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7 Grants and Artist Opportunities
to Apply for in May 2024
Written by: crEATe Staff
May 10, 2024
We hope that May is treating everybody well and the warmer weather is inspiring fresh new ideas! We’re excited to bring a new batch of great artist opportunities for you to consider in May. This month’s list includes grants for photographers, writers, and recording artists. Here are seven grants and artist opportunities to apply for in May 2024
Table of Contents
- W. Eugene Smith Fund – Eugene Smith Fund
- The Hopper Prize – Grants for Artists
- Recording Fund – Funding for Recording Artists
- Speculative Literature Foundation – The Older Writers Grant
- San Francisco Film Festival – Rainin Grant
- Pen America – U.S. Writer Aid Initiative
- Artist Grant – Grants for Artists
W. Eugene Smith Fund
Eugene Smith Grant
Who’s this for?
Photographers
Award
$40,000
Deadline
May 31, 2024
Description from the Funder:
The W. Eugene Smith Grant seeks to encourage and support visual storytellers whose photographic work renews the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion as a photographic essayist. Special consideration will be given to work that promotes social change, that embraces new technologies and image distribution, and that seeks to integrate the tradition of photography and social change with contemporary practice.
The judges will look for a photographer and project that seem most likely to use exemplary and compelling photojournalism and documentary photography (possibly supplemented by or incorporating multi-media) to address an issue of import and impact related to the human condition: social change, humanitarian concern, armed conflict, or other topics of interpersonal, psychological, cultural, social, environmental, scientific, medical and/or political significance, ideally expressing an underlying acknowledgement of our common humanity.
The Hopper Prize
Grants for Artists
Who is this for?
All artists
Award
$3,500
Deadline
May 14, 2024
Description from the Funder:
The Hopper Prize was established to provide grants, visibility, and career enhancing validation to artists who demonstrate a serious commitment to their work.
We accept submissions for grants through a bi-annual open call. Each grant cycle is juried by a new team of contemporary curators who select grant winners on the basis of artistic excellence and the promise of future potential.
Recording Fund
Funds for Recording Artists
Who is this for?
Recording artists
Award
Varies
Deadline
Rolling
Description from the Funder
Applications will be reviewed as submitted, and grants will be awarded based on funding availability. Your application will remain on file for one year and be reviewed periodically for grant opportunities. Grants are to be used to cover or supplement the cost of recording. This can include production, engineering, mixing, mastering, or studio facility costs – and will be paid directly to the service providers.
Speculative Literature Foundation
The Older Writers Grant
Who is this for?
Writers
Award
$1,000
Deadline
May 31, 2024
Description:
Since 2004, the Older Writers Grant has been awarded annually to writers who are at least fifty years of age at the time of application to assist such writers who are just beginning their careers as speculative fiction writers. These funds may be used as each writer determines will best assist their work.
This grant, as with all SLF grants, is intended to help writers working with speculative literature from all over the world. Speculative literature spans the breadth of fantastic writing, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy, including ghost stories, horror, folk and fairy tales, slipstream, magical realism, and more. Any piece of literature containing a fabulist or speculative element would fall under our aegis.
San Francisco Film Festival
Documentary Film Fund
Who is this for?
Documentary Filmmakers
Award
Varies
Deadline
May 31, 2024
Description from the Funder:
DFF grants are awarded once each year to documentary feature projects and are open to filmmakers internationally. Individual grant amounts and the number of grants made will be determined on an annual basis. As with all SFFILM grants, in addition to the cash awards, recipients will gain access to numerous benefits through the comprehensive and dynamic SFFILM Makers artist development program.
Pen America
U.S. Writer Aid Initiative
Who is this for?
Writers
Award
Varies
Deadline
July 01, 2024
Description from the Funder:
The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. To be eligible, applicants must be professional writers based in the United States, and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping address a short-term emergency situation. The fund is limited, and not every application can be supported.
Artist Grant
Grants for Artists
Who is this for?
Visual artists
Award
$500
Deadline
July 15, 2024
Description:
Artist Grant provides a $500 USD grant to one visual artist each grant cycle. Once an artist wins a grant, they may not apply again. We also award 2nd and 3rd place runners-up with $100 USD each. Runners-up may apply again in a future grant cycle.
We hope you find something that catches your attention! We will keep post new opportunities on our blog every month. As a reminder – just reach out if you would like to see more grants/opportunities for a specific art form.
New to applying for grants? Need help with your application? Check out our post on grant writing.
Look out for the next issue of crEATe Magazine!
