FVU New Takes is an opportunity for artists to test new ideas and thinking in moving image. The programme will provide creative support for three UK based visual artists, who are within five years of beginning their professional artistic practice, to realise a new moving image work.

  
FVU is looking to support a wide variety of artistic practices, including practices that differ from our previously commissioned works. We are interested to see proposals working with a wide range of techniques and methodologies; for example, digital or analogue animation techniques, working with found material, or self-shot films. 

  
Due to the modest budget, we are looking to support practices that are relatively self-sufficient, that do not require substantial external production support via crew, cast, specific equipment, etc, but productions will still benefit from FVU’s usual ongoing production and curatorial advice.

  
Proposals will be selected by a panel consisting of Rene Matić and Maryam Tafakory (artists previously commissioned by FVU), alongside FVU’s Director, Angelica Sule.

What will awarded artists receive?

* £5,000 fee/budget to make a new moving-image work.
* The new moving image work premiered on FVU Watch (the FVU website’s online viewing platform) will remain on there and other FVU digital channels, as part of a growing archive of FVU commissioned work.
* Production support / curatorial advice from the FVU team, delivered via regular meetings throughout the period of production.
* 2 x mentoring sessions from an artist or other relevant expert of your choosing.
* A text commissioned about your new moving-image work.

Film and Video Umbrella - FVU New Takes

Andy Rocchelli Grant is an international award, now in its second edition, promoted by CESURA in the name of its co-founder Andy Rocchelli, photojournalist killed in Ukraine in 2014\. Andy was an irreplaceable fire starter, and to make sure that his values as a photographer and as a person can continue to burn, since 2021 CESURA has established a Grant in his name to allow an author or new talent to create a photographic book in full freedom of expression, as Andy would have wanted.

Printed editorial production was a key aspect of his research as a means of dissemination and completion of the work. The purpose of the Grant is therefore to identify the best unpublished photographic dummy and award the winner with the production and publication of the book by Cesura Publish, the collective’s publishing house.

The first edition of the Grant received 126 applications from more than 25 countries and awarded the prize to Kanta Nomura with the publication of the photobook The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History with Cesura Publish.

Applications are open from May 24th, 2024 in commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of Andy’s passing.

The jury will meet in October 2024 to select a short list of finalists. In February 2025, the winning book will be announced, and launched.

The best project selected will be published in the form of a photographic book by Cesura Publish. The author is entitled to 15 free copies.

Andy Rocchelli Grant 2024

The Elephant Trust was created in 1975 by Roland Penrose and Lee Miller with a view to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts in the United Kingdom.

  
_‘To bear in mind at all times an original, inquisitive, open-minded, generous and unshockable approach to art in all its forms with a bias towards the visual arts.’_ 

  
This injunction, laid down by the original Trustees of The Elephant Trust, embodies the spirit of its founders, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, and remains the cornerstone of the Trust’s policy today. The Trust was set up in 1975 to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. It is committed to helping artists and art institutions/galleries that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities.

  
**The Trustees’ main objective is to support new work.** Priority is given to artists in the fine arts and small organisations and galleries who should submit well argued, imaginative proposals for making or producing new work or exhibitions.

  
The Elephant Trust administers three other trusts:

  
* The George Melhuish Bequest
* The Shelagh Wakely Bequest
* The Joanna Drew Travel Bursary which will be offered each summer to a Curator needing to travel to further experience or studies

Given The Elephant Trust’s modest resources, grants have usually been limited to £2,000, but with the recent addition of the Shelagh Wakely Bequest some larger grants of up to £5,000 may be awarded. In some cases awards may also be leveraged to receive subsequent funding from organisations such as the Arts Council. We encourage successful applicants to look into how they can use their award to unlock other funding.

The Elephant Trust for Fine Arts

We believe the arts are essential to the health and vitality of our communities and our nation. We are passionate about supporting artists in creating. We recognize the great need for support, and that receiving funding can sometimes be a complicated process. This is why we decided to do what we can to assist you and why our application process has been made simple. 

  
Integrity: Arts & Culture Association (IACA) Mini-Grants generally average $250, and are intended to assist with such things as: artistic supplies, recordings, studio time, exhibits, performances, project related expenses, residences, etc. This is our way of planting seeds that we believe will continue to grow. Given the pandemic, funding requests for remote programs and projects are most welcome.

  
This program was started in honor of every artist who has ever impacted the life of another. In honor of our teachers, our mentors, and even those who have deeply touched our lives from afar, we encourage you to keep living your dreams with passion. Keep changing the world for the better. We believe in you and we support you.

 Artist Mini-Grant Program

At New England Foundation for the Arts, we believe that public art has the power to shift public culture and change the future, for the better. Creating positive social change requires collective imagination.

