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Resources for Artists

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Artist Funding Sources

Barbara Deming Memorial Fund - (Women Artists)

Center for Craft, Creativity & Design

College Art Association

Creative Capital Foundation

Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology

Foundation Center

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

LEF Foundation (New England)

Maine Community Foundation

Maine Philanthropy Center

National Endowment for the Arts

New England Foundation for the Arts Presenter Travel Fund

New England States Touring (NEST) program

Puffin Foundation Ltd.

The Fund for Women Artists

Craft

Center for Craft, Creativity and Design

Craft Emergency Relief Fund

Film/Media

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Financial Grants

Anthony Radziwill Documnetary Fund

Center for Documentary Studies - Filmmaker Award

Film Arts Foundation

Jane Morrison Memorial Film Fund

LEF Foundation (New England) - Moving Image Fund

Oppenheimer New Filmmaker Grant Program

Panavision's New Filmmaker Program

Interactive Art

Black Rock Arts Foundation

Burning Man Art Grants

Music

Chopin Foundation of the United States

GRAMMY Foundation Grants

Jazz Foundation - Musician's Emergency Fund

Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

Lotte Lehmann Foundation

Musicians Foundation

Society of Singers

Sweet Relief Musicians Fund

Performing Arts

Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation

New England Foundation for the Arts - American Masterpieces: Dance

The Professional Dancers Society

Photography

Aaron Siskind Foundation

Alexia Foundation for World Peace

Center for Documentary Studies

En Foco - New Works Award

Gordon Parks International Photo Contest

W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund

Traditional Arts

American Folklife Center

Maine Arts Commission Traditional Arts Program

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance

National Endowment for the Arts

Native Arts New England program

Visual Arts

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation

Astrea Visual Arts Fund

Artists' Fellowhip, Inc. (Fine Artists)

Artist's Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund (.pdf)

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation

George and Helen Segal Foundation

Library Fellows Artist Book Program

Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation

Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation

Pollack-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation

Sam and Adele Golden Foundation

Virginia A. Groot Foundation

Xeric Foundation

Writers

A Room of Her Own Foundation (AROHO)

Amy Clampitt Fund (.pdf)

Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation

Authors League Fund

Carnegie Fund for Authors

Hurston/Wright Foundation

Lesbian Writers Fund

Martin Dibner Fellowship for Maine Writers

PEN American Center - Writer's Fund

Poets & Writers Grants and Awards

Artist Studios

The Space Program

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