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  • 2025 Distinguished Artist Award – Rasmuson Foundation offers one $50,000 Distinguished Artist Award annually in recognition of an Alaskan’s creative excellence over multiple decades and significant artistic accomplishments. These artists have chosen to build their lives and careers in Alaska, making our state a more culturally rich place to live. First and foremost, they have made creatively incisive art reflecting their particular and extraordinary perspective. Award recipients will most likely be full-time, professional artists and will be recognized by peers and experts across the state as among the most highly accomplished in their field.
  • The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants – The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need* who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.
  • Thriving Communities Grants – Philanthropy Northwest invites eligible organizations to apply for its Thriving Communities grants! Over three years, we will award $48 million in grants to tribal nations and communities who have been negatively impacted by environmental changes in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. they are currently accepting applications for all three grant types. Round 2 applications for Types 1, 2 and 3 grants are due February 28, 2025. Please note this round is the last opportunity to apply for Type 3 grants.
  • Grants for Arts Projects – The National Endowment for the Arts is revising the FY 2026 Grants for Arts Projects guidelines and they will be available on arts.gov/grants no later than Monday, February 10, 2025. As part of these changes, the February 13, 2025, Grants for Arts Projects deadline has been canceled. The FY 2026 deadlines are now March 11, 2025, for GAP 1 and July 10, 2025, for GAP 2. Organizations that have already submitted an application must submit a new application under one of these deadlines.
  • Arts Mid-West: Walking Together – A new national program that offers grants of $15,000–$50,000 to support folklife and traditional arts rooted in communities of color. – Walking Together serves traditional artists/practitioners and organizations that show a deep commitment to sustaining folklife rooted in communities of color. Often called the “art of everyday life,” folklife includes traditional art forms and other creative expressions that reflect the aesthetics, practices, values, and beliefs of community groups. All traditions are connected to the history of the communities that practice them, but they are not just art forms of the past. Instead, they are “living traditions” that adapt to remain relevant in a changing world, including new and emerging traditions. Individuals and communities use traditional arts to build collective power, engage in healing, and strengthen their identity. Walking Together is guided by Working Circles of traditional arts leaders of color representing each state and jurisdiction of the Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs). USRAO staff work closely with the Working Circles to inform grant guidelines, outreach, and nomination processes.
  • Supporting Community-Driven Projects Through Grants – Each year, Recover Alaska works with partners around our state to address and prevent alcohol misuse. Our mini-grantmaking strategy is grounded in our values and aligned with our mission while remaining responsive to the identified needs of the communities.
  • Alaska Native Students in Arts and Media Fund – The Alaska Native Students In Arts & Media Fund was established by Chris Arend Photography to support Alaska Native students who want to pursue a career in visual & creative arts and media. This includes photography, videography, journalism, creative writing, graphic/digital design and traditional or fine arts. This annual scholarship will provide $5,000 to help students acquire and build the skills to tell their own personal and cultural stories through visual and other media. Two scholarships will be offered in 2024 to be used for university-level courses or professional development workshops and training in these areas.
  • U.S. Writers Aid Initiative – The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. To be eligible, applicants must be professional writers based in the United States, and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping address a short-term emergency situation. Application deadlines subject to change:
  • The Creative Capital Award – The 2026 Open Call seeks proposals for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work. The new State of the Art Prize provides unrestricted artist grants of $10,000.
  • The Vilcek Foundation Grants – The Vilcek Foundation invites applications for grants to support nonprofit organizations that work with immigrant artists and communities, and that promote diversity in the arts, sciences, education, and humanities. A portion of the foundation’s grants are identified and initiated directly by the Vilcek Foundation.