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United States Department of State

Creative Arts Exchange

The goals of the Creative Arts Exchange (CAE) are to: 

• Promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries; 
• Provide unique opportunities for artistic collaboration, engagement, and/or performance between American artists and international participants; 
• Convey the diversity and high artistic merit of the arts in America as well as increase awareness and understanding of American art, culture, values and society for international participants and audiences; 
• Foster opportunities for educational outreach and community engagement with diverse and underserved communities, especially youth, women, and persons with disabilities;
• Engage participants in instructive and informative experiences in their art form;
• Provide unique opportunities for artistic collaboration, engagement and/or performance that enrich American and international artists and arts experts; and
• Create opportunities for sustaining relationships and collaboration between U.S. and international artists and institutions that endure beyond program duration.

For more information, see here.

The Foundation considers major grant applications in the fields of libraries, education, hospitals and clinics.

Grants for Libraries: Applications will be considered for resource Endowments (print, film, electronic database, speakers/workshops), capital construction, and innovative equipment. Projects fostering broader public access to global information sources utilizing collaborative efforts, pioneering technologies, and equipment are encouraged.

Grants for Educational Institutions: Applications will be considered for: educational endowments to fund scholarships; endowments to support fellowships and teaching chairs; and erection or endowment of buildings and equipment for educational purposes.

For more information, see here.

Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation 

The Arts Writers Grant Program supports individuals whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants in the following categories: articles, blogs, books, new and alternative media, and short-form writing. It aims to support the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary visual art, from general-audience criticism to academic scholarship. Designed to encourage and reward writing about contemporary art that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent and precise, as well as to create a broader audience for arts writing, the Arts Writers Grant Program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts.

For more information, see here.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 

The UNESCO programme serves as a means of building the capacities of higher education and research institutions through the exchange of knowledge and sharing, in a spirit of international solidarity. The programme covers training, research and exchange of academics and offers a platform for information sharing in all fields. The majority of projects are interdisciplinary. 

Because of the nature and flexibility of the Chairs Programme, universities can respond more readily and with greater autonomy to the demands for new learning and research in a world undergoing rapid economic, social and technological change.

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National Endowment for the Humanities 

Fellowships support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan's international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations. Appropriate disciplines for the research include anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, linguistics, political science, psychology, public administration, and sociology.

Fellowships are designed for researchers with advanced language skills whose research will require use of data, sources, and documents in their original languages or whose research requires interviews onsite in direct one-on-one contact. Fellows may undertake their projects in Japan, the United States, or both, and may include work in other countries for comparative purposes.

For more information, see here.

National Endowment for the Humanities 

Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development.

Fellowship recipients may begin their fellowship tenure as early as January 2016 or as late as September 2016.

For more information, see here.

History of Art, Conservation, and Digital Resources

Through its Grant Programs, the Kress Foundation supports scholarly projects that promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art from antiquity to the early 19th century. 

The History of Art Program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

The Conservation Program supports the professional practice of art conservation.

The Digital Resources Program supports efforts to integrate new technologies into the practice of art history, including classroom applications and online publishing. This program further supports the creation of important online resources in art history, including both textual and visual resources. Key interests include digitization of core art history photographic archives and primary textual sources.

For more information, see here.

Henry Luce Foundation

Luce Fund in American Art

This award supports scholarly special exhibitions and their related publications that contribute significantly to the study of American art. All periods and genres of American art history are included. Each proposed project must result in a tangible product that can be added to the body of scholarship in the field of American art. Intellectual merit and potential contribution to scholarship are the most important criteria for evaluating proposals. 

Applicants must be the originator of the exhibition project, not a subsequent venue. The program is aesthetically- and object-based and does not include projects that are primarily historical, documentary, social, technological, or that concern private collections.

For more information, see here.

New Music USA

Project Grants

New Music USA supports a range of new music projects. Projects can take place up to two years past the deadline or up to six months prior and requests can come from individuals or organizations. The Foundation is especially interested in funding artists directly for their work, whether that's creating, engaging, performing, or otherwise. Project Grants support:

• The creation of new musical work;
• New live music for dance;
• Recording costs; and
• Residency and community outreach activities.

For more information, see here.

Society for the Preservation of American Modernists

Course Development and Publication Grants

Eligible Disciplines: art history

The Society for the Preservation of American Modernists celebrates and elucidates the art, lives, and ideas of the American modernists. 

Course Development Grants are intended to expand college and university teaching of the history of support for the arts in the U.S. Applicants, who may come from disciplines other than art history, must demonstrate that the proposed course is entirely new or substantially revised from old course offerings at their schools.

Publication Grants support the authorship of articles or books by independent scholars, writers, students, and professionals in the following subject areas: the artistic contributions of the American modernists, and the history of public and private support for the arts in the U.S. 

For more information, see here.

Harpo Foundation

Grants for Visual Artists

Eligible Disciplines: visual arts

The Harpo Foundation supports artists who are under-recognized by the field. The foundation seeks to stimulate creative inquiry to encourage new modes of thinking about art. Applications are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the artist's work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and its relationship to the foundation's priority to provide support to visual artists who are under recognized by the field.

For more information, see here.

Max van Berchem Foundation

Eligible Disciplines: Islamic and Arabic archaeology, history, geography, art history, epigraphy, religion and literature.

The Max van Berchem Foundation's goal is to promote the study of Islamic and Arabic archaeology, history, geography, art history, epigraphy, religion and literature. Grants are usually awarded for a period of three years--sometimes longer for archaeological projects--and support a range of research activities, including but not limited to: excavations, studies of manuscripts, texts, inscriptions, artifacts, and architectural surveys. Scholars of any rank may apply.

For more information, see here.