Deadline: 28-Jun-22
The New York Foundation for the Arts is accepting applications for NYSCA/NYFA Artists with Disabilities Grant Program to support artists from every background, and at all stages in their creative careers.
Funding Information
- The program will distribute $1,000 to New York State artists with a disability who reside outside of the five boroughs of NYC and have experienced financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must identify as disabled.
- Applicants need to be actively creating in visual, media, music, performing, literary, or multidisciplinary arts. There should also be public engagement with the artist’s work such as exhibitions, shows, community-based programs, performance, or other public presentations of the artist’s work.
- Applicants need to provide documentation of a sustained commitment to their artistic practice from any time over the past 4 years (2018 to date).
- Applicants must be 21 years or older on or before Tuesday, May 17, 2022.
- Applicants must be current New York State residents who have lived outside of the five boroughs of NYC for at least the past twelve months. Only those who maintain residency outside the five boroughs of NYC will be considered.
- Applicants may not be recipients of any of NYFA’s grant programs.
- Applicants do not need to be US citizens but must be able to provide a W-9 with a Social Security Number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) or EIN (after selection).
- NYFA employees, members of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, and/or an immediate family member of any of the above cannot apply.
For more information, visit https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/nysca-nyfa-artists-with-disabilities-grant/application-guidelines/