Photographers and visual journalists from any country may apply for this grant.

The Foundation distributes $1,000 grants (or the local equivalent) to projects and their creators.

This bursary is intended for foreign translators who wish to spend time in France to accomplish a translation project of a French work into their own language, intended for publication.

This competition is open to all visual artists who are 18 years of age or older. All styles and mediums are eligible. Prizes: $10,000 USD (1 artist will receive $5,000 USD and 5 artists will each receive $1,000 USD) cash.

Grants available to emerging figurative artists

The program is open to domestic and international applicants, qualified are artists —visual, performing artists, and writers— who are rigorously committed to their art form and who have a demonstrable interest in contemplative practice.

Mobility First! supports the travel of Asian and European artists between Asia and Europe.

The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists (in the fields: painting, sculpture, installation and works on paper) over a significant period of time.

By covering travel costs, the Mobility Fund assists in the professional growth of those it supports. The Mobility Fund is open throughout the year to receive applications.

The foundation provides assistance directly to artists in the form of individual monetary awards, travel stipends... All mediums of visual art are eligible and all artists are welcome to apply regardless of country, state or residency status.

The program focuses on awards to individual artists and writers with families. Specifically, the applicant must have at least one child under the age of 18.

The Foundation offers three grants to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture.

Grant to documentary photographers

Awards available to photographers and all artists worldwide, working in all traditional and new visual arts mediums, including but not limited to: conceptual, installation, drawing, painting, prints, sculpture, glass, mixed media, new media, photography and video.

AFAC’s core activity is to fund projects and initiatives in different categories: Cinema, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Literature, Music

These grants support artists to develop their practice and can be used to pursue threads of research, make new work, travel, take part in a residency...

Travel grants for artists and cultural operators living and working in the Euro-Mediterranean region

For artists or cultural workers under 35, based in Europe or in its neighbourhood

Range of funding programmes to New South Wales visual artists and writers.

Career Development grants can support a broad range of activities such as skills and professional development, residencies and other projects directly related to your career development. If you are applying as an individual, you must be a practicing artist (in any discipline) and an Australian citizen or an Australian permanent resident.

The Copyright Agency’s Create Career Fund supports individual mid-to-late career artists and authors by providing grants to support time to write and create. Applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents.

The Ian Potter Cultural Trust's main program offers grants to assist early career artists of exceptional talent to undertake professional development, usually overseas - from visual arts to performing arts and music to literature.

NAVA offers a range of grants, awards and scholarships to support and develop the work of visual arts, craft and design practitioners.

Grants to individual feminist women in the arts (visual arts & writing), USA or Canada citizens

Program Objectives: To support the presence of Canadian artists, arts professionals, groups and organizations abroad.

For visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, USA or Canada citizens

For Alberta artists working in all disciplines

Awards to individual British Columbia artists working in all disciplines to develop skills, to broaden experience and to realize creative projects

Support for professional artists and writers to travel to accept invitations to participate in activities related to their artistic disciplines or career development. Application deadline: Anytime

Grants to Edmonton artists

For artists working in all disciplines, residents of Newfoundland and Labrador

Pour jeunes artistes entre 18 et 35 ans résidant au Québec

Grant programs to Ontario artists

Funding programs to Saskatchewan artists

Provides funding to professional Winnipeg artists through multidisciplinary grant programs

Project assistance for individual Yukon visual, literary and performing artists working at an advanced level

Travel grants for artists and cultural operators living and working in the Euro-Mediterranean region

For artists or cultural workers under 35, based in Europe or in its neighbourhood

Nomura Foundation supports the arts and culture in Japan and abroad through grants to up-and-coming talent

Support participation in overseas artist-in-residency programs: provide assistance for artists to join existing international creative studio programs as well as residency programs self-planned by artists.

Provides financial assistance to projects which lead to ongoing links, understanding and friendship between the France and New Zealand people, especially young people.

