Since 2016, the VeganFlix Seed Grant has been empowering filmmakers to create digital film projects that promote vegan visibility and animal rights. Applications for the **2024 grant** are now open!

  
The application process is designed to encourage and support video projects that highlight veganism, animal rights, or feature positive vegan characters.

  
**Selection Criteria:**

* Adherence to the theme.
* Quality and clarity of the application and trailer or description.
* Impact of the seed grant on the project.
* Encouragement of the filmmaker.

VeganFlix is awarding a seed grant of $500 to support a new video work in 2024.

  
Publicity: Participation grants VeganFlix in perpetuity rights to use the grantee’s name, video title, likenesses, and submitted project image, trailer, or portions thereof for promotional purposes.

  
Website Display: Awarded videos may be presented in perpetuity on VeganFlix's website or affiliated channels.

2024 VeganFlix Seed Grant

The Alex J. Ettl Grant is a prize of $5,000 sponsored by the National Sculpture Society.

  
It is awarded annually to a figurative or realist sculptor who has demonstrated a commitment to sculpting and outstanding ability in his/her/their body of work. The Ettl Grant is for a mature body of work; sculpture created in workshop or instructional settings should not be submitted.

  
The jury will consist of three prominent sculptors.

  
The grant will be awarded in June 2025.

Alex J. Ettl Sculpture Grant

The Marilyn Newmark Memorial Grant is a $5,000 prize for a sculptor, **specializing in animal sculpture**, who has demonstrated a commitment to sculpting and outstanding ability in his/her/their body of work.

  
The jury will consist of three prominent sculptors.

  
The grant will be awarded in June 2025.

Marilyn Newmark Memorial Grant

The Arts Impact for Individuals grant program provides up to $5,000 for artistic projects in Minnesota led by individuals. Projects must be focused on creating access to the arts for Minnesotans, and/or engaging with Minnesota communities through artistic endeavors. Proposed projects could include:

* Connecting Minnesotans with participation in arts and cultural experiences; and/or
* Integrating artists and/or artistic engagement to accomplish a community’s non-arts goals; and/or
* Providing Minnesotans with opportunities for arts learning and passing along expressive cultural traditions.

Community members, rather than the applicant, must be the primary beneficiary of project activities. At least three Minnesotans other than the applicant must participate in the project. Projects primarily focused on developing the applicant’s own needs and creative interests are not a good fit with this program.

Arts Impact for Individuals

The W. Eugene Smith Grant is designed to encourage and support visual storytellers whose photographic work renews the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion as evidenced during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. Special consideration will be given to work that promotes social change, that embraces new technologies and image distribution, and that seeks to integrate the tradition of photography and social change with contemporary practice. The judges will be looking for a photographer and project that seem most likely to use exemplary and compelling photojournalism and documentary photography (possibly supplemented by or incorporating multi-media) to address an issue of import and impact related to the human condition: social change, humanitarian concern, armed conflict, or other topics of interpersonal, psychological, cultural, social, environmental, scientific, medical and/or political significance, ideally expressing an underlying acknowledgement of our common humanity.
  
  

You can request a fee waiver until September 24, 2024.

**For 2024, the amount of the W. Eugene Smith Grant is $30,000\. An additional $10,000 Fellowship grant will be awarded and $7,500 will be given to a Finalist.**

  
Applicant also understands and agrees that if applicant is the recipient of the Grant, $24,000 will be paid upon receipt of the Grant, and $6000 will be paid upon receipt of twelve (12) digital images and twelve (12) prints within eighteen (18) months after receipt of the Grant. The Fellowship Grant will pay $8,000 upon receipt of the grant and $2,000 will be paid upon receipt of twelve (12) digital images within eighteen (18) months after receipt of the Grant. The Finalist Grant will pay $6,000 upon receipt of the grant and $1,500 will be paid upon receipt of twelve (12) digital images within eighteen (18) months after receipt of the Grant. Recipients must submit a final report detailing how the grant was used and how the money contributed to the success of the project.

  
**The images shall become part of the W. Eugene Smith Legacy Collection at the International Center of Photography in New York.** Applicant also agrees that as part of the unrestricted gift, the Smith Fund may exhibit the images and use them on a non-exclusive licensing

W. Eugene Smith Grant 2024

The PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, now in its 8th edition, aims to empower the work and careers of female and non-binary professionals of all ages and from all countries working in diverse areas of photography. Its mission is to support the growth of the new generations and promote stories narrated from a female perspective while responding to the need to work for gender equality in the industry.

  
To participate, you are invited to submit one or more projects centred around a specific theme, narrative or concept. All approaches are welcome from classic to more experimental projects, and you can present more than one work. By applying you retain full copyright or your images at all times, and we’ll ask for your permission to share them on our social media channels.

  
The judging will happen between October and November with the shortlist to be announced before 20 November. Thanks for considering this opportunity and good luck with your applications!

