ARTE 4950 / ART 5860: Community Arts Education: Home

The Toledo Arts Commission website connects artists to grant opportunities as well as other tools and services for working artists in Northwest Ohio.

An organization that serves as a clearinghouse for distributing endowed gifts that support community needs in Toledo such as social services, the arts, education, natural resources, and more.

Includes grant application forms, guidelines, deadlines, and grant programs.

The Knight Foundation supports journalism, community initiatives and the arts in eight U.S. cities, including Detroit and Akron.

The Mellon Foundation makes grants in humanistic scholarship and the visual and performing arts, among other areas.

The Dedalus Foundation fosters a greater public understanding of modern art and modernism through fellowships and awards programs for research, arts education, exhibitions and more.

Supports grant initiatives that increase access to museum collections, strengthen art history as a global discipline, advance conservation practice, and support current and future leaders in the visual arts.

Fellowships at The Met are an opportunity for scholars from around the world to use the Museum as a place for exchange, research, and professional advancement.

Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities.

Awards grants to cultural institutions, such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges, universities, public television, and radio stations, and to individual scholars.

Opportunities for fellowships, internships, research and study.

"NYFA's mission is to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives. NYFA is the largest provider of grants, services, and information to artists working in all disciplines in the United States."

This federal site includes comprehensive information about government grants.

An extensive online database of funding opportunities.

A free, limited version of the comprehensive subscription database Foundation Directory Online, from the Foundation Center. You must register to starting using FDO Quick Start.

A listing of recent calls for proposals by grant-making organizations, organized by subject. Go to "Arts/Culture" under the RFPs dropdown to view all calls in that category.

Has a list of regional grants, including international, near the bottom.

Worldwide network of artist-residencies and residential art centers. Has an "upcoming deadlines" list and a monthly e-newsletter.

Artist's communities in the U.S. Can search by artistic category and region.

Sign up to receive monthly notifications of opportunities, including residencies, grants and fellowships. Free and paid versions are available.

International opportunities for funding, studio space, and residencies.

A searchable database of over 40,000 grant opportunities from more than 10,000 global sponsors. Use SPIN to search for research grants, fellowships, training and various other funding opportunities. Use SPIN to access funding information online and organize grant information in one convenient place. Access courtesy of the BGSU Office of Sponsored Programs & Research. For more information, email ospr@bgsu.edu

Use the links on the left to browse resources from BGSU.

A page by Carol Singer about finding government grants.

Online resources compiled by Idaho State University Libraries.

A LibGuide from the University of Denver.

A LibGuide from Humboldt State University

Creative Compass is a website for Cleveland-area artists. Its grants page points artists to local (Cleveland), statewide and national grant opportunities.

The GCAC maintains a grants & fellowships web portal that includes listings of opportunities and an application portal.

Culture Works is the funding, advocacy and service organization for the arts in Dayton. It offers Artist Opportunity Grants for Montgomery County artists.

The Akron Community Foundation provides grants to support arts programming in Akron.

This resource provides general guidelines for grant writing in general and in the scientific disciplines.

Information about applying for Fulbright grants for BGSU students.

A guide from the Ringling College of Art & Design

A Fulbright Guide from Cornell University