Support for Individual Artists

GIA members have been working together to promote and improve funding for individual artists for over 20 years. The Support for Individual Artists Committee has been one of the most active groups of funders within GIA. Over the years, the committee has been an incubator for such projects as a scan of scholarly research on artist support, a visual timeline outlining the history of artist support funding, major publications, and programs, and the development of a national taxonomy for reporting data on support for individual artists. The committee continues to advise, inspire, and inform GIA’s thought leadership and programming in support for individual artists.

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February 19, 2019 by Carmen Graciela Díaz

"Artists are used to dancing in the complexity. We like to make something where nothing exists; to explore new language around a struggle; to listen profoundly; to create new ways to see the world. Why not put artists in problem-solving roles?"

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January 3, 2019 by Carmen Graciela Díaz

"We’re creative, we’re affordable, and you can help us stay that way." That is Des Moines' pitch to artists as Iowa's capital grows, according to an article in City Lab.

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December 20, 2018 by Carmen Graciela Díaz

The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)'s AmbitioUS is an initiative designed to act as an experimental arm of the artist-support sector.

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December 17, 2018 by Carmen Graciela Díaz

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced the expansion of its Regional Regranting Program to Cleveland and Denver where it will be administered by the non-profit arts organizations SPACES and RedLine respectively. Baltimore’s program, The Grit Fund (TGF), will come back on line after a one-year hiatus under the new administration of Baltimore Arts Realty Corp (BARCO).

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October 29, 2018 by giarts-ts-admin

At the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, we are grateful every day for teaching artists.

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August 9, 2018 by Carmen Graciela Díaz

The Sustainable Arts Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2018 Awards. Visual artists and writers with children are invited to apply.

Twenty (20) awards of $5,000 each will be offered, and at least half of which will go to applicants of color.

Deadline: August 31, 2018, 5pm Eastern time.

Click here for more details.

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July 20, 2018 by Carmen Graciela Díaz

Remember her name. After anonymously giving $5.5 million to other female artists over the last 22 years, Susan Unterberg, the benefactor behind that effort, has revealed her identity through a The New York Times piece.

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March 26, 2018 by Carmen Graciela Díaz

Grantmakers in the Arts is pleased to announce 8 new members from across the nation, and a new co-chair, to the Support for Individual Artists Committee.

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November 22, 2017 by Lauren Katzowitz Shenfield

Anonymous Was A Woman announced today the recipients of its 2017Awards. Winners include Amy Sherald, 43, commissioned to paint the portrait of Michelle Obama for the National Portrait Gallery, and nine other distinguished artists selected for their originality and potential. Each year, the Award recognizes women over 40 years of age who have made significant contributions in their fields to date, while continuing to create new work.

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November 21, 2017 by sslawnik

3Arts, the Chicago-based nonprofit grantmaking organization, is honored to announce the nearly 100 Chicago artists who received unrestricted grants at the 10th annual 3Arts Awards celebration on November 6. The celebration recognized the ten annual 3Arts Awards recipients along with the 83 recipients of Make a Wave—an unprecedented artist-to-artist giving initiative launched in recognition of the organization’s 10th anniversary.

As of now, 3Arts has distributed $3 million in total funding to more than 600 Chicago artists over the past ten years.

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