Category: External

CAC Cultural Pathways

Deadline: March 9, 2022 11:59 pm

Source: California Arts Council

Description: The Cultural Pathways program is rooted in the CAC’s commitment to serving the needs of an increasingly demographically complex California and the belief that a healthy arts ecosystem reflects contributions from all of California’s diverse populations. The purpose of the Cultural Pathways program is to strengthen the capacity of small, new, and emerging arts organizations that are rooted in communities of color, recent immigrant and refugee communities, and tribal or indigenous groups, and to anchor the cultural and creative work of these organizations into the cultural landscape of the state.

Award: Successful applicants will receive two years of general operating support up to $30,000. Successful applicants will also receive technical assistance and professional development tools, resources, and training. Technical assistance may take the form of convenings, webinars, learning communities, and workshops.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are California-based, 501 (c)(3) organizations with at least a two-year history of consistent engagement in arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline. Applicants must have a total operating revenue at or below $150,000 for each of the last two completed fiscal years. See website for full requirements.

Deadline: 11:59 pm, March 9, 2022

Architecture Design External Grant Landscape Architecture

CAC Impact Projects

Deadline: March 9, 2022 11:59 pm

Source: California Arts Council

Description: The Impact Projects grant program intends to support collaborative projects that center artists and artistic practice in responding to issues facing California at this time, including the pervasive social, political, and economic inequalities experienced by those communities most vulnerable to and adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This program prioritizes local artists and forms of arts and cultural expression that are unique to, and/or historically rooted in the specific communities to be served. Impact Projects grants support art organizations for collaborations between local artist(s) and community members to develop and express their own creative and artistic goals and address a community-defined need. Collaborative projects will utilize various creative practices to impact social issues affecting their communities, including but not limited to systemic/structural racism, education, poverty, health disparities, housing insecurity, violence, food insecurity, cultural/social justice, intergenerational learning, environmental sustainability, and the digital divide.

Award: Applicant organizations can request up to $20,000 for the grant period.

Deadline: 11:59 pm, March 9, 2022

All Disciplines External Residency

2023 Changing Climate Residency

Deadline: April 10, 2022 10:59 am

Source: Santa Fe Art Institute

Description: The Santa Fe Art Institute’s 2023 International Thematic Residency, Changing Climate, seeks to support artistic exploration, creative activism, and community art actions related to global warming that inspire individual transformation and inform collective action. They seek artists and activists with proposed focus on research, artworks, and creative actions that: connect human health with environmental and planetary health, and increase emotional resilience and adaptation to a quickly changing earth; help to imagine social, cultural, economic, and technological futures that reduce or eliminate reliance on fossil fuels and are conjoined with human rights and the rights of all species; and support Indigenous, traditional, and local land stewardship and sovereignty in solidarity with human and non-human kin, as a means toward carbon capture and community building.

Award: 1-3 month residency; private room & semi-private studio; basic tools, contemporary art library; $500 stipends will be offered to up to 28 regional BIPOC artists and creative practitioners who are rewarded a residnecy.

Eligibility: Applicants must be 25 or older. SFAI accepts applications from individuals, collaborations, and families. Open to all artistic disciplines and other creative practices, including but not limited to curation, design, architecture, and education. Open to emerging, mid-career, and established artists and creative practitioners who have a dedicated studio practice and professional demeanor

Deadline: 11:59 pm MT, April 10, 2022

Architecture External Fellowship Heritage Conservation History / Theory Landscape Architecture

ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships

Deadline: March 28, 2022 6:00 pm

Source: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Description: Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations promoting social justice in their communities. Fellows take on substantive roles that draw on the skills and capacities honed in the course of earning the humanities PhD, including advanced communication, research, project management, and creative problem solving.

Award: 24-month fellowship beginning in September 2022; $62,500 stipend in year one and $65,000 in year two, plus health insurance and professional development funding

Eligibility: Applicants must have a Ph.D. that was/will be formally conferred between Sept. 1, 2017 and Sept. 1, 2022. Applicant’s PhD may be in any field in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US for the duration of the fellowship term.

Deadline: 9 pm EDT, March 28, 2022

All Disciplines External Fellowship

Soros Equality Fellowship

Deadline: February 14, 2022 8:59 pm

Source: Open Society Foundations

Description: The Soros Equality Fellowship seeks to support individual leaders influencing and transforming the racial justice field. The aim of the Fellowship is to be flexible and open—a space to incubate new ideas, promote risk-taking, and develop different ways of thinking that challenge and expand our existing assumptions. A successful project should identify a challenge and propose a critical intervention that will meaningfully address the systems that reinforce inequities and discrimination in the United States.

Award: Fellows will typically receive a $130,000 stipend over the 18-month fellowship to support expenses related to the project. The award amount is all-inclusive and is intended to cover a fellow’s living expenses, project-related expenses, travel, conference fees, health insurance, etc.

Eligibility: Candidates should have 10+ years’ experience and significant expertise in their field as well as a track record of success advancing racial justice goals Applicants must be able to devote at least 35 hours per week to the project if awarded a Fellowship; and the project must be the applicant’s only full-time work during the course of the Fellowship. Applicants may be based outside the United States, provided their work directly pertains to a U.S. racial justice issue and is able to demonstrate a proficiency in spoken and written English. Fellows cannot be full-time students. See website for full eligibility details.

