Grants, Awards & Competitions
Art Announcements
Art announcements offers a flexible resource for all visual artists to give them project timelines on art-related events on an international scale. Through a newsletter for a low subscription fee artists (addressing emerging as well as established artists) are provided with eligibility requirements, application deadlines and selection processes.
The subscriber gains access to information about open calls, individual and group thematic exhibitions, biennials, triennials, media art festivals, visual art conferences, film/video festivals, grants programs, artist-in-residence programs, site-specific projects etc.
Visual artists are provided with information such as free slide list registry programs, art center and cooperative gallery ongoing exhibition proposal calls, contemporary art centers' general submission guidelines, or museums ongoing portfolio reviews. [Link]
Art Deadlines List
Monthly newsletter with info and deadlines for juried exhibitions, competitions, residencies, fellowships, funding and other opportunities. [Link]
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Contest
$1,000 prize for the best portfolio; see site for details. While you are there, check out the high-quality list of resource links and a list of AP bureaus [Link]
First Book Prize in Photography
The Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography is a biennial prize of $3,000 in grant money, inclusion in a traveling exhibition, and most importantly, the publication of a book of photography to be published by Duke University Press in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. [Link]
Gordon Parks Competition
Awards $1,000, $500, $250 annually to photographers whose images reflect variations on the themes of social injustice, the suffering of others, and family values. Documentary and news photography. Log on for deadlines, to view past winners, and to check the traveling exhibit schedule for a venue near you. [Link]
International Fund for Documentary Photography
Administered by Fifty Crows. Each year, the Photo Fund awards grants to working photographers in six regions of the world: North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia/Pacific, Middle East/Central Asia, and Europe. Photographers compete within their own region of passport. Awards are given to help photographers to complete in-depth essays on topics of political, social, environmental or humanitarian concern. Participants must be at least one year into a multi-year project. Grants are not awarded for start-up projects, student projects or completed projects that are looking for funding for exhibitions or publication. [Link]
Joyce Elaine Grant
The annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photographic Exhibition provides a solo exhibition at the Texas Women's University, website publication and $500 cash award. Exhibition proceeds help fund an endowment that provides scholarships for future graduate students in the Department of Visual Arts. The 2004 Juror is Alison Devine Nordstrom, Curator of Photography at the George Eastman House of International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY. Deadline November 8, 2004 [Link]
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
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New Mexico Council on Photography
The New Mexico Council on Photography nourishes photography at its sources, encouraging photographers, projects and publications, and the museums that house wonderful collections. They offer a four grants for photographers and non-profit organizations in New Mexico. [Link]
The Aaron Siskind Individual Photographers Fellowship grants
Annual awards of up to $5,000. No restrictions on the subject matter or the photographic process; must be a citizen of the United States. Detailed application procedures are available online in the IPF section of the site. [Link]
The Alexia Foundation for World Peace Annual Photography Contest
$15,000 for the production of a proposed project. Judges look for entries that conceive concise, focused, meaningful story proposals. If you have received a grant or award exceeding $1,000 in the previous year, you are not eligible. [Link]
The Alicia Patterson Foundation Reporter
One-year grants to working photojournalists to pursue independent projects. Photos and text by current grant fellows are exhibited online as part of the APF Reporter, the organization's quarterly magazine. [Link]
The Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize
Sponsored by the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, this annual $10,000 award promotes the collaboration between a writer and a photographer in the formative or fieldwork stages of a documentary project. Collaborative submissions on any subject are welcome. [Link]
The Foundation Center
An information clearinghouse that collects, organizes, analyzes and documents information on foundations and corporate giving. Read: who gives away money, to whom, and how you might go about getting some. They issue more than 60 publications a year, including foundation directors, corporate grant makers, grants lists, and information on subjects relating to fundraising. If you want to learn how to write a grant proposal, how to approach people for money, or locate resources in your neck of the woods--well, the Foundation Center knows it all. Plus, they offer training, seminars, and free workshops.
They have five libraries--New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Cleveland, and San Francisco--where you can stop in personally, but their web site features the User-Friendly Guide to Funding Research & Resources, an online library, an electronic reference desk, will help you locate foundations in your home state. [Link]
The Guggenheim Foundation
Need we say more? except to wish you luck with the paperwork. [Link]
