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Friday, July 8, 2022


Friday, July 8, 2022

Arts Extension Service is dedicated to supporting artists and arts organizations by providing education and information. Find a list below of continuously updated and ongoing resources and opportunities for artists, arts managers, and art instructors. Find new shared resources on our Instagram and Facebook pages.

Lists of Funding Resources and Opportunities

  • Actors Fund Grant List
    A list of grants and funds that performing artists can apply to.
  • Americans for the Arts
    Up-to-date news and resources for the arts and culture field.
  • Art Deadlines List
    Public art commissions, art competitions, art jobs and internships, art scholarships and grants and fellowships, residencies, art festivals, call for entries/proposals/projects, and other opportunities, in all disciplines, for art students, art teachers, and artists of all ages, all skill levels, in all disciplines, everywhere.
  • Authors League Fund
    The Authors League Fund helps authors, dramatists, journalists, critics, short story writers, and poets. Assistance is modest and temporary in nature. Recipients may apply again after a twelve months have passed, although additional support is not guaranteed.
  • COVID-19 Entrepreneur Resource List
    Includes loan programs, grants, and other resources to help entrepreneurs.
  • Creative Capital
    A list of resources for artists working in all disciplines, as well as arts philanthropists, and arts professionals. As well as a list of arts events that have moved online.
  • National Endowment for the Arts
    A list of art service organizations that are providing frequently updated news and resources for artists and arts organizations.
  • New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) COVID-19 Resource Updates
    NEFA continues to assemble resources – federal relief, grants, reimagining the sector, social justice and inclusion, and more - to share with the arts and culture sector.
  • Public Art Archive
    The Public Art Archive offers a suite of free and low-cost resources for the documentation, management, and exploration of public art built specifically for the public art field.

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Funding Sources, General Grants, and Artist Opportunities

