Please note: SVA will match 25% of the total of any outside scholarship(s) you receive to attend SVA, up to $2,500. For questions or further information, please contact the Financial Aid office at either 212-592-2030 or fa@sva.edu.
Grant Seeking Sites
Fulbright Foreign Student Program
http://foreign.fulbrightonline.org
Americans for the Arts
http://www.artsusa.org
The Foundation Center
http://www.fdncenter.org
IdeaList.com
http://www.idealist.org
National Assembly of State Arts Associations
http://www.nasaa-arts.org
National Endowment for the Arts
http://www.arts.endow.gov
New Media for Nonprofits
http://www.fornonprofits.com
New York Foundation for the Arts
http://www.nyfa.org lists opportunities for artsist, grants, jobs in the arts and more.
“Newspaper of the Non-Profit World” and the Career Network
http://www.philanthropy.com
Loan Sources
The Leo S. Rowe Pan American Funds
http://www.oas.org/rowe/
This organization grants student loans to persons from Latin American and Caribbean countries. The loans are of a supplementary nature, without interest, repayable within a term of, at most, fifty-three months after completion of the studies or research program for which the loan is granted. Students may apply for a loan to cover expenses directly related to their studies or emergencies not covered by their principal sources of financing.
Resources for MFAPV&RM Alumni
GRANTS:
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.
Provides small grants ($500-$1500) to individual feminist women in the arts whose work in some way focuses upon women. Limited to art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
For more information: Susan Pliner, Administrator, Money for Women, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, PO Box 630125, Bronx, NY 10463.
Black Rock Arts Foundation: A Community Resource for Interactive Art
http://www.blackrockarts.org
2006 Grant Cycle opens February 14
The Black Rock Arts Foundation grants artists or artist collectives that create inter-active artworks destined for communities in the world at large. Average grant will be between $2,500 and $5,000.
Katrina Media Fellowship: Open Society Institute
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/katrina
The Katrina Media Fellowships will support dynamic print and radio journalists, photographers and documentary filmmakers to generate and improve media coverage of issues exposed by Katrina. The fellowship term is one year and is a one-time competition and will not be offered in subsequent years. OSI expects to award 12 – 15 fellowships in mid-May 2006. Fellows will receive between $15,000-$35,000. The fellowship term begins June 15, 2006. Applicants must be mid-career or veteran print or radio journalists, photographers, or documentary filmmakers with proven track records as serious media-makers. Application and supporting materials due 5PM EST on Friday, March 31, 2006.
Peter Norton Family Foundation
Monthly Grants Program favoring risk-taking contemporary arts projects and typically awards 6-8 grants per month ranging from $5000-$15000.
More Information: Peter Norton Foundation, 225 Arizona Avenue, Suite 350, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Call 310-576-7700.
Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship
http://www.aaronsiskind.org
Annually recurring each October 1st, the Aaron Siskind Foundation offers a limited number of fellowship grants of up to $5000 each, for individuals working in still photography and photography-based media.
The Berenice Abbott Prize for An Emerging Photographer
The Julia Dean Photo Workshops
http://www.juliadean.com
Winners receive a one-person exhibition at gallery.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
http://www.gf.org
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields. Not available to students.
Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project Grant
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/news/distribution_20050630
This grant is available to photographers who have completed a project focused on social justice. The goal of the grant is to present the photographer’s work in new and innovative ways for critical exposure and social change.
Jerome Foundation
http://www.jeromefdn.org
The Jerome Foundation makes grants to support the creation and production of new artistic works by emerging artists, and contributes to the professional advancement of those artists.
Creative Capital Foundation
http://www.creative-capital.org
Creative Capital, a New York City-based nonprofit organization, acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields.
American Council of Learned Societies
http://www.acls.org
The mission of the American Council of Learned Societies, as set forth in its constitution, is to “advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.” As the pre-eminent representative of humanities scholarship in America, the ACLS carries out its mission in a variety of programs across many fields of learning.
