Selwa Abd, aka Bergsonist, drops off this month's grant opportunities for creatives. Apply apply apply!
‘Earshot’, is a monthly series where contributor Selwa Abd points towards grant opportunities for musicians/artists, provides insight into the process of seeking opportunities and more.
Pick Up The Flow is an online resource and community, based in NYC, created and operated by musician and designer Selwa Abd aka Bergsonist. In a new monthly series called ‘Earshot’, we invite Selwa to point towards grant opportunities for musicians/artists, provide insight into the process of seeking opportunities, plus profiling members from the PUTF community with the intent of educating you on how to find financial/communal support for your sound and music projects.
Music used is Bergsonist's "Trust The Current"
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Home Energy Assistance Program | Access NYC
Deadline: March 15th, 2022
Location: New York City
HEAP helps low-income households meet the cost of heating their homes. The benefit can pay for fuel, your utility source, and heating equipment replacement and repairs. The benefit is paid either directly to the heating vendor or utility company.
Fellowship 22-24 | Vera List Center
Deadline: March 13th, 2022
Location: New York City
Grant: $15K
The Vera List Center Fellowship is part-time and non-residential and extends over two years. The fellowship carries a US$15,000 research stipend as well as extensive curatorial and professional development services to support the fellowship project from conception to production and presentation. Journalists, scholars, activists, visual and performing artists, critics, public intellectuals, curators, and cultural practitioners working in any field where they engage art and politics are encouraged to apply.
Fellows are not required to spend two years in New York.
Apply: https://theveralistcenter.submittable.com/submit/212159/2022-2024-vera-list-center-fellowship
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship | Jerome Foundation
Deadline: May 4th, 2022
Location: New York City + Minnesota
Grant: $50K
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships support Minnesota and New York City-based artists across 8 artistic fields who generate new work that takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with or re-imagining conventional artistic forms.
This Fellowship supports artists who embrace their roles as part of a larger community of artists and citizens, and consciously work with a sense of service, whether aesthetic, social or both. Support is directed to artists who are at an early point in their careers in creating such work, generally in their 2nd–10th year as a generative artist.
Fellows receive $50,000 over two consecutive years ($25,000/year).
The Fellowships support a diverse range of early career artists, including but not limited to those of diverse cultures, races, ethnicities, genders, gender expressions, sexual identities, class, physical and mental abilities, generations, religions, countries of origin, languages and immigration statuses.
Artists apply to be reviewed by a panel in one of these artistic fields:
- Dance
- Film, Video and Digital Production
- Literature
- Music
- Theater/Performance/Spoken Word
- Visual Arts
- Technology Centered Arts (new this application cycle)
- Combined Artistic Fields (new this application cycle)
Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions | Creative Capital x Hewlett Foundation
Deadline: March 8th, 2022
Location: Bay Area
Grant: $150K
The Hewlett 50 Arts commissions initiative seeks applications from non-profits organizations in the Bay Area partnering with artists for new performance-based projects that center the use of emerging media arts technologies. They invite projects that engage and challenge the bounds of performance—such as dance, theater, music, sound, social practice, movement-based, and time-based work—through the use of media, including but not limited to electronic, computational, algorithmic, robotic, software, sonic, digital, data, cyber, web, immersive, XR, virtual, crypto, and AI.
Applicants can be based anywhere in the world must be but in partnership with a non-profit organization based in the Bay Area.
Apply: https://creative-capital.org/creative-capital-x-hewlett-foundation-hewlett-50-arts-commissions/
Armstrong Now 2022 Artist-In-Residence| Louis Armstrong House Museum
Deadline: March 15th, 2022
Location: New York State
Grant: $10K
The ARMSTRONG NOW 2022 Artist-in-Residence program contextualizes Louis Armstrong’s contributions within historical and 21st Century constellations of Black making, thinking, and vitality. The residency provides emerging artists with a platform to create new work inspired by the vast collection of artifacts and documents in the Armstrong Archives.
In 2022, two residencies will be awarded to multidisciplinary artistic collaborations that draw upon Armstrong’s legacy, using the unique resources of his archives to inform new works that place Armstrong within a contemporary context.
Project proposals should be multidisciplinary, meaning that they should incorporate one or more of the following: music, dance, spoken word, and other visual or performing arts.
Individual artists and artistic collaboratives are encouraged to apply. A collaborative application should be submitted by one member on behalf of the group. That member will be the primary contact for the collaborative.
Two applicants will each receive a one-time $10,000 award.
The Franklin Furnace Fund
Deadline: April 1st, 2022
Location: Worldwide
Grant: $2-10K
Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City.
Fund grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York City. Full-time students are ineligible.
BRICLAB: Performing Arts Residency
Deadline: March 10th, 2022
Location: New York City
Grant” $2.5K
The BRIClab: Performing Arts residency track is for New York City-based performing artists to explore and expand the possibilities of their work in music, dance, theater, and multidisciplinary performance.
Residency Benefits:
- A 12-day residency in the BRIC House Artist Studio.
- A stipend of $2500.
- Tech support for projects.
- Support from residency and production staff to make residency experience as accessible as possible.
- A mentor with industry experience relevant to your project.
- A work-in-process sharing in the Artist Studio at BRIC House.
