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Many agencies offer funding in support of the arts, whether in the form of awards for completed work, residencies during which artists and writers can make progress on particular projects, internships, apprenticeships, workshops, or funds for travel or exhibition. The following list highlights a variety of programs in the visual arts, creative writing and performing arts:

• Asian Cultural Council - http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/
  • John D. Rockefeller 3rd Award - http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/programs.html#12
• CEC International Partners/Arts Link - http://godai.comset.net/cecip/index.php?mid=26
• Centrum - http://www.centrum.org
  • Creative Residencies - http://www.centrum.org/residencies.html
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting - http://www.cpb.org
• Dartmouth College - http://www.dartmouth.edu
  • Funding Opportunities - http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradstdy/funding
  • E-mail contact: dorothea.french@dartmouth.edu
• Del Mar College - http://www.Delmar.edu/
  • Art Department - http://www.delmar.edu/art/
  • National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show - http://www.delmar.edu/art/events.html
• Foothills Art Center - http://www.mines.edu/other_orgs/foothills/
  • Exhibitions - http://www.foothillsartcenter.org/exhibition_schedule.html
• Ford Foundation - http://www.fordfound.org
• Getty Trust - http://www.getty.edu
  • Grants - http://www.getty.edu/grants/index.html
• Graphic Arts Information Network - http://www.gain.org
  • Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation - http://www.gain.org/PIA_GATF/non_index.html
• Greenshields Foundation, Elizabeth
  • Young Artists Award - http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=3366
  • E-mail contact - egreen@total.net
• Haystack Mountain School of Crafts - http://www.haystack-mtn.org
  • Work Study Scholarships - http://www.haystack-mtn.org/summer2004.html 
  • Minority Scholarships - http://www.haystack-mtn.org/summer2004.html
  • Technical Assistant Scholarship - http://www.haystack-mtn.org/summer2004.html 
  • E-mail Contact - haystack@haystack-mtn.org
• Institute for International Education - http://www.iie.org
  • Programs - http://www.iie.org/pgms/
• MacDowell Colony - http://www.macdowellcolony.org/
  • Residency Program - http://www.macdowellcolony.org/
• National Cowboy Hall of Fame - http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/
  • Stacey Scholarship Fund - http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/m_stac.html
• National Endowment for the Arts - http://www.arts.endow.gov/
• PBS Online/POV Interactive Web Development Fund - http://www.pbs.org/weblab
  • Proposals and Funding - http://www.weblab.org/frompbs.html
• Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture - http://www.skowheganart.org/
  • Matching School Fellowships - http://www.skowheganart.org/admission.html
  • E-mail Contact - mail@skowheganart.org
• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - http://www.scbwi.org/
  • Don Freeman Memorial Grant-in-Aid - http://www.scbwi.org/awards/df_grant.htm
  • Barbara Karlin Grant - http://www.scbwi.org/awards/bk_grant.htm
  • Work-in-Progress Grants - http://www.scbwi.org/awards/wip_grant.htm
• Tubac Center of the Arts - http://www.tubacarts.org/
• U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture - http://www.fidemexusa.org.mx/english/home.html
  • Program Announcement - http://www.fidemexusa.org.mx/english/home.html
• University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign - http://www.faa.uiuc.edu/
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - http://www.vcca.com/
  • Residential Fellowships in the Creative Arts - http://www.vcca.com/application.html

  CREATIVE WRITING
   

• Bantam Doubleday Dell and Delacorte Press
  • Margeurite de Angeli Prize - http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=17459
  • Prize for a First Young Adult Novel - http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=28853
• Camargo Foundation - http://www.acls.org/camargo.htm
  • Fellowship Grant - http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=1768
  • E-mail Contact - Camarfound@aol.com
• Centrum - http://www.centrum.org
  • Creative Residencies - http://www.centrum.org/residencies.html
• Chesterfield Film Company - http://www.chesterfield-co.com
  • Writer's Film Project Screenwriting Fellowships - http://www.chesterfield-co.com/html/wfp.html
• Cleveland State - http://www.csuohio.edu
  • Whiskey Island Magazine - http://www.csuohio.edu/whiskey_island
  • Contest - http://www.csuohio.edu/whiskey_island/submissions.html
• International Reading Association - http://www.reading.org
  • Paul Witty Short Story Award - http://www.reading.org/awards/witty.html
  • IRA Children's Book Awards - http://www.reading.org/awards/children.html
• MacDowell Colony - http://www.macdowellcolony.org/
  • Colony Fellowships - http://www.macdowellcolony.org/
• National Women's Studies Association - http://www.nwsa.org/
  • Audre Lorde Memorial Prose Prize - http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship.htm
• New England Theatre Conference/Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award - http://www.xlnt-arts.com/stevecapra/gassner/gassner.htm
• PBS Online/POV Interactive Web Development Fund - http://www.pbs.org/weblab/
  • Proposals and Funding - http://www.weblab.org/frompbs.html
• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - http://www.scbwi.org
  • Work-in-Progress Grants - http://www.scbwi.org/awards/wip_grant.htm
• U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture - http://www.fidemexusa.org.mx/english/home.html
  • Program Announcement - http://www.fidemexusa.org.mx/english/home.html
• University of Iowa Press - http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress
  • Iowa Short Fiction and/or Poetry Awards - http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress/prize-rules.htm
• University of Pittsburgh Press - http://www.pitt.edu/~press/
• University of Wisconsin Press - http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/
  • Brittingham and Pollak Prizes in Poetry - http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/poetryguide.html
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) - http://www.vcca.com/
  • Residential Fellowships in the Creative Arts - http://www.vcca.com/application.html
• Wagner College - http://www.wagner.edu/

  PERFORMING ARTS
   

• Actors Theatre of Louisville - http://www.actorstheatre.org/
• American Film Institute - http://www.afi.com
• American Institute of Indian Studies - http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/aiis/hp.htm
  • Fellowship Programs - http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/aiis/fellow.htm#performing
• American Society for Theatre Research - http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/Theatre/Personnel/CSchuler/ASTR/
  • Awards and Prizes - http://www.inform.umd.edu/ASTR/Pages/ASTRAwards.html
• Association of Performing Arts Presenters - http://www.artspresenters.org/
  • Funding - http://www.artspresenters.org/services/funding.cfm
• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - http://www.kennedy-center.org/
  • Internships - http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/vilarinstitute/internships/
• U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture - http://www.fidemexusa.org.mx/english/home.html
  • Program Announcement - http://www.fidemexusa.org.mx/english/home.html
• Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts - http://www.wolf-trap.org/
  • Internships - http://www.wolf-trap.org/interns/interns.html

  OTHER SPECIALIZED INFORMATION RESOURCES
   

• Art Deadlines List - http://custwww.xensei.com/adl/
• ArtSource - http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html
• National Guide to Funding in Arts and Culture. New York: The Foundation Center, 1996.
• National Directory of Grants and Aids to Individuals in the Arts, Int'l. Washington DC: WIAL, 1993.
• Grants and Awards Available to American Writers. New York: PEN American Center, 1994.