Internal Funding Sources

External Funding Sources

College Art Association
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minnesota Humanities Commission
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Gallery of Art
National Humanities Center
Smithsonian Institution

Specific Programs

• AIA/AAf Fellowship for Advanced Study or Research
• Albee Foundation--William Flanagan Memorial Creatice Persons Center Residencies
• American Express Philantropic Grants Program
• Asian Cultural Council
• Blakemore Foundation--Art Grants
• Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Science-Residential Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Cotton Foundation--Fellowship Awards
• The Getty--Conservation Education & Training Grants
• The Getty--Conservation Survey Grants
• The Getty--Conservation Treatment Grants
• The Getty--Publication Grants
• The Getty--Critical Reference Resources Grants
• Gottlieb Foundation--Emergency Assistance Program
• Graham Foundation--Grants in Architecture
• Jerome Foundation Grants Program
• Kress Foundation--Program Grants
• Lannan Foundation Grants Program
• Luce Foundation--Grants and Responsive Grants
• MacDowell Colony--Residencies for Creative Artists
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grants
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Humanities Workshop
• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants for Visual Artists
• Rubin Foundation Grants Program
• Spencer Foundation Grants Program
• Wolinsky Family General Grants
  
  

AIA/AAF Fellowship for Advanced Study or Research

Sponsor: American Institute of Architects
Deadline(s): February 15, annually

Objectives:
Support is provided for financial assistance to architects continuing their education by pursuing an advanced degree or conducting research in architecture or a closely related field of study.

Eligibility:
Awards are available to those who have already received a professional degree. Applicants must be pursuing an advanced degree or conducting research under the direction of a U.S. university.

Sponsor: Albee Foundation
Deadline(s): Applications must be recieved after January 1, 2007 and post-marked before April 1, 2007 for the 2007 Summer Season

Objectives:
The Foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (better known as "The Barn") in Montauk, on Long Island in New York, as a residence for writers, painters, sculptors and composers. The Center is open from June 1st to October 1st, and can accommodate comfortably up to five persons at a time. Residencies are for one month periods of time. The standards for admission are, simply, talent and need.

Sponsor: American Express Philanthropic Program
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor supports projects in the following areas:

CULTURAL HERITAGE--the sponsor supports organizations and projects that preserve or rediscover important cultural works and major historic sites in order to provide ongoing access and enjoyment for current and future audiences. The programs we support include a broad range of arts and culture: from historic landmarks and public spaces to dance, theater, music, film and the visual arts. We emphasize preserving works that represent a range of diverse cultures.

Restrictions:
Eligible applicants are U.S. non-profit, tax-exempt organizations. The sponsor will not fund individual needs, including scholarships; fund-raising activities such as benefits, charitable dinners, or sporting events; goodwill advertising, souvenir journals, or dinner programs; travel for individuals or groups; sectarian activities of religious organizations; political causes, candidates, organizations, or campaigns; books, magazines, or articles in professional journals; endowments or capital campaigns; traveling exhibitions; and sports sponsorships.

Application guidelines are available. Addresses for the submission of applications vary; applicants are advised to contact the sponsor for more information.

Sponsor :Asian Cultural Council
Deadline(s): January 15 for Spring meeting; August 1 for Fall meeting (only limited submissions accepted in fall)

Objectives:
The Asian Cultural Council supports cultural exchange between Asia and the United States in the performing and visual arts, primarily by providing individual fellowship grants to artists, scholars, students, and specialists from Asia for study, research, travel and creative work in the United States. Some grants are also awarded to Americans engaged in similar activities in Asia and to arts organizations and educational institutions for specific projects of particular significance to Asian-American cultural exchange. In addition, the Council awards a small number of grants in support of regional exchange activities within Asia.

The ACC’s geographic purview covers an extensive area of Asia ranging from Afghanistan to Japan. Because the Council’s grant funds are limited, however, priority consideration is currently being given to applicants from that area of Southeast and East Asia extending eastward from Burma through Japan.

Grants are made in the following fields: archaeology, architecture (design, theory, and history), art history, art and architectural conservation, crafts, dance, film, museology, music, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, theater, and video.

Restrictions:
The Council is unable to consider proposals for personal exhibitions, individual performance tours, undergraduate study, or activities conducted by individuals in their home countries.

Sponsor: Blakemore Foundation
Deadline(s): May 15 and November 1, annually

Objectives:
Grants will be made only to tax-exempt organizations in the United States such as museums, universities and other educational or art-related institutions for programs, exhibits or publications that improve the understanding of Asian fine arts in the United States.

