NYFA Grants

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

Open to visual and media artists, and choreographers. If you aren’t sure if your artistic discipline fits within these guidelines, please contact the grant administrator. 

• Open to artists who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents in the United States, District of Columbia, or U.S. Territories. 
• Applicants must demonstrate current and ongoing activity in their artistic discipline/s.
• Applicants cannot be enrolled in any degree-seeking program.

GUIDELINES:

• The fund provides one-time cash grants of up to $5,000 to cover expenses caused by one-time, unexpected medical or dental emergencies . Eligible expenses include, but are not limited to: hospital and doctor bills (including insurance co-pays); tests; physical/occupational therapy; prescription drugs specifically for the emergency medical condition; and emergency dental work.
• Grants cannot be used to cover expenses for non-emergency medical conditions; ongoing psychiatric treatment; regular dental check-ups or procedures; eyeglasses or standard vision care; elective surgery; non-medical expenses resulting from financial hardship; purchase of materials; loan repayment; purchase of insurance; or loss of property, even if the result of an emergency.
• Recipients can only receive one grant from the Rauschenberg Emergency Grants program in their lifetime.
• Funds go directly to the artist, not a medical provider, vendor, or any individual on the grantee’s behalf. Grant awards are routinely paid by check. Grantees with a Chase account can request an electronic funds transfer (ETF). Other grantees may receive an ETF and will be charged a $50 transaction fee, which cannot be paid by grant funds.
• Period covered: Expenses from six months prior to applying and/or projected six months into the future can be requested.

SELECTION CRITERIA:

Applications are reviewed using two criteria:

• Demonstrated need
• Impact of funds to allow recipient to return to/continue making work

2020 Application Deadline: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 11:59PM ET

The JGS Fellowship for Photography is open to New York State photography artists, living and working anywhere in the following New York State regions: 

• Western New York
• Finger Lakes
• Southern Tier
• Central New York
• North Country
• Mohawk Valley
• Capital District
• Hudson Valley, and 
• Long Island

Ensure you meet all Eligibility requirements:

• Applicants must be working in photography.
• Applicants can work in traditional and experimental photography or any form in which photography or photographic techniques are pivotal, if not exclusive.
• Applicants must 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 application’s close.
• Applicant must 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.
• NYFA employees, member of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, and/or an immediate family member of any of the above cannot apply.

Download a full copy of the 2020 guidelines here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KHmuF_3Fua1VZxDZMizQ97_NMc94E1ea/view