Visual Arts in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties - Updated Weekly!
Resources for Artists: Grants / Financial Assistance / Workshops / Webinars
updated 3/20/23
Resources that may be helpful for western MA visual artists and creative small businesses. Note that many grants have deadlines to apply. Many of the COVID-19 resources are still being updated so keep checking them for new info. Also keep an eye on the local "Calls to Artists / Artist Opportunities" section in the weekly newsletter.
- Creative Community Fellows: New England via National Arts Strategies - 4/6/2023 deadline; info session 3/23/23
- Capacity Grant via Assets for Artists and ValleyCreates - 4/7/2023 deadline
- Expand Massachusetts Stories via Mass Humanities - 5/22/2023 deadline
- March Jobs & Opportunities via NEFA
- Artist Opportunities: March and April via Creative Capital
- Free Professional Development Workshops for Artists from Assets for Artists
- Biz-M-Power from MGCC - monthly deadlines, program ends June 2023
- MacDowell Fellowship - application reopens 9/1/23
- Free Business Basics Webinar via Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) - workshops held first Mondays and third Thursdays
- Creator Fund via Creative Capital
- BridgeSong Fund: Emergency Relief for Western MA Women, Nonbinary, and Genderqueer Artists of Color
- Empower Digital Grant from MGCC - rolling deadline, program ends 6/30/2023
- Emergency Grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts - monthly
- Jar of Love Microgrants for Creatives of Color from ARTNOIR - rolling deadline
- Artist + Activist Relief Fund from The Soze Foundation - waiting list
- Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund - paused, updates TBA
- Rural Relief Small Business Grants - new round coming
- The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant for painters, printmakers, and sculptors - no deadline
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants - no deadline
- AES Resource List (UMass Arts Extension Service)
- Emergency Aid from Artists' Fellowship
- Arts Resources from NALAC
- COVID-19 Resource list from NEFA
- Western Massachusetts Community Mutual Aid
- Small Business Legal Clinic at WNE School of Law
- Artist Resources from CUE
- Leveler's Peer to Peer Wealth Distribution
- Covid-19 Freelance Artist Resource
- Resources from CERF+ (The Artists Safety Net)
- Coronavirus Resource and Response Center from American for the Arts
- Financial Relief Resources for Artists During COVID-19 from Artwork Archive
- COVID-19 Resources from the MCC
- COVID-19 Resources for Artists and Arts Organizations from the NEA