2022 Open Call: LIFT/Early Career Support For Native Artists | Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
Deadline: March 16th, 2022
Location: United States
Grant: $10K
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is now accepting applications for the LIFT–Early Career Support for Native Artists program, a one-year award and early career support program for emerging Native artists to develop and realize new projects. The program’s focus is to provide financial support and professional development to artists whose work aims to uplift communities and advance positive social change.
Eligible applicants must be individual Native artists working in dance/choreography, fiction/poetry writing, film/video, multi-disciplinary arts, music, performance art, theater and screenplay writing, traditional arts, or 2D + 3D visual arts. Artist applicants must be an enrolled member or citizen of a federally-recognized or state-recognized American Indian tribe or Alaska Native corporation, or of Native Hawaiian ancestry.
LIFT is a monetary award of $10,000 for a proposed project with a required minimum of $3,000 earmarked for the artist’s benefit and wellbeing. Up to twenty artists will be selected to receive LIFT awards.
Artist Employment Program | Creatives Rebuild New York
Deadline: March 25th, 2022
Location: New York State
Grant: $65K/Year
Creatives Rebuild New York’s (CRNY) Artist Employment Program (AEP) will fund employment for up to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers (artists) in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State for two years. Participating artists will receive a salary of $65,000 per year, plus benefits, with dedicated time to focus on their practice. Participating organizations will receive funds that range between $25,000 and $100,000 per year to support artists’ employment.
Guaranteed Income For Artists | Creatives Rebuild New York
Deadline: March 25th, 2022
Location: New York State
Grant: $1K/Month
CRNY’s Guaranteed Income for Artists program will provide regular, no-strings-attached cash payments for 2,400 artists who have financial need. Each artist will receive $1,000 per month for 18 consecutive months.
MAXmachina Artist Residency | Media Art Xploration
Deadline: March 15th, 2022
Location: Worldwide
Grant: $7.5K
Media Art Xploration (MAX) invites artist submissions to MAXmachina, an incubator for their live and interactive arts programming.
Artists, artist-engineers, and artist-scientist teams are invited to submit proposals for live and interactive works-in-progress that could reach completion with an 18-month residency. MAX is looking for projects that utilize listening, embodied knowledge, and new research around sensory understanding. In particular, they are interested in projects exploring the interplay between human actions, ecosystems, and machine-species collaborations. Selected works will be presented MAXlive 2024, an interdisciplinary arts festival, and need to be complete by January 2024.
Media Art Xploration invites artists to submit proposals for works in dance, theater, music, experimental performance, experience design, and media arts. Proposed works must include a live element and explore themes related to our 2022-24 focus. Past works have included interactive installations, mixed reality performance, art works implementing scientific research, and more analogue pieces interrogating the promise and peril of our increasingly technologized world.
Climate In Crisis Residencies | A Studio In The Woods
Deadline: March 10th, 2022
Location: New Orleans
Grant: $3K
Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to face the severity of the climate crisis and be agents of change to guide our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future.
Rising Residencies will provide artists with time, space, scholarship and staff support to foster critical thinking and creation of new works. The call is open to artists of all disciplines who have demonstrated an established dialogue with environmental and culturally related issues and a commitment to seeking and plumbing new depths.
Residencies are 6 weeks and will take place between September 2022 and May 2023.
Local, national, and international visual, musician/composing, performance, literary, new media, and interdisciplinary artists are eligible to apply. Both established and emerging artists may apply, but a dedicated practice and demonstrated commitment to public engagement are expected. Artists of color are encouraged to apply and they are particularly interested in receiving applications from Indigenous artists. Students enrolled in degree-seeking programs are not eligible. Collaborative teams of up to two artists can be in residence.
Recipients will be provided $3000 as a stipend and $2000 towards materials. Artists will also have the opportunity to work with an external evaluator/ally. Depending on the needs of the project, they may be able to assist artists in accessing Tulane University faculty consultants or research collections. They provide full room and board including food, utilities for living and studio space to selected residents. Residents are expected to cover personal living expenses, additional materials and supplies, and any other expenses relating to the cost of producing work incurred while in the program. Travel and shipping expenses to and from A Studio in the Woods for the residency are also the responsibility of the artist.
Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat | The ORa Lerman Charitable Trust
Deadline: March 10th, 2022
Location: Pennsylvania, U.S.
Grant: $500
Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat in Laceyville, PA, offers visual artists, writers, composers, and instrumentalists a quiet country setting for three week residencies to focus on their creative endeavors. Spaces are available from mid-May to mid-September. Soaring Gardens has no fees, makes no demands, and there are no intrusions from the administration—only the studios, gardens, deer, other creatures, and time.
The residency is located in a farmhouse with an adjacent studio building and in a small nearby church. At any time, there are only a few artists in residence—usually three or four at the farmhouse and two at the church. Since residents share the living spaces, artists are encouraged to apply as a group (a combination of artistic disciplines is fine), although applications from individuals are also welcome.
Residents need a car to get to Soaring Gardens and to use while they are in residence. There is no public transportation close by. Artists are expected to shop, cook, and clean up after themselves; a gardener maintains the grounds. As the purpose of the residency is to provide time for undisturbed work, no children, pets, or overnight visitors are permitted.
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