The Artists in Queens Grant supports artists that live in Queens for the creation of new work in a community setting. These grants highlight the role of artists as important members of the community as they enhance the cultural climate in communities and neighborhoods where they live and work. 

Artists in Queens Grant

**The Prompt** 

The movie “Sing Sing” highlights the redemptive power of art. Through theater production, in endless preparation and rehearsals, _working together_, incarcerated men in New York’s Sing Sing prison receive the tools and grace to regain their humanity. 

Light and breadth are cast into their darkness where crime and punishment, guilt and shame, rage and remorse are displaced in internal transformation long before they step in front of an audience.

As one of the inmates reminds his fellow prisoners before the curtain goes up, _“Healing for this planet begins right here within the walls of Sing Sing.”_

Actor Colman Domingo, who plays the main character, collaborated with a cast of mostly former prisoners – men who found a new sense of identity through the arts: _Beloved._ 

Domingo is passionate about what it takes to bring about lasting rehabilitation. In a recent interview, he pleads, “_What kind of world do we want to live in? What kind of tools do we want to give people to find the light, to be part of the world again?”_ He concludes: _I know for sure that art saves lives._ 

  
**As artists, how can we reflect on this, and respond and create?**

We want the prompt to spark the imagination and not tell you what to do. If you need direction, consider these steps:

1. Read (The prompt)
2. Reflect (Take a walk, ponder, imagine)
3. Respond (Engage. Create art that relates to the prompt)

The target audience, tone, and medium is up to you – We look forward to receiving your entry!

1st place $6,000

2nd place $4,000

3rd place $3,000

\*People’s choice\* $2,000

Be Still Media: Quarterly Competition

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is an $8,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Tribal Nations located therein.

  
This grant is awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period (five categories a year) and the application is free to complete. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development.

  
**2025 AWARD CYCLE**

The following categories will be reviewed:

* Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design
* Choreography
* Music/Sound
* Photography
* Playwriting/Screenwriting

  

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship

The Fulcrum Fund makes award grants ranging in amounts of $2,000 to $10,000 totaling $60,000 to support the development and presentation of independent, artist-led projects and programs. Examples of funded projects are new exhibitions or exhibition series, the ongoing work of an experimental arts venue or collective, public art projects, one-time events and performances, publications directly related to the visual arts, online projects, artist residencies and film festivals, to name a few. The Fulcrum Fund serves as an essential support structure to enable artists to expand existing work and explore new directions in creating and showcasing projects that inspire curiosity, engagement and dialogue. It is intended to be a springboard for artistic processes that are experimental and forward thinking, while celebrating projects that may not fit into the traditional museum and gallery systems.

Fulcrum Fund

This grant aims to support projects that will enhance further understanding of Japanese arts and culture. Successful candidates may be granted up to $5,000\. The Japan Foundation Los Angeles handles Arts and Culture grants for the 13 states west of the Rocky Mountains. These include **Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.**

  
The Japan Foundation New York handles applications for the remaining states that are east of the Rocky Mountains along with Japanese Studies Grants. Please visit New York office website for additional information.

Successful candidates may be granted up to **$5,000**.

  
**Grant Coverage:**

  
 1\. Publicity fees

 2\. Printing costs of programs, flyers, and brochures

 3\. Honoraria for artists and lecturers

 4\. Travel Expenses for artists and lecturers, including per diem and accommodation expenses

 5\. Shipping cost of films, exhibits and other materials related to the proposed event

 6\. Facility fee

  
 The grant will be paid in the form of reimbursement for the preceding expenses. The award money will be remitted upon receipt of the final report and proofs of payment.
  
  

JFLA Mini Grant For Japanese Arts & Culture Program

**The Accelerate Fellowship is a year-long program that gives mid-level disabled screenwriters $40,000 in funding, and the bespoke mentorship, industry connections, and community they need to become industry-leading creators.**

  
We started Inevitable Foundation’s Accelerate Fellowship to empower mid-level disabled screenwriters to develop and sell their own content. Disabled people make up more than 20% of the U.S. population but represent less than 1% of writers working in the industry today.

  
The Accelerate Fellowship is a 12-month program, focused half on writing skills and half on business skills. As an AccelerateFellow, you can expect 3-5 hours per week of writing workshops, personal check-ins, and conversations with industry leaders, as well as a bi-weekly submission deadline for new writing. You may also have sessions or follow-up work from professional development opportunities.

  
The goal of the Accelerate Fellowship is to help you get more professional work as a screenwriter (both development and staffing), so we’ll never ask you to turn down opportunities. However, to ensure the impact of the program, we do ask applicants to make sure they maintain enough time to commit fully to all the Fellowship entails.

  
The Accelerate Fellowship is exclusively supported by Netflix.

**Unrestricted Funding**

Fellows receive a $35,000 cash grant, which is meant to cover more than six months of living expenses, and an additional $5,000 to cover professional development expenses during the program. The money is unrestricted— Fellows can use it to cover living expenses and other project-related fees—which is intended to give them the time and space to further develop their projects.

  
**Conversations & Workshops** 

Weekly conversations with leading showrunners, writers, producers and creative executives help Fellows get bespoke advice and build new connections.

  
**Bespoke mentorship**

Ongoing writing workshops and check-ins with the Inevitable team allow Fellows to sharpen their writing and pitching skills.

  
**Networking and Job Opportunities**

Our personalized Concierge service links Fellows with Showrunners and Creative Executives for development and staffing opportunities.

