Juror: James Toogood. Anticipated $8000 in awards in cash and merchandise. Postmark deadline: July 27, 2008.

This is the largest independent gallery in the north of England, featuring three exhibitions a year of some of the best Contemporary British artists. Housed in converted spinning sheds, the trustees have provided a

Supports the provision and development of the arts in North Norfolk through its Active Communities Fund. Grants for a maximum of

Prizes: Prizes for 2007 are yet to be confirmed, although the 2006 prizes below will give an indication of the prizes which will be available. This list will be updated as the 2007 prizes are confirmed. North Sydney Council Open Prize $5,000 Eckersley's Arts Crafts & Imagination Local Artist $200 Voucher Youth Prize & $200 Voucher Encouragement Award $200 Voucher (art materials and Voucher for each prize) PLUS 20% framing discount to entrants 9957 5678 Harbourview Hotel People's Choice Prize (Voter) Night for two voucher Hilton Hordern Children's Prizes $250 in total Joan's Ridge Street Gallery Open Prize $500 Marjorie Lansdell-Wilson Non-Professional Male Artist Over 65 $150 Non-Professional Female Artist Over 65 $150 McGrath's Art Gallery Traditional Landscape Prize $500 Marianne Newman Gallery Tertiary Student Prize $300 Voucher North Sydney Club People's Choice Prize (Artist) $250 Pixels Plus Digital Photography Prize $200 voucher Primrose Park Arts & Craft Centre Works on/with Paper Prize $400 Raymonds Framing Printmaking Prize $200 Voucher Royal Art Society of NSW Drawing Prize $350 plus Life Drawing Workshop $250 Voucher Salmon Galleries Personal Narrative Prize $350 Tenix Waterfront Prize $1250 Workwise Portrait Photography Prize $1000

The Getty Foundation supports a diverse range of projects worldwide that strengthen the understanding and preservation of the visual arts. The Foundation’s Museum Conservation Grant Program, which includes Survey Grants and Treatment Grants, is designed to assist institutions in caring for their permanent collections. Survey Grants provide funds to help museums identify the conservation requirements of art collections. Treatment Grants support the conservation treatment of works of art of outstanding artistic significance. Museums and other nonprofit institutions that have an ongoing exhibition program open to the public on a regular basis are eligible to apply. Applications are accepted throughout the year. Visit the website listed above for more information.

North West Vision is one of nine regional screen agencies that form part of Screen England. They provide a range of services, including answering production filming enquiries, funding advice and support, news and events information and advice on working in the media industry. North West Vision also maintain a crew and facilities database, available freely online to search for local crew members and production facilities. The website also provides lots of information about its services, including details of funding strands, filming guidelines for those wishing to locate a film production in the Northwest, images of Northwest locations and a rough guide to working in the industry. A list of all feature films, short films, TV productions, commercials and pop videos that have been shot in England's Northwest since 1896 is also available. North West Vision are supported and funded by the UK Film Council, the Northwest Development Agency (NWDA) and local and City Authorities throughout the region. North West Vision covers Manchester, Liverpool, Merseyside, the Wirral, Cumbria, Cheshire and Lancashire.

Northeast Michigan Arts Council's (NEMAC's) goals are to provide all citizens, in Arenac and Northern Bay Counties, Michigan, the opportunity to participate in a variety of art experiences, schedule ongoing family entertainment and to sponsor culturally distinct artists and performers. The Council recognizes the importance of art education through scholarships. Each spring a college bound high school senior pursuing an art related career is awarded a scholarship. For the past several years, Mini-Grants have been awarded to Arenac and northern Bay County teacher applicants who integrate the arts while teaching subject matter in the classroom. If you are interested in either one of these programs, please contact the council at the 517/846-9331.

Does not offer grants, but rather an 'Arts Loan Fund' which seeks 'to provide quick-turnaround, low-cost financial assistance to San Francisco Bay Area arts organizations.' Loans must be repaid within one year.

Northern Clay Center, 2424 Franklin Ave. E., Minneapolis, MN 55406 (612) 339-8007. McKnight Artist Residency Program. Open to mid-career ceramic artists who are not residents of Minnesota; 3 month residency.

This is the website of Northern Film and Media, one of nine regional screen agencies that form part of Screen England. The agency aims to 'promote and build a vibrant and sustainable moving image industry in the North East'. Information is provided on their range of services including funding schemes, script reading, and careers and training advice. The agency also assists in finding locations, crew and facilities for film or TV companies wanting to base a production in the North East.

