Resources
FFR compiled a list of useful links, including ongoing grants and funds, professional advice, best and worst practices of art institutions and more.
Grants & Funds
POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT
Pollock-Krasner grants have enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as their personal expenses. Past recipients of Pollock-Krasner grants acknowledge their critical impact in allowing concentrated time for studio work, and in preparing for exhibitions and other professional opportunities such as accepting a residency.
Emergency Grants for visual and performing artists and poets
Emergency Grants is a year-round, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Each month FCA receives an average of 100 Emergency Grant applications and makes approximately 15-20 grants in the range of $500 to $3,000 each. Applicants may request any amount in that range and, if granted, may receive full or partial funding. The average grant is currently $1,900.
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified
Supporting German based Contemporary Artists Abroad
ifa understands contemporary art as an important medium for intercultural dialogue. The exhibition funding programme supports German artists and artists who have resided in Germany for a minimum of five years to exhibit their work internationally in non-commercial museums, galleries and institutions. Once a year, is the opportunity to apply for a specific exhibition project abroad. Grants for travel and accommodation expenses, art transport and rental expenses for technical equipment incurred for the realization of the exhibition can be covered within the framework of the funding program, provided that an application is submitted within the submission deadlines and a positive decision is made. For applications to biennials or group exhibitions, an overall application of all German and German-based artists is recommended.
Culture Moves Europe
Supporting international mobility
TelepART Mobility Support
TelepART Mobility Support promotes opportunities for performing artists, scientists and researchers to travel and perform internationally. It is an easy and quick micro-funding format aimed for emerging and semi-established professional artists and young academics. There are two different types of grants within TelepART Mobility Support, TelepART-Arts and TelepART-Science. TelepART-Arts can be applied for performing art projects and TelepART-Science can be applied for research events. The grant is intended for travel and accommodation costs up to €1,000 and the funding decision is made
Prince Claus Fund
Support for engaged artists and cultural practitioners in places where culture is under pressure.
Ready, Steady, Go! Move in Med report and mobility guidelines
Ready Steady Go! is a 10-month capacity-building programme developed by Roberto Cimetta Fund, in partnership with Liv.in.g, Busart as well as Al Badil and Amuni. To mark the conclusion of the programme, two key documents were produced:
Travel allowances for work abroad
Grants are awarded for travel and transport in connection with outstanding projects abroad. Funding is available for projects by professional Berlin artists or groups from all artistic disciplines in cooperation with suitable foreign partners in international cultural exchange. The funding is intended for temporary, high-profile presentation formats with a public impact, e.g. exhibitions, concerts, and guest performances.
Practical advice on artist opportunities
Funding Resources Overview; Information about Grants & Other Opportunities
Policy Handbook on Artists' Residencies
Art Residency Scams – How to Identify and Avoid Them
Residency programs are gearing up again, and even more opportunities have been created for virtual residencies in response to the corona crisis. As you start scrolling through the options, we have some tips to help you identify red flags and avoid potential art residency scams.
Databases for Artist Opportunities
AUSTRIAN DATABASE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
It provides students, graduates and researchers information on scholarships and grants.
MAPPING OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN ASIA
The Big Artist Opportunities List
Assembled and maintained by Everest Pipkin
Successful Funding Application Library
Funding applications are forms you complete and submit to funding bodies, organisations or trusts in the hopes of gaining money to support something you would like to do. In the arts, funding covers all sorts: a gallery’s running costs and programming, artist fees, staff payment, materials, money for research and development, marketing, printing, production, archiving, organisational development, travel… everything really. The arts relies on it. Artists and groups apply for themselves and if they’re lucky, they’ll get something; and big galleries apply to lots of different private and public funders in order to make up their big budgets. But knowing where to start when writing an application can be difficult; knowing who to apply to can be tricky as well.