The Visual Artist Fellowship is designed to help artists in the Philadelphia Region to reach new levels in their career. Artists will be asked to demonstrate a vision for the next stage of their professional or artistic practice and a clear plan for CFEVA’s proposed role in reaching it. Artists will be selected by an independent Board of Artistic Advisors based on the merit of their artwork and a demonstrated ability to reach stated goals. Four artists will be selected to receive a full range of career support during the two-year Fellowship period. In addition, selected artists will receive a $1,000 award and up to $3,000 to cover expenses related to the proposed activity. We invite all artists to apply with their current needs and ideas, regardless of their status as emerging, mid-career, or established. Artists within 150 miles of Philadelphia are eligible to apply. Please note each application is reviewed carefully and all applicants are also eligible for exhibitions, sales, teaching, and other opportunities through CFEVA.

Visual Artist Fellowship

We support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these projects.

Rolling deadline. 

JustFilms Grants

The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent, unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies experienced by artists in need who are practicing in the disciplines of visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, or choreography.

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

Created in 1993 to further FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:

- Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
- Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates

Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. To meet artists’ last-minute needs in a timely manner, FCA’s Emergency Grants panel meets monthly to review requests.
We recommend applying 6-8 weeks before your presentation date. We review applications received within a shorter timeline, but please keep in mind that you may not hear back from FCA until your project is underway.

Emergency Grants

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), with funding from the Kingdom of Norway, launches a call open to governments and public institutions of UNESCO Member States, as well as to civil society organisations, to support initiatives aimed at protecting and promoting artistic freedom, including the status of the artist. 

The cultural and creative industries are major drivers of social and economic development. The creative sector contributes significantly to the global economy, representing 3.1% of global GDP and 6.2% of all employment. However, as was highlighted by the COVID-19 crisis, artists and cultural professionals often work in particularly precarious conditions. This is mainly due to the lack of an enabling legal environment that recognises them as professionals and that protects and fosters their work in order to enable them to live off their creativity and deploy their potential to contribute to development processes and the economy. 

In this context, UNESCO has launched several crisis responses in support of artists and cultural professionals. Based on broad stakeholder consultations, including recommendations from the ResiliArt movement, UNESCO has recalibrated the scope of implementation of its UNESCO-Aschberg programme for artists and cultural professionals to meet the needs expressed by governments, artists, cultural professionals and civil society organisations in accordance with the objectives of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions as well as the 1980 Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artist.

UNESCO-Aschberg Programme

AHC assigns hosting pledges to research projects considered original and artistically relevant, and to applicants considered suitable for admission to an academic context and to AHC’s research and mediation activities. 

Each year AHC selects a maximum of four applicants for practice-based PhD grants in visual art and two for practice-based PhD grants in curating. All candidates are selected by a jury consisting of two external members who change each year, as well as one member from AHC’s team.

THE NOVO NORDISK FOUNDATION GRANT
The selected candidates are offered placements at AHC and against this background can apply for funding from NNF. NNF has a deadline for applications at the beginning of January each year. If one wishes to apply for a PhD position hosted by AHC one must first apply for hosting at AHC and then for advance approval from a Danish university before applying for funding from NNF.

A practice-based PhD financed by the NNF requires the candidate to be associated with an artistic host institution. This may be AHC, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts or another art institution that houses practice-based researchers. However, only the Danish universities can award the PhD degree. This means that a PhD candidate who is granted funding from NNF is employed at AHC but is registered at a university. In practice this means that the researcher engages in everyday activities and has a workplace at AHC, but at the same time is engaged in a close professional interaction with a university. Part of the collaboration with the university also involves a teaching requirement, and that the principal supervisor on the project is from the university. AHC cooperates primarily with the Department for Art and Cultural Studies at Copenhagen University and the Department for Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. Apart from this we are interested in all cooperations that are relevant to the individual research projects – not least the interdisciplinary ones that go beyond the art field and those with institutions abroad. 

