Category: Grant

California Documentary Project Grants – Research & Development

Deadline: November 1, 2022 12:00 am

Source: California Humanities

Description: The California Documentary Project (CDP) is a competitive grant program that supports documentary film, audio, and digital media productions that explore California in all its complexity and tell stories from every corner of the state. Projects should use the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective, and be suitable for both California and national audiences through public and educational screenings and presentations, broadcast, streaming, and other forms of distribution. CDP Research and Development grants are designed to strengthen the humanities content and approach of documentary media productions in their earliest stages.

Award: Up to $15,000

Eligibility: Eligible formats include, but are not limited to, features, shorts, podcasts, web series, broadcast series, VR (Virtual Reality), etc.

Deadline: Nov. 1, 2022

All Disciplines External Grant

California Documentary Project Grants – Production

Deadline: November 1, 2022 12:00 am

Source: California Humanities

Description: The California Documentary Project (CDP) is a competitive grant program that supports documentary film, audio, and digital media productions that explore California in all its complexity and tell stories from every corner of the state. Projects should use the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective, and be suitable for both California and national audiences through public and educational screenings and presentations, broadcast, streaming, and other forms of distribution. CDP Production grants are designed to strengthen the humanities content and approach of documentary media productions and help propel projects toward completion.

Award: Up to $50,000

Eligibility: Eligible formats include, but are not limited to, features, shorts, podcasts, web series, broadcast series, VR (Virtual Reality), etc.

Deadline: Nov. 1, 2022

Architecture Design External Fellowship Grant Landscape Architecture

Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort

Deadline: November 30, 2022 12:00 am

Source: Center for Craft

Description: Twenty-one mid-career craft artists will receive an unrestricted grant of $10,000 and participate in an 8-month cohort experience where they will be guided through training that encourages and sustains a generative practice a both artists and educators. Recipients will participate in creating a Teaching Artist Resource Kit to be completed by the culmination of the grant period’s end. A leading component of the Teaching Artist Cohort is to support a diverse cohort of mid-career artists with varying practices and career aspirations. Ideally, awards will be given to a dynamic group of craft artists whose practice includes working as teaching artists in schools, non-tenured educators, adjunct instructors, visiting artists, museum educators, and community and workshop instructors.

Award: $10,000 grant and eight-month cohort experience

Eligibility: Proposals welcome from mid-career craft artists who teach. For the purposes of this grant, the Center for Craft defines a teaching artist as a practicing craft artist and/or maker who utilizes their skillsets and sensibilities to integrate their work and perspectives into a wide range of settings. Applicants must be 21 or older; eligible to receive taxable income in the U.S.; residing and working in the U.S. for the last two years and the duration of the fellowship; and have a continued full time studio practice for a minimum of five years and work as a teaching artist for a minimum of three years. Applicants cannot be tenured or tenure track faculty. See website for more info.

Deadline: Nov. 30, 2022

Architecture Design External Fellowship Grant Landscape Architecture

2023 Craft Research Fund Fellowship

Deadline: October 21, 2022 12:00 am

Source: Center for Craft

Description: The Craft Research Fund—Artist Fellowship is one of four categories that make up the Craft Research Fund, a visionary program dedicated to supporting scholarly craft research in United States. Awards of $10,000 will be granted to five artists to support research projects that advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice. The Center, and by extension this grant, recognizes craft to be a particular approach to making with a strong connection to materials, skill, and process. Examples of craft research might include: archive- and museum-based research; material innovations/experimentation; process-oriented research/innovation; historical research; collaborations amongst artists and/or other disciplines and/or institutions; or projects that have the potential to transform questions that are being asked in an academic context. See website for more info.

Award: $10,000.00

Eligibility: Proposals are welcome from mid-career artists, artisans, designers, makers, sculptures, and so on, who identify their practice within the field of craft. Applicants must be 21 years of age or older; eligible to receive taxable income in the U.S.; and residing and working in the U.S. for the last two years and for the duration of the fellowship period. Applicants cannot be an institution or small business; a full-time student; or a previously awarded Craft Research Fund – Artist Fellow. See website for full eligibility details.

Deadline: Oct. 21, 2022

Architecture External Grant

Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant

Deadline: October 5, 2022 11:59 pm

Source: Center for Architecture

Description: This grant is awarded to further the personal and professional development of an architect in early or mid-career through travel. Travel plans should be focused on a selected topic of interest to the individual rather than as part of a larger humanitarian or institutional endeavor. If appropriate, the winner may be asked to present at the Center for Architecture upon return.

Award: Single or multiple awards of up to $25,000

Eligibility: Applicants must be US citizens with a professional degree in architecture. They must also be practicing architects, either licensed or unlicensed. Academics may apply, but must also be practicing architects.

Deadline: Oct. 5, 2022

All Disciplines External Grant

ARCC Research Incentive Award

Deadline: October 1, 2022 11:59 pm

Source: Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC)

Description: TheARCC Research Incentive Award aims to support and promote high‐quality architectural research and scholarship activities in ARCC member schools. The award provides faculty in ARCC member schools with financial resources to support and enhance their research and creative activities and to develop their research agendas. ARCC defines ‘architectural research’ broadly and inclusively across a wide range of domains in support of advancing knowledge of the built environment.

Award: Grant award is $10,000. ARCC awards one or more grants each year, pending availability of funds.

Eligibility: The Lead PI of the research grant must be a faculty member of an ARCC member institution. Co-PIs may include post-doctoral researchers and/or PhD candidates. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged. Faculty awarded the ARCC Research Incentive Award are ineligible to apply for one year following the period of their award.

Deadline: Oct. 1, 2022

Architecture Grant Landscape Architecture Urbanism USC

2022 USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Research Stipends

Deadline: April 29, 2022 12:00 am

Source: USC Lusk Center for Real Estate

Description: The USC Lusk Center for Real Estate is pleased to announce the availability of research stipends to become available in July 2022. The stipends will facilitate high-quality research that will eventually get published in the leading scientific journals. The broad topics should be related to real estate and urban issues. The Lusk Center is especially interested in proposals that focus on housing and real estate finance, non-residential real estate, urban entrepreneurship, transportation and land use, urban poverty and segregation, neighborhood change, and local taxes and housing regulation. Studies can focus on the U.S. or any other country.

Award: Up to $25,000 for faculty members and $15,000 for postdocs or Ph.D. students. Funds can cover faculty compensation or expenses for data acquisition, research assistance, travel, etc.

Eligibility: Faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and Ph.D. students at USC are eligible to apply.

Deadline: April 29, 2022

Architecture Design External Grant Landscape Architecture

Harpo Grants for Visual Artists

Deadline: April 29, 2022 12:00 am

Source: Harpo Foundation

Description: The Grants for Visual Artists award provides direct support of under-recognized artists. Grants are made to support the development of artists’ work, and a grantee may use their award to support any activity toward that purpose. Applications are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the artist’s work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and the ability to fulfiull the foundation’s priority to provide support to visual artists who are under-recognized by the field.

Award: Up to $10,000

Eligibility: Open to self-defined under-recognized visual artists over 21 who are U.S. citizens and have not previously received a director artist grant from Harpo. Students who (as of the deadline) are currently enrolled in an art-related degree program, have been enrolled in an art-related degree program within the last twelve months, or are planning to attend an art-related degree program in the coming year are not eligible.

Deadline: April 29, 2022

All Disciplines External Grant

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