Fellowships are awarded to artists realizing socially engaged art projects

Grants to artists working in photography and photo-based art and residing in the USA

Different prizes awarded to American poets

Two grants for mature artists working in the disciplines of painting, sculpture or printmaking

Grants to individual feminist women in the arts (visual arts & writing), USA or Canada citizens

Grant for arts writers

The Foundation makes artistic grants to unpublished fiction writers, poets and emerging playwrights.

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals (architects, scholars, writers, artists, curators).

The award provides direct support to US based, under-recognized artists 21 years or older.

The Howard Foundation offers fellowships in a five-year rotation of fields to visual artists, writers, musicians, photographers living and working in the USA.

Grants to individual artists for creative endeavors in the literary, performing and visual arts

Awards to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, USA or Canada citizens

The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant is awarded annually to under-recognized American painters over the age of 45 who demonstrate financial need.

The NALAC Fund for the Arts is a national grant program open to US-based Latino working artists, that demonstrate artistic excellence in pursuit of social justice through the arts.

The NEA Literature Fellowships program offers grants in prose and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) offers support to individual Native artists, communities and organizations nationwide.

The PEN Literary Awards are given to writers in the fields of fiction, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, translation, drama, or poetry.

The PSA's Annual Awards offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers.

Grants to artists, based in USA, working in the disciplines music, photography, theater and visual arts, who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy.

The Foundation gives annual awards of $1500 to individual fine artists and craft persons living and working in the United States, and who are engaged in or planning a new craft or visual art project.

Two annual awards given to students and recent graduates of Architecture and Design

African American visual artists working in the following media are encouraged to submit applications: painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, installation and new genre.

The Artadia Awards application process is open to all visual artists who live and work in designated partner cities (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco).

Several grant programmes for Washington State artists working in all disciplines

Artist's Resource Trust (A.R.T.) provides support to the creative work of mid-career (aged 35 and older) visual artists living in New England, or Columbia or Northeast Dutchess Counties, NY. Grants awarded generally range from $1,000 to $10,000.

The grant provides direct support to individual artists and arts professionals of the Kansas City metropolitan area, for projects and activities that have the potential to advance their careers.

Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) provides direct support to individual Bronx artists who create literary, media, visual, and performing works of art.

The MAKER Grant Program is an annual, unrestricted award opportunity for Chicago-based contemporary visual artists. These unrestricted grants are intended to recognize exceptional emerging artists and support the advancement of their artistic careers. The program serves the Chicago Artists Coalition’s mission of supporting local artists’ practices and professional development.

Two grant programs for artists based in Chicago

Bader Fund grants are intended to provide visual artists with financial assistance to allow them to concentrate on their art. To be eligible for consideration for an award, you must be a visual artist, work in any medium except film, video, and performance, be 40 years of age or older, and live within 150 miles of Washington, DC. Applications must be postmarked no later than September 15.

If you are a resident of Southern California, an active artist with an interest in watercolor, and believe that your practice would be enriched by travel, please apply.

Composer/Sound artist fellowship + Travel & Study Grant for emerging artists living in Minnesota or one the five boroughs of New York City

The Foundation supports feminist artists living in Kentucky

For emerging and established Detroit artists in Film & Music, Literary Arts, Live Arts, and Visual Arts

The Leeway Foundation funds women and trans artists living in the Delaware Valley region

Support for visual artists to travel to international residencies, priority is given to artists living in Kansas City and the Central Plains/Midwest area

Grants for writers based in Minnesota

Fellowships for Massachusetts artists

Funding for individual artists residing in Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey

Grants to New York based artists

RACC provides grants for artists throughout Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties

Fellowships for visual artists, resident of Virginia

Variety of opportunities including funding for emerging and established artists and art practitioners based in New Zealand

Funding opportunities across the UK

Cultural mobility information network with grant opportunities

Writing contests, grants and awards (mostly in the USA)

Funding resources for women artists