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Our commitment: dismantle barriers and provide meaningful resources and training for creative and cultural professionals.

Erie Arts & Culture believes that creative and cultural professionals can play a central role in developing vibrant and healthy communities and neighborhoods when they are provided with access to Professional development, Resources, and Opportunities (PRO). 

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Want to know more about budgeting and financial planning? Uncertain of what your intellectual property rights are as an artist? Trying to determine the best ways to market yourself? Exploring virtual performative and teaching opportunities? Interested in the methodology of creative placemaking and community engagement? We can help! 

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For your convenience, we also record and post past webinars. View our catalog of past webinars using the link below.

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What are your needs?

Through the PRO Network Survey, Erie Arts & Culture is asking creative and cultural professionals in Northwestern Pennsylvania to identify the barriers that have the most immediate impact on their capacity or the scalability of their careers. If you are a cultural or creative professional in NW PA, please take a moment and complete our survey so we have a more in-depth understanding of your talents and needs. Using results from this survey, we will design programs and events specific to the needs of those living and working in our region.

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Erie Arts & Culture Opportunities

for Individual Artists

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Lydia McCain Artist Fellowship

Applications open annually July 1-August 31.

In 2016, Erie Arts & Culture committed to making a greater investment in the artists living and working in Erie County by establishing the annual Artist Fellowship program. The agency saw a need to provide artists with unrestricted funding that could be used to pursue artistic development and growth.   

Originally, Erie Arts & Culture awarded three fellowships annually – two to emerging artists and one to an established artist. In 2020, the agency’s Grantmaking Committee reviewed the program’s eligibility requirement through the lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Upon further reflection, the Erie Arts & Culture Board of Trustees and Grantmaking Committee decided that it was necessary to revise program criteria and guidelines. Starting in 2020, the fellowship program includes three artist categories: Emerging, Mid-Career, and Established.

View all details and the application here

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Creative Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program

Erie Arts and Culture is partnering with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to help creative entrepreneurs and their businesses. The Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (CEAP) matches eligible creative entrepreneurs with free local small business consulting services and financial resources up to $2,000.

Fifty-one percent of the funds available for distribution in this program will be reserved for Black, indigenous, or persons of color (BIPOC), or individuals residing in communities identified by the Small Business Administration’s low-income communities map

Applications will be accepted quarterly, pending available funds. Please refer to this page for updated application timelines throughout the year.

*Due to high demand, CEAP funding for 2022-2023 has been dispersed. The 2023-2024 application portal will open on October 1.

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Become a Rostered Teaching Artist

Annual Deadline: May 31

Rostered teaching artists are eligible to participate in Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) funded Arts in Education residencies. Teaching artists champion the arts as a tool for both personal and community development by leading quality arts-based programs in schools and community settings.

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 Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeships

Annual Deadline: April

The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) provides grants to support folk and traditional arts apprenticeships as a means of preserving and promoting the diverse cultures found throughout the Commonwealth. Each grant award provides funding to form a partnership between a master traditional artist and a qualified apprentice, enabling the two to work together to share and develop advanced techniques or repertoire.

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The Lydia McCain Grant to Advance Artist Opportunities

Timeline:

  • Application Opens: January 1 - March 15, 2024
  • Grant activity period: May 2024 - April 2025

The Lydia McCain Grant to Advance Artist Opportunities is a funding source for Erie County artists working in any creative discipline: visual and media arts, literary arts, or performing arts. Eligible applicants have a strong artistic vision and a timely opportunity present that will help advance their artistic career.

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Northwestern PA Arts Recovery Fund

Deadline: See the link below

As part of the Northwest Pennsylvania Arts Recovery Grant Program, Erie Arts & Culture offers a new funding opportunity to artists living and working in Erie, Warren, Crawford, Venango, Mercer, and Lawrence Counties. This program is made possible through a subgranting award that EAC received from the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Rescue Plan. The grants are intended to fuel the nation’s recovery from the devastating economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These funds are intended to help support artists and the broader arts and culture sector in its response to and recovery from the pandemic.

EAC’s awards will impact a broad constituency, and we encourage applications from artists of all disciplines. Through this project, EAC provides support to regional artists as they mitigate the impact of the pandemic while also encouraging the expansion of community access to the arts by (a) demystifying artistic practice and increasing the accessibility of arts programs to communities—especially communities that may have been underserved in the past by federal arts funding; and (b) supporting a wide range of arts activities developed in a variety of local settings.