  
**Community of Peers**

Connecting with other disabled screenwriters both inside and outside of the Fellowship program will build a supportive community that will stay with Fellows as they grow.

The Accelerate Fellowship

TelepART Mobility Support promotes opportunities for performing artists, scientists and researchers to travel and perform internationally. It is an easy and quick micro-funding format aimed for emerging and semi-established professional artists and young academics.

  
**TelepART-Arts:** The grant is aimed at performances that are open to the general public. For example if there is an open performance in connection to an artist stay in a residency they may apply for the TelepART-grant.

**TelepART-Science:** In order to be eligible for the grant, both the performer and the event organiser must have a preliminary commitment to the project.

  
**The grant must not represent more than 50% of the total cost of the production**. Total production costs include travel, accommodation and shipping costs, performance fees and other performance related non-fixed costs (i.e. the technical staff for the performance), all including VAT. This rule assures that the travel budget is in balance with the size of the event. If applying for the art grant, The Performer must receive a reasonable compensation for their work (“performance fee”). Daily allowances, meals, etc. are neither supported by the programme nor included in the “Total costs of the production”.

There are two different types of grants within TelepART Mobility Support, TelepART-Arts and TelepART-Science. TelepART-Arts can be applied for performing art projects and TelepART-Science can be applied for research events.

  
The grant is intended for travel and accommodation costs up to €1,000 and the funding decision is made **within two weeks** from the application.

Mobility Support for Projects involving Finland

The Europe + Heritage programme offers advice, a travel grant scheme and a support grant scheme for European heritage cooperation.

  
Heritage can be both tangible and intangible: it includes natural heritage, built and archaeological sites, museums, monuments, artworks, historic cities, literary, musical and audio-visual works, and the knowledge, practices and traditions of citizens.

  
DutchCulture supports sustainable heritage cooperation between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Europe by supporting and facilitating (international) expert meetings and exchanges while underlining the European context of heritage. We identify trends and opportunities and are in close contact with the heritage field. Please keep us up to date on your tangible and intangible heritage projects with and within Europe by sending us an email.

  
**For whom**

The Europe + Heritage Programme is designed for heritage organisations and professionals that are based in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire and Sint Maarten) and wish to visit a European partner, invite a European partner or set up a cooperation with a European partner.

  
DutchCulture offers consultations in English or Dutch to organisations and individuals who want to start a European heritage project. We do so by offering information about national and international funding opportunities and connecting projects and organisations to international partners. Please do not hesitate to contact Jacomine Hendrikse, advisor Europe + Heritage, to schedule your consultation.

As of February 2024, a pilot programme for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom offers an increased travel voucher to applicants based in Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten. With a travel voucher of €1.500 instead of €250 for applicants based in the Netherlands, we hope to stimulate cooperation between the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Europe. The amount of the Travel Grant Scheme remains the same for all applicants based in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and is a maximum of €5.000.

  
DutchCulture supports heritage cooperation between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Europe by offering two grant schemes: the Travel Grant Scheme and the Support Grant Scheme.

  
**1\. Europe + Heritage Travel Grant Scheme (Reiskostenregeling)**

Cooperation starts with establishing contact and getting to know each other. To facilitate this, DutchCulture has created the Travel Grant Scheme. Under this scheme, vouchers of **€250** (for applicants based in the Netherlands) or **€1.500** (for applicants based in Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten or Saba - the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands).

  
**2\. Europe + Heritage Support Grant Scheme (Ondersteuningsregeling)**

The goal of the Support Grant Scheme is to promote the establishment of contacts with the European heritage sector and the exchange of knowledge between the Netherlands and the rest of Europe. The Support Grant Scheme offers grants of **€5.000** maximum. 

The Europe + Heritage Programme

Are you working on a creative project that the world needs to see? Following your passions and ready for the next big step? Brooklyn Brewery might be able to help.

  
We’re looking for people creating the future in five categories – Food & Drink Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Arts, Music, and Activism. Apply and you could be granted $10,000, a session with your category’s judge, a trip to NYC for our awards ceremony, and your work featured on Brooklyn Brewery’s platforms in 2025.

  

Prize: $10,000, a session with your category’s judge, a trip to NYC for our awards ceremony, and your work featured on Brooklyn Brewery’s platforms in 2025.

Calling All Makers

The Explorers Club is excited to announce a new grant program in partnership with Discovery, Inc. The Explorers Club Discovery Expeditions grants align with The Club’s mission to foster scientific understanding for the betterment of humanity and all life on Earth and beyond, including our commitment to mitigate climate change, prevent the extinction of species and cultures, and ensure the health of our lands, oceans and all that inhabit them. Further, we believe that the explorers fulfill a critical role as a storyteller.

  
Fieldwork in the following disciplines will be considered: Biological sciences, archaeology, anthropology, paleontology, earth sciences, ecology, and astronomy, as well as exploratory projects that reveal new knowledge about the planet and its inhabitants, including regions undergoing environmental or cultural change.

  
**The application process involves two steps. First, you must SUBMIT A PRE-APPLICATION (this one). If your pre-application is approved, you will be invited to submit a full application via our online applications portal. (Full applications may be submitted by invitation _only._)**

Grants generally range from $25,000 to $40,000\. Artists are asked to exhibit their storytelling and findings exclusively with the Explorer's Club during the funded project year.

Discovery Expeditions Grants (Pre-Applications)

Find funding opportunities to realize your latest project, as well as research grants, travel stipends, and financial support for artists located all over the world.

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