The Columbia Foundation
http://www.columbia.org
Columbia Foundation’s mission is to be a catalytic funder of work to protect and enhance the quality of life within the means of nature.
The Greenwall Foundation
http://www.greenwall.org
The Greenwall Foundation is interested in supporting New York City’s cultural life and encourages requests from local arts groups and institutions. The Foundation is particularly interested in emerging artists and the development of new artistic work.
The Aftermath Project
http://www.theaftermathproject.org/
The Aftermath Project holds a yearly grant competition open to working photographers worldwide covering the aftermath of conflict. The grant application usually goes online in mid-August, and the application deadline is in early November. Specifics are on the application form.
CONTESTS
The AAF Prize for Fine Arts
http://www.aaf-online.org
Each year, The AAF Prize for Fine Arts (formerly The Daisy Soros Prize and The Hayward Prize) offers US fine arts graduate students, or those who have completed their graduate studies within the past two years, the opportunity to study at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg in Austria. The AAF Prize for Fine Arts is funded through the generosity of AAF trustee Gerhard Seebacher and his wife Angelika. The fellowship covers Summer Academy tuition, up to $1,000 of travel reimbursement, accommodation in Summer Academy’s approved student housing, and a small pocket money stipend.
Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/bp/index.html
This biennial prize offers publication of a book of photography, a $3,000 award, and inclusion in a traveling exhibition of prizewinners. Duke University Press will publish the book in association with CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. The prize, offered in collaboration with The Honickman Foundation, is open to American citizens of any age who have yet to publish a book-length work.
25 Under 25: New American Photographers
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/books/25transitions.html
Every five years, CDS publishes a collection of work showcasing the talent of twenty-five of America’s most promising photographers, twenty-five years old and younger. This new volume of 25 UNDER 25 will feature photographs that explore the theme “transitions”: what it means to be in-between, in flux, at odds, in a new state of being – personally, locally, nationally, or internationally.
SF Camerawork exhibitions
http://www.sfcamerawork.org/index.html
Organizes 6-8 photographic exhibitions annually. Submit slides, resume, artist’s statement; turnaround is usually 3-6 months.
The Space Program
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
http://www.sharpeartfdn.org
Visual artists 21 and over are invited to submit proposals for free Studio Spaces. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. Residents, and not in school at the time of residency. Emerging, mid-career and older artists are encouraged to apply. No stipend or equipment provided. Juried by a panel of artists.
Annual National Photography Competition
fotofoto gallery (Huntington NY)
fotofoto gallery Annual National Photo Competition. Fee: $40. All winning entries will be exhibited at fotofoto, with a cash prize for 1st place.
College Video Contest: The Christophers
http://www.christophers.org/contests.html
This competition challenges students to interpret the theme, “One Person Can Make a Difference,” in a short film of five minutes or less. Over $6,000 in cash prizes will be awarded, including a first prize of $3,000. The top winners will also have their work featured on a special edition of the internationally syndicated television program Christopher Closeup. Open to all currently enrolled students in graduate or undergraduate programs at colleges or universities.
PDN Student Photo Contest
http://pdnedu.blogs.com/pdnedu/pdneducontest.html
Winners and selected runners up will be featured in the spring issue of PDNedu, PDNedu.com and pdnonline.Com. All Submissions must be made by students currently in photography classes in college or high school. Students will not be limited in the number of images they send.
PDN Photo Annual
http://www.pdnonline.com
Submit work in nine category options, for four separate awards.
Photo Review International Photography Competition
http://www.photoreview.org/compete.htm
The Photo Review’s is “a competition with a difference” that enables thousands of people across the country to see the accepted work in the competition issue. The prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the photography gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Griffin Museum of Photography
http://www.griffinmuseum.org
The Leica European Publisher’s Award for Photography
http://www.dewilewispublishing.com/EUROAWARD
Fujifilm Student Contests
http://www.studentphoto.com
Getty Image Grants for Editorial Photographers
http://www.gettyimages.com
