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This is an extensive, but not exhaustive, list of funding opportunities for informational purposes only. Click on an entry for more details. Please be sure to verify competition guidelines, eligibility, and deadlines on the sponsor’s website.
- If you are a faculty member in the College of LAS and are applying for funding from federal agencies and/or funding that is awarded to the institution, you must contact the LAS Office of Research at las-research@illinois.edu a minimum of four weeks prior to the sponsor deadline to notify them you plan to apply.
- All faculty (regardless of college/department) applying for funding from federal agencies and/or funding that is awarded to the institution must work with Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) for proposal preparation, review, and submission. Please note that internal deadlines (set by SPA and your department) are earlier than the sponsor deadline.
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| Opportunity | Summary | Rolling Submissions Cycle | Funding Categories | Funding Type |
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| Academy of American Poets | Since 1934, the Academy of American Poets has provided visibility and financial support to poets | Varies | Awards, Fellowships | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| American Academy in Rome (Rome Prize) | For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative | November | International | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| American Antiquarian Society (Artist and Creative Fellowships) | The American Antiquarian Society offers visiting fellowships for historical research by creative | Varies | Fellowships, Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) | The American Society for Theatre Research sponsors or coordinates several awards, grants, fellows | October | Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Andy Warhol Foundation | The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. | May | Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Founded in 1933, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is a learning organization built upon an ex | Varies | International | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Camargo Foundation | Founded by American artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill (1905-1972), the Camargo Foundation fosters creativity, research, and experimentation through its international residency program for artists, scholars, and thinkers. | October | Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Canadian Centre for Architecture Fellowship (Residential) | The CCA’s Research Fellowship Program supports innovative, advanced research to foster new kinds of intellectual exchange that spark long-term dialogue and debate. | Varies | Fellowships | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Canadian Centre for Architecture Fellowship (Virtual) | Supports investment in thinking through how digitized CCA Collection material can generate new historical configurations and timely interpretations. | June | Artists and Creative Practitioners | |
| Center for Craft (Craft Archive Fellowship) | Fellowship fostering archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the United States. | May | Fellowships | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Creative Capital | Every month, Creative Capital compiles a list of residencies, grant, and award opportunities as part of our commitment to sharing resources and opportunities for artists working in all creative disciplines. | Varies | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Curated List of Funding for Creative Practitioners | |
| Fulbright U.S. Scholars Programs | The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. | September | International, Awards | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation | The Foundation awards travel grants to individual scholars to support historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. | December | International, Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Grammy Foundation Grant Program | With funding generously provided by The Recording Academy, the GRAMMY Museum Grants Program award | June | Portable, Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Guggenheim Fellowship - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | The Guggenheim Foundation offers fellowships to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation of any artform, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. | September | Portable, Fellowships | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Harpo Foundation (Grants for Visual Artists) | The Harpo Foundation seeks to affirm the centrality of the artist in the world of art, encourage new modes of making and thinking about art, and expand inclusivity and equitable representation in the visual arts. | April | Grants, Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Harvard Radcliffe Institute (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study) | Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world. | September | Fellowships | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Henry Moore Foundation (Research & Travel Grants) | Available to sculpture historians, academics and conservators who are researching and publishing on sculpture conservation, production, history and/or interpretation. | Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners | |
| Illinois Humanities | Illinois Humanities, the Illinois affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a st | Varies | Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission (Creative Artist Fellowship Program) | Supports and selects up to five projects involving diverse artists from the U.S., representing a wide range of artistic genres and regions. | March | Fellowships | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Literature Fellowship - National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) | The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose | March | Portable, Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Logan Nonfiction Program - Carey Institute for Global Good | The Logan Nonfiction Program is a hybrid fellowship for nonfiction writers, documentary filmmaker | October | Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| MacDowell | MacDowell encourages applications from artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the follow | February, September | Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| MAP Fund | The MAP Fund invests in performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. | Varies | Artists and Creative Practitioners | |
| National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC) | Since 1989, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures has delivered programs that stab | Varies | Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| National Parks Arts Foundation | The National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) works directly with select artists and The National Par | Varies | Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| New York Public Library (Fellowships & Institutes) | The Library’s research centers provide a wide array of fellowship opportunities | Varies | Fellowships, Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| New York Public Library (Short-Term Research Fellowships) | Short-Term Research Fellowships to support scholars based outside the New York metropolitan area engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, and independent research in the arts and humanities. | Varies | Fellowships, Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Poetry Foundation Fellowship - Ragdale | This fellowship is awarded to four poets. | May | Residency | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
| Pollock-Krasner Foundation (Grants for Artists) | Grants that enable artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as their personal expenses. | Varies | Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners |
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