EAC's Northwestern PA Arts Recovery Grant Program will provide artistic fees and stipends to artists for the production of artistic workshops or presentations that are free and accessible to community stakeholders.

Individual Artists

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 Current External Opportunities
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Erie Arts & Culture is committed to promoting opportunities for artists, arts professionals, and cultural organizations.  Our guiding policy is to only post opportunities that pay. The opportunities below are updated on a weekly basis.  If you'd like your opportunity listed or have any questions, please contact [email protected].

February Deadlines

Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award 

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: February 1, 2023

Open to: Artists working in ceramic sculpture or sculpture. Artists may be at any stage of career development, from emerging through mature. Applicants must be 21 years or older at the time of the application deadline and not currently enrolled as a student. 

Details:  The Virginia A. Groot Foundation established the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant in 1988 so that a ceramic sculpture or sculpture artist may have the opportunity to devote a substantial period of time to the development of his or her work. 

The freedom of sculptural storytelling should not be limited by expenses, and that’s why the foundation aims to financially support artist expenses to live, travel, and create. Our grant winners’ work is honored to those who express features redolent to genuine passion, an unrelenting energy to the craft, dynamism of disciplinary delivery, and transcendence of form.

Three grants (First Place: $60,000, Second Place: $30,000, Third Place: $20,000)).

Fee: $7.

Review Opportunity


Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship 

Call Type: Fellowship

Deadline: February 14, 2023

Open to: Emerging filmmakers (ages 18 to 25) who are creating stories that bring their passion, voice, and perspective to life. 

Details: The Sundance Ignite program identifies and supports new voices and talent from the next generation of filmmakers by providing artistic and professional development to advance filmmakers to the next stage in their filmmaking. This is a yearlong fellowship that begins with a weeklong digital lab orienting filmmakers to the fellowship and year ahead. Throughout the year, filmmakers will Work with a Sundance Institute alumni mentor, receive a $3,000 artist grant, participate as a cohort in monthly webinars, workshops and workshares and receive a complementary Adobe Creative Cloud 12-month membership where available.

Review Opportunity


The Sustainable Arts Foundation Awards

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: February 24, 2023

Open to: Artists and writers with at least one child under the age of 18 and a strong portfolio of polished work are welcome to apply. 

Details:  The Sustainable Arts Foundation supports artists and writers with children. We make annual unrestricted cash awards to individuals; at least half of these awards are made to applicants of color. We also support artist residencies in their efforts to make their programs more family-friendly. $5000 award.

Fee: $20 

Review Opportunity


BorderLight Fringe Festival 2023 

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: February 28, 2023

Open to: Established and emerging artists representing a variety of theatrical approaches, styles, topics, and genres  

Details: The “fringe” concept first developed in 1948 in Edinburgh, Scotland, when groups of local actors, performers, and musicians—in reaction to the more conventional lineup of the Edinburgh Theatre Festival—launched an alternative program to run concurrent to the main event. Now almost 73 years later, the term ‘fringe’ widely refers to work that resides on the edges of the mainstream—and fringe festivals have served as a critical launch pad for independent artists to self-produce, showcase original work, engage new audiences, and network with fellow indie artists and producers inside of a vibrant festival environment.

Fee: $25

Review Opportunity 

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March Deadlines

KHN Residency

Call Type: Residency, Nebraska City, NE 

Deadline: March 1, 2023

Open to: Working visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world.

Details:  The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts awards up to seventy juried residencies per year to established and emerging visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Residencies are available for 2 to 8 weeks stays. Each resident receives a $100 stipend per week, free housing, and a private studio. 

Application Fee: $35

Review Opportunity


Millay Arts Residency

Call Type: Residency, Hudson Valley, NY

Deadline: March 1, 2023

Open to: Multidisciplinary artists.

Details:  This gift of time and space allows our Artists-in-Residence to dive deep into their creative process and projects; works made possible in part by this gift enriches lives and communities globally. As an Artist-in-Residence, participation as an instrumental member of an intimate cohort -- designed to be both supportive and inspirational -- forges lifelong friendships as well as professional relationships and future collaborations. 