Restrictions:
Eligible applicants are tax-exempt organizations in the U.S. such as museums, universities and other educational or art-related institutions for programs, exhibits or publications dealing with the fine arts of Asia.

Applications and guidelines are available.

Sponsor: Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences
Deadline: Open

Objectives:
The sponsor provides nine- to 12-month residential postdoctoral fellowships are available from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In the past, fellowships have been awarded in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, political science, biology, history, economics, philosophy, psychiatry, linguistics, computer science, humanities, geography, law, education, musicology, and certain biomedical, mathematical, and statistical specialties.

Eligibility:
Typically 45-50 fellowships are awarded annually to scientists and scholars of proven accomplishment or exceptional promise. Nominations may be submitted at any time.

Sponsor: Cotton (Dr. M. Aylwin) Foundation
Deadline(s): February 28, annually

Objectives:
The sponsor invites applications for fellowship awards for studies in the archaeology, architecture, history, language and art of the Mediterranean. In this context the word "Mediterranean" has no geographical limitations. Fellowships will normally be up to one year's duration, commencing on the 1st of September following the award. 

Restrictions:
These will be awarded to persons engaged in personal academic research, normally showing a level of achievement comparable to a British or an American Ph.D  (although no formal academic qualifications will be necessary). Fellowships will not be granted for the furtherance of doctoral research.

Sponsor: Getty (J. Paul) Trust
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support for training programs integrating the history of art, science, and conservation practices to increase or augment the institution's training capabilities.

Restrictions:
Eligible applicants are nonprofit institutions that offer formal training programs integrating the history of art, science, and conservation practice. Eligible expenses may include support for visiting faculty, purchase of equipment or resource materials, and library acquisitions.

Inquiries for assistance should be in the form of a brief preliminary letter. If a project is eligible for consideration, the organization will be asked to submit a formal application and will be sent the necessary application forms.

Sponsor: Getty (J. Paul) Trust
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support for surveys that are designed to analyze and assess conservation requirements of their permanent art collections and to formulate plans for their appropriate care and preservation. A typical use of grant funds is to engage the services of consultant conservation specialists.

Restrictions:
Eligible applicants are Nonprofit institutions that have an ongoing exhibition program open to the public on a regular basis.

Inquiries for assistance should be in the form of a brief preliminary letter. If a project is eligible for consideration, the organization will be asked to submit a formal application and will be sent the necessary application forms.

Sponsor: Getty (J. Paul) Trust
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support for the conservation treatment of works of art of outstanding artistic significance that are part of a museum's permanent collection and extend beyond the proposed treatment to include a significant interdisciplinary research component. Projects that reveal new information regarding materials, manufacture, or historic context are particularly encouraged.

Conservation treatment proposals may include support for scientific examination and research as part of the project. All proposals for conservation treatment and research must include a plan to disseminate findings. Projects are strongly encouraged that incorporate training opportunities for museum staff or conservation interns.

Restrictions:
Museums and other nonprofit institutions are eligible to apply. Eligible expenses include funds to hire consultant conservation specialists or scholars, or to create a substitute position that would release staff members to undertake the proposed treatment or research. Additional expenses directly related to the project, including laboratory and materials costs, travel costs, and limited publication costs, are also eligible.

Inquiries for assistance should be in the form of a brief preliminary letter. If a project is eligible for consideration, the organization will be asked to submit a formal application and will be sent the necessary application forms.

Sponsor: Getty (J. Paul) Trust
Deadline(s): Applications must be submitted at least one year in advance of the date of publication, see website for details

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support for the publication of groups of books by different authors that have a coherent intellectual rationale, whether or not they are conceived as a formal series. The books proposed must make a significant contribution to the understanding of art and its history.

Restrictions:
Applications are accepted only for groups of books and not for individual volumes. Publication Grants support various costs related to the development, editing, design, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of either print or electronic publications but do not support authors' fees or research expenses.

Nonprofit charitable presses and, in certain circumstances, other types of publishers, are eligible to apply. Applications must be submitted at least one year in advance of the date of publication. The first step in applying for a Publication Grant is to submit a preliminary letter of inquiry to determine eligibility

Sponsor: Getty (J. Paul) Trust
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support support for the preparation and publication of scholarly databases, reference works, innovative electronic resources, and other research tools that provide critical resource materials for art-historical scholarship.

