Visual Arts in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties - Updated Weekly!
Resources for Artists - Grants / Emergency Funds / Financial Assistance
updated 4/6/21
Resources that may be helpful for western MA artists and creative businesses. I will add more to this post as I find them, 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.
- ValleyCreates Working Capital Program - 5/10 deadline
- Jobs & Opportunities via NEFA
- Free Summer Business Webinars for Artists from Assets for Artists
- Grants for Arts Projects from NEA - 6/16 deadline
- NOM Multimedia Arts Grant - 4/13 deadline
- Shelburne Falls/West County Area Grants from Greater Shelburne Falls Area Business Association - rolling deadline
- Art Angels Grant Program - 4/15 deadline
- The Comcast RISE program for BIPOC-owned small businesses - 5/17 deadline
- Artist + Activist Relief Fund from The Soze Foundation - waiting list
- Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund
- Public Art Learning Fund from NEFA - 4/20 deadline
- Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice from NEFA - 5/24 deadline
- Public Art for Spatial Justice from NEFA - 5/24 deadline
- Arts Resources from NALAC
- Shuttered Venue Operators Grant from SBA - applications open early April
- Recover, Rebuild, Renew Series from MCC
- Western MA Microenterprise Forgivable Loans via Franklin County CDC
- Rural Relief Small Business Grants - new round coming
- The Create Fund Grants from Shutterstock - 4/22 deadline
- COVID-19 Resource list from NEFA
- Western Massachusetts Community Mutual Aid
- Small Business Legal Clinic at WNE School of Law
- Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
- Artist Resources from CUE
- Leveler’s Peer to Peer Wealth Distribution
- Covid-19 Freelance Artist Resource
- Arts Leaders of Color Emergency Fund
- The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant for painters, printmakers, and sculptors - no deadline
- $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19 from Artist Relief - 6/23 deadline
- Senator Jo Comerford's Constituent Resource Guide (info for MA small businesses and unemployment)
- Resources from CERF+ (The Artists Safety Net)
- Coronavirus Resource and Response Center from American for the Arts
- AES Resource list during COVID-19 (UMass Arts Extension Service)
- Financial Relief Resources for Artists During COVID-19 from Artwork Archive
- COVID-19 Resources from the MCC
- List of Arts Resources During the COVID-19 Outbreak from Creative Capital
- Small Business Assistance for COVID-19 from mass.gov
- Emergency relief info and resources from Assets for Artists
- COVID-19 Resources for Artists and Arts Organizations from the NEA
- COVID-19 Emergency Funding and Artist Resources
- Resources for Artists in the COVID-19 Crisis, Emergency grants, freelance resources, legal aid, and more
- Emergency Funds – All Art Forms from womenarts.org