PhD projects with Grant Opportunities

 The submission fee is $50 for professionals and free to students. 

Karen Baum

For 30 years, The Alexia grants have supported student and professional visual communicators who produce projects that inspire change by addressing socially significant topics. 

Grants are awarded to applicants who can produce significant projects that share in The Alexia’s mission and who demonstrate the ability to accomplish their projects.

The recipient of the professional grant will receive $20,000 to produce their proposed project. 

 The recipient of the student grant will receive a $1,000 stipend to advance their proposed project, a fellowship for tuition and fees to enroll in three courses during a semester at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York and a paid position to serve as a research assistant to The Alexia Chair.

Open Call: The Alexia Grants

We are thrilled to announce the Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grants. The two $20,000 grants will support the development of a documentary project on the work of an environmental story over the course of twelve months.

THE GRANTS 
The purpose of our grants is to support and encourage visual storytellers to create a long-term documentary photography project with local communities who are working to protect the environment and wildlife.  Vital Impacts will be awarding two $20,000(US) grants to support the development of a documentary project on the work of an environmental story over the course of twelve months. The grants are for two separate photographers working on two separate projects. The grants will fund visual stories that highlight solution based environmental initiatives. It is designed to give the recipients time, mentoring and intellectual freedom to produce a body of work over twelve months.  The Vital Impacts team will provide mentorship and guidance to the recipients of the grant over the course of its implementation. 

THE MENTORSHIPS 
In addition to funding the Grant, Vital Impacts will be offering a mentorship program to the top 50 applicants for the Vital Impacts Environmental Grant. Participants will take part in a series of 12 classes with leading environmental and photographic figures. 

Environmental Photography Grants

EMB’s artist-in-residence programme ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ provides grants for creative individuals or groups to co-create work with Ocean scientists. It aims to inspire wide reaching societal change for Ocean sustainability by expanding societies’ understanding of the Ocean’s value and the urgency of ensuring its health and resilience now and into the future. 

If we are to ensure the effectiveness of scientific solutions developed within the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, society’s relationship with the Ocean must change. The arts are powerful ways to impact society and drive societal change due to their role in conveying human values, ideas, and visions; developing social, cultural, and individual identities; offering innovative approaches to communication and dialogue around complex issues; distilling information; and producing new knowledge and insights. This programme is part of EMB’s support for the Ocean Decade, and contributes to the Ocean Decade societal challenge of an inspiring and engaging Ocean where society understands and values the Ocean in relation to human wellbeing and sustainable development. The EMBracing the Ocean programme additionally supports the goals of the EU Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters (Mission Ocean) to protect and restore marine ecosystems and biodiversity, prevent and eliminate pollution in our Ocean and to make the sustainable blue economy carbon-neutral and circular. Public mobilisation and engagement are key enablers of the Mission Ocean, for which art plays an important role.

Call for artists for 2023 – 2024 programme 
The European Marine Board (EMB) is looking for two new artists for the 2023 – 2024 edition of our ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ artist-in-residence programme. As we enter the third year of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the need to connect people to our Ocean is more important than ever. The EMBracing the Ocean programme provides 10,000 euro grants for creative individuals/groups from a wide range of disciplines to co-create artwork in collaboration with Ocean scientists to raise societal awareness of the Ocean’s value and inspire behavioural change for a sustainable future. 

EMBracing the Ocean - Residency Grant

The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award three Grants for Media Art of the Stiftung Niedersachsen (€12,500 each). 

 The Foundation of Lower Saxony grant at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art supports a wide spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio works and audio-visual installations. Each of the three grants will be awarded for the production of a new project in the area of media art.

The grant is valid for a duration of six months (July–December 2023). It cannot be prolonged and residency is compulsory; grant recipients can expect to stay in Oldenburg at least one month. 

Guest apartment at Edith-Russ Haus in Oldenburg, Germany will be available for at least one month

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