  • Actors Fund Emergency Relief Fund
    To assist everyone who works in performing arts and entertainment across the country, the Actor Relief Fund is collaborating with the community to help people to navigate these challenging times. The Actors Fund has distributed more than $16 million in emergency financial assistance to 13,559 people in our industry.
  • Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
    The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
  • AGMA Relief Fund - American Guild of Musical Artists
    The American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) Relief Fund provides support and temporary financial assistance to members who are in need.
  • American Antiquarian Society, Short-Term Fellowships
    The American Antiquarian Society offers short-term visiting academic research fellowships tenable for one to two months.
  • American Society of Journalists and Authors: Emergency Assistance Fund
    One-time grants for writers to cover medical bills.
  • The Art Guide: A List of Art Calls
    Find an art call in your state with The Art Guide’s directory.
  • Artist Communities Alliance
    A directory of residencies for artists of all disciplines.
  • Authors League Fund
    The Authors League Fund helps professional authors, journalists, poets, and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income, or other misfortune.
  • Austin, TX: Banding Together ATX
    A resource for musicians, hospitality workers, and service industry businesses of Austin, TX who have been affected by COIVD-19.
  • The Awesome Foundation Grant
    Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants, $1000 or the local equivalent, come out of pockets of the chapter's "trustees" and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects.
  • The Blues Foundation HART Fund - for Blues musicians
    The Blues Foundation established the HART Fund (Handy Artists Relief Trust) for Blues musicians and their families in financial need due to a broad range of health concerns.
  • Boston City Hall: Call to Artists & Art Organizations
    Seeking artists and artist organizations that live or create in Boston to exhibit at Boston City Hall.
  • BridgeSong Fund: Emergency Relief for Western MA Women, Nonbinary, and Genderqueer Artists of Color
    This trans- and queer- affirming emergency fund will support Western MA BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) women, nonbinary, and genderqueer musicians* who already face  economic, medical, equity barriers and systemic oppression in their line of independent, gig-based work.
  • Carnegie Fund for Authors
    Carnegie Fund for Authors awards grants to American authors who have been published by a mainstream publisher and who are in need of emergency funds.
  • Cuttythunk Island Residencies for Artists and Writers
    Providing artists and writers the time and setting to refocus their energy on their creative process within a supportive community environment,while enriching the cultural vitality of Cuttyhunk Island.
  • Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices
    This is a national grant competition administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) inviting proposals to digitize materials that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended.
  • Easthampton Learning Foundation- Student Engagement Mini Grants
    Invites proposals for projects, initiatives, and activities that provide enriching experiences to students in collaboration with school administrators. Awardees will receive a grant to cover the cost of the proposed activity. Accepting rolling applications.
  • emBrace Pattern Design Competition
    A nationwide competition intended to encourage artists to design fashionable prints and patterns for scoliosis braces that appeal to everyone. emBrace honors aesthetically powerful graphic designs by artists across the country and partners with orthopedic companies to transfer them onto the surface of back braces.
  • Emergency Survival Fund for LGBTQ2S artists, performers & tip-based workers
    This is a fund to help LGBTQ2S people who cannot pay for food, medicine, rent, and necessities because most of their income doesn't come from an employer. Grants based on need and available funds. Rolling until expended.  
  • Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism - Grants
    Supports a variety of work, including: text, photography, audio and video. Artists and artist-journalist teams with longer-term, research-intensive projects are also encouraged to apply. Application deadline: rolling.
  • Fully Funded Residencies
    Fully Funded Residencies is an online platform for research and knowledge-sharing that gathers, archives and shares fully funded residencies, awards, grants and mobility funds.
  • Foundation for Contemporary Arts - Emergency Grant
    Provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who: have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding, incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,700. Application deadline is rolling.
  • Fund for Investigative Journalism
    The Fund for Investigative Journalism provides grants and other support to independent journalists and news organizations to produce high-quality, unbiased, nonpartisan investigative stories that have an impact.
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation Grants
    Cultural organizations within the town of Worcester, MA may apply to this grant. Award amount can range from $500 to $5,000.
  • International Arts Movement: Hilary Teachout Grants
    Hilary Teachout Grants offer artists relief during the coronavirus pandemic. Named the Hilary Teachout Grants, they honor the memory of the wife of theatre critic Terry Teachout; she passed away during the COVID-19 crisis due to an illness that required a double lung transplant. One-time grants of $500 are provided.
  • Independent Journalism Grant
    The Economic Hardship Reporting Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that produces journalism to raise awareness about income inequality and economic unfairness in America. They commission op-eds, personal essays, investigative reports, rich narrative features, podcasts, nonfiction cartoons, photo essays, and documentaries about the United States. Grants generally range from $500 for an op-ed to $10,000 for a documentary.
  • International Women's Media Foundation - United States Journalism Emergency Fund
    This fund will directly support U.S. journalists in need so they can resume work essential to our functioning democracy. Made available to U.S. based journalists regardless of gender. Applicants must be U.S. journalists with journalism serving as their primary profession and must provide proof of their financial need. Funding is available to both staff journalists and those working independently.
  • Jazz Foundation Musicians Emergency Fund
    The Jazz Foundation’s Musicians’ Emergency Fund provides housing assistance, pro bono medical care, disaster relief, and direct financial support in times of crisis.
  • Kala Fellowship Award
    This international award is open to artists producing innovative work in mediums including printmaking, digital media, installation art, social practice, photography, and book arts. Selected artists will receive a $3,000 stipend and a studio residency at Kala Art Institute.
  • The Learned Fangirl Freelance Emergency Fund
    The Learned Fangirl has created the TLF Freelance Emergency Fund to support freelance culture writers who have been negatively impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.
  • Leveler: Peer to Peer Wealth Distribution