Fees: $40 application fee, $150 non-refundable deposit 

Review Opportunity


Keyholder Residency Program - Lower East Side Printshop 5

Call Type: Residency, NYC

Deadline: March 1, 2023

Open to: Emerging Contemporary Artists in all Disciplines

Details: The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are free and one year long, starting on April 1st and October 1st each year, and they take place in the shared Artists’ Studio, including the solvent/etching area and the darkroom. Keyholders work independently, in a productive atmosphere alongside other contemporary artists.  

Review Opportunity


National Dance Project Production Grant 

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: March 1, 2023

Open to: Artists/choreographers and/or companies

Details:  NDP Production Grants are made to projects lead by professional choreographers or companies to support the creation and US touring, and/or sharing of a new dance project. Grants are awarded to 20 dance projects annually through a competitive two-stage application process. Artists/choreographers and/or companies apply to receive a package of support that includes:

  • $45,000 for the creation of a new work
  • $10,000 in general operating support for the artist/company
  • $11,500 for production residency and/or community engagement plans
  • up to $35,000 to support a U.S.* tour** of the work 

Review Opportunity


“Wild Futures: Visual Arts and Film” - Creative Capital

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: March 31, 2023

Open to: Artists in visual arts, and moving image that push boundaries formally and thematically, and/or venture into wild, out-there, never-before-seen concepts and future universes real or imagined.

Details: Creative Capital is fiercely committed to groundbreaking ideas that challenge what art can be. As countless visionary projects selected for the Creative Capital Awards have demonstrated, socially impactful ideas are embedded in the work of forward-thinking artists in a myriad of forms, often with the goal of imagining new forms of living. Social engagement can take shape across disciplines, therefore, we have expanded opportunities for artists to propose socially engaged, multidisciplinary projects in every category instead of isolating socially engaged art as a unique formal category. Seeking proposals for groundbreaking new work—including, but not limited to, work that attends to the many relationships between social, economic, and environmental justice, and advances the global dialogue around critical issues impacting the sustainability of artists, our communities, our planet, and beyond. Up to $50,000  

Review Opportunity

April Deadlines

Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: April 1, 2023

Open to: Early career performance artists who have yet to be substantially celebrated within their field, the media, funding circles, or the public at large and are in the early stages of their creative development.

Details: The Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art is supported by Jerome Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and biennially by the SHS Foundation in honor of Ruth Hardinger. Fund grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York City. Full-time students are ineligible.  

Review Opportunity 


2023 Sandbox Fund - Sundance Institute

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: April 3, 2023

Open to:  Filmmakers working on a nonfiction film

Details: The Sandbox Fund offers grants, engagement events, and other opportunities for independent artists seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science and culture through innovative storytelling. The program is administered by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, in collaboration with Sandbox Films.

 Review Opportunity


6x6 Exhibition - Rochester Contemporary Art Center

Call Type: Exhibition

Deadline: Walk-in Entries -  April 8, 2023, Mail Entries - April 11, 2023

Open to: Free for up to four 6x6 inch pieces in any medium (except glitter)

Details:  An international small art phenomenon with thousands of works from all around the world. This annual exhibition raises critical funds needed to pay artists, maintain our building and administer contemporary art programming to our community this coming year! Your artwork(s) will help our mission to provide unique encounters for audiences and extraordinary opportunities for artists. 

 Review Opportunity


2024 Development Track - Sundance Institute

Call Type: Grant 

Deadline: April 13, 2023

Open to: Fiction feature writers, directors, writer/directors, or writer/director teams.

Details: The Development Track application allows an artist’s work-in-progress fiction feature screenplay to be considered for several programs, fellowships, and grants. Screenwriting Labs and Intensives encourage a creatively rigorous process focused on original storytelling, experimentation, and risk-taking.

 Review Opportunity


2023 Development Fund - Sundance Institute

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: April 17, 2023 

Open to: Filmmakers working on a nonfiction film 

Details: In a changing media landscape, the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund has been a stable, progressive force in supporting work that has expressed the world in creative, complex, beautiful, and provocative ways, and it has created real cultural and social impact around some of the most pressing issues of our time. The Documentary Film Program prioritizes support for independent nonfiction films with budgets under $1 million.

