Since 2013, the Precipice Fund has provided critical support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in and around Portland, Oregon. Operating outside traditional forms of support, funded projects seek to promote dialogue, cultivate communities, and encourage generative and expansive artistic process while driving culture forward locally and nationally. The Precipice Fund recognizes these informal, experimental, and often anti-institutional projects as integral to the innovative spirit and vibrant art ecology of Metro Portland and surrounding areas.  

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is pleased to announce Round 11 of the Precipice Fund, awarding grants of up to $5,000 to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects. For Round 11, we will only accept proposals for projects based in and around the City of Portland. We encourage applications from first-time grant writers, artists from underrepresented communities, and projects that reflect the region’s diversity of cultures, aesthetics, and creative practices.

 ROUND 11 IMPORTANT DATES:
Applications Open on Submittable: Monday, August 29, 2022, 12:00 PM PDT
Application Deadline: Friday, October 7, 2022, 11:59 PM PDT
Applicants Informed & Grantees Awarded By: Early December, 2022



Precipice Fund

About the East Bay Fund for Artists
Since 2003, the East Bay Fund for Artists at EBCF has partnered with more than 9,500 generous donors and more than 200 nonprofit organizations to commission new works by over 300 local artists. The East Bay Fund for Artists has leveraged almost $3.1 million in new financial support for the arts in the East Bay.

In 2019, the East Bay Fund for Artists refined its programmatic focus to invest in individual artists and arts organizations rooted in low-income communities of color and other disadvantaged communities to commission new work that advances racial justice and social equity. Research shows that individual artists are not adequately compensated. This guided our decisions to designate funding directly to the commissioned artist(s): composers, playwrights, choreographers, visual and media artists.

The East Bay Fund for Artists is committed to the diversity of artistic practices and organizations as well as providing opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities to experience art that represents their culture and history in addition to building their own individual donor base to sustain their work.

This Fund is currently supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, and the generous donors of East Bay Community Foundation.



East Bay Fund for Artists at East Bay Community Foundation (EBCF) Initiative will be awarding grants of $5,000-$25,000 for the commissioning of new works by Bay Area artists. Awardees must hold a public presentation of their work within a year of receiving the grant award.

The East Bay Fund for Artists will fund up to 75 percent of the total project budget. (For example, up to $7,500 of a $10,000 project).

East Bay Fund for Artists

Cultural Bridge celebrates intercultural artistic exchange through the collaboration of all UK arts councils and leading German cultural institutions. By funding partnerships between Germany and the UK, the programme aims to build new relationships and foster artistic collaboration and cultural democracy.

In 2021, Cultural Bridge launched its pilot programme supporting seven new artistic collaborations between organisations across the UK and Germany to initiate projects exploring socially engaged arts practice through intercultural exchange and dialogue. Find out more.

Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 Cultural Bridge programme. This is an opportunity for arts organisations based in the UK and Germany who embody cultural democracy and wish to forge or develop bilateral partnerships to work together and share artistic practice. 

2023-2024 Cultural Bridge programme

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 within two weeks from the application.

Rolling deadline

TelepART Mobility Support

Maryna Rybakova

99 Future Blue-Chip Artists 2023 is the latest Open Call launched by Artsted.com aimed at all artists working in traditional mediums and adopting digital and innovative tools to expand their practice.

 

The Open Call arises from the urgent need that the contemporary art market has to find ways to be able to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers.

 

For its first-ever edition, 99 Future Blue-Chip Artists will take the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, which will be distributed at the largest international art fairs, with the official launch scheduled for Art Basel Miami in December 2022.


10.000,00 € in exhibition fees for a group exhibition that will take place in the spring of 2023. (fees: adv, dedicated meetings with collectors, studio visits, shipping costs, location, branded content on Artsted editorial and social media channels). Every winner for the 1st tier will benefit from the Premium Artsted subscription for 12 months. ​

8.000,00 € in adv bonus and promotional content on social media platforms and on the Blog (approx. 5 dedicated posts over the course of 12 months). Free consultations with our team experts regarding portfolio review, content strategy, exhibition opportunities, residency programs, and more. One full page in the print publication to be distributed on the occasion of Miami Art Basel 2022.​​​

5.000,00 € in adv bonus and promotional content on social media platforms and on the Blog. One consultation with our team experts regarding portfolio review. One full page in the print publication to be distributed on the occasion of Miami Art Basel 2022.

