Visual Art (National)
The Individual Photographer’s Fellowship is open to photographers using still-photography based media. Eligible to US citizens not currently enrolled in a degree granting program. Several grants of up to $5000 awarded annually to photographers based upon past accomplishments and the promise of future achievement. Funds must be used to support the artist’s creative endeavors.

Literature (National)
The Academy Book Awards include the James Laughlin Award of $5,000 for author’s second book of poetry and the Walt Whitman Award of $5,000 and a one-month residency for first book of poetry.

Film (National)
Brings award-winning contemporary American documentaries, feature films and animated shorts to audiences around the world. The resource page provides links to funding opportunities.

Performing Arts (National)
American Music Abroad artists represent the new generation of musical ambassadors; reaching beyond concert halls to interact with other musicians and citizens around the globe.

Visual Arts (National)
Aperture seeks to support and promote both emerging and established photographers and photobook makers, by acknowledging innovative work that contributes to a larger dialogue surrounding photography. Each year Aperture Foundation hosts three calls for entry: the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, the Portfolio Prize, and the Summer Open exhibition.

Visual Arts (National)
Income and exhibition opportunities for visual artists.

General (National)
Services are focused on Seattle, but there is a great database of national opportunities.

General (International)
An excellent and comprehensive arts resource website based in London.

General (International)
Art Rubicon Visual Arts Magazine seeks to provide based visual artists with current information on local, national and global artist opportunities, artist residency programs, funding and grants. Although based in Alberta, Canada offers international opportunities.

General (Massachusetts)
AES develops the arts in communities and community through the arts with continuing professional education for arts managers, artists, and civic leaders. Workshops, training programs, online certificates for managers, and online bachelor’s degrees for Art’s Administrators are available. AES is also a leading publisher of arts management books.

General (International)
The Asian Cultural Council supports cultural exchange between Asia and the United states in the performing and visual arts, primarily by providing individual fellowship grants to artists, scholars, and students.

General (Massachusetts)
Publishes an annual Directory of Massachusetts Grantmakers, a comprehensive list of profiles of Massachusetts grant makers, including contact information, application procedures and a glossary of grant makers by funding interests.

Performing Arts (National)
Dedicated to developing and supporting a robust performing arts presenting field and the professionals who work within it. Provides travel stipends to selected APAP members to build collaborations outside the U.S.

General (National)
Have a crazy brilliant idea that needs funding? $1,000 grants are given every month. It couldn’t be simpler! Your idea is yours alone. We don’t want a stake in it. We just want to help you make it happen!

Film (National)
Offering project support for individual documentary writing, film and photography through competitive awards.

Film (National)
Fiscal sponsorship, creative and technical support, and fundraising advice for independent filmmakers.

General (National)
The College Art Association supports promising artists and art historians who are enrolled in MFA and PhD programs nationwide. Fellows are honored with $5,000 grants to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio. Focuses on scholarship, teaching and other academic aspects of art practice. Contains useful job listings and information about conferences and publishing.

General (National)
An independent graduate degree-granting institution offering an intense studio-based experience for artists-in-residence. They offer a nice database of visual art learning and grant opportunities.

Dance / Film (National)
A nonprofit service organization that serves as a go-between for users and makers of dance films. DFA is a member organization, connecting artists, distributors, curators, viewers, students, and public and university libraries.

Performing Arts (National)
Sends American dance companies overseas to connect with audiences and communities through dance workshops, lecture demonstrations, public performances and other arts education activities.

Public Art (National)
Connects artists to communities seeking public art.

General (International)
The U.S. Fulbright Student Program is designed to give recent B.S./B.A. graduates, master’s and doctorial candidates, and young professionals and artists opportunities for personal development and international experience.

Visual Arts (National)
The Harpo Foundation grant program awards 10 to 15 grants annually to support the production of new work by visual artists. They also support two fellowship programs: the Native American Fellowship, to support the development of artists and the potential for inter-cultural dialog; and the Emerging Artist Fellowship, for visual artists 25 years and older who need time and space to explore ideas and start new projects.

