The Puffin Foundation offers grants to support artists working in theater and film/video, focusing on projects that address social justice, civil rights, environmental issues, and other pressing topics. The foundation prioritizes proposals from emerging artists and underserved communities, with grants typically ranging up to $3,500.

Puffin Artist Grant 2025

The Velocity Fund offers **twelve** Philadelphia-based artists and collectives **$5000** to develop and present **new projects** — particularly those that are experimental in genre, collaborative in practice, grounded in their communities, and thoughtful in their impact. **Independent artists, collaborative groups, and non-incorporated collectives are welcome to apply.** 

The Velocity Fund intends to directly support artists and arts-based cultural organizers who conduct their practice outside the studio, and who present them outside traditional art spaces. Velocity has funded multidisciplinary and varied work that use **visual arts** — including (but never limited to) printmaking, performance, video, puppetry, sculpture, and curation — to expand, archive, learn with, and lift up their publics.

The Velocity Fund is a Regional Regranting Program supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and hosted by Asian Arts Initiative.

2024 Velocity Fund

**The Kindling Fund awards project grants ranging from $3,000 - $7,000 (with smaller Research and Development Grants) to Maine-based artists of all career levels, who organize projects that engage audiences and the visual arts in inventive and meaningful ways. The Kindling Fund values and uplifts artistic collaboration (or collaboration with community in meaningful ways), applicants seeking support at the $5500-$7000 must have at least one stated core collaborator. This is the eleventh year of grantmaking for the Kindling Fund.**

  
In the context of this grant, the visual arts is defined as broadly as possible and includes: photography, video, non-traditional performance, ceramics, earth works, drawing, bookmaking, weaving, crafts, installations, painting, mail art, printmaking, basketry, sculpture, calligraphy, social-engagement, participatory or community driven projects, glass, design, and the alternative spaces, artistic collectives, art writing, and artistic platforms that support that work. 

  
**_What kinds of projects does the Kindling Fund support?_**

The Kindling Fund supports a wide range of artist-initiated projects that engage the public including but not limited to…

* Group and solo exhibitions that are sited outside of traditional venues, curatorial projects focused on innovative research or exhibition design
* Lecture, workshop, and conversation series
* Micro-cinemas and film screenings
* Public art projects such as murals, outdoor sculpture, temporary art in public places, or pop-ups
* Performance projects that prioritize experimentation, multi-media approaches, duration, or projects with expansive definitions and approaches to performance
* Interventions, site-specific installations, and digital-forward alternative virtual platforms
* Writing about the visual arts, or printed and online publications (zines, local art discourse, curatorial print projects)
* The creation of an alternative artist residency or other artist-centered programs
* The founding or sustaining of a new artist-run arts venue or collective
* Artist-led socially-responsive and social activist projects such as mutual-aid initiatives, artist gardens/farming/food projects, community storytelling and history keeping, and other grassroots initiatives
* Experimental art projects that challenge established notions of artistic roles and forms
* Other art projects that propose new models/forms of practice, presentation and organization

  
**_The Kindling Fund does not support:_**

* Private projects (i.e. commissioning the creation of new artwork) with no public engagement component.
* Proposals that only or primarily request equipment. Including specialized equipment necessary to carry out your project as part of your budget is OK.
* Proposals that primarily request travel funds (outside of Maine). Including travel funds for visiting artists, or a research trip as part of your proposal is OK. Travel reimbursements for the project within the state are OK.
* Proposals that are (or even incidentally also serve as) capital improvements to private homes have been not competitive with our jury. Gardens and homes are however, valid potential sites for projects. Please talk to us about these projects if you have questions.
* Projects that are part of the primary programming of an established 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization, schools, or take place in established/incorporated institutions. Grants cannot be used as supplemental funds for programmatic initiatives and promoted programs of nonprofits, it is our hope that those projects will utilize their nonprofit status to find program funding with the many grant opportunities that are available to those with the privilege of a 501c3, B corp, or other IRS special tax status.

  

Kindling Fund 2025

This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need, creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.

  

One-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies.

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

As part of the **regional ICC development project in Indianocean** , **the IOC** is launching the third round of allocation of "AléVini, regional mobility support fund". The project, financed by the **French Development Agency** (AFD), aims to strengthen regional collaboration and contribute to local economic development linked to the structuring of cultural actors and their ecosystem. 

  
Through this call for applications, the AléVini fund aims to: 

  
1. **Promote inter-island cultural and artistic exchanges** to strengthen the ICC value chain: creation, production, distribution and dissemination.
2. **Develop the region’s artistic and cultural market** by promoting the creation of professional networks.

  
Priority will be given to projects that have an impact on equality by promoting the full participation and inclusion of women. 

This call includes two types of support:

  
1. Assistance for regional mobility of the individual: the amount requested in this category must not exceed **EUR 2,500.**
2. Aid for the export of works: the amount requested in this category must not exceed **EUR 500.**

  
The two types of support can be combined, but applicants cannot apply solely for the export aid grant for works. 

AléVini | Cycle III

Since 2004, the Gulliver Travel Grant has been awarded annually to assist writers of speculative literature in their non-academic research. These funds are used to cover airfare, lodging, and other travel expenses. Travel may be domestic or international. You may apply for travel to take place at any point in the following year.