Deadline: 11:59 pm EST, Feb. 14, 2022

Architecture Design External Landscape Architecture Residency

I-Park Multi-Disciplinary Residency Program

Deadline: January 17, 2022 12:00 am

Source: I-Park Foundation

Description: I-Park supports residencies in the following creative disciplines: music composition/sound art, visual arts, moving image/new media, creative writing, architecture, and landscape/garden/ecological design. 2022 residencies are offered from June through October. Each multidisciplinary session consists of 6-7 artists, all of whom arrive and depart at the same time, ensuring a deeply shared experience. The residence is self-directed; I-Park welcomes ambitious installation projects on the I-Park grounds, and there is a small budget for materials, equipment, and labor for approved projects. See website for more info.

Award: 4-week residency; residents are provided with a private bedroom, private studio, and chef-prepared dinners five nights a week.

Eligibility: Open to artists over 21. International applicants welcome.

Deadline: Jan. 17, 2022

Architecture Building Science Design External Grant Landscape Architecture Urbanism

Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants

Deadline: August 30, 2023 12:00 am

Source: Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Description: Program will award small, early-stage grants to promote growth of new connections between scholars, practitioners, educators, and/or communicators working to understand, communicate, and mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health. Topics of interest include linking basic/early biomedical science to climate-focused thinking; sustainability in healthcare systems, healthcare delivery outside institutions, and biomedical research; health impacts and health systems impacts of extreme weather events and other crises; and outreach, communication, and education around climate and human health. The fund is interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, and population-focused fields including epidemiology and public health demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work to launch new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, for example, developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparing for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large scale disruptions that will immediately impact human health and delivery of health care. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Award: $2500-$50,000

Eligibility: Applications must be submitted by nonprofit organizations or degree granting institutions in the United States or Canada. Applicant organizations may submit multiple proposals, but an individual may only serve as a principal investigator/project director on one application during each review period.

Deadline: Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through August 30, 2023.

Architecture Competition External

2022 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers

Deadline: February 13, 2022 8:59 pm

Source: Architectural League of New York

Description: Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The 2022 theme is “Grounding.” Searching for grounding is a sticky, precarious, and stubborn pursuit of our time. In an unpredictable and hybrid world, more focus is needed on how architecture can respond to this condition and how young architects can situate themselves within it. See website for more info.

Award: The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2022. These events will be either in-person, online, or hybrid, depending on local and national health guidelines this spring. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000.

Eligibility: Open only to current, full-time residents (who need not be citizens) of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Entrants must be ten years or less out of a bachelor’s or master’s degree program. Current students are ineligible. Entrants may submit individually or as a group. Entrants must submit work done independently; no work done as an employee of a firm, where the entrant is not a principal or partner, is eligible for submission. No student work completed for any academic program or degree is eligible for submission. Educators may not include work done in their studios or for their teaching. Past League Prize winners are ineligible. See website for full eligibility details.

Deadline: 11:59 pm EST, Feb. 13, 2022

Architecture External Grant History / Theory Landscape Architecture

Venetian Research Program

Deadline: December 15, 2021 12:00 am

Source: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Description: The Foundation awards travel grants to individual scholars to support historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. Applicants from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences are eligible areas of study, including, but not limited to, archaeology, architecture, art, bibliography, economics, history, history of science, law, literature, music, political science, religion, and theater. Other relevant research interests will be considered. Applicants and grantees are advised to plan for the added difficulties surrounding travel during the COVID-19 pandemic. See website for more info.

Award: Applications will be entertained for grants up to a maximum of $20,000 for two academic years. Grants for the maximum amount are rarely awarded, and successful applicants are frequently awarded less than the amount requested. Award amounts are based on length of stay, plus travel and research costs.

Eligibility: Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States and have experience in advanced research at the graduate level or equivalent. Ph.D. students must have completed all course work at the time of application.

Deadline: Dec. 15, 2021

Architecture Building Science Design External Grant Landscape Architecture

LACMA Art + Technology Grant Program

Deadline: February 25, 2022 12:00 am

Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Description: The Art + Technology Lab supports projects that explore artistic applications of emerging technologies and ideas related to technology and culture. The program offers artists and artist collectives financial and in-kind support for new projects, with the help of expert partners from the fields of science, technology, and engineering. While there is a preference for projects that explore emerging technology, prior technological experience or knowledge is not required. Artists who have not used advanced technology in their practice are encouraged to consider how technology applications might build upon and expand the trajectory of their work. Recipients need not be located in or near Los Angeles. The Lab welcomes proposals for projects that are presented outside of the bounds of the museum campus, including conceptual projects and projects that unfold in virtual, online, extraterrestrial locations. See RFP for more info.

Award: Grants may provide financial support of up to $50,000 per project to cover artist fees and direct costs, including materials. Recipients may also receive in-kind support, such as mentorship, coaching, advice, and exposure to technologies in development at partner organizations, including Hyundai, Snap Inc., YouTube Learning, and SpaceX as well as independent artists and academics working in art and technology from the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Eligibility: Open to individuals and collectives located anywhere in the world.

Deadline: Feb. 25, 2021