Category: External

Kubota Hometown Proud Grant Program

Deadline: April 15, 2022 12:00 am

Source: Kubota Tractor Corporation

Description: The Kubota Tractor Corporation has announced the launch of its second annual Hometown Proud grant program. This year, in honor of its 50th anniversary in the United States, Kubota will award five grants of $100,000 each to revitalize or refresh community spaces. Also new this year, each of the five grant winners will have a chance at an additional $100,000 Kubota Community Choice Award selected by public vote this summer. Each project application can be as diverse and imaginative as the community itself; examples include cultivating a community garden, creating a new playground area, beautifying a community park, adding landscaping to a town square or open space, or modernizing a fairground or rodeo arena. Applications will be judged based on criteria including how they demonstrate community need for the revitalization project, how the community will benefit long-term from the completion of the project, and how Kubota equipment might be used to complete the renovation project.

Award: $100,000 with the potential of an additional $100,000 Kubota Community Choice Award

Eligibility: Applicants must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or a city, town, or other municipality

Deadline: April 15, 2022

All Disciplines External Grant

Wild Futures – 2023 Creative Capital Grants

Deadline: April 1, 2022 1:00 pm

Source: Creative Capital

Description: The theme for Creative Capital’s 2023/2024 grant cycle is “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact.” Artists are invited to propose experimental, risk-taking projects which push boundaries formally and thematically, and/or venture into wild, never-before-seen concepts and future universes real or imagined. Ultimately, Creative Capital seeks proposals for groundbreaking new work–including but not limited to work that attends to the many relationships between social, economic, and environmental justice, and advances the global dialogue around critical issues impacting the sustainability of artists, our communities, our planet, and beyond. For 2023, 50 awards will be granted in the performing arts, technology, and literature. For 2024, 50 awards will be granted in the visual arts (including architecture and design) and moving image/film. See website for more info.

Award: Up to $50,000 and advisory services

Eligibility: Applicants must be working artists with at least 5 years of professional artistic practice; a U.S. citizen, permanent legal resident, or O-1 visa holder; and at least 25 years old. Applicants may not be enrolled in a degree granting program; may not apply to the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant program in the same year; may not be a previous recipient of a Creative Capital Award; and may not be an applicant or collaborator on more than one proposed project per year.

Deadline: For 2023 cycle, LOI due by 4 pm ET, April 1, 2022

All Disciplines External Grant

Build a World of Play Challenge

Deadline: May 17, 2022 2:00 pm

Source: LEGO Foundation

Description: The Build a World of Play Challenge is looking for solutions to give children the brightest start—bold, transformational ideas that focus on young children’s wellbeing and holistic development, while addressing global social issues. Grant-funded ideas will be impactful, feasible, community-centered, and sustainable. See website for more details.

Award: Up to DKK 200 million

Eligibility: Open to organizations.

Deadlines: Registration deadline – 4 pm CT, April 7, 2022; application deadline – 4 pm CT, May 17, 2022

Architecture Design External Grant Heritage Conservation History / Theory Landscape Architecture Urbanism

Humanities Initiatives at Colleges & Universities

Deadline: May 9, 2022 12:00 am

Source: National Endowment for the Humanities

Description: Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Projects must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from such areas of study in the humanities as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills. NEH welcomes applications for projects that are modest in scope, duration, and budget, as well as applications for expansive, long-term projects.

Award: Up to $150,000

Eligibility: Open to organizations

Deadline: May 9, 2022

External Fellowship History / Theory Landscape Architecture

Stacy Lloyd III Fellowship for Bibliographic Study

Deadline: March 10, 2022 8:59 pm

Source: Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Description: Awarded to one outstanding early-career scholar working in some area related to the history, art, and culture of plants, gardens and landscapes. The fellowship will be granted to an exceptional researcher who is developing a new body of research that would especially benefit from access to Oak Spring’s library. The award recipient will spend 2-8 weeks at Oak Spring where they will be able to meet with staff; explore the 700-acre landscape, the foundation’s efforts in sustainable land management, and the rare book library that holds over 19,000 objects including many examples of botanical art. Fellow will have time and space to work independently on their own projects during stay. The only requirement will be to give one 45-minute presentation with time for questions to Oak Spring Staff and any other fellows or residents on site.

Award: $10,000 grant and two-to-eight-week stay at Oak Spring

Eligibility: Eligible applicants must be early-career researchers completing a terminal degree, or who have completed a terminal degree within the past five years. The selected early-career researcher must be self-directed and able to work independently while on site. Applicants are expected to show exceptional promise with an ability to state how use of Oak Spring’s library will contribute to their research objectives, exceptional promise, good communication skills and excellence in what they have accomplished or plan to accomplish.

