Grants & Residencies

Here are a few grants and residencies applicable to a wide-range of visual artists, writers, composers, and other creative types:

VILCEK FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR CREATIVE PROMISE IN ARTS AND HUMANITIES
$25,000 awarded to a foreign-born writer who demonstrates outstanding early achievement. Accepts poets, novelists, short fiction writers and short creative nonfiction writers. The mission of the foundation is to recognize extraordinary achievements of immigrants to the US. Must be more than 38 years of age. Must be a naturalized citizen or permanent resident. In addition, four finalists will receive $5,000. Submit up to 30 pages of your best work. Deadline July 30, 2010.

MILLAY COLONY FELLOWSHIPS
The Millay Colony for the Arts offers one-month residencies to six visual artists, writers and composers each month between the months of April and November. It is located on a seven-acre campus with meadows and forest in Austerlitz, New York, adjacent to the former Millay home and gardens and the exquisite Harvey Mountain State Forest. Deadline October 1, 2010.

ELSEWHERE RESIDENCIES
Elsewhere residencies invite creatives of all kinds to experiment with context, process, and collaboration within a former thrift store turned living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Now accepting applications from artists, curators, writers, musicians, designers, gardeners, makers, builders, scholars, producers, and creatives across media for residencies in 2010. Deadline July 31 and September 30, 2010.