Resources for fashion designers and artists

Creative Capital offers individual grants for artists of all disciplines, professional guidance for grantees, professional development workshops and retreats nationwide, and the Artist Toolbox website, a resource-bank for artists with an annotated collection of career-resource sites.

First Peoples Fund supports the advancement of American Indian arts by focusing on three funding areas: The Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Awards, a national recognition and fellowship award for American Indian artists; the Artists in Business Leadership Program, which provides artists with technical assistance, access to capital and to new marketing opportunities, and the Cultural Capital Grant Fellowship, designed to further the important cultural work of artists who have previously been honored through the Community Spirit Awards.

Hatchfund invests in America’s finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society. Every year, Hatchfund awards fifty artists each $50,000. Hatchfund Fellowships are awarded in the following disciplines: architecture & design, crafts & traditional arts, dance, literature, media, music, theater arts, and visual arts. They support the highest level of excellence in work created by America’s finest artists throughout all stages of their careers.

The Puffin Foundation make grants that encourage emerging artists in the fields of art, music, photography, theater, video and literature whose works, due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired. Average grants are $1000 to $2500.

Northwest Film Center offers many services and opportunities for artists, film makers, and media arts professionals including fiscal sponsorship, residencies, film festivals, equipment and theater rental.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation provides grants and support to performing artists in legacy of Doris Duke. The Arts Program often awards initiative grants to intermediary nonprofit organizations, which in turn re-grant funding through competitive processes to individual artists in the fields of contemporary dance, jazz, theater, and related interdisciplinary work.

Foundation For Contemporary Arts 

In keeping with FCA’s mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, applicants must demonstrate that their artistic practice falls within this context. Created in 1993, Emergency Grants provides prompt funding for innovative visual and performing artists who: Emergency Grants Program is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range in amount from $200 to $2,000.

Musician’s Foundation, Inc. provides financial assistance to deserving musicians who need help in meeting current living, medical and allied expenses.

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation  was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock. Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. supports artists based on dual criteria of artistic merit and demonstrable financial need. One year grants of between $1K-$30K, targeted to one’s situation. Applications are reviewed 4-5 times a year.