Restrictions:
Nonprofit institutions are eligible to apply. Grants are intended to support a crucial phase or portion of a larger project, not to provide long-term, ongoing support.

Inquiries for assistance should be in the form of a brief preliminary letter. If a project is eligible for consideration, the organization will be asked to submit a formal application and will be sent the necessary application forms.

Sponsor: Gottlieb (Adolph and Esther) Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
Grants are given to qualified artists whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.

Eligiblity:
An artist must be able to demonstrate a minimum involvement of ten years in a mature phase of his or her work. Artists must work in the disciplines of painting, sculpture or printmaking. The maximum amount of this grant is $10,000; an award of $4,000 is typical.

Sponsor: Graham Foundation for Adv. Studies in Fine Arts
Deadline(s): February 25 and May 5

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support of activities to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. In the past, the sponsor has supported a variety of endeavors, including innovative, thought-provoking investigations in architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and related fields of inquiry.

Restrictions:
In an effort to bridge communities and different fields of knowledge, we support a wide range of practitioners (such as architects, scholars, critics, writers, artists, curators, and educators) and organizations (such as non-profit galleries, colleges and universities, publishers, and museums). Individuals and institutions are eligible to apply. The average grant is less than $10,000-$30,000. The Graham Foundation offers two types of grants: Production and Presentation Grants to individuals and organizations and Research and Development Grants to individuals. Application guidelines are available.

Sponsor: Jerome Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support for the creation and production of new artistic works by emerging artists, and contributes to the professional advancement of those artists. The Jerome Foundation supports programs in dance, literature, media arts, music, theater, performance art, the visual arts, multidisciplinary work and arts criticism.

Guidelines are available. All requests must be in writing.

Sponsor: Kress (Samuel H.) Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The Kress Foundation offers funding for projects that relate to the presentation and conservation of European art and to the practice of art history and conservation. The general areas in which applications are considered include: programs that document, care and display European art and architecture, and develop and utilize the skills and experience of trained professionals.

Restrictions:
Eligible applicants are non-profit, United States organizations.

In general, the sponsor prefers to fund projecst that meet a specifi need, implement an innovative idea, or provide a tangible benefit to the field as a whole. The Foundation does not consider grants for living artists, films, art history programs below the pre-doctoral level, or the purchase of works of art. Endowment support is available only in special circumstances.

Application guidelines are available. Faxed applications will not be accepted.

Sponsor: Lannan Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
Areas of interest in Contemporary Visual Art include funding artists for the creation of new work, scholarly publications that foster serious discussion of contemporary art, and organizations that bring new and sometimes experimental works of art to a wide audience. Funding has been provided for exhibitions, scholarly publications, residency programs, and special projects. Literary Arts supports the creation of exceptional English-language literature and seeks to develop a wider audience for contemporary poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Areas of interest include funding organizations that support diverse writers through publication, presentation, and distribution. Funding for projects in indigenous communities supports the resolve of Native people to renew their communities through their own institutions and traditions. Funding priority is given to rural community projects that are consistent with traditional values in the areas of environmental protection and advocacy, legal rights, language revitalization, traditional culture, and education.

Sponsor: Luce (Henry) Foundation, Inc.
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor awards grants and responsive grants in the following areas:

PROJECT GRANTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION--responsive grants are sometimes made to colleges and universities outside the context of the sponsor's other programs. Often, such projects have originated as requests for the establishment of Luce Chairs.

AMERICAN ART--grants to art museums across the country have recently represented a wide range of projects in the field of American art, including support for archival work, exhibition and catalogue support, and particular aspects of a museum's permanent collection. Grants have also been provided for research and scholarship in the field. Also in this category awards have been made for efforts directed at preserving and maintaining historic churches and synagogues. An important part of the sponsor's support recently has been support for doctoral candidates working on dissertations in American art.

Restrictions:
Grants are made three times a year. Letter requests may be submitted at any time. Eligible applicants are organizations operating within the fields of sponsor interest. The sponsor does not provide funds for endowments, general operating support, or annual fund drives. No grants are made to individuals outside of specifically designated programs, such as the Luce Scholars program. Interested applicants should submit a letter addressed to the appropriate program officer. There are no special forms.

Sponsor: MacDowell Colony
Deadline(s): January 15, April 15 and September 15, annually

Objectives:
Residencies at the MacDowell Colony are offered to creative artists in the following disciplines: architecture, music composition, film/video arts, visual arts, literature, and interdisciplinary arts. The residencies are awarded for up to eight weeks with the goal of providing artists with time and space in which to create lasting works of the imagination.

