Please scroll down to apply for NYFA Grants & Awards that are currently open for submissions.
For more information about NYFA grant opportunities, as well as the guidelines and eligibility requirements for all the applications below, please visit our website at https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/ or email NYFA Grants & Awards at:
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Recharge New Surrealist Prize, & JGS Fellowship for Photography: [email protected]
Rauschenberg Emergency Grants: [email protected]
Canadian Women Artists' Award: [email protected]
Anonymous was a Woman Environmental Art Grants: [email protected]
NYSCA/NYFA Artist With Disabilities Grant, Queens Art Fund, & Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Playwright Award: [email protected]
NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music, and Theatre: [email protected]
2023 Application Closes: Wednesday, June 14 at 5:00PM EDT
2023 Application Guidelines: Click Here
The JGS Fellowship for Photography is open to New York State photography artists, living and working anywhere in the following regions of New York State: Western New York, Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, Central New York, North Country, Mohawk Valley, Capital District, Hudson Valley, and Long Island. (Counties listed below in eligibility requirements)
Not open to artist currently living and working in New York City counties (Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island))
Eligibility requirements:
- Must work in photography. Traditional and experimental photography or any form in which photography or photographic techniques are pivotal, if not exclusive is eligible.
- Need to be a current full-time resident of New York State and have lived full-time in one of the regions listed above for a minimum of 12 months at the time applications close.
- Must live in one of the following counties: Albany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Dutchess, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Oswego, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westchester, Wyoming, and Yates.
- Be at least 25 years of age at the time the application closes.
- Students in bachelor’s or master’s degree programs of any kind are not eligible to apply.
- All past recipients of any NYFA grant or Fellowship are eligible to apply, except past recipients of the JGS Fellowship for Photography.
- Cannot be a NYFA employee, members of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists' Advisory Committee, and/or an immediate family member of any of the above.
Please direct any questions about the JGS Fellowship for Photography at [email protected]
2023 Application Closes: Friday, June 30 at 5:00PM EDT
2023 Application Guidelines: Click Here
The Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Playwright Award is a $10,000 cash grant to be awarded to one (1) New York State-based playwright who self-identifies as LGBTQ+.
Eligibility requirements:
- Must be a working playwright. TAcceptable forms of playwriting include stage plays, libretti, radio plays, and audio dramas. No audio is accepted.
- Need to be a current full-time resident of New York State afor a minimum of 12 months at the time applications close.
- Be at least 25 years of age at the time the application closes.
- Students in bachelor’s or master’s degree programs of any kind are not eligible to apply.
- All past recipients of any NYFA grant or Fellowship are eligible to apply.
- Cannot be a NYFA employee, members of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists' Advisory Committee, and/or an immediate family member of any of the above.
Please direct any questions about The Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Playwright Award to [email protected]