General (Massachusetts)
A free, searchable database of cultural employment opportunities of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

General (Massachusetts)
The Massachusetts Cultural Council is a state agency that promotes excellence, access, education and diversity in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences to improve the quality of life for all Massachusetts residents and contribute to the economic vitality of our communities. Grants, Fellowships, Residencies and more.

Performing Arts (National)
The National Endowment for the Arts seeks to fund groundbreaking, innovative theater and musical theater in the American spirit that is bold, passionate, profound, creative, and engaging and that demonstrates serious, exceptional, and rigorous aesthetic values.

General (New England)
The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) is a nonprofit organization that provides leadership and resources that benefit artists, the public, arts funders, and policymakers throughout New England and beyond.

Film (New England)
An online publication providing New England independent film making news, articles, event and job listings, discussion boards, casting calls, crew calls, and more.

General (New York and National)
Links to grants, learning programs and opportunities specific to NYC and nationwide.

Film (National)
From grant opportunities to engagement strategies, this branch of PBS has parsed out exactly what you will need to get your documentary made and seen.

General (National)
One year grants to individual artists working in the U.S. for painters, sculptors, printmakers.

General (National)
Grants of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars in the following fields: visual arts, writing, photography, video, public interest and documentary, music and dance, and theatre. Projects must have social relevance.

General (Rhode Island)
Grants in drawing, printmaking, design, dance, music, painting, crafts, film, video, literature, photography, and media arts. Open to Rhode Island individuals.

Performing Arts (Massachusetts)
Boston-based Symphony Nova is a paid, professional training orchestra that prepares young musicians for the rigors of a career in performance while helping them to develop the business and interpersonal skills required for long-term success.

Film (New England)
Dedicated to supporting the accomplishments of women working in the film, video and new media industries.

(National)
AHIRC.org is a database of health care resources for artists, performers, freelancers and the self-employed.

(National)
Social services and health services for performers in all disciplines.

(National)
Health Insurance and tax-advantaged retirement plans for the self-employed.

(National)
Nontoxic Printmaking and Safe Painting Articles and Resources.

(Massachusetts)
A free website for individual artists working in all disciplines and artist run organizations to aid them in navigating the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law, its requirements and programs, and the existing health care options.

(Massachusetts)
The Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts is a program of the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, established to meet the legal needs of the state’s artistic community. VLA also assists local art and cultural institutions in finding attorneys to sit on their respective boards of directors who embrace the mission of the individual organization.

(Massachusetts)
Zea Mays Printmaking is a studio, workshop, gallery, educational facility and research center dedicated to non-toxic and safer printmaking practices.

(Massachusetts)
Originally built circa 1871 as a manufacturing facility for horse drawn carriages, 14 Cedar Street has been developed into sustainable, affordable workspaces for architects, designers, builders, artists and entrepreneurs. Sustainable remodeling practices were employed during the development of the property with the intention of making it a showcase for innovative renewable, efficiency, and load-reduction technology.

(Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
Art On No is located at 311 North Street, Pittsfield, MA. The 2nd floor has a gallery space and studios for 17 local artists, musicians, and performers. Art On No continues to be the largest group of artists under one roof in downtown Pittsfield.

(Massachusetts)
A non-profit community craft studio promoting teaching, learning and the practice of all crafts. Affordable daytime space and equipment rental to local professional artists and businesspeople interested in having access to industrial-grade manufacturing equipment.

(Massachusetts)
Available Potential Enterprises, Ltd. exists to support contemporary artists working in all disciplines, by preserving and supporting the spaces in which they create, perform and exhibit their work.

(Boston, Massachusetts)
Brickbottom was developed in the mid-eighties by a group of artists looking for affordable studio spaces in the Boston area. They converted an old bread factory into one of the largest buildings of live/work space for artists in the country.

(Massachusetts)
CHAPA is a non-profit umbrella organization for affordable housing and community development activities in Massachusetts.