Deadline: 11:59 pm EST, May 26, 2022

Architecture Design External Fellowship Landscape Architecture

Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence

Deadline: May 26, 2022 8:59 pm

Source: Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Description: Awarded to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This fellowship will be granted to an exceptional artist who shows remarkable promise to contribute to a deeper understanding of the natural world and humankind’s place in it. The award recipient will spend 2-8 weeks at Oak Spring where they will be able to meet with staff; explore the 700-acre landscape, the foundation’s efforts in sustainable land management, and the rare book library that holds over 19,000 objects including many examples of botanical art. Fellow will have time and space to work independently on their own projects during stay. The only requirement will be to give one 20-30 minute presentation with time for questions to Oak Spring Staff and any other fellows or residents on site.

Award: $10,000 grant and two-to-eight-week stay at Oak Spring

Eligibility: Eligible applicants must be early-career artists (visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians) not enrolled in an undergraduate degree program in 2023. Eligible applicants will have some recognition in the form of exhibitions, commissions, performances, grant awards, residencies, fellowships and/or publications.

Deadline: 11:59 pm EST, May 26, 2022

External History / Theory Landscape Architecture Residency

Oak Spring Interdisciplinary Residencies

Deadline: May 26, 2022 8:59 pm

Source: Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Description: In 2022, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation will host five-week and two-week interdisciplinary residencies in support of artists, conservationist practitioners, researchers, scholars, scientists or writers who are pursuing work inspired by plants, gardens, and landscapes. The goal of this program is to provide individuals with the time and space to pursue their creative projects alongside other residents who may be examining the natural world from different perspectives.

Award: Five-week residency & $2,000 grant; or two-week residency & $800 grant

Eligibility: Residents will be exceptional practitioners who desire time and space to work on their creative projects. Awards will be granted based on excellence and merit, the applicant’s interest in joining an interdisciplinary cohort of artists-practitioners-researchers-scientists, and their work’s relationship to OSGF’s mission. Awardees cannot be currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program and must reside on-site for the entire duration of the program.

Deadline: 11:59 pm EST, May 26, 2022

All Disciplines Award External

The Alice Award

Deadline: April 1, 2022 12:00 am

Source: J. M. Kaplan Fund

Description: Given annually to a richly illustrated book that makes a valuable contribution to its field and demonstrates high standards of production. The award is intended to buttress the kind of slow reading movement that recognizes and cherishes the lasting values of the well-made illustrated book, and the special sense of intimacy it affords. Fields considered include the fine arts and the natural and built environments and related public issues.

Award: $25,000; Books selected by the award jury for the Alice Short List each received $5,000.

Eligibility: The organization submitting the book must be a 501(c)3 and have acted as a partner in the book’s production. Organizations may submit up to two books annually. Books published in the calendar year prior and up to the submission deadline will be considered. Any book previously given a Furthermore grant will be automatically considered for the Alice award.

Deadline: April 1, 2022

Architecture Building Science Competition External Grant Landscape Architecture Urbanism

MIT Solve Climate Ecosystems + Housing Challenge

Deadline: March 31, 2022 12:00 am

Source: MIT Solve

Description: MIT Solve’s 2022 Sustainability Challenges will focus on the following two areas: Protecting Ecosystem Carbon and Decarbonizing Housing. The MIT Solve community is looking for eight technology-based solutions that help communities thrive with either high-carbon ecosystems or good low-carbon homes at scale. To that end, Solve seeks solutions that: support local economies that protect high-carbon ecosystems from destruction, including forests, peatlands, and mangroves; develop new value chains for mass creation of inexpensive and low-carbon housing, including changes to materials, designs, or construction methods; and decarbonize heating and cooking systems in existing homes while improving efficiency. See website for more info.

Award: All selected solutions will receive $10,000. Additional prizes will be granted to solutions fulfilling additional parameters.

Eligibility: Open to all.

Deadline: March 31, 2022

All Disciplines Award External Grant

Abbey Mural Prize

Deadline: April 24, 2022 12:00 am

Source: National Academy of Design

Description: The Abbey Mural Prize awards grants to support the creation and restoration of public murals in the U.S. Through the Abbey Mural Fund, the National Academy of Design has supported dozens of individuals and organizations across the U.S. who are building on a tradition of public murals as instruments of social activism, neighborhood revitalization, and community engagement. The Prize aims to broaden support and recognition of the vital role that murals play in making public space more open and accessible. Grants are awarded to create or restore public murals, especially those that promote accessibility, serve local audiences, and inspire community dialogue. While murals are conventionally defined as paintings or mosaics on a wall, the prize welcomes proposals that broaden the definition of what murals can be.

Award: Grants typically range from $10,000 to $40,000 USD in minimally restricted support for the production and installation of mural(s) on and within public buildings and on buildings owned by charitable institutions.

Eligibility: Applications are open to all artists, architects, designers, as well as arts and community-based organizations and other nonprofits, with project leads eighteen years of age or older. Project proposals must be for sites located within the United States, Tribal Nations, and U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Projects must be for public buildings or buildings owned by a charitable institution.

Deadline: April 24, 2022