2024 endurance grants

The Artist Trust (AT) Endurance Grants (END) are unrestricted emergency need-based grants of $2,500 to artists working in all disciplines across Washington State to assist with an unforeseen emergency, crisis, or catastrophic event. These 40 grants will fund artists who identify with one or more of the following communities: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and/or Native, LGBTQIA+, immunocompromised, with immigrant status, have or are living with a disability, residing outside King County, and/or low income.

Funding for this program comes in part from a grant from the CERF+ Artist Readiness Program (CARP) with support from the Mellon Foundation, our individual donors, and the Artist Trust Board of Trustees.

All applications are reviewed for eligibility by one multidisciplinary panel of three artists. Each panelist represents different communities and varies by race, age, gender, and geographic location. Panelists are not reviewing need or merit. All eligible applicants are put into a pool and selected at random by a system created by Artist Trust staff. After selection, applicants will be asked to provide documentation of emergency need and once confirmed, will be funded.

What is an unforeseen emergency, crisis, or catastrophic event?

Artist Trust defines an emergency, crisis, or catastrophic event as a recent, unforeseen, or triggering event that has significantly and adversely affected your ability to meet your basic needs, including natural disaster, theft, or serious illness or injury. Financial distress that results from the normal uncertainties of being an artist is not considered an emergency.

All applicants will be asked to select at least one of the following needs they are experiencing as a direct result of an emergency:

• Food Insecurity
• Medical Bills
• Rent, Mortgage, or Foreclosure
• Utility Payments