    People seeking financial assistance may apply and someone in a better financial position will provide an emergency fund for them. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
  • MacDowell
    Offering residencies for creative individuals of the highest talent in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
  • Manship Artists Residency + Studios
    Manship Artists Residency is dedicated to the preservation of an environmentally- and historically significant site that has been given new life as an international, interdisciplinary artists residency for the benefit of the community and visitors to Cape Ann. 
  • Max’s Kansas City Project
    The Max’s Kansas City Project provides emergency funding & resources to professionals in the creative arts. Individuals who have made their living through their art form either professionally or personally and demonstrate a financial need for medical aid, legal aid or housing.
  • MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists - Space Finder
    Selected links for resources on artist space rentals or ownership opportunities, with a focus on Massachusetts.
  • Millay Arts Multidisciplinary Artist Core Residencies
    From April through November, Millay Arts hosts 6-7 multidisciplinary artists, selected through a blind jury process.
  • Musicians Foundation - Grant
    Grants for medical and dental bills, living expenses, and other essentials in cases of emergency. This is not a COVID-19 assistance or unemployment grant. To qualify, you must be applying for reasons other than lost or cancelled work. Grants typically range in amount from approximately $500-$3000. Application: rolling.
  • NARS Studio Relief Program
    The New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation has decided to dedicate part of the NARS Studios to 2-3 individual NY based artists who are in need of a space but unable to afford it. The subsidized studio space is available for 3 months, and is a work-space only. Throughout this time, artists will have 24/7 access to their spaces and will be able to liaise with a diverse artistic community.
  • National Leadership Grants for Museums
    National Leadership Grants for Museums support projects that address critical needs of the museum field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession so that museums can improve services for the American public. Grant Amount: $5,000–$1,000,000. Applications will close November 15.
  • Native Arts and Cultures Foundation - LIFT Early Career Support for Native Artists
    The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is now accepting applications for the LIFT-Early Career Support for Native Artists program, a one-year award and early career support program for emerging Native artists to develop and realize new projects. The program’s focus is to provide financial support and professional development to artists whose work aims to uplift communities and advance positive social change.
  • Newport Festivals Musician Relief Fund
    Musicians that have lost income from a canceled gig/performance due to the pandemic may apply to this grant. Priority will be given to musicians who played the Newport Jazz or Folk Festivals and those in the Rhode Island community.
  • New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Administrative Fellowship
    A year-long paid part-time fellowship opportunity for candidates who are underrepresented in theatre administration.
  • Office of Arts & Culture Seattle - Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute Facility Grant
    The LHPAI Facility Grant aims to create community impact by broadening arts and culture participation at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, an historic landmark cultural facility in the heart of the Central Area neighborhood of Seattle. The LHPAI Facility Grant seeks to celebrate, nurture, present and preserve African American and Diaspora performing arts and cultural legacies. Application deadline is rolling.
  • Pen America - Emergency Funds for Writers List
    A listing of national and regional emergency grants available to writers in acute financial crisis.
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation
    The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist's professional work and personal expenses and amounts range up to $30,000. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as galleries and museum spaces.
  • Portland Artist Relief Fund
    Local artists who are able to complete the requirement checklist for eligibility will be able for a $500 cash stipend to help make ends meet due to canceled work that was previously scheduled and/or lost. Creative Portland, the City’s nonprofit arts agency will award $500 stipends for artists in dire need.
  • P0STB1NARY - Mutual Aid Directory
    This is a growing directory of independent artists impacted by COVID-19. Most on this list identify as Black, Indigenous, non-white & Trans or Queer (listed first). Supporters: Check out these artists' work, commission them, donate directly to them, and spread the word! Artists: Fill out this form to be added to the directory.
  • ResArtis
    Res Artis is a 28 year old network of arts residency centres from around the globe.
  • Socrates Sculpture Park
    Fellowship and art space in Long Island City, Queens. The 2022 program focuses on the present day ecological conditions and challenges that our globe faces.
  • SpeakArt
    Promoting funded artist residency programs and fellowships.
  • Springfield Women Leaders - 2021
    12-month experience beginning with a big opening web conference, then monthly web conferences, leading up to a big finale in-person summit a year from now when we can celebrate in safety and get back to sharing ideas in-person. The Annual Kickoff Meeting is May 27, 2021 from 2p-4p. Featuring top women leaders from Southwest Airlines, Symantec, Vanderbilt, Cox, Microsoft, and many more).
  • Stochastic Labs - Residency Application
    Stochastic Labs awards fully sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc), a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials.
  • Sweet Relief COVID-19 Fund
    DONOR-DIRECTED FUND with a limited amount of funds available to be used specifically for musicians and music industry workers affected by the Coronavirus. Funds raised will go towards medical expenses, lodging, clothing, food and other vital living expenses to those impacted due to sickness or loss of work. Application deadline is rolling.
  • Theatre Community Benevolent Fund
    This fund provides between $500 and $1,500 to individuals involved in theater, and between $1,000 and $6,000 to companies in the greater Boston area. Rolling deadline, application reviewed weekly.
  • The Theater Offensive’s QTPOC Artists and Youth Relief Fund 2.0
    TTO has established a fund of $10,000 to provide temporary financial assistance to Greater Boston's QTPOC performing artists and youth affected by the pandemic. A limited number of $250 grants while resources last. Applications reviewed biweekly.
  • Thespian Relief Grant
    The Thespian Relief grants program offers two types of grants to help school theatre programs: $500 grants for schools towards troupe dues. $1000 grants to assist school theatre programs that have been negatively impacted by the cancellation of events or loss of projected revenue, and help with any other issues related to getting a program up and running again this school year. Deadline: Rolling.
  • Vox Corona Emergency Fund
    Professional vocalists from the Washington, DC area may apply to this fund.
  • We Need Diverse Books - Emergency Fund for Diverse Creatives in Publishing
    WNDB provides emergency grants to diverse authors, illustrators, and publishing professionals who are experiencing dire financial need.

