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21.06.2017
Sommet Mondial du Design de Montréal (Canada) > Appel
L’Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse, en collaboration avec le Sommet Mondial du Design, organise et soutient financièrement le déplacement d’une délégation de 30 étudiants et professionnels français des domaines de l’architecture, du design et de l’urbanisme pour participer au Sommet Mondial du Design du 16 au 22 octobre 2017 à Montréal. Date limite: 15 juillet 2017.
31.05.2017
FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) > Étant donnés - Appel à candidatures / Call for applications
L'appel à candidatures 2017 pour Étant donnés - le Fonds franco-américain pour l'art contemporain - est maintenant ouvert. Les projets devant être mis en œuvre entre novembre 2017 et juin 2018 seront éligibles. Cette nouvelle saison comprend trois programmes de subventions différents: Subventions aux projets artistiques, bourses curatoriales, Résidences Etants Donnés. Date limite: 23 août 2017. The call is also available in English.
18.05.2017
Open Society Foundations > Civil Society Leadership Awards
The Civil Society Leadership Awards (CSLA) provides fully-funded scholarships for master’s degree study to individuals who clearly demonstrate academic and professional excellence and a deep commitment to leading positive social change in their communities. The awards are available to citizens of the following countries: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Laos, Libya, Myanmar/Burma, Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Deadline: 15 July 2017.
17.04.2017
Ellen Stewart International Award
The Ellen Stewart International Award will be presented to an individual artist or group of artists who work together or a theatre organization that demonstrates success in promoting social change and youth engagement through their theatre practice. Deadline: 31 August 2017.
14.03.2017
Hermès Foundation > "New Settings" programme #8
This programme is devoted to the performing arts and is directed both to live performance artists (of all disciplines) and to visual artists who wish to create for the stage. Indeed, collaborations between performing artists and visual artists are encouraged. It concerns hybrid performances with a predominant visual arts dimension, scheduled to be premiered between January and December 2018. Deadline: 1 July 2017.
04.03.2017
Vermont Studio Centre > Displaced Artist Fund (USA)
Vermont Studio Center’s Displaced Artists Fund exists to assist visual artists and writers displaced due to natural disasters, climate change, or political turmoil or threat by providing residencies in a safe and supportive community of creative peers. Applications on a rolling basis.
29.05.2015
Institute of International Education (USA) > New programme to assist threatened artists
The Institute of International Education announced on 26 May the launch of a programme to save the lives and work of artists who face persecution in their home countries. The new Artist Protection Fund (APF), a three-year pilot programme supported by a $2.79 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will make life-saving fellowship grants to threatened artists from any field of artistic endeavor, and place them at host universities and arts centers in countries where they can safely continue their work and plan for their future.
27.04.2015
World Cultures Connect, a new international networking platform for the cultural and creative sectors
World Cultures Connect is an online meeting place for cultural managers and creative or artistic professionals to promote their work and services, discover and connect with new partners, tools and resources to support their international work. This newly launched project allows any individual or organisation to create a free profile to join a community of international artists and organisations talking about artistic exchange, global mobility and new opportunities. Join today and start connecting!
19.02.2015
UN post-2015 development agenda : final round of talks: Take action!
Check the latest contribution on targets and indicators from the collective of global networks leading the “Future we wants include culture” campaign. You can assist the collective of global networks by ensuring that the text is being sent to your country’s national negotiation team leaders and share examples of good practices linked to the proposed cultural indicators.
27.10.2014
Art Basel: Crowdfunding platform for visual art projects
Art Basel has launched an exciting new digital initiative in partnership with Kickstarter, the funding platform for creative projects. Designed specifically for non-profit visual arts organizations from all over the world, the initiative will offer visibility and support for a wide variety of artistic projects, selected by an independent jury. Discover the projects and propose yours!
28.09.2014
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc. grants
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time. There are no deadlines.
14.07.2014
The Awesome Foundation grants
The Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators; it is "a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance". Projects have included efforts in a wide range of areas including technology, arts, social good, and beyond. Have an awesome idea? Apply!
01.03.2014
Institute of International Education (IIE), USA - Award to rescue scholars in the field of arts
Established with gifts from IIE Trustees Robert L. Dilenschneider and Mark A. Angelson, the Janet Hennessey Dilenschneider Scholar Rescue Award in the Arts will provide life-saving fellowships to 10 threatened scholars in fields such as painting, dance, music, architecture, and the performing arts.
27.01.2014
Light Work (Syracuse, New York, USA) > Call for residencies
Each year Light Work invites 12-15 artists to participate in its residency program, including one artist co-sponsored by Autograph ABP and one artist in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP). Artists selected for the residency program are invited to live in Syracuse for one month. Ongoing deadline for applications.
04.12.2013
National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange (USA) & Lives Without Limits campaign
Established in 1995, the National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange (NCDE) is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and administered by Mobility International USA (MIUSA). Learn more about it and ECA's Lives Without Limits campaign.