External Funding Sources

Public Art for Spatial Justice aims to support public artmaking that helps us see, feel, experience and imagine spatial justice now, while we are still on this journey towards realizing more just futures for our public spaces and public culture.

Public Art for Spatial Justice grants range from $15,000-$30,000, for up to two-year grant period beginning March 2024 through February 2026. 

NEW DEADLINE: The 2023 application due December 4, 2023, 11:59p ET. 

The University of Tulsa’s Henneke Center for Academic Fulfillment invites applications to the 2024 Second Book Institute (SBI) for scholars in the humanities and other book-centered fields. This initiative is designed to help mid-career academics in need of time, structured writing strategies, and a network of mutual support to complete their second book.

The external fellowships include six nights at a local boutique hotel, opening and closing dinners, daily continental breakfasts and lunches, guest memberships at the University of Tulsa’s Collins Fitness Center, and stipends of $1,000 to fund travel to the workshop, assist with family care, or provide whatever the fellows determine will facilitate their ability to devote a week entirely to their own writing and community-building with the other fellows. The internal fellowship includes the meals and a $500 stipend. All fellowships include an optional follow-up online conference with Howard and online group meetings at regular intervals to provide continued mutual support in meeting writing goals.

 The 2024 application is due January 8, 2024.  

Applications and more information available at the University of Tulsa website. 

Deadline: February 25, 2024, 5 p.m.
Budget: up to $30,000
Purpose: Projects about architecture and the designed environment to promote dialogue, raising awareness, and developing new and wider audiences;

• Publications, exhibitions, installations, films, new media projects, conferences/lectures, and other public programs.
• Areas of study considered include architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and related fields of inquiry. Also work in the fine arts, humanities, and sciences that expands the boundaries of thinking about architecture and space.
• Work that reaches new audiences, from specialized to general, and creates opportunities for critical dialogue between various publics.
• Priority for opportunities which enable critical support at key points in the development of a project or career.

Eligibility: only 1 application per department per year. If interested, please contact your department chair and Susan.lewis@tufts.edu
RFP: Graham Foundation > Grant Programs > Organizations
Webinars/Resources: previous grantees: Graham Foundation > 2023 Grantees

MDAH is now accepting applications for the 2024 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Fellowship. Offered in partnership with the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute, this annual fellowship awards a $5,000 stipend to one graduate student or a faculty member within the first five years of their academic career to conduct research using the Evers Papers and other archival collections at MDAH for two weeks during the summer. 

The Bogliasco Foundation provides residential fellowships for exceptional international artists and scholars in all phases of their careers to deepen creativity, connect to other perspectives, and develop their best work.

The foundation invites applications for its fellowship program, which are awarded to artists and scholars in the various disciplines of the arts and humanities, including archaeology, architecture, classics, dance, film/video, history, landscape architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theater, or visual arts. Both creative and scholarly efforts are invited.

Budget: residency, no travel or stipend unless you are selected for a special fellowship; application fee of $45

Purpose: Convenings, such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia, that help address disparities and exclusions in the visual arts field. Projects that address the following objectives are encouraged:

1. generate knowledge and interpretive frameworks that reflect the range and complexity of American art and its histories through the diversity of artists represented, voices included, and stories told

2. center artists, scholars, and communities who have been systemically excluded from narratives, practices, and presentations of American art

3. commit to inclusive and equitable practices across project development and implementation in order to lead to structural change

Eligibility: Institutions with 501c3 status

RFP: https://www.terraamericanart.org/what-we-offer/grant-fellowship-opportunities/convening-grants/

Webinar/Resources: Additional award opportunities for Exhibitions and Collections are available.  FAQ.

Contact: grants@terraamericanart.org

Funding Guidelines for April 16, 2024 Deadline

RSF will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under all of its core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility among Racially, Ethnically, and Economically Diverse Groups after the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.

Eligibility: PI and Co-PIs must have PhD; focus of project must be on the U.S.

Deadline: Required LOI due April 16, 2024, by 2pm ET/11am PT (If invited, proposals are due July 22,2024.)

Budget/Amount: three levels: Trustee grants – up to $200,000; Presidential – up to $50,000 (up to $75,000 if there are special data needs or multiple assistant Prof PIs).

RFP: https://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply/project-presidential-awards

Grant Writing Webinar March 13^th at 2pm ET: info and register

• Tips for grant writing success
• Examples

The Performing Arts Technologies Lab is both a grant and a support system designed to expand access to and nurture new methods for creating, sharing and experiencing the performing arts. Selected projects will proceed through a series of development phases, beginning with the articulation of a basic concept and culminating, for some proposals, in a fully funded implementation. Support will combine financial resources with technical assistance. Participants will be expected to participate in a series of virtual and in-person meetings that will be programmed to facilitate shared learning and exchange.

• Information Webinar- April 11, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
• Application Deadline - May 6
• Phase 1 Grantees Notified - July 1
• Phase 1 Convening - Aug. 8-9

More information available here. 

Purpose: Recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year.

Eligibility: Award is to poet, but submissions are done by publisher. Open to any book of original poetry, in English, published in the United States during 2023 in a standard edition (48 pages or more) by a living poet who meets US citizenship or residency eligibility guidelines. $75 entrance fee.

Budget/Amount: $25,000 award. Prize also includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to hundreds of Academy of American Poets members. Prize is considered taxable income.

Deadline: May 15, 2024 11: 59 PM ET

Resources: Questions to: awards@poets.org

Deadline: May 14, 2024 11:59pm ET

Budget/Amount: Article grants are $15,000; Book grants are $50,000; Short-Form Writing grants are $30,000. 1 year grants.

Purpose: Awards to both emerging and established writers to support work about contemporary (since World War II) visual art. Awards are given in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing. Open to art historians, artists, critics, curators, journalists, or writers in an outside field who are strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts Projects on post-WWII work in adjacent fields—architecture, dance, film, media, music, performance, sound, etc.—will only be considered if they directly and significantly engage the discourses and concerns of contemporary visual art.

Eligibility: Writer must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or hold an O-1 visa; be at least 25 years old by Oct 1 of the application year; and must be a previously published author. Projects based on a PhD dissertation or MA thesis are not eligible, nor are awards to full-time students in a degree-granting program (unless the applicant maintains a simultaneous/separate professional career as an art writer). Collaboration allowed for book projects. Grant given to individual rather than institution; note that grant is considered taxable income.

RFP: https://www.artswriters.org/. See Application Guidelines for a more comprehensive list of eligibility criteria, and Project Types page for publishing history requirements for each project type.

Webinar/Resources: For questions regarding application and eligibility: questions@artswriters.org. $935,000 awarded in 2023 to 27 writers.

Mass Humanities supports grants to fund expanding Massachusetts stories and elevating community leadership in Massachusetts. Mass Humanities believes in thought-provoking public humanities for all audiences that connect us and change how we think about our history, culture and beliefs.