Remember to always check in with the Sam Fox School Research Office before preparing any application. All external funding sources require approval and submission through the University Research Administration Management system if you anticipate funding coming through the school/university. If you apply to individual grant that go to you directly you do not need to work with the SFS Research Office.
Note that deadline dates change all the time. This site is periodically updated but we can not guarantee all information is accurate each day.
JANUARY
Fulbright Specialist Program
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This program sends U.S. faculty and professionals to serve as expert consultants on curriculum, faculty development, institutional planning, and related subjects at academic institutions abroad for a period of 2 to 6 weeks. Part of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Specialist Program is a unique opportunity for U.S. academics and established professionals to engage in consultancies at host institutions across the globe. Host institutions (e.g., universities, non-profits) develop and submit projects for approval by the U.S. Embassy or Fulbright Commission in their country in academic and professional fields that build capacity and promote long-lasting linkages between individuals and institutions in the U.S. and abroad. To be eligible to serve as a Fulbright Specialist, candidates must have significant experience in their respective professional field and be a U.S. citizen at the time of application.
Eligible disciplines and professional fields supported by the Fulbright Specialist Program can be found at this website link.
The Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
(rolling) Website Link
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation’s mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time.
Harvard University
Loeb Design Fellowship
January 11 Website Link
In the middle of promising careers shaping the built and natural environment, accomplished practitioners step away from their hectic professional lives. For one academic year, they take classes at the GSD and throughout Harvard’s vast network of professional and academic schools. They read, write, talk with professors, mentor students and expand their horizons. Their goals: to become better at their craft, to strengthen their leadership skills, and to change the world with their unique perspectives. The Fellowship includes a residence in Cambridge, a comfortable stipend, and access to resources at Harvard and MIT. After the year in residence, the fellows enter a worldwide alumni network with over 400, engaged, thoughtful professionals.
FEBRUARY
Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant
February 1 Website Link
The Virginia A. Groot Foundation established the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant in 1988 so that a ceramic sculpture or sculpture artist may have the opportunity to devote a substantial period of time to the development of his or her work. Each year the Virginia A. Groot Foundation offers three grants (up to $35,000, $10,000, $5,000) to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture. Artists may be at any stage of career development, from emerging through mature. Applicants must be 21 years or older at the time of the application deadline. We welcome and encourage international applicants. Students enrolled in or attending, either full-time or part-time, any institution of higher learning are not eligible.
Corning Museum of Glass
Rakow Grant for Glass Research
February 1 Website Link
The Corning Museum of Glass sponsors a program which makes available one or more annual grants totaling up to $25,000 to foster scholarly research in the history of glass and glassmaking. These are made possible through the generosity of the late Dr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Rakow, Fellows, friends, and benefactors of the Museum. A brief written report documenting the results of the project is required for publication in the Journal of Glass Studies.
National Endowment for the Arts
Artworks
February (Check annually) Website Link
Art Works supports the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. Funding is limited to organizations. Note: WU is only able to submit one application per year, so if you are interested in applying, please contact Enrique Von Rohr at the Sam Fox School Research Office.
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Graham Foundation
Production and Presentation Grants to Organizations
February (Check annually) Website Link
The Graham Foundation offers Production and Presentation Grants to organizations. These grants assist organizations with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, publications, exhibitions, installations, films, new media projects, conferences/lectures, and other public programs. An organization or academic department/unit may only apply for one grant per year. (In the case of large institutions with multiple departments, a subsidiary department/unit may apply for one grant per year. For example, an academic department/unit at a university may apply for one grant per year.) Check with the Research Office for status.
