Last Updated on August 24, 2023 by Hannah Stevens
Visual Arts are art forms referring to painting, drawing, videography, photography, filmmaking, sculpture, crafts, and architecture. These kinds of art forms need perfection, effort, and hard work. They don’t easily come well-structured. Artists need a financial foundation to start working on their artworks and just buying the necessary tools and equipment can be too expensive. Most of the time, artists who are just beginning to make a name for themselves can be too difficult. You see, sometimes people neglect artworks. They don’t give importance to the beauty of it, or even the value. Nowadays, it’s hard to create artworks that would get the acknowledgment they need. However, the government and nonprofit organizations are changing that. They provide grants that come in the form of financial assistance to give to qualified applicants. These grants will help them fund their artwork materials, convention fees, rent a theatre, etc. The first step to receive grants is, of course, artists need to inquire in their local agencies or government websites and apply there for a grant.
What are the grants offered for visual artists?
Grants are usually funded by the government or select private and nonprofit organizations to help low-income individuals make their lives better. Grants, for one thing, have also different objectives that are subjected to be given to certain and select applicants that applied. There are grants intended for house rental, dental implants, etc. As for visual artists, some grants would benefit them to improve their career in visual arts. The funds or equipment or tools they will receive from these grants will go directly to them as a means to fund whatever it is they’re doing concerning visual arts.
Furthermore, the following list contains the grants offered for visual artists:
- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE – They provide all-time support to artists worldwide. Qualified applicants will be given a studio for an artist to live in for three months and financial assistance.
- Creative Capital – They offer financial support to artists who are leaning their careers into these five fields: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Literature, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts.
- The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Inc. – They offer assistance to professional artists who are seeking to discover and expand their knowledge in arts, and also explore technologies available today. Qualified applicants will be allowed to work with unique materials and technologies.
- Black Rock Arts Foundation – They advertise the work of artists and are seeking to have collaborative work with various artists to empower individuals to produce innovative research in relation to public art. Grant money ranges from $2000 to $6000.
- Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design – Thye actively encourage research, scholarship, and professional development, they wish to expand the importance of craft. The Center’s initiatives aim to support the best examples of study and practice in the field, and it funds a variety of grant types, as well as fellowships and museum internships.
- Atlantic Center for the Arts – Many initiatives for artists of all ages and professional levels are organized and funded by ACA, including three residency programs (one for young authors), different community projects, and internships.
- Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. – This has been promoting works of poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, mixed-genre category of visual arts. The good thing about this is they are promoting the work of women and they are given grant money of at least $500 to $1,500.
- Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA – They promote artists hailed locally, nationally, and internationally with different art fields. From visual artists to architects to dancers to musicians to writers. The diverse community they’re promoting will enable them to build cultural and social perspectives.
- Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation – They give emergency assistance to painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have a history of working at least 10 years in the art field. The eligibility includes low-income artists who have experienced an emergency occurrence with a grant f over $5,000 to $15,000.
- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. – They intended to help low-income artists who have just begun doing professional work related to art. The grants they may get from the foundation may be used professionally or personally.
Conclusion
Making a living as an artist can be daunting and challenging. You’re simultaneously worrying over what kind of color do this suits the background or what kind of angle the camera should be, and how much you are going to pay for your rent, art materials, transportation fees, food, water, electricity, etc. Fortunately, the federal government and nonprofit organizations have established various grants that will help visual artists pay their expenses while working on their artworks. It will tremendously ease their burdens of paying the necessary fees to make a reputation in the art industry.
