Artists Residencies and Resources

Creative Artists Network (CAN), founded in 1984, is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization whose dedicated mission is the professional development of talented, emerging visual artists. Applications are reviewed several times a year. After careful review, artists are invited to be affiliated for two years during which time they participate at no charge.

Creative Capital
65 Bleecker Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
212.598.9900
http://www.creative-capital.org/index1.html

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the performing, visual, and media arts, and in emerging arts fields. The organization is committed to working in partnership with artists, providing advisory services and professional development assistance along with financial support. In return for Creative Capital's financial and managerial support, artists will share a portion of any proceeds generated by their projects. This will help in replenishing their grantmaking fund, and will enable Creative Capital to support more artists in the future. Creative Capital is committed to diversity in all its forms.

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
103 East 16th Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
302.656.6466
www.thedcca.org

The DCCA's Visual Arts Residency Program involves community outreach and collaboration, and encourages the work of an innovative artist to infuse challenging ideas and issues into the local community. A "Call for Proposals" is usually send out each winter, with a review of application each spring. Please contact the DCCA Program Staff if you wish to receive a prospectus.

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
P.O. Box 2670
New York, NY 10108
212.563.5855
www.elizabethfoundation.org

Deadline is May 1st each year; Applications are available in January for that year's deadline. Funding is based on merit and financial need. Requests for applications must be sent to the foundation in writing. Please call fax or write to the foundation for more information.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
5-County Arts Fund
100 South Broad Street, Suite 1530
Philadelphia, PA 19110
215.557.7811
http://www.philaculture.org

GPCA offers grant awards of up to $5,000 through the 5-County Arts Fund. Awards are given to nonprofit organizations and individual artists sponsoring arts-related projects or programs in the five-county region of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Funds for these grants are provided by the PCA with matching funds contributed by the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA).

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
90 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212.687.4470
www.gf.org

The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowships is to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. Funding is based upon past accomplishment and future promise. Please contact the foundation for application and deadline information.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
22 Light Street, Suite 300
Baltimore, MD 21202
410.539.6656
www.midatlanticarts.org
www.artistsandcommunities.org

Providing leadership for artists and arts organizations in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and West Virginia. Offers the Artist as Catalyst Residency for a $3,000 monthly honorarium and housing allowance. Please call for information.

New York Foundation for the Arts
155 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Fl.
New York, NY 10013-1507
212.366.6900
www.nyfa.org

Both NYFA's web site, and their quarterly publication, FYI, For Your Information, are excellent sources for practical information for those who create and work in the arts, including information on grants, residencies, and other funding opportunities.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Finance Building, Rm. 216
Harrisburg, PA 17120
717.787.6883
www.artsnet.org/pca/pca.html

Offers fellowships up to $10,000 to Pennsylvania residents. Artistic excellence is the primary criteria for selection. Call or write for application and deadline information.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation
863 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
212.517.5400
http://www.pkf.org/

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time. Please write or e-mail the foundation for application and deadline information.

The Space Program
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
711 North Tejon Street, Suite B
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.635.3220
http://www.islandnet.com/poets/gr-walsh.htm

The foundation offers 14 free studio spaces in New York City - Manhattan. Visual artists 21 and over can submit proposals for work space. Studios are available for periods up to one year. Please write or call the foundation for an application and deadline information.

PUBLICATIONS

Artists Communities
- A Directory of Residencies in the United States That Offer Time and Space for Creativity
Introduction by Stanley Kunitz
Published by Allworth Press
10 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
http://www.artistcommunities.org/

The Alliance of Artists' communities compiled this directory to put information about artists' communities directly into the hands of artists. The book provides information on residency programs of seventy artists' communities around the country.

Foundation Grants to Individuals
Published by the Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
212.620.4230
http://www.fdncenter.org

A comprehensive listing of grant opportunities for individuals from foundations for all purposes, not just arts-related. The listings are available on their web site as well.