**Daiwa Foundation Small Grants are available to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to promote and support interaction between the two countries.**

  
Daiwa Foundation Small Grants can cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events that fulfill this broad objective. New initiatives are especially encouraged!

We **primarily fund flights between the UK and Japan** (capped at £1,000) & subsistence costs (capped at £100 per person per day to cover accommodation & living expenses) and cannot fund retrospectively.

  
The **minimum Small Grant** request is £2,000, the **maximum** request is £9,000.The **minimum Award** request is £9,000, the **maximum** request is £18,000.

  
We award an average of £3,000 to £4,000 to successful Small Grant applications and in the region of £9,000 to successful Award applications. Our funding rarely covers an application’s budget in full, but is meant to be a “contribution” to the proposed project.

  

Daiwa Foundation Small Grants

**Price Sculpture Forest** is an outdoor collection of sculptures located east of Coupeville on Whidbey Island, Washington, United States. The land is 16.3 acres and contains just over a half mile of trails. The park features two path loops through a century-old forest; one is called Nature Nurtured and features sculptures that take inspiration from nature, while the other is called Whimsy Way and features more playful sculptures. It is managed by the non-profit Price Sculpture Forest, which was established by the Price family. 

  
As of March 2021, there are 27 sculptures in the park. Some of the pieces have been donated, some are on loan, and some are for sale.

  
**WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXHIBIT YOUR ART AT THE SCULPTURE FOREST?** 

Insurance will be paid for you by the park at an agreed reasonable prorated valuation. You are encouraged to also carry your own insurance.

There are many opportunities to exhibit your art at Price Sculpture Forest. We encourage your participation. The park will provide you with excellent public exposure in a beautiful setting. We offer early phase participants 100% of your sales proceeds with no commission, to encourage inclusion of your best work and to support you as an artist. We are also offering early participants the opportunity to personally choose the best locations within the park where you would best like to present your sculpture to the public. Marketing of you and your work will be provided. And there is no jury entry fee.

  
Sculpture can be for sale, not for sale, donated to the park’s permanent collection (your generosity will be publicly recognized on an associated plaque and this web site), or on long term loan to the park (your generosity will also be recognized).

Call to Exhibit at the Sculpture Forest

Despite a multitude of technological advances including video conferencing and drones, the proliferation of airports worldwide continues to be spurred on by global commerce and an unrelenting demand for travel.

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While the airport terminal—conceived a century ago—is a relatively new architectural typology, it has since its inception held equal importance with quintessential civic buildings: city halls, courthouses, libraries, museums, and theaters. Yet, airports are uniquely complex and they are more than just high volume transportation hubs. Increasingly, airports are also workplaces, centers of commerce, recreational outlets, and cultural resources. 

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Fentress Global Challenge (FGC) is an annual international student design competition. Since its inception in 2011, thousands of entries from over 100 countries have competed for top honors. FGC represents an extraordinary exploration into the future of architecture, and in so doing, continues to advance the pursuit of innovative design in public architecture. 

  
EVALUATION CRITERIA

Use clear, concise language to convey ideas, key points, and design solutions. Photographs, diagrams, renderings, animations, collages or other visualizations are encouraged to help explain the concept, respecting the guidelines previously described. Please label drawings.

CREATIVE APPROACH / PRESENTATION

The design approach is innovative and inspiring. Both the concept and design solution are presented through unique and compelling graphics.

RESPONSE TO SITE

The design honors the physical attributes of the site’s context and culture. The overall design strategy matches the global and local demographic requirements of the location. Again, use context to create identity.

SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCY

The design minimizes negative impacts to the wellbeing of humans and the natural environment. The overall design strategy also responds to vulnerabilities including natural and manmade disasters.

FUNCTIONALITY

The planning and building organization is clear and appropriate. The design solution contains a defined and well- articulated structural, technical, and constructible rationale.

INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY 

Innovation in the terminal’s design should align with future perspectives in aviation and technology. The design should incorporate forward-looking innovations that improve the entire passenger experience, including efficiency, comfort, safety, health/wellbeing, sustainability, value, and entertainment/amenities.

1ST PLACE - US$10,000

2ND PLACE - US$3,000

3RD PLACE - US$2,000

  
2 PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS - US$1,000

Fentress Global Design Challenge

**The Creative Centre is a group-funded non-profit cooperative located in Stöðvarfjörður, a remote village in the East fjords of Iceland.** It was established in 2011 when a group of people acquired the abandoned Fish Factory of the village.

  
The purpose of the multi-disciplinary program is to provide emerging and established artists, creatives, designers and progressive thinkers a port for free expression and a place to meet with other creative people in a small collaborative community. We offer our artists time and space to focus and introspect on their practice on their own terms, but no creative or output-based obligation placed on our participating artists. **If an artist wants to lead a workshop, exhibit their works, hold a concert, or perform or read poetry, we are up for most things.**

  
We offer a shared studio space (95 m2) for eight artists, and the Centre is being transformed into a platform offering many different workshops and facilities where small initiatives can thrive. Our facilities are well-equipped for most basic projects:

  
* **Wood** **Workshop** (95 m²) • Woodturning Lathes, Table Saw, Chop Saw, Band Saw, Fret Saw, Pillar Drill, Thickness planer, Sanding Machines, Routers, Picture Framing Machines & full range of hand tools
* **Metal** **Workshop** (57 m²) • Arc Welder, Metal Turning Lathe, Pillar Drill, Angle Grinders, Dremel & a wide range of hand tools
* **Printing** **Studio** \- Linoleum and Wood Print capabilities (under renovation but functional)
* **Ceramic** **Workshop** (43 m²) • pottery wheel, a low-temperature firing kiln (1020 °C) and all sorts of hand sculpting tools, plus earth clay, under color, oxide and glazes for purchase
* **Concert** **Hall** (115 m²) • sound system that comes with our sound engineer, Vinny
* **Studio Silo** • professional five-room recording studio offering digital and analog recording, specializing in recording to tape like it used to be!

  
The duration of residencies in 2024 is between 1 and 6 months, with consecutive months possible. The Centre is closed in January, July and December and open the rest of the year.

Participants cover meals, supplies and transport (including return trip to airport).

Fee for a 4-week residency period includes:

  
* Airport Pickup from Egilssta∂ir Airport
* Accommodation - a private bedroom in one of the artist's houses
* Day-to-days - internet, towel, bed linens, toilet paper, laundry soap and home cleaning supplies
* Access to the Workshop and Facilities in the Centre
* Studio Silo access (at an additional fee)
* Bicycles to use during your stay

Fish Factory Creative Centre Residency

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) administers grant funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture. This can be in the form of:

  
**International Support** \- For artists and art professionals when they are invited to take part in projects abroad.

  
**International Support for Galleries and Independent Exhibition Spaces (ISGIES)** \- For Norway based contemporary art galleries, independent exhibition spaces and publishers when they represent Norwegian/Norway based artists in fairs abroad.

  
**International Residencies** \- For longer stays abroad for Norwegian and Norway based artists and curators.

  
**International Support for Art Critics, Curators, Art Magazines and Translation of Text (ISACAT)** \- For the support of art critics and curators in Norway when, in an active role, they are invited to speak about Norwegian art and artists in exhibitions, fairs, conferences, lectures etc., as well as translation to English of art critics and other text regarding Norwegian artists, and the participation of art magazines at international art fairs.

International support is one of OCA's tools to promote and professionalize Norwegian participation in international cooperation in the visual art field and has funding allocated to two main types of activity:

  
1. International Travel Support, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a budget of NOK 2.300.000 in 2024
2. International Production Support, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Equality with a budget of NOK 3.000.000 in 2024.