Creative Capital
Emerging Fields, Moving Image, Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Literature Awards
Applications for Moving Image and Visual Arts projects accepted February
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Creative Capital provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Moving Image, Literature, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. Creative Capital makes a commitment to work with each artist over a three to seven year period that involves a high level of engagement between Creative Capital and the artist.,
MARCH
RAC (Regional Arts Commission)
Artist Support Grants
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Artist Support grants provide direct funds for individual artists’ projects, needs and creative opportunities in all disciplines. Direct support enables diverse artists of all disciplines to advance their careers and complete creative projects. It is designed to be flexible and accessible and to encourage creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and sustained commitment to artistic work. Amounts range from $500-3000
APRIL
Harpo Foundation
Grants for Visual Arts
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In its grant-making, Harpo Foundation prioritizes projects that advance and cross the boundaries of visual media and artistic disciplines. Proposals are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the artist’s work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and the strength of its relationship to the foundation’s priority to provide support to visual artists who are under recognized by the field. The foundation considers proposals that directly support the production of new work by visual artists and/or collaborative teams who are under recognized by the field. This production may happen in the context of an installation, public intervention, residency, or exhibition. Note: Harpo Foundation is not associated with Harpo Studios or Oprah Winfrey.
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development. Contact the Research Office if you plan to submit a proposal for this opportunity.
MAY
Henry Moore Foundation
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The Foundation concentrates its support on sculpture, awarding grants toward new projects, collections, long-term research and development, small research grants, artists’ residencies or fellowships, conferences, lectures, and publications.
Deadline dates: February, May, September and December.
Craft Research Fund
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Since 2005, The Center for Craft’s Craft Research Fund grant program has advanced and expanded research about craft in the United States. The program supports innovative research on critical issues in craft theory and history, explores the inter-relationship among craft, art, design and contemporary culture, and fosters new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field.
Northern Clay Center
McKnight Artist Residencies for Ceramic Artists
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The McKnight Artist Residencies for Ceramic Artists Program is designed to provide national and international, mid-career individual ceramic artists an opportunity to be in residence for three months at Northern Clay Center, where they can develop their own work and, at the same time, exchange ideas and knowledge with Minnesota ceramic artists. This program intends to recognize and support ceramic artists whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit, who have already proven their abilities, and are at a career stage that is beyond emerging. Each resident artist will receive a $6,000 award (for three-month residencies) and will be provided studio space at no cost, and a glaze and firing allowance. At the end of each residency, each artist will present a public workshop, for which he or she will receive a $300 honorarium. Residents’ work will also be included in a catalogue and group exhibition featuring other McKnight-funded artists.
JUNE
None at this time.
JULY
National Endowment for the Arts
Art Works
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Note: WU is only able to submit one application per year, so if you are interested in applying, please contact Enrique Von Rohr at the Sam Fox School Research Office. Through Art Works, the Arts Endowment supports projects across art forms of national, regional, or field-wide significance, that tour in several states, or that provide an unusual or especially valuable contribution because of geographic location. This includes local projects that can have significant effects within communities or that are likely to serve as models for a field. Grants generally will range from $10,000 to $100,000.
AUGUST
Yaddo
Residency Program
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Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following media: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Artists may apply individually or as members of collaborative teams of two or three persons. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board, and studio.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions
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Grants for Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) support fellowships at institutions devoted to advanced study and research in the humanities. FPIRI-funded fellowships provide scholars with research time and access to resources that might otherwise not be available to them. Fellowship programs may be administered by independent centers for advanced study, libraries, and museums in the United States, American overseas research centers, and American organizations that have expertise in promoting research in foreign countries. Individual scholars must apply directly to the institutions themselves.
RAC (Regional Arts Commission)
Artist Fellowships
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To foster and invest in the careers of St. Louis artists of all disciplines by providing funds to allow for more time and space to study, reflect, experiment, explore, practice, and create. The goal is to advance the individual artist’s creative journey. This annual Artist Fellowship recognizes artistic excellence and honors the work of seasoned artists, advances the work of mid-career artists and nurtures the work of developing artists.
David Whitehouse Artist Residency for Research
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The David Whitehouse Artist Residency for Research is open to artists who want to utilize the Museum’s resources, including the permanent collections and the holdings of the Rakow Research Library, to inform their practice.
SEPTEMBER
Warhol Foundation
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Grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists’ organizations, and other cultural institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts. Projects may include exhibitions, catalogues, and other organizational activities directly related to these areas. The program also supports the creation of new work through re-granting initiatives and artist-in-residence programs. The foundation values the contributions of all artists, reflecting the true diversity of the contemporary art field, and encourages proposals that highlight women, artists of color, and under-represented practitioners.