3.000,00€ in adv bonus and content on social media platforms and on the Artsted Blog. One full page in the print publication to be distributed on the occasion of Miami Art Basel 2022.​​​​​​ 

99 Future Blue-Chip Artists: Open Call

Authors and Artists Eligible. Beginnings weight one moment with particular power. A poem handles this differently than flash fiction, a novel, a graphic novel, or an art series. Send your best opening. No restrictions on theme, category, or the length of the piece or collection from which the excerpt comes. $250 plus publication for the winner; publication offered to runners-up and finalists. 

Word limit: 250 for fiction/CNF, 25 for poetry, the first page for graphic novel/comic book, and one image for art. 

Closes September 30, 2022

Inception: $250 for Best Opening

The Icelandic Art Center awards travel grants to Icelandic or Iceland based visual artists. The grants are intended for travel, accommodation and related costs and are awarded for exhibitions, projects and residences abroad. 

Travel Grants for Icelandic Citizens/Residents

We are looking for projects that will:

Protect and conserve an object or objects already on display in order to reduce physical contact by members of the public

OR

Enable an object that is not currently on display to be conserved and presented to visitors in a safe way

The grant scheme has two components:

- Materials supplied by Tru Vue (value estimated up to £4,000)
- Funding to cover the materials, supplies and/or support needed to deliver the project

Grantees receive both the cash grant and the Tru Vue materials. Whilst the materials themselves are free – the cost of transportation and fabrication along with the conservation work are expected to be covered by the grant (or any extra costs above the grant by the grantee).

Tru Vue Conservation & Exhibition Grant Scheme

On September 2, 2022, the Fanak Fund opens the call for applications for its support program intended to help structure artistic and cultural teams.

Zodeh is a program aimed at supporting the resilience of independent artistic and cultural initiatives, collectives, companies and enterprises of modest size (less than 20,000 euros in annual turnover) established in the member countries of the Arab League and in the Middle East (including Turkey and Persian-speaking countries) for at least two years. 

The allocated funds are intended for equipment, renovation, expertise, training, etc. and aim at the sustainable consolidation of the project. This support is not intended to finance artistic or cultural production. The beneficiary structure must be independent, non-confessional, non-political. The beneficiary structure must demonstrate its cultural and artistic commitment to serving its local community.

The Zodeh Fund is open to all scholarship applications that meet  the  Fanak Fund eligibility criteria . Candidates can  apply online from  September 2 to October 2, 2022.

The Fanak Fund Selection Committee will consider the following priorities:

The application must be submitted by a person responsible/in charge of the structure. Public or semi-public structures are not eligible.

The candidate (structure, collective or leader) must be based in Arab League member countries, or in the Middle East, including Turkey and Persian-speaking countries. 

All areas of contemporary artistic creation are eligible, including heritage and research projects (cultural policies). Humanitarian actions or school or university projects are not eligible for this fund.

Although open to all projects in these geographic regions, the Zodeh fund will pay particular attention to projects established in rural or peri-urban areas, as well as to all projects contributing to the transmission of values ​​such as the protection of diversity of cultural expressions, the implementation of cultural rights, freedom of expression and creation, fair exchange and solidarity.

The results of this program will be announced on November 1, 2022 (Deadline for receipt of complete application files: 2/10/2022).

The Fanak Fund undertakes not to use applicants' personal data for any other reason than to monitor their applications.

To submit your application, click on the forms under the heading "Apply for a scholarship" on this site. The forms are available in Arabic, French and English.

Zodeh Fund

The basic idea of the Danube Small Project Fund is to provide an uncomplicated funding platform for Danube-wide collaboration that can disburse even small amounts (<5,000 €) for the most important costs (travel expenses, organisation etc.) without major administrative hurdles. Such an uncomplicated small project funding scheme has been a long-term desire of the cultural sector in the Danube region since the very beginning of the EUSDR activities.

The intention of such funding is also confirmed by the fact that it has found its way into the new "Action Plan" of the EUSDR: "C) Examples of projects/activities (past, present or future): Small Project Fund" (p. 34). The Covid-19 crisis has once again clearly underlined the importance – indeed the necessity – of such a funding tool.

The Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg initiated a pilot action for the DSPF which is to elaborate the final structure and to test the long-term function of this innovative funding platform. The Partners followed the initiative of the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg and agreed to jointly establish a DSPF pilot implementation phase from 2021-2023.

European Danube Academy, involving all Partners. For the elaboration of the DSPF structure the international translation network Traduki was used as a role model. The concrete preparation of the fund was strongly supported by the long-standing experiences of the Working Community of the Danube Regions (ARGE Donauländer). The final structures and procedures have been discussed and confirmed by all Partners. 

The pilot phase is based on simple online calls at least once per year (depending on funding possibilities). Cultural actors in the Danube region can describe their concepts and enter them into an online form to apply for funding.

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