Gallery is looking for new members, Paintingg, Sculpture, glass and other Contact Information: Denise Contact Email: Contact Phone: 208 664-2145 Response Deadline: 9/1/2008

While we seek to support a wide range of community activities, grants will generally be made to those non-profit groups that have the greatest opportunity for positively affecting the communities we serve and are focused in one of the following categories: Education, Health & Human Services, Civic & Community, Culture & the Arts, Resource Conservation (habitat preservation, fish and wildlife preservation). Areas of geographical focus: Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Location: Mercer Island Community Center, 8236 SE 24th St., Mercer Island, WA 98040. Exhibition dates: March 19 - June 8, 2007. Entry Deadline: January 31, 2007. Entry fee (one slide): Member $25.00, Non-member $35.00, New/renewing member $35.00 dues + $25.00 entry fee (NWWS membership is open to U.S. and Canadian artists, however, entry into the Exhibition is open worldwide). Watercolor/watermedia on paper/paperboard. Awards: Over $10,000 in cash and merchandise. Gallery commission: 25%. Juror: Ron Ranson. For prospectus, send SASE to: Sheila Mattick, 12615 NE 2nd St., Bellevue, WA 98005-3206. (425) 454-2546. Email: Mattick@foxinternet.net.

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I would be very happy to have an working time and a solo show in London. I´m an alumna from Central Saint Martins and wish to meet colleagues. Thank you in advance for informations about the possibility ro achieve a sort of grant and studio to paint during 6/9 monthes. Sincerely,

Nour Foundation: The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art - more than 20,000 objects documenting Islamic art. Site offers information on the collection, exhibits and the foundation.

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Now Art Grants. Conceptual artist damali ayo, creator of rent-a-negro.com, author of How to Rent a Negro, and nationally touring speaker announces the creation of Now Art Grants. Artists creating work that engages dialogue about current social issues will receive grant funds (minimum $500), three months mentorship by damali ayo, a second mentor who has specific experience in the project field, and the exposure to ayo

All visual artists are invited by BAREBRUSH founder and CEO, Ilene Skeen to submit art of the nude for the February 2009 N*des-of-the-Month calendar contest. All media, all styles welcome. Must be art of the nude. Guest curator: Della Classon Sperling, Dulack & Sperling Art, LLC, NYC. Prizes. Video. Entry fee also includes automatic entry into March 2009 calendar contest. Curator for March announced in February. Entry fee: $1 per artwork. Site membership: Free. Contact: Ilene Skeen ILS Designs LLC 372 Fifth Av Suite 7D New York NY 10018

Published by En Foco, Inc. in Bronx, New York Deadline: On-going For more information: www.enfoco.org

The Trust concentrates on projects that: improve New York City's public education system; promote diversity, equity, and access in the arts; and advocate for the rights of all people. Specifically, the Fund provides grants for operating support to small and mid-sized dance and theater companies. Separate guidelines are available. The grant review process takes from two to six months. Grants range from $5,000 to $100,000; an average grant is around $60,000.

Grants are made to arts organizations to award Van Lier fellowships to low-income and minority artists at two critical points: pre-college, for training to help prepare for admission to a college or conservatory; and post-college, to develop a body of work and make the transition from student to professional artist.

Each issue of NYFA Current normally contains announcements concerning arts funding opportunities. A project of the New York Foundation for the Arts. An archvie of past issues of Arts Wire Current is also available.

The program, Saving Antiquities for Everyone, is dedicated to ending the destruction of the shared cultural heritage and undiscovered past by raising public awareness. Through partnerships with academia, advertising, the media, and the legal and law enforcement communities, the program develops educational programs and media campaigns to inform the public about the irreversible damage that results from looting, smuggling, and trading illicit antiquities. The purpose of the competition is for advertising and design students to create public awareness ads for SAFE. Guidelines are available online.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) provides artists, arts organizations, and the general public free online access to the all-new NYFA Source, the nation's most extensive databank of grants, residencies, publications, and sources of information and assistance for artists of all disciplines. NYFA Source identifies more than 2,700 awards programs, 2,100 services and 800 publications for artists in the dance, music, folk/traditional, theater, performance art, visual, design, media and literary arts - from the Conrad Cantzen Shoe Fund of The Actors Fund of America (granting a new pair of shoes to unemployed actors going on auditions) to the MacArthur Fellowship Program (multi-year awards reaching $500,000). An easy-to-use search engine will allow users to narrow queries by discipline, location, gender, age group, application deadline, and more. Searches can be as general - cash grants for dancers (239 opportunities yielded) - or specific - female ballet choreographer who must reside in Minnesota (1 opportunity yielded) - as desired. In addition to the web site, artists may receive personal assistance by calling 1-800-232-2789 (1-5:00 p.m., EST, Mon-Fri) or e-mail their requests to visual@nyfa.org or performing@nyfa.org.

