• A variety of grants support the arts.arts image by NL shop from Fotolia.com
  
  Grants are available to individual artists and arts organizations that are dedicated to increasing artistic appreciation, spreading cultural awareness of the arts and transforming a creative vision into reality. There are grants to support every area of the arts, including dance, theater, visual arts, literary arts, art history and art education.
  
  

Black Rock Arts Foundation Grants

• The Black Rock Arts Foundation provides grants to individuals and organizations around the world to fund arts projects that reach out to the community as a whole. Grant awards for 2009 ranged from $1,000 to $7,500 and funded arts projects from New York to Moscow. Individual awards vary based on funding and the type of project involved, and the foundation specializes in funding projects that create an interactive relationship between artists and spectators.
  
  Black Rock Arts Foundation
  3450 Third St., Suite 2A
  San Francisco, CA 94124
  (415) 626-1248
  blackrockarts.org/grants
  
  

Arts Writers Grant Program

• The Arts Writers Grant Program supports both the visual and literary arts by providing grants to writers whose work addresses contemporary visual arts in some way. Writers must be at least 25 and a published author, and their proposed work must be an article, blog or book, or in an alternative media format. The amount of the grant varies by project.
  
  Creative Capital I Warhol Foundation
  Arts Writers Grant Program
  65 Bleecker St.
  New York, NY 10012
  (212) 598-0140
  artswriters.org/index.php?action=home
  
  

National Endowment for the Arts Grant Program

• The National Endowment for the Arts provides numerous grants to arts organizations as well as a limited number of grants to individual artists. Grants are available in a wide range of subjects, including arts education, dance, design, literary arts, folk arts, media arts, opera, music, theater and visual arts. Grant amounts may range from a few hundred dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on the type of project involved.
  
  National Endowment for the Arts
  1100 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
  Washington, DC 20506
  (202) 682-5400
  nea.gov/Grants/apply/index.html
  
  

Graham Foundation Grants for the Arts

• The Graham Foundation supports the arts through grants to individual artists and organizations to fund projects that will benefit the public at large and create a public discourse on the visual arts. Grants may be used to fund a wide range of projects, including installations, exhibitions, conferences, films and publications. Individuals may receive grants of up to $20,000, while organizations may receive a maximum of $30,000.
  
  Graham Foundation
  Madlener House
  4 West Burton Place
  Chicago, IL 60610
  grahamfoundation.org/foundation/grantguidelines.asp
  
  

Guggenheim Foundation Artist Fellowships

• The Guggenheim Foundation provides artist fellowship grants to individual artists working in the performing, literary, visual or film arts. The program is intended to provide established artists with time and resources to complete a project that can be significant in advancing their career. Grants are awarded for a period of six to 12 months, and award amounts vary based on the project involved, the individual needs of the artist and the availability of funding.
  
  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  90 Park Ave.
  New York, NY 10016
  (212) 687-4470
  gf.org/applicants/the-united-states-canadian-competition/