Eligibility:
Artists with professional standing in their fields and emerging artists of recognized ability are eligible for residence. Artists collaborating on a project should apply individually but may submit a joint description of the intended work.

Sponser :National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: May 1 or November 1, annually

Objectives:
NEH challenge grants help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for their humanities programs and resources. Challenge grants most commonly augment or establish endowments that support humanities activities in education, public programming, scholarly research, and preservation.

Eligibility:
Awards are made to museums, public libraries, colleges, research institutions, historical societies and historic sites, public television and radio stations, universities, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and other nonprofit entities.

Challenge Grant funds may be used for materials that enhance library or museum collections, construction or renovation of facilities, equipment, and fund-raising costs (totaling no more than ten percent of grant funds). Challenge Grant funds may not be used for direct expenditures for operations or programs, recovery of indirect costs, awards or stipends for students below the graduate level, or support for projects eligible for grants from other NEH programs.

Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: September 17, 2007 for projects beginning in May 2008

Objectives:
Grants for Faculty Humanities Workshops support local and regional professional development programs for K-12 teachers and faculty at post-secondary institutions. Projects for college and university faculty members should reflect and respond to institutional priorities and initiatives. Workshops should: extend and deepen participants' knowledge of the humanities; provide faculty with the opportunity for focused reading, reflection, and discussion supporting a sustained intellectual inquiry; involve scholars from outside the institution(s) who bring appropriate expertise on the topic of the project; use effective formats and programs to engage faculty members; and advance the study and teaching of the humanities at the participating institution(s).

Eligibility:
Any U.S., nonprofit, IRS tax-exempt organization or institution is eligible. Grants are not awarded to individuals. Funds may be used to pay for visiting scholars, books and other materials, logistical support, and appropriate release time for project staff.

Sponsor :Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The Foundation‘s mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time.

Eligibility:
The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic and that do not make grants to students or fund academic study. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time.The Foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists, photographers, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers, crafts-makers or any artist whose work primarily falls into these categories.

A crucial part of the application process is based on the Committee of Selection’s review of each artist’s slides. The Foundation urges artists to send the highest quality slides of their work.

Sponser: Rubin Foundation
Deadline: Open

Objectives:
The sponser is primarily interested in supporting the inclusion of art from non-Western European cultures into the mainstream of scholarship and display. In addition, the sponser is interested in the study of the relationship between art, culture and humanity. In particular, the sponser's interest is the collection, care, preservation, study and public display of the ancient art of the Himalayas, with the related goal of exploring the relationships between this art and that of other cultures. In addition, the sponser supports research, action and other projects designed to reveal and understand barriers to the full access of all people to Americal society and the larger international community. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: access to health care, AIDS and its effects on society's institutions, the celebration of ethnic and cultural diversity which simultaneously encourages inter-group understanding, and cultural and arts programs which encourage individual and community identity.

Art related projects eligible for funding most often fall within the areas of enhancing the Foundation's web site, tibetart.org, preserving Himalayan art, supporting educational activities reaching a broad constituency, supporting Himalayan art and architecture restoration projects as well as traveling exhibits bringing Himalayan art to new audiences.

Eligibility:
Only proposals from qualified not-for-profit organizations will be considered.

Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Deadline: Open

Objectives:
The Spencer Foundation provides funding for investigations that promise to yield new knowledge about education in the United States or abroad. The research grants program accepts applications that fit within one or more of four areas of inquiry: The Relation between Education and Social Opportunity, Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Institutions; Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources; and Purposes and Values of Education. The Foundation funds research grants that range in size from smaller grants that can be completed within a year, to larger, multi-year endeavors.

Eligibility:
Principal Investigators applying for a Research Grant must be affiliated with a school district, a college or university, a research facility, or a cultural institution. The Foundation accepts proposals from institutions and/or researchers from the U.S. and internationally. Researchers must also have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field or appropriate experience in an education-related profession.

Sponsor: Wolinsky Family Foundation
Deadline: Open

Objectives:
The sponser will consider applications for support in areas of need, including, but not limited to education, health and human services, arts and culture, social welfare, and community development. Special regard will be given to Jewish-related projects or organizations, but all worthy causes will be given due cosideration.

Eligibility:
Applicants must have tax-exempt status.