Review Opportunity 


UMEZ Mertz Gilmore Seed Fund for Dance

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: April 21, 2023

Open to: Creatives with exceptional dance or choreographic talent, who exhibit a distinctive voice

Details: The program will provide $5,000 grants to support 8 dance projects taking place in Upper Manhattan from June 1, 2023, to October 29, 2023. Funding is intended for dance-centric projects, ranging from folk/traditional forms to contemporary and socially engaged artistic practices. These projects must be available to a public audience and can be concerts, performances, festivals, or other ventures that foster community engagement through dance.

 Review Opportunity


Visual Artists Grant - Harpo Foundation

Call Type: Grant 

Deadline: April 24, 2023 

Open to: Self-defined under-recognized visual artist 21 years or older

Details: Applications are evaluated based on the quality of the artist’s work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and the ability to promote the foundation’s priority to provide support to visual artists who are under-recognized by the field. Award up to $10,000.

$15 Application fee

 Review Opportunity


2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: April 25, 2023

Open to: Whiting welcomes applications for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biog memoir, the sciences, philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, and personal essays, among other categories. The work should be intended for a general, not academic, reader. Self-help titles and textbooks are not eligible. Examples of the wide range of previous grantees can be found on the program's website. Projects must be under contract with a publisher in the US, UK, or Canada to be eligible,

Details: The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 will be awarded to as many as ten writers in the process of completing a book-length work of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general readership. It is intended for multi-year book projects requiring large amounts of deep and focused research, thinking, and writing at a crucial point mid-process, after significant work has been accomplished but when an extra infusion of support can make a difference in the ultimate shape and quality of the work. The program's chief objective is to foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard. 

 Review Opportunity

 

May Deadlines

CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing 

Call Type: Fellowship

Deadline: May 1, 2023

Open to: Creative artists of Cuban citizenship or direct lineage (having a Cuban parent or grandparent).

Details: Since 1963, the CINTAS Foundation has awarded over 81 fellowships in creative writing. In addition to supporting Cuban artists, many early in their careers, the CINTAS Foundation also maintains a growing collection of works by past awardees and other esteemed Cuban artists. For the purpose of historical value and documentation, award recipients are encouraged to submit creative writings sample, signed book, or other such representative samples of their work to be added to the CINTAS Fellows Collection after the grant period. $20,000

Review Opportunity 


CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts

Call Type: Fellowship

Deadline: May 1, 2023

Open to: Creative artists of Cuban citizenship or direct lineage (having a Cuban parent or grandparent). Visual Arts may include painting, sculpture, installation art, photography, video, and the media arts. Media arts encompasses narrative, non-narrative, documentary, animation, or experimental time-based works using audio, digital, film and/or video media; also included is computer art in which the computer is an essential element of the work's creation, presentation or understanding.

Details:  Since 1963, the CINTAS Foundation has awarded over 185 fellowships in the visual arts. In addition to supporting Cuban artists, many early in their careers, the CINTAS Foundation also maintains a growing collection of works by past awardees and other esteemed Cuban artists. For the purpose of historical value and documentation, award recipients are encouraged to submit art work (i.e., representative samples of their work) to be added to the CINTAS Fellows Collection after the grant period.  $20,000 

Review Opportunity 


CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in Photography

Call Type: Fellowship

Deadline: May 1, 2023

Open to: Creative artists of Cuban citizenship or direct lineage (having a Cuban parent or grandparent). Performing artists are not eligible to apply for CINTAS Fellowships. CINTAS Fellowships can only be awarded a maximum of 2 times to an individual.

Details:  Since 1963, the CINTAS Foundation has awarded over 185 fellowships in the visual arts. In addition to supporting Cuban artists, many early in their careers, the CINTAS Foundation also maintains a growing collection of works by past awardees and other esteemed Cuban artists. For the purpose of historical value and documentation, award recipients are encouraged to submit art work (i.e., representative samples of their work) to be added to the CINTAS Fellows Collection after the grant period. Artists may submit a maximum of ten (10) digital images. $20,000

Review Opportunity 


Cultural Change/Social Commentary Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: May 15, 2023

Open to: Fiber Art Network members only  

Details: Often our work benefits us as the maker, but the final product can also make people think about an issue of importance, help raise awareness for a cause, or inspire viewers to do more. You may express current events, personal stories, or historical events in your project. Or surprise us with a new concept that addresses cultural commentary and/or social change. Grant is $300

Review Opportunity 

June Deadlines

2024 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Design

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: June 12, 2023

Open To: Young, immigrant designers who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in digital, graphic, product, or social design

Details: The Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise support emerging to mid-career immigrant professionals who have demonstrated exceptional achievements early in their careers.

