Resource Library

Springboard for the Arts has several upcoming webinars focusing on funding, grant writing, writing artist statements, and more. | More information here.

Art-Train is a virtual technical assistance program for artists, municipal agencies, and community-focused organizations in all sectors, in communities of all sizes across the nation. Trainings are free for artists and for Native, Black, Indigenous and People of Color-led and focused community-based organizations. We have a sliding scale fee for other organizations and agencies. | More information here.

The Creative Capital Curriculum combines evergreen elements of artist professional development with contemporary critical frameworks in cultural discourse. It offers exercises from working artists, educators, and art industry specialists to enhance artists’ professional development. The Curriculum is FREE for individual, personal use. | More information and registration.

Exciting Opportunity for New Jersey-Based Artists! WheatonArts is proud to announce the 2025 New Jersey Glass Workshop, funded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. This unique program offers artists living and working in New Jersey a chance to collaborate, create, and learn in an immersive glass art experience at our internationally-known Glass Studio. Selected artists will engage in hands-on exploration, network with fellow creatives, and advance their artistic practice in a supportive, resource-rich environment. The workshop will take place on the WheatonArts campus from July 21-26, 2025. Lodging will be provided at a nearby hotel, and some meals and evening activities will be included to foster community. Artists are only responsible for their travel to and from Millville, NJ, and some meals. | Deadline to Apply: February 14, 2025 | More information and application.

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is hosting quarterly Teaching Artist Community of Practice meetings. These virtual sessions serve as a platform for teaching artists to share their experiences, discuss new opportunities, and connect with each other and the State Arts Council. These sessions provide an opportunity to network with other New Jersey teaching artists, share challenges and successes of working in our state, and discuss what teaching artistry could look like as we move into the future. | Date & Time: March 5, 2025 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET | Register here.

The IRAC invites applications for its artist-in-residence program, which annually awards three fellowships, including a monthly stipend, housing, studio space, a supplies allowance, full access to the IARC collections, and travel reimbursement to and from SAR. Fellowships support Native American artists in sculpture, performance, basketry, painting, printmaking, digital art, mixed media, photography, pottery, writing, and film and video. Eligible applicants include people indigenous to North America and its current outlying territories, including Canada, the United States, and Mexico. | Deadline: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | More information and application.

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need. This program has no deadlines. | More information and application.

The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. Please note that these grants are available only to individual painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have worked in a mature phase of art for 20 years or more. | Deadline: January 15, 2025, at 11:59 pm EST | More information and application.

coLAB Arts' Monthly Artist Grant celebrates artists in New Jersey who use creative practice to support their local communities and create greater public good. Nominations are now being accepted for the month of January. | Application and information.

The Foundation welcomes applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses, and amounts range up to $50,000. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces. | Deadline: Rolling | More information and application.