Grant Opportunities for Artists
Opportunities from various arts funders and grant programs will be listed here and updated throughout the year. For grant eligibility and guidelines, please refer to the individual websites below and/or contact them directly.
Flushing Town Hall Grants
Our 2026 Grant Cycle is Open!
Applications are due on Thursday, December 18th at 11:59 PM.
Guidelines, Deadlines, and More Info
Grants & Resources (various disciplines)
- Artwork Archive - Guide to the Best Artist Opportunities in 2024
- BANFF Centre for Arts & Creativity | Indigenous Arts Creation Lab, Residencies, Writers' Retreats
- Café Royal Cultural Foundation | Individual Grants
- Candid | Funding for Individual Artists
- Colossal | Opportunities
- Creative Capital | Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact
- Creative Capital | Artist Opportunities
- Creative Capital | Workshop Calendar
- Creatives Rebuild New York
- The David Prize
- First Peoples’ Fund | Fellowships, Grants, Space
- The Field | Grant opportunities
- Folger Institute Artist Research Fellowship
- Fractured Atlas | Grant Opportunities
- Humanities NY | Recurring Grants
- Huntington Arts Council | Artist Opportunities
- Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) | Grants & Open Calls
- Jerome Foundation
- The Latinx Project at NYU | Opportunities
- Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation | LIFT - Early Career Support for Native Artists
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation | Funding Opportunities
- NDN Foundation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, communities, and nations
- New York Media Arts Map | Funding Opportunities
- NYFA/NYSCA Artists with Disabilities Grant
- NYFA | Canadian Women Artists' Award
- NYFA | Grants listings
- NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs | Artist Resources
- NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs | Cultural Development Fund
- NYSCA | Funding Opportunities
- Puffin Foundation
- Redline Art | Artist Grants
- Reis Studios | Artist Grants
- Right of Return | USA Fellowship
- South Arts | Artist and Organization Grants
- Thoma Foundation | Art of the Spanish Americas Fellowships & Awards
- Women Arts | Funding Resources
- YoungArts | Grants & Awards
Emergency Grants
- Adolf & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts | Emergency Grant
- Jazz Foundations’ Emergency Musicians' Fund
- Musician Foundation Emergency Fund
- The Haven Foundation
- Rauschenberg Emergency Medical Grants
- Word Press Photo | Supporting visual journalism through the COVID-19 crisis
Dance
- Dance USA | Funding Opportunities
- ICONS | Funding for Choreographers
- Asian American Arts Alliance | Jadin Wong Fellowship
- New England Dance Fund
- NYSCA | Dance Program
- Rauschenberg/NYFA | Dancer Emergency Grants
Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary
International
- Asian Cultural Council | Fellowship & Grants
- Res Artist Residencies
- Residency Unlimited
- Rivet | Open Calls
- DutchCulture | TransArtists | Residency Listings
Literary Arts / Writing
- Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
- Center for Book Arts | Book Artist-in-Residence
- Fondation Jan Michalski | Writers Residency
- Funds for Writers | Grants
- Literary Grants for Individuals | WomenArts
- NEA | Translation Projects
- Poets & Writers | Grants
- Velvetpark Writers' Residency
Media / New Media / Film
- Catapult Film Fund
- CultureHub
- Doc Society: Resources
- DocProject: Legal Services for Independent Filmmakers
- EnFoco Media Arts Fund: Work in Progress Initiative 2023
- Human Impacts Institute | Opportunities
- JCAL 10 Minute Film Festival
- Kickstarter Forward Funds
- Lynn Shelton “Of A Certain Age” Grant
- NewFest | New Voices Filmmaker Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Filmmakers
- Sundance Inclusion Resource Map
- Third World Newsreel | Grants and General Resources for Filmmakers
- Wave Farm | Grants and Services
Music
- ASCAP Foundation
- Associated Chamber Music Players
- Association of Performing Arts Professionals | Young Performers Career Advancement
- Chamber Music America | Grants & Awards
- New Music USA | Open Grants
- New Music USA | New Music Creator Development Fund
- Save the Music | Grants for Music Education
- Sweet Relief Musicians’ Fund
Performance Art
Photography
- Aperture Portfolio Prize
- Baxter Street Camera Club of NY
- EnFoco Photogrophy Fellowship
- Head On Photo Awards
- Lens Scratch | Grants for Photographers
- Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers
Residencies
- Abrons Arts Center | Residencies
- Corning Museum of Glass Residencies
- Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (EMAR) by Collar Works
- Green Box Arts | Residencies
- Interlude Artist Residency
- LMCC | Arts Center Residency
- National Parts Arts Foundation
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Residency at ISCP
- Queens Museum | In Situ Artist Fellowship
- Res Artist Residencies
- Rivet | Residency Listings
- SPACE on Ryder Farm | Residency Programs
- UAFS Art & Design Artist in Residence Program
- Wave Farm Residency Program
- Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild | Artist Residencies
Social Practice
- Asian Women Giving Circle
- Awesome Foundation
- Citizens' Committee for New York City | Community Leaders Grant
- Culture Push | Fellowship for Utopian Practice
- Foundation for Arts Initiatives
- The Laundromat Project
- Mid-America Arts Alliance | Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant
- More Art | Engaging Artists Fellowship
- Teaching Artist Project
Theater
- American Theater Wing | Grants
- A.R.T/New York | Grants
- Entertainment Community Fund | Services & Programs
- Public Theater | Grants & Resources
- Theater Communications Group | Grant listings
Visual Arts
- Art in the Parks: Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park Grant 2024 Application
- Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
- Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
- Hopper Prize
- The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant
- MTA Arts & Design | Open Calls
- Noguchi Open Call for Artist Banners
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation
- Prospect Art | New Work Grant
- Queer | Art: The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
- Virginia Groot Foundation
- Women's Studio Workshop
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Email Melissa Velasquez, Manager of Arts Services: mvelasquez@flushingtownhall.org
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Last updated: January 2025