  • Three $50,000 cash awards

Review Opportunity 

 

July Deadlines
Rolling Deadlines

Elevate for Podcasters

Call Type: Grant

Open to: Professional disabled fiction podcasters 

Deadline: Early 2023

Details:  Elevate for Podcasters is the first program created specifically for disabled fiction podcasters. The program offers $10,000 grants that can be used for professional development, show marketing, equipment, accommodations, IP licensing and living expenses.

Review Opportunity


Annuity Freedom - Marketing Grant for Artists

Driving organic traffic from Google and Bing can be a meaningful way to grow sales for free. Given the economic pain being felt by so many artists due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we want to help you by providing a free SEO analysis and recommendations.

There is currently no cap on the number of possible marketing grant recipients per month.

Annuity Freedom - Micro-grant for Artists

(1) $100 monthly grant. Grant winner will be selected on the last date of each month, beginning February 28, 2021.

Review Opportunities 



Call for Work: Buffalo Arts Studio

Deadline: Rolling

Buffalo Arts Studio is looking for artist submissions for their 2023/2024 exhibition calendar. The series will reflect the belief that artists and curators can effect change through purposeful collaborations that balance community need with artistic insight. This series of exhibitions will be curated with the intent to not only display powerful visual statements, but to also spur dialogue between varied audiences and to open doors to social, economic, and environmental justice.

Buffalo Arts Studio is providing a $1000 honorarium to solo exhibiting artists for the 2022-2023 exhibition calendar to support their curatorial goal of economic and representational justice. Artists are encouraged to pursue ambitious, site specific installations that utilize the available assets of the space. 

Review Opportunity

Questions can be directed to: Shirley Verrico, Buffalo Arts Stufio Curator, at: [email protected]


Awesome Foundation Grants

Deadline: International Deadline: Recurring Monthly 

Description: Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants, $1000 or the local equivalent, come out of pockets of the chapter’s “trustees” and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects.

Review Opportunity 

Local chapter: https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/erie 


Public Art Archive

Call Type: Public Art

Deadline: Rolling

Open to: Established public artists

Number of Applications Allowed: 20

Details: This is a call for the inclusion of public art collections in the Public Art Archive, an online database of public art. To be considered for inclusion, you must be a professional artist who has completed and installed public artwork, or an administrator of an established public art program. There is no charge to submit entries to the Public Art Archive. Public art is defined here as art that is situated in a location that is accessible or viewable by the general public and was, in most cases, commissioned by a public art entity, typically using percent-for-art or public funding. Gallery art and art exhibited inside galleries and museums is not eligible. Works of art that were commissioned and/or gifted by corporations, museums, educational institutions, private parties, and other entities may also be eligible. Permanently cited, temporary, new media, performative, rotating, and portable works may be eligible if they meet the commonly known definition of public art or civic art.

Review Opportunity 


Artist in Residence

Call Type: Residencies - California

Deadline: Rolling

Open to: Artists of any discipline

Details: 6th Street Studios and Art Center is excited to announce our new Artist-in-Residence Program. Residency provides exposure to new audiences and a newly built, private workspace. An exhibition space is also provided, where dialogue between the artist and community is inevitable. A rare opportunity to propel the resident’s work forward!

Fee: $25.00 (6th Street Studios & Art Center)

Review Opportunity 


No Deadlines

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers

Details: The Foundation provides financial resources for visual artists to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist's professional work and personal expenses and amounts range up to $30,000. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces. 

 Review Opportunity 


Creative Capital x Skoll Foundation Fund

Call Type: Grant

Open to:  Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx creators with active projects across all of Kickstarter’s categories: Arts, Comics & Illustration, Design & Tech, Film, Food & Craft, Games, Music, and Publishing.

Details:  Kickstarter, Creative Capital, and Skoll Foundation have partnered to launch a $500,000 Creative Capital x Skoll Foundation Fund. The mission of this Creative Capital x Skoll Creator Fund is to increase the number of funded Kickstarter projects launched by Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx creators through removing early financial hurdles. These funds will help bring more of their creative projects to life in the world, creating a more diverse and equitable artistic ecosystem overall.