The arts in education program is a cooperative effort of the council and the State Education Department, with the council as the administering agency. The council supports cultural institutions that form partnerships with schools to create programs that improve or enhance the study of the arts and environmental science and other curriculum areas through the arts, for students pre-K-12. The intent of the program is to involve teachers, artists, and arts professionals in collaborative efforts that will result in direct, active arts experiences for children. The funding categories are operating support, implementation, planning, and special projects. Certain requirements and restrictions apply in each category. Public schools, BOCES, and artists interested in artist in residence programs or technical assistance to develop or evaluate arts in education programs should contact New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists in Residence, 155 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Fl, New York, NY 10013; (212) 366-6900. Annual deadline dates may vary; contact the council for exact dates. Application materials may be downloaded from the Web site at http://www.nysca.org/forms.html.

The capital program makes funds available for the improvement, expansion, or rehabilitation of existing buildings owned or leased by New York nonprofit cultural institutions that receive programmatic funding from the council. The types of facilities involved in these projects have included theaters, museums, galleries, offices, art storage/conservation, film exhibition, arts education, dance studios, and historic buildings. Examples of funded projects include roof replacement, HVAC systems, handicapped-accessible bathrooms, theatrical lighting and sound systems, dance floors, office space renovation, fire safety systems, facade restoration, elevator installation, and electrical wiring. Funding priority will be given to projects that will improve, expand, or rehabilitate existing buildings to provide access for people with disabilities; increase or assure public access to the arts; address known health and safety deficiencies; reduce an organization's operating costs; and further cultural development in rural or minority communities. The low bid for construction labor and material costs or direct equipment costs must equal $10,000 or higher for a request to be eligible for support. Annual deadline dates may vary; contact the program office for exact dates.

This program seeks to ensure the care and interpretation of the state's cultural heritage through a commitment to supporting high-quality exhibitions, educational programs, and publications, especially those that interpret the art and history of traditionally underserved populations. The program supports expanding public access to the museums of New York State, the presentation of high-quality, well-researched exhibitions, especially those that explore the art and history of groups whose cultural contributions have been consistently underrepresented; interpretive programs that will give the general public the opportunity to understand the artistic and/or historical content of exhibitions and also will place the exhibitions in a meaningful cultural context; the upgrading, care, and documentation of collections; development and adoption of professional practices in all areas of museum work; and appropriate compensation of museum professionals within the context of an institution's community. Funding categories are general operating support; planning for organizational change; collections management; conservation treatment; art exhibitions; history, science, and anthropology exhibitions; exhibitions planning; and museum education and interpretation. Applicants to this program may request funding for no more than five projects and are encouraged to apply for fewer than five; multiyear general operating support qualifies as one of the five requests. Each category and subcategory carries its own requirements for application. Guidelines should be obtained from the program. Annual deadline dates may vary; contact the program office for exact dates. Application materials may be downloaded from the Web site.

The program, through its funding, aims to reflect the expansive range of contemporary art activity as defined by artists. The program will support any organization that aims to expand the range of contemporary art by assisting artists' efforts to create high-quality new work; by producing and presenting this work to the public; and by interpreting contemporary art for the public and the state's artistic community, while helping to foster critical commentary. Especially welcome are adventurous and risk-taking programs/projects, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work, new developing forms, performance-oriented art, work of an experimental nature, and projects that stress process over product. Further consideration will be given to organizations and projects that ensure equal participating opportunities to artists of diverse cultural, racial, and ethnic background; to women artists; to artists in mid- and/or advanced stages of their careers who have not received exposure or recognition for their work; and to artists who are disabled. Funding categories include general operating support, general program support, artists in residence, single exhibitions, and special projects. Each of these categories carries special instructions, requirements, and restrictions. Annual deadline dates may vary; contact the program office for exact dates. Application materials may be downloaded from the Web site.