(Massachusetts)
CAI promotes the creation of 3D and Multi-disciplinary Art with Artist Residency and Facility Sharing Programs designed to encourage and assist artists to realize new projects and ideas. In Acton, MA.

(Massachusetts)
Dorchester Art Project provides a unique space for Boston based emerging artists, in the midst of the city’s largest and most dynamic neighborhood. DAP houses fourteen artists’ studios, a gallery, and a performance space.

Easthampton, Massachusetts)
Eastworks is a 500,000 square foot converted mill located in Easthampton at the foot of the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts.

(Rockland, Massachusetts) 
Located at 379 Liberty Street in Rockland, MA the Et Wright Building was once an old shoe factory that now houses various art studios. The Et Wright Building is owned and operated by the 4th Floor Artists, who also own and operate the Sandpaper Factory. Spaces have a rustic and industrial feel that can accommodate various mediums. The ground floor offers a gallery space where your work can be displayed.

(Boston, Massachusetts)
The Friends of Fenway Studios was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration and preservation of this National Historic Landmark building, and to raising awareness of this cultural treasure, as well as promoting the work of the artists who work in the Fenway Studios.

(Somerville, Massachusetts)
Joy Street Artists Studios, the newest artist building in Somerville, offers 52 non-residential work studios in a variety of sizes and shapes to 60 artists.

(Boston, Massachusetts)
Mobius (est. 1977) is a non-profit, artist-run organization, whose mission is to generate, shape and test experimental art. The members of the organization believe an effective strategy for supporting this art is to establish grounds that build relationships among fellow artists.

(National)
A national database of artists spaces offers.

(Holyoke, Massachusetts)
Open Square is an exciting new 685,000-square-foot mixed-use urban community on 8½ acres in the heart of Holyoke’s Historic Canal District. It offers distinctive, attractively priced space for offices, retail shops, light manufacturing, and artists and artisans, as well as future residential live/work lofts in a prime Western Massachusetts location.

(National)

Classified ads for artist space rentals, particularly in New York City, serving all disciplines.

(Rockland, Massachusetts)
The Sandpaper Factory, located at 83 East Water Street in Rockland, MA is a 120,000 square foot mill building that has been converted into multi-tenant creative spaces for rent or lease. Several spaces are available for immediate occupancy. Studio spaces start at 280 SF but larger studios and commercial spaces can also be accommodated. The four-story building is serviced by a freight elevator.

(Concord, Massachusetts)
Studio residencies are provided for more than 60 artists in 2 former school buildings in historic Concord and neighboring Carlisle, MA.

(Lawrence, Massachusetts)
A new project of Lawrence Community Works, the Union Crossing Artist Studios offer 28 loft-style work studios for artists and artisans. Tenants have access to a community classroom and gallery, common kitchen, fitness center, and free Wi-fi. The Union Crossing building is also home to the LCW’s Financial Stability Center, which offers a variety of financial education and asset-building services.

(Waltham, Massachusetts)
The Waltham Mills Artists Association comprises more than 70 artists working in a wide range of media who occupy studio space in two buildings of the ex-Waltham Cotton and Wool Factory in downtown Waltham, Mass.

(Somerville, Massachusetts)
The Washington Street Art Center in Somerville provides studio workspace for professional painters, photographers, and writers and serves as a community center. Founded by a cooperative of local artists the Art Center building houses 10 studios a darkroom a gallery and classroom space.

(Ashfield, Massachusetts)
Wellspring House, located in the hills just east of the Berkshires, is open from April until December. Up to 5 writers and artists at a time are welcome for periods of a week to a month or longer. Residency fee applies. The House includes an extensive library and a meditation room.

(Lowell, Massachusetts)
Since opening day, Western Avenue Studios has become an integral part of the cultural life of the city of Lowell with more than 180 working artists.

(Beverly, Massachusetts)
Across the street from Monserrat College of Art, Zeitgeist studios are located in a refurbished historic building. Studio rental also allows access to exhibition opportunities at the on-site gallery.