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Featured Event: Statewide ArtsWORK Indiana Monthly Meetings
Meetings are usually held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month. Join us.
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Financial Support
Indiana | National | Scholarships and Financial Aid
Indiana Art Career Support for Individuals
Indiana Arts Commission
This state agency awards Individual Artist Program grants for artists' career development in all disciplines. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and reside in Indiana for one year preceding the application date.
Indiana Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Eligible persons may receive services and assistance for employment-related needs, including support for vocationally-related education.
Arts Council of Indianapolis
Click on Grants for Individuals. The Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship program "offers artists and arts administrators the opportunity to renew and refresh their creativity." The Council also annually awards two Robert J. Beckmann Jr. Emerging Artist Fellowships of $3,500 and hands-on mentoring opportunities to qualified and talented Central Indiana visual, literary and performing artists.
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Artist in Residence Program
National Art Career Support for Individuals
Alliance of Artists Communities
Click on Residencies to search for artists’ communities and residencies (also known as artists’ colonies or retreats.) Identifies which programs have accessibility features.
Art Deadlines
Lists art contests and competitions, art jobs and internships, art scholarships, grants and fellowships, art festivals, calls for entries, etc.
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center's site offers a database to search for scholarships, fellowships, loans, internships and professional support. There is a fee but one can sign up for a month at a time. Information for users with disabilities is provided.
Funding List Compiled by The Fund for Women Artists
An extensive list of funding sources (many for men as well as women) in the fields of visual, literary, and performing arts.
NYFA Source
A free, national, online directory of awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines, from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Creative Capital Foundation
A national grantmaking organization with an open application process that supports individual artists across all disciplines.
Fractured Atlas
Their Fiscal Sponsorship program can help projects and individual artists to solicit and receive grants and tax-deductible contributions that are normally available only to 501(c)(3) organizations.
The DeVos Institute of Arts Management
Affiliated with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC), the program offers fellowships and internships.
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
The NALAC Fund for the Arts provides financial support to Latino artists. Click on Grant Programs.
National Endowment for the Arts
Awards grants to individual artists in a very limited number of categories.
VSA
VSA, the international organization on arts and disability, offers several programs that recognize the artistic accomplishments of young and emerging artists with disabilities through awards of excellence and achievement.
Scholarships/ Financial Aid for Students with Disabilities
College Funding for Students with Disabilities
A directory of scholarship resources compiled by the University of Washington
HEATH Financial Aid Information
A free guide published by the online clearinghouse on post-secondary education for individuals with disabilities.
Nina Mason Pulliam Legacy Scholars program
A targeted population is college-age youths and adults with physical disabilities in Indiana.
American Council of the Blind Scholarships
The Friends in Art Scholarship
Applications are sought from blind or visually impaired students currently attending college or planning to enter college in the fall and majoring in the fields of music, art, drama, or creative writing.
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
The Association offers financial aid and scholarship programs from infancy through post-secondary education.
The Joshua O’Neill and Zeshan Tabani Enrichment
Fund
Co-sponsored by the National Down Syndrome Society,
for young adults with Down syndrome to
enroll in post secondary programs or take classes to develop
essential life skills.
Pfizer Epilepsy Scholarship Award
Through the Looking Glass
Scholarships are awarded to students who have at least one parent with a disability.
See also: Internships | Benefits and Entitlements
People in the Arts:
Musician Henry ButlerSee profiles of a few of the many accomplished individuals working in diverse fields of the arts who also have a disability.
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Featured Artwork by:
Gina Soo GoldenGina Soo Golden is a painter from Indianapolis, Indiana. “I like to mix realism and surrealism.” “I aim to give a visual definition of feelings one could never quite describe with words,” she has written in her artist statement. Pictured above: The Gray Room.
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Featured Artwork by:
Nicolas Lyford-PikeNicolas Lyford-Pike is an artist from Columbus, Indiana. Pictured above: Toyota Avalon.
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Artwork by:
Warren MillerWarren Miller is an artist from Indianapolis, Indiana. Pictured above: Rub-a-Dub.
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Featured Artwork by:
Wug LakuWug Laku is an artist from Indianapolis, Indiana. "My art is about ideas and finding the purest, simplest ways of expressing them," he says. Pictured above: Earth Poems.
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Featured Artwork by:
Stu JohnsonStu Johnson specializes in Central Indiana subjects, from black and white shots of architectural landmarks, to picture-postcard fall landscapes, to prints of trucks and buses digitally enhanced with tie-dye colors.. Pictured above: The Ruins.
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Artwork by:
Susan GorsenLouisville, KY artist Susan Gorsen has exhibited her art in New Albany and served as Artist-Facilitator for ArtsWORK New Albany. Pictured above: Blue Moon.
