In line with Locust Projects' mission to empower Miami artists of all disciplines to build and sustain a creative practice through access to probono legal services, incubator grants, and professional development opportunities, we are regularly updating this list of resources to help artists find other opportunities, grants, and open calls outside of our organization.
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GRANTS, OPPORTUNITIES & RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS
UPCOMING DEADLINES
Circ Artist Grant: Three artists will be awarded $1,000 each to enhance and further their creative practice. Emerging, mid-career, and professional artists are eligible to apply in the international open call. Apply by October 15.
Open Source Gallery: Seeking artists from around the world with an emphasis on experimentation, sustainability, and social engagement to present exhibitions in 2025. Selected artists will receive artist fees based on the W.A.G.E. certification schedule, a production budget, and support in planning, production , and communications.. Apply by October 13.
APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED ON A ROLLING BASIS
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant: intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Apply here.
Alternative Art School: TAAS stands firmly on a commitment to the production of dreams, alternatives, social relationships, and inner-dialogues produced in tandem with an active caring for each other and our planet. They offer a structured and intimate global extension of your local embodied art practice. With a growing roster of extraordinarily talented artists, curators, dreamers, and do-ers, they allow access and connection across a disparate array of experiences and disciplines. Learn more here.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants: The Pollock Krasner Foundation's dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time. Apply here.
Rauschenberg Emergency Grants: provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for medical or dental emergencies. The grants are available to visual and media artists, and choreographers living anywhere in the US. Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Apply here.
Awesome Foundation Grant – A micro-granting organization, funding “awesome” ideas, The Awesome Foundation set up local chapters around the world to provide rolling grants of $1000 to “awesome projects.” Each chapter defines what is “awesome” for their local community, but most include arts initiative and public or social practice art projects. Apply here.
Fulbright Fellowship for the Creative and Performing Arts - Fulbright Program has been sending students, academics and professionals across the world to conduct research, study, teach and act as ambassadors to the US since 1945. A rigorous process of securing recommendations, outlining a proposal and finding a host sponsor, it’s best to get started on this application early. But with approximately 8,000 grants annually awarded, it’s worth the time to see if you can be one of the artists who embark on an international adventure while doing some good.
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LISTS OF INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL & EMERGENCY GRANTS RESOURCES
You can also find extensive listings on emergency grants, financial support and resources for artists, curators and other cultural producers, and further resources listed here:
Art Rabbit's List of Artists' Opportunites
Artists’ Fellowship's Emergency Aid Resources List
Artwork Archive Call for Entries List
Artist Health Insurance Resource Center
Creative Capital's List of Artist Resources
FRACTURED ATLAS - helps individual artists and arts organizations at every level of the cultural ecosystem, in every creative medium, through several programs: Fiscal Sponsorship, and SpaceFinder for example. Fractured Atlas also provides educational resources and personalized support.
National Endowment for the Arts
PEN American Writers’ Emergency Fund
Res Artis: Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies
TransArtists' List of Calls for Artists
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