  
**How It Works:**

Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice grants support teams of Massachusetts-based creatives and community members, to do the important work of imagining:

_What does public art that fosters positive social change look, sound, and feel like in your community?_

The Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice grant aims to support teams that are dreaming up what public artmaking can be as we strive for more just futures for our public spaces and public culture. 

A new cohort of Collective Imagination Teams will be selected to participate in a six-month imagination journey, from January through June 2025.

A new cohort of Collective Imagination Teams will be selected to participate in a six-month imagination journey, from January through June 2025\. Each team will receive a $6,000 grant.

Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice

The 421 Artistic Research Grant supports practice-based research investigating contemporary social questions through interdisciplinary methodologies and active engagement with the researcher’s community. While this is not an academic grant, a strong interaction with the historical, geographical, and intellectual context of a grantee’s topic and medium is expected.

  
The grant supports practice-based research investigating contemporary social questions through interdisciplinary methodologies and active engagement with the researcher’s community. Creative practitioners can work through disciplines including but not limited to visual art and curations, design and technology, literary arts, culinary arts, music, theater and performance. The grant targets topics that investigate the intersections of these disciplines with social and cultural topics, such as communal and public spaces, languages and linguistics, transportation and mobility systems, urbanity and its social and cultural fabric, economics and migration, and art institutions and ecosystems. 

  
In the 2025 edition of the grant, projects that engage with questions of ecology & humans’ relationship to nature are encouraged, but not mandatory. 

421 Art Campus will award a minimum of 2 grantees a budget up to AED75,000 ($20,380) each to support their research and project.

Artistic Research Grant

The Alexander Rave Foundation contributes to practical further education in realising and arranging exhibitions in the fields of fine art, design, architecture, and cultural history. It therefore awards scholarships to young curators, restorers, museum technicians, and cultural managers from transformation or developing countries who have arranged a guest period, practical training, or non-paid work at a museum, a non-commercial gallery, or a non-commercial cultural institution in Germany.

The Rave Scholarship is a working scholarship and requires attendance on site. It includes the following benefits:

  
* monthly lump sum of 1.500 EUR for a scholarship period of three to six months
* travel expenses for the scholarship holder’s arrival and departure (for journeys per car to a maximum of 130 Euro per one-way trip)
* Conclusion of a health insurance policy
* German course

  

Alexander Rave Scholarship

Grants for individual artists represent a “live and work” investment in local artists. Projects must take place in the same county in which the applicant permanently resides. All artist projects, with the exception of Arts Education projects, must include a community engagement component and be open to the public. Examples may include an exhibition or performance that is open to the public, or the inclusion of community involvement in the development and creative process of the artists’ project. This can be in the form of feedback, response, interaction and/or social practice by or with local community members.

  
There are **four types** of projects an individual artist may apply for. Please note that there are additional narrative questions and required documents for certain projects. 

  
**1\. Artist Commissions (AC)**: for a local artist to create new work in their community.

  
**2\. Community Arts Projects (CAP)**: arts, culture, history, or heritage project that engages the public.

  
**3\. Arts Education Projects (AEP)**: for sequential, and skill-based learning opportunities provided by a teaching artist. A minimum of three (3) contact sessions between the teaching artist(s) and core learning group are required.

  
**4\. Micro Grant Fund**: designed for small arts and culture projects with nominal expenses. Applicants will complete a shortened and simplified application. 

Individual Artists are eligible to apply for:

* One Micro Grant of $1,000 or less, OR

up to three requests in any combination of the following, totaling no more than $5,000:

* Artist Commission or Community Arts Projects of up to $5,000
* Arts Education Projects of up to $5,000 with a School or Partnering Organization

  

Grants for Regional Arts and Culture Engagement Program 2025

**Grant Intention:** This grant supports the creation of new, publicly accessible, temporary or permanent artwork anywhere in the state of Minnesota by a Minnesota-based mid-career public artist.

  
**Grant Overview**

This grant supports the creation of new, publicly accessible, temporary or permanent artwork anywhere in the state of Minnesota by a Minnesota-based mid-career public artist. Projects may be in any form or discipline, including performance, dance, storytelling, photography, film, sculpture, painting, and more.

Projects may be additionally supported by public or nonprofit agencies, or through in-kind sources, however, private commissions are not eligible.

Mid-career Project Grants

**Grant Intention:** This grant supports public art research and development activities by Minnesota-based early-career artists.

  
This grant supports early-career artists in public art-related research and development or with the planning phase of a freely accessible public art installation or activity in Minnesota. Activities could range from research to planning, community dialogues, site or budget development, or model building. R+D grants may be used for the development of proposals for other public or nonprofit agencies; however, they may not be used for private commissions.

  

Early-Career Artist Research + Development Grant

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