  
**This grant, as with all SLF grants, is intended to help writers working with speculative literature.** Speculative literature spans the breadth of fantastic writing, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy, including ghost stories, horror, folk and fairy tales, slipstream, magical realism, and more. Any piece of literature containing a fabulist or speculative element would fall under our aegis.

  
This grant is awarded on the basis of interest and merit. If awarded the grant, the recipient agrees to provide a brief report of their research experience (500-1,000 words) and an autobiographical statement describing themselves and their writing (500-1,000 words) for our files and for public dissemination on our website and mailing list.

  
Please note that the goal of these grants is to help as many writers as possible, so recent winners can reapply but will be considered low-priority within a 2-year window of winning.

**Award: $1,000 USD.** This grant is awarded on the basis of interest and merit. If awarded the grant, the recipient agrees to provide a brief report of their research experience (500-1,000 words) and an autobiographical statement describing themselves and their writing (500-1,000 words) for our files and for public dissemination on our website and mailing list.

  
Please note that the goal of these grants is to help as many writers as possible, so recent winners can reapply but will be considered low-priority within a 2-year window of winning.

The Gulliver Travel Grant

We’re excited to announce that grant proposals for the Manorama Award 2024 are now open! 🌟 This award offers production bursaries to three visual artists for the realization of their printmaking based projects.

  
If you are a visual artist looking for funding to complete a printmaking based project, we encourage you to apply. Three artists will be selected for this award. This opportunity is open to all artists residing in India, with no further restrictions!

Manorama Print Grant Award 2024

As of October 1, 2024, you can submit projects for the 2nd edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey National Grant Program. This year's edition will be guided by the slogan "Opening Time", which is to emphasize one of the most important goals of the program - promoting broadly understood accessibility.

  
The second edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey National Grant Program is addressed to cultural institutions and artists planning to open an exhibition between April 2025 and June 2026, whose message refers to " shared responsibility for the world we live in." People applying for support from the Hestia Artistic Journey Grant Program should expand and strengthen public knowledge about the changing social and environmental landscape and activate local communities. It is also important that their planned activities increase inclusiveness and the level of interest in the current issues of global changes, conveyed through the language of art.

  
The condition for applying for a grant is to provide a complete exhibition concept along with its description, implementation date and justification for compliance with the Programme objectives, indication of curators, a list of artists and a description of the planned programme of educational activities accompanying the exhibition.

In the second edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey Grant Program, grants totaling **PLN 500,000** will be awarded.

APH National Grant Program – APH Foundation

Culture Moves Europe is a scheme that supports the mobility of artists, creators and cultural professionals.

It is part of Creative Europe’s Culture strand. The mobility scheme is particularly focused on emerging artists.

  
Rolling calls for all sectors at once will be open every year between autumn and spring. The scheme consists of **two types of grants**: individual mobility (for individuals and groups of up to five persons) and residencies.

  
**1\. Individual mobilities action**

* For individual artists and cultural professionals travelling between 7 and 60 days or groups of individuals (up to 5 persons travelling between 7 and 21 days).

  
**2\. Residencies action**

* Short term residencies from 1 to 3 months
* Long term residencies from 3 to 6 months
* Extended residencies up to 10 months

  
With a budget of €21 million, Culture Moves Europe offers mobility grants to around 7,000 artists, cultural professionals and host organisations from 2022 to 2025\. Funded by the creative Europe programme of the European Union, Culture Moves Europe is implemented by the Goethe-Institut.

Culture Moves Europe's Mobility Grant includes: standard travel costs (**€350 round trip up to 5,000 km and €700 round trip for distances longer than 5,001 km**) and **€75 per diem** to contribute to the subsistence and accommodation expenses. Additionally, in line with horizontal priorities of the programme, such as inclusion and sustainability, several top-ups are foreseen:

  
* Green top-up: additional €350 to encourage artists and cultural professionals not to use air-travel.
* Support for artists and cultural operators with special needs linked to disability.
* Support for applicants coming from Outermost Countries and Territories and outermost regions or travelling to those destinations.
* Family top-up for artists who have a child younger than 10 years old.
* Visa top-up to purchase a visa.

  
Also, Ukrainian artists, who may not be able to leave the country, could exceptionally apply directly for virtual mobility. In that case, they would receive €35 per diem.

Culture Moves Europe: Third Round

We are proud to announce that applications are now open for the (1)948 Windrush Legacies Grant! This grant is dedicated to supporting two creative and/or cultural practitioners who are direct descendants of the Windrush Generation. It aims to fund projects that pay tribute to the migration of Caribbean people who reshaped Britain’s cultural and creative landscape, empowering a new generation to carry this remarkable legacy forward. 

  
Applicants can submit one proposal per individual/ collective that speaks to the purpose of the grant. An independent judging panel will select two recipients of the (1)948 Windrush Legacies Grant and they will receive £2,500 to help bring a project to life that explores the theme of legacy - be that the one we inherit or the one we create.

Our grant will be awarding two winners with a £2,500 project fund as well as a coffee meeting with a judge of your choice and the 948 team.

Windrush Legacies Grant

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