Providing $500 for short-term, rapid relief to artists facing unexpected expenses or loss of income due to personal/professional emergencies or natural disasters. The ERF application is designed to be straightforward, so that artists can access funds when they need it most. Monthly deadlines through June 2026. ERF is open to individuals who identify as artists […]
MusiCares provides a “safety net of critical assistance for music people “struggling with financial, medical, or personal crises.” (New York, Nashville, Southern California)
Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund through the Jazz Foundation of America helps “save musicians from eviction and provide emergency living expenses.” (New York)
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants are up to $5,000 support direct treatment expenses for medical, dental or mental health emergencies. Choreographers, those creating in the visual arts, and those creating in the film/video/electronic/digital arts are eligible.
Artists+ Material Grant from Visual AIDS is for artists living with HIV in need of financial assistance for materials to create their work. Must be a member to apply. (New York)
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation offers grants to artists based on “recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both.” (New York)
CERF+ has an emergency assistance program that includes grants and/or brokered assistance, such as booth fee waivers and discounts or donations on supplies and equipment to artists facing recent, career threatening emergency, such as an illness, accident, fire or natural disaster. CERF+ also has a wide variety of emergency resources for artists. (Vermont)
The Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. is a private, charitable foundation that “assists professional fine artists (painters, graphic artists, printmakers, sculptors) and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement.” (New York)
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc. has an Emergency Grant program that is intended to provide qualified artists with one-time interim financial assistance in the event of an unforeseen, catastrophic event. (New York)
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants are one-time grants of up to $5,000 to professional dancers who have experienced dire financial emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, including lack or imminent endangerment of essentials such as housing, medicine/healthcare, utilities, and food.
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