Office for Contemporary Art Norway - International Support

Casa na Ilha is a retreat space to devote time and focus to your creative pursuits in an ecological paradise. Artists can intensely dedicate on their work in progress or develop new projects. The main goal is that artists are able to focus on their ideas and projects, enhancing creativity and inspiration and connect, between them, the local community and nature.

  
The Residency Program is 2 to 4 weeks long duration between 2 - 7 artists at a time. In case projects requires it, participants may apply for a longer period. 

  
Artists work on a self-directed residency: you will have uninterrupted, self-directed work time. We will not pressure you to deliver finished work; you can focus solely on research and development of ideas. We do not provide a set program or itinerary for artists to follow.

travel to and from the island residency, as well as living expenses and art supplies

Residency fee includes a basic breakfast (coffee, milk, fruits and bread) and weekday (Monday to Thursday) dinner prepared in the house every day and are shared every night between the group.

Casa na Ilha: The Residency Program

iJungle Illustration Awards 2024 is a competition to celebrate the world´s art of illustration. Located in Europe, it is opened to illustrators, agencies, representatives, students and teachers all over the world. iJungle 2024 has 6 categories: Book, Editorial, Comics, Commercial, New Talent (Student), Self-Promotion. A jury of some of the world's best illustrators and art directors will select the winners.

  
Categories expanded: 

  
**Book**

Illustration works commissioned in the form of printed and digital picturebooks for children, youth and adults, book covers for text books, inside illustrations, interactive books, works of fiction and non-fiction, zines, artist books.

  
**Editorial**

Illustration works commissioned for printed and digital magazines, newspapers, fanzines, other publications. Includes illustrations for articles, news items, cartoons, political satire, reports and others.

  
**Commercial**

Illustration works commissioned in the form of printed or digital advertising, merchandising, posters, greetings cards, annual reports, packaging, brochures, leaflets, calendars, toys, vinyl toys, plush toys, CDs, DVDs, record sleeves, stamps, board games, animations or websites and others, which have been commercially commissioned.

  
**New Talent (Student)**

Open to all illustration students in all countries.

  
**Self-Promotion**

Unpublished work, gallery art, personal or experi­mental work, commissioned but not published work by professionals)

  
**Comics**

Illustration works commissioned in the form of printed or digital comics and graphic novels (Send up to 5 illustrations/pages).

Multiple Image Entry ($48 US dollars for up to five related uploads per entry except Video game Art, that has 10 works.)

A jury of some of the world´s best illustrators and art directors will select the winners.

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All winning entrants will be exhibit in the **iJungle Illustration Annual 2024!** This ebook will be available FOR FREE online, reaching thousands of Art Directors, Illustrators, Representatives, Gallerists and Curators worldwide, giving the awarded members international recognition!

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All winning entrants will be exhibit on **our NEW online gallery, to be seen by an anyone interested in illustration** !

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The winners will be presented to art directors through the Annual ebook that **we send to art directors around the world!**

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iJungle 2024 Illustration Awards will also distribute the following awards:

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* **US $2500 money prize for the Best of the Best (**(chosen from one of the gold medalists) **and correspondig Gold Medal**

* **US $500 money prize the Gold Medals** for each category (the remaining 5 gold medals)

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* Up to **20 Merit Awards** for each category (Up to 140 Merit Awards).

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* All awarded designers will receive an **AWARD CERTIFICATE.**

  
* The Gold Medalists will have interviews dedicated to their work with extensive social media promotion.

2024 International Illustration Awards

Standard Fee (10€ through February, 12€ April-June)

_Entries are now invited for the Anthology Art Competition!_

  
The _Anthology_ Art Competition is established to foster and support both established and emerging visual artists and provide a platform for publication. The competition is open to multiple genres including painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography and digital media. 

  
Works entered must not have appeared on the cover of another publication. Works previously exhibited or published on the artist’s website on the interior pages of a book or magazine are accepted.

  

The winner will receive €500 and editorial coverage in a future issue of _Anthology_.

