capital acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by artists whose work is provocative, timely, and relevant; who are deeply engaged with their art forms and demonstrate a rigorous commitment to their craft, yet are also boldly original and push the boundaries of their genre.

 

The Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Workshop Fellowship
http://nationalacademyname.com/pageview.asp?mid=3&pid=29
The Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarships for Mural Painting in the United States of America awards fellowships to living artists and collaborates on various projects to record mural history and increase the visibility of public art in America.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
http://gtionline.fdncenter.org/
Find sources for scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support with the only online resource devoted exclusively to foundations that fund individuals.

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
http://www.pkf.org/
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

Rhode Island Business Plan Competition
http://www.ri-bizplan.com/matriarch/default.asp
The Rhode Island Business Plan Competition, open to everyone, seeks to promote entrepreneurship and development of start-up and early stage companies.