Harpo Foundation - Grants for Visual Artists

Founded and endowed by an individual artist, The Harpo Foundation, awards 7 – 10 grants annually to emerging visual artists age 21 and older. In addition, unlike the majority of the other agencies on our list, the Harpo Foundation also maintains two residency programs, one for emerging artists and another for Native Americans.  The Native American Residency Fellowship is unique amongst residency programs. It provides two residency fellowships to Native American visual artists at the Vermont Studio Center. This is an amazing opportunity for Native American artists to not only find immediate time, space, and support to make work, but it also places their work in a critical, inter-cultural dialog.  As if that were not enough, The Harpo Foundation also provides what they describe as New Work Project Grants. These grants are available to non profit institutions working to support the production of new work by visual artists and/or collaborative teams who are under-recognized by the field. This production may happen in the context of an installation, public intervention, residency, or exhibition.