Anthology Art Competition

The Netherland-America Foundation (NAF) is looking to fund exhibitions, performances, publications, and research promoting a high level of artistic and intellectual exchange between the United States and the Netherlands. Both emerging artists and established organizations are welcome to apply!

  
**We have four deadlines per year: February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1** \- The Cultural Committee meets four times per year to assess applications. You can submit either a letter of intent or full application.

  
**What's the difference between a letter of intent and application?**

* A letter of intent is encouraged if the project is **at least 9 months or more away** **from the projected start date.** It is not a mandatory step in the application process. If the Cultural Committee is interested in the project, the applicant will be invited to submit a full grant application, but **this will not guarantee an award.**
* Applications must be submitted **at least 6 months before the grant is needed** to ensure proper consideration. Proposals for projects that are already underway, or have been concluded at the time of the review, are not funded. Organizations or individuals who have recently received funding should wait three years before re-applying.

  
The NAF supports projects that will yield a concrete result of cultural exchange (for example, but not limited to, a performance, an exhibition, a lecture, a conference, a book, a database, a website, or an app). It does not fund open-ended research projects.

A typical grant award is between $1,500-$5,000, but higher or lower requests are considered.

The Netherland-America Foundation Cultural Grant Program

The Youth Music NextGen Fund is for early-stage musicians and music adjacent creatives to invest up to £2,500 in their own projects and make their ideas happen. The fund is especially aimed at those whose lack of finance holds them back from pursuing their goals.

  
It’s open to d/Deaf, Disabled, or Neurodivergent creatives up to 30 years old, as the impact of barriers they face in the industries impacts them further into their careers. We welcome applications from Singers, Rappers, Songwriters, Producers, DJs to A&Rs, Managers, Promoters and Agents, right through to roles that have yet to be defined.

  
The Next Gen Fund intends to help young people build confidence in applying for funding, project planning and execution. We especially would like to hear from people who have never applied for funding before. It is unlikely that we’ll prioritise your application if you’ve already received significant financial support for your work (for example through an Arts Council or a PRS Foundation grant).

  
**We have 3 rounds of funding a year**, so if you aren't ready yet, there will be opportunities to apply in the future! You can engage in our workshops and support without applying to this round. We will be running a series of workshops that will stimulate ideas, give you more information about the current and future of the industries and help you with budgeting your project. Everyone who submits a project idea will get some feedback, even if they don’t get funded.

  
**NextGen Fund Round 8**

* **Deadline:** 19 January 2024
* **Notification:** April 2024

  
**NextGen Fund Round 9**

* **Deadline:** 28 June 2024
* **Notification:** September 2024

  
**NextGen Fund Round 10**

* **Deadline**: 15 November 2024
* **Notification:** February 2025

**The Youth Music NextGen Fund offers young creatives grants of up to £2,500 to make their ideas happen. This fund is designed to help emerging artists and professionals develop the skills needed to participate in the fast-moving music industries.** Modern creatives are having to be more versatile than ever, and we want to see young people challenging themselves to adapt to the modern climate. This could be developing skills like video editing, graphic design, coding alongside their artistic venture.

  
You can apply to develop a project that you can run and deliver mostly yourself. Here are some examples of ideas:

  
* **A creative music project:** a Single, EP or contribution towards an album campaign. The music can be already made or in the process of being created. Most of the applications we receive are for EP's. We aren't against you doing them, but we want to see creative approaches into how you make, release, and promote them. Giving a clear explanation of why you are choosing the format you work in is also helpful, it may relate to where you are in your journey, or a personal creative challenge. Telling us about what you have released so far will help us understand why you are taking the next steps you are.

  
* **A music-based business:** starting a record label or music platform.

  
* **A platform that supports underrepresented voices and perspectives:** supporting leaders that build communities and help facilitate others in pursuing their creative goals.

  
* **An event or series of events showcasing other emerging artists:** we want to support new promoters and help new artists gain experience performing on stage.

The Youth Music NextGen Fund

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