Review Opportunity 


The Black & Brown Podcast Collective Grants

Call Type: Grant

Open to: Emerging podcasters and content creators of color. Must be a member to apply. FREE to join.

Details:  The Black & Brown Podcast Collective provides micro grants to further support the growth of podcasts and content.

Review Opportunity 


 


Production Jobs in Film, TV, Digital, Media and Entertainment

Details: For those who work in filmmaking and television. Please filter by city to see opportunities near you.

Review Opportunity


The Create Fund - Shutterstock

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Photographers, videographers, 3D artists, illustrators

Details: Help Shutterstock build a more diverse library. Apply for a chance to receive a grant of up to $10,000, learn the ins and outs of the stock content market, and open your work to an even broader commercial audience. Submit your portfolio today and discover what The Create Fund can do for you.

Review Opportunity


Stochastic Labs Residency

Call Type: Residency - Berkeley, CA

Deadline: Open

Open to: Artist from around the world.

Details: The Stochastic Labs offers fully-sponsored residencies to engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access, a $1,000 monthly stipend and a budget for materials.

Review Opportunity


Gottlieb Emergency Grant Program

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Painters, printmakers, sculptors

Details: This emergency grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. 

Review Opportunity


Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Visual and performing artists

Details: Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants range from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,900 They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.

Review Opportunity


Rauschenberg Emergency Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Visual, media artists and choreographers for medical expenses.

Details: NYFA and the Rasuchenberg Foundation have teamed up to offer visual and media artists and choreographers in the US grants of up to $5,000 for medical related emergencies.

Review Opportunity


Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Journalists

Details: The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is a grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. Grant support will range from $500 to $5,000.

Review Opportunity


Dramatist Guild Foundation Housing Assistance Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists)

Details:  Housing grants are one-time grants to help theater writers with housing expenses that have accumulated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. DGF is committed to preventing evictions and displacement of dramatic writers as well as helping them rebuild their lives during the period of recovery from the pandemic. 

Review Opportunity


Dramatist Guild Foundation Emergency Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricist

Details:  It is vital to support writers in times of need so that they can get back to doing what they do best. DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness. 

Review Opportunity


Dramatist Guild Foundation Bridge Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricist

Details:  The Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Bridge Grants are need-based awards of up to $500, now available to support dramatists with non-emergency and essential daily life expenses.

Review Opportunity


 

Emergency Grants

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Visual and performing artists

Details: Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants range from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,900 They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.

Review Opportunity


Rauschenberg Emergency Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Visual, media artists and choreographers for medical expenses.

Details: NYFA and the Rasuchenberg Foundation have teamed up to offer visual and media artists and choreographers in the US grants of up to $5,000 for medical related emergencies.

Review Opportunity


Dramatist Guild Foundation Housing Assistance Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists)

Details:  Housing grants are one-time grants to help theater writers with housing expenses that have accumulated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. DGF is committed to preventing evictions and displacement of dramatic writers as well as helping them rebuild their lives during the period of recovery from the pandemic. 

Review Opportunity


Dramatist Guild Foundation Emergency Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricist

Details:  It is vital to support writers in times of need so that they can get back to doing what they do best. DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness. 

Review Opportunity


Dramatist Guild Foundation Bridge Grant

Call Type: Grant

Deadline: Open

Open to: Professional dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricist

Details:  The Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Bridge Grants are need-based awards of up to $500, now available to support dramatists with non-emergency and essential daily life expenses.

Review Opportunity


 

 

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Professional Development

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Fractured Atlas - Review information on funding, healthcare, education, and more HERE

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Americans for the Arts - Review national public art opportunities HERE

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Art Deadline - Review opportunities ranging from competitions, grants, public art, and exhibitions HERE

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) - Review national and international open calls HERE

ResArtis - Review national and international artist residencies  HERE

Burnaway - Review national and international opportunities HERE

Grant Funding 

Candid - Foundation Directory - Review online directory of funders and opportunities HERE

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Business Plan Summary, by Creative Capital - This document was designed to provide you with an understanding of what information you should include when you're writing a basic business plan. 

Apps

Grammarly - a free grammar checker that eliminates grammatical errors and enhances your writing. 

Trello - a free web interface used to manage time and tasks whether your work independently or collaborate as a group.

Evernote - a free app used to collect, develop, and share notes, images, and audio across desktop and mobile platforms.

Mint - a free personal financial management tool. 

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