Henry Moore Foundation
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The Foundation concentrates its support on sculpture, awarding grants toward new projects, collections, long-term research and development, small research grants, artists’ residencies or fellowships, conferences, lectures, and publications.
Deadline dates: February, May, September and December.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship to Assist Research and Artistic Creation
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Often characterized as “midcareer” awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to selected individuals made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months. Since the purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible, grants are made freely. No special conditions attach to them, and Fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work.
Blade of Grass Fellowship
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The Blade of Grass Fellowship provides resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. We evaluate the quality of work in this evolving field by fostering an inclusive, practical discourse about the aesthetics, function, ethics and meaning of socially engaged art that resonates within and outside the contemporary art dialogue.
OCTOBER
James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship
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Research grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to one or two mid-career professionals who have an academic background, professional experience and an established identity in one or more of the following fields: historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history and the decorative arts. The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will consider proposals for the research and/or the execution of the preservation-related projects in any of these fields.
The funding opportunity is only for individuals.
NOVEMBER
Howard Foundation Awards
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The Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields, targeting its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project. Fellowships will be awarded for 2018-2019 in Sculpture and the History of Art and Architecture. Faculty can apply this year and if awarded may defer an awarded fellowship for up to four years. Next year, painters will be eligible to apply. Link here for more information.
Faculty may apply directly.
American Academy in Rome
Rome Prize
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Prize recipients are invited to Rome for six months to two years to immerse themselves in the Academy community where they will enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand their own professional, artistic, or scholarly pursuits, drawing on their colleagues’ erudition and experience and on the inestimable resources that Italy, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Academy have to offer. Each Rome Prize winner is provided with a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a study or studio.
Emily Harvey Foundation
Residency in Venice, Italy
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The Emily Harvey foundation offers residencies in Venice, Italy, for innovative artists, writers, musicians, videographers, dancers and other creative thinkers in mid to late career. They may come from anywhere in the world. The Foundation provides live-work space in Venice, inclusive of utilities and Wi-Fi access to the internet. All spaces have telephones for local calls only, full kitchens, and facilities for washing clothes. The foundation provides neither stipends, nor meals, nor travel expenses. Residents must procure their own working materials, and will be expected while in Venice to be financially self-sufficient. Travel to other parts of Italy or Europe during the period of a residency should be limited, and residents are asked at the conclusion of their residency to provide a report on what they have done or feel themselves to have accomplished while in Venice.
DECEMBER
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Artist as Activist Fellowship Grants
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Letters of interest are invited for the Artist as Activist program, which will support a wide range of creative professionals to tackle pressing issues around the globe for up to $100,000.00 grants over a two year period. Current grant opportunities include a two-year fellowship for artists, designers, and other creative thinkers working to address problems facing societies in the U.S. and beyond, as well as ongoing travel and research grants for similar artists.
Henry Moore Foundation
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The Foundation concentrates its support on sculpture, awarding grants toward new projects, collections, long-term research and development, small research grants, artists’ residencies or fellowships, conferences, lectures, and publications.
Deadline dates: February, May, September and December.
Smithsonian Institution Fellowships
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Applicants to the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program must propose to conduct research in a discipline pursued at the Smithsonian and must submit a specific and detailed research proposal indicating why the Smithsonian is an appropriate place to carry out the study. Projects that broaden and diversify the research conducted within these disciplines are encouraged. Fellowships are offered to support research at Smithsonian facilities or field stations. Fellows are expected to spend most of their tenure in residence at the Smithsonian, except when arrangements are made for periods of field work or research travel. Research must be relevant to the Four Grand Challenges of the Smithsonian: (i) Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe, (ii) Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet, (iii) Valuing World Cultures, (iv) Understanding the American Experience.
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Individual Support Grants
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For painters, sculptors and printmakers who have been creating mature art for at least 20 years and who are in current financial need. Grants are available through an open application process, and they have been distributed to artists worldwide.