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Instructor Resources

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Enjoyment of the Arts Online

  • Ailey All Access
    For a limited time, find videos of performances and other ways to connect with the Ailey organization in Ailey All Access.
  • All Arts: Dance
    Get moving with some dance videos in all different genres to explore the wide range of performance styles. ALL ARTS is an arts and culture hub created by The WNET Group, the parent company of New York’s PBS stations.
  • Extensive list of Virtual Museums
    A categorized list of museums, exhibits, online collections, etc. that you can explore from the safety of your home while social distancing.
  • Google Arts and Culture
    Google Arts & Culture has collaborated with over 1,200 museums, galleries and institutions in 70 countries to make their exhibits available for everyone online. Start exploring, now.
  • Art Institute of Chicago
    Wherever you are, whatever the time, Art Institute of Chicago’s online resources are always here to connect you to their collection of art from around the world—whether you’re seeking inspiration, community, or a little adventure.
  • Asian Art Museum
    Explore the collections and exhibits of the museum that is home to one of the world’s finest collections of Asian art, boasting more than 18,000 awe-inspiring artworks ranging from ancient jades and ceramics to contemporary video installations.
  • Augusta Savage Gallery
    Located in New Africa House at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a multicultural and multi-arts facility. ]
  • Connect the Arts 
    A community of people who work in the arts, and people who love the arts. Artists of all kinds–painters, musicians, designers, technicians, writers, art collectives, arts organizations, and more– tell their stories, share events and opportunities, and connect with people who’ll love what they’re creating.
  • Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
    While currently unable to present live concerts, CMS is committed to continually bringing the best chamber music to people all over the globe through weekly curated playlists and daily releases of archival video and audio.
  • Guggenheim
    Explore online exhibits and collections of the Guggenheim that is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of art, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. 
  • Herter Art Gallery - UMass
    Currently exhibiting UMass BFA Thesis Projects.
  • MET Publications
    Five Decades of Met Publications on Art History available to read, download and or search for free.
  • Louvre
    Digitally visit the world’s largest art museum with 360-degree tours inside and out.
  • Lyric Opera of Chicago
    Broaden your musical horizons by watching free videos of performances by the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
  • The Mellon Foundation-Twenty Ten Twenty-Five
    Twenty Ten Twenty-Five is a multimedia, intergenerational dialogue between contemporary poets and their forebearers. The project was launched to celebrate 25 years of National Poetry Month.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Explore the online collections and exhibits of the largest art museum in the United States.
  • Met Opera
    “Nightly Met Opera Streams” are available every evening throughout the time that the Opera remains closed. The performances can be streamed every night at 7:30 p.m. ET, 5:30 MT.
  • Minneapolis Walker Art Museum
    Walker Collections reflect a diverse range of artistic output, including painting, sculpture, films, performances, books, artist archives, and more.
  • Musee d'Orsay
    A museum housed in a former Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.
  • National Gallery
    The National Gallery of Art – the nation's museum – preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters an understanding of works of art.
  • National Portrait Gallery
    The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the history of America through visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the American story.
  • National Theatre
    Enjoy world-class theatre online while they are closed.
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture
    The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. To date, the Museum has collected more than 36,000 artifacts.
  • NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
    NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts has made it possible for music lovers to enjoy a performance from their own home. From Baroque to pop, there will be something exciting to tune to.
  • Plays for Young Artists and Audiences
    Stage Partners allows you to read every play in their catalog online. They also provide distant learning resources as well as live performances.
  • Seattle Symphony Live Streams
    The Seattle Symphony is organizing additional free live streams and rebroadcasts until the orchestra can return to the Benaroya Hall stage.
  • Stage shows, musicals, and opera you can watch online now for free
    Theatres may be closed, but you can always get a stagey fix online. Here are a series of shows you can watch right now – operas, musicals and more!
  • Stars in the House
    Stars in the House hosts a live stream of guest performances every evening.
  • Portraying the Black American Experience
    A video series that shares how the contemporary Black experience has been reflected in iconic works of art.
  • Tate Britain
    Tate Britain houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation.
  • The Uffizi Gallery
    The Uffizi Gallery in Florence houses works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli and more.
  • UMass FAC
    From a performance by Leyla McCalla to Monkey Baa Theatre Company reading A Diary of a Wombat, experience the FAC's virtual offerings.
  • UMass - Virtual UMCA
    Explore exhibitions, the UMCA's Artists’ talks, performances, and panel discussions from the comfort of your own sofa.