* A Solo Exhibition at PhMuseum Lab

  
* Online Featured Interview on Vogue Italia

  
* Projection of work at Photo Vogue Festival 2025 in Milan

  
* 60-Minute Online Portfolio Reviews from PhMuseum Mentor

  
* 1st Prize €5,000, plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2024 and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

  
* 2nd Prize €2,000, plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2024 and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

  
* 3rd Prize €1,000, plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2024 and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

  
* New Generation €2,000, plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2024, a remote consultancy, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

PhMuseum 2024 Women Photographers Grant

Andy Rocchelli Grant is an international award, now in its second edition, promoted by CESURA in the name of its co-founder Andy Rocchelli, photojournalist killed in Ukraine in 2014\. Andy was an irreplaceable fire starter, and to make sure that his values as a photographer and as a person can continue to burn, since 2021 CESURA has established a Grant in his name to allow an author or new talent to create a photographic book in full freedom of expression, as Andy would have wanted.

Printed editorial production was a key aspect of his research as a means of dissemination and completion of the work. The purpose of the Grant is therefore to identify the best unpublished photographic dummy and award the winner with the production and publication of the book by Cesura Publish, the collective’s publishing house.

The first edition of the Grant received 126 applications from more than 25 countries and awarded the prize to Kanta Nomura with the publication of the photobook The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History with Cesura Publish.

Applications are open from May 24th, 2024 in commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of Andy’s passing.

The jury will meet in October 2024 to select a short list of finalists. In February 2025, the winning book will be announced, and launched.

The best project selected will be published in the form of a photographic book by Cesura Publish. The author is entitled to 15 free copies.

Andy Rocchelli Grant 2024

The Elephant Trust was created in 1975 by Roland Penrose and Lee Miller with a view to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts in the United Kingdom.

  
_‘To bear in mind at all times an original, inquisitive, open-minded, generous and unshockable approach to art in all its forms with a bias towards the visual arts.’_ 

  
This injunction, laid down by the original Trustees of The Elephant Trust, embodies the spirit of its founders, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, and remains the cornerstone of the Trust’s policy today. The Trust was set up in 1975 to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. It is committed to helping artists and art institutions/galleries that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities.

  
**The Trustees’ main objective is to support new work.** Priority is given to artists in the fine arts and small organisations and galleries who should submit well argued, imaginative proposals for making or producing new work or exhibitions.

  
The Elephant Trust administers three other trusts:

  
* The George Melhuish Bequest
* The Shelagh Wakely Bequest
* The Joanna Drew Travel Bursary which will be offered each summer to a Curator needing to travel to further experience or studies

Given The Elephant Trust’s modest resources, grants have usually been limited to £2,000, but with the recent addition of the Shelagh Wakely Bequest some larger grants of up to £5,000 may be awarded. In some cases awards may also be leveraged to receive subsequent funding from organisations such as the Arts Council. We encourage successful applicants to look into how they can use their award to unlock other funding.

The Elephant Trust for Fine Arts

At New England Foundation for the Arts, we believe that public art has the power to shift public culture and change the future, for the better. Creating positive social change requires collective imagination.

  
**How It Works:**

Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice grants support teams of Massachusetts-based creatives and community members, to do the important work of imagining:

_What does public art that fosters positive social change look, sound, and feel like in your community?_

The Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice grant aims to support teams that are dreaming up what public artmaking can be as we strive for more just futures for our public spaces and public culture. 

A new cohort of Collective Imagination Teams will be selected to participate in a six-month imagination journey, from January through June 2025.

A new cohort of Collective Imagination Teams will be selected to participate in a six-month imagination journey, from January through June 2025\. Each team will receive a $6,000 grant.

Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice

The 421 Artistic Research Grant supports practice-based research investigating contemporary social questions through interdisciplinary methodologies and active engagement with the researcher’s community. While this is not an academic grant, a strong interaction with the historical, geographical, and intellectual context of a grantee’s topic and medium is expected.

  
The grant supports practice-based research investigating contemporary social questions through interdisciplinary methodologies and active engagement with the researcher’s community. Creative practitioners can work through disciplines including but not limited to visual art and curations, design and technology, literary arts, culinary arts, music, theater and performance. The grant targets topics that investigate the intersections of these disciplines with social and cultural topics, such as communal and public spaces, languages and linguistics, transportation and mobility systems, urbanity and its social and cultural fabric, economics and migration, and art institutions and ecosystems. 

  
In the 2025 edition of the grant, projects that engage with questions of ecology & humans’ relationship to nature are encouraged, but not mandatory. 

421 Art Campus will award a minimum of 2 grantees a budget up to AED75,000 ($20,380) each to support their research and project.

Artistic Research Grant

Find funding opportunities to realize your latest project, as well as research grants, travel stipends, and financial support for artists located all over the world.

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