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Local Focused - Western Massachusetts

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Other

  • Auntie Sewing Squad
    Consider making a donation for these volunteers to continue making face masks for people working on the frontlines and vulnerable communities.
  • Care for Your Coronavirus Anxiety
    Resources for anxiety and your mental health in a global climate of uncertainty.
  • Choruses and COVID-19
    This page serves as our central hub of information to help choruses and virtual choir creators stay informed and weather the storm.
  • COVID-19 Pictures - Photography Submissions
    Photographic artist Jennifer Timmer Trail invites online submissions for an online archive, Covid-19 Pictures. The archive acts as a gathering place, to hold on to these photos. Accepted photographs will be posted along with your name, location, and a link to your website.
  • Creative Responses to COVID-19: USDAC Listening Shareback
    Showcases the 400 voices that shared their opinions on funding, healing, and connecting to change the current system and how the arts can help too.
  • Creative Ground Directory
    You can add yourself to this directory to get noticed as an artist and/or as a creative enterprise.
  • Digital Resources for Artists to Continue Career Online
    Artwork Archive provides resources for artists to help transition their business onto virtual platforms and bring reassurance during a challenging time. Platforms include video-conferencing, online stores, and more.
  • IATSE C.A.R.E.S.
    An initiative to assist people who are at-risk, elderly, and those with a disability during COVID-19. They offer a volunteer delivery service to help those get groceries and other supplies.
  • No Going Back: A COVID-19 Cultural Strategy Guide
    A guide to help artists understand the true power behind art during times of crisis.
  • Pao Arts Center: Love Letters to Boston Chinatown
    Write a love letter to Boston Chinatown about your favorite memories you’ve had there. You may even create a painting or illustration to express kindness towards the community. Letters, poems, and art will be shared with the Boston Chinatown community.
  • Seeking Stories of Grandmothers 
    The “Our Grandmothers” project will document stories of 50 Grandmothers across ages and ancestries. These cross-cultural images and stories will highlight the influence of these women and their roles in our lives, how grandmothers have influenced our values, aspirations and determination. These exhibitions will travel through Hampden, Franklin, and Hampshire counties.
  • Performing Arts Network
    A community for performing artists to support & learn from one another during one of the most difficult times for our field.
  • Tips for Hosting a Virtual Event
    The best tips on how to make a virtual event work for your business.
  • What Role Are You Playing?
    MASSCreative offers a guide and helpful links to help us navigate building a more vibrant, connected, and equitable community.

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