News

We are now accepting applications for our 2013 Spring Awards. The deadline is February 28, 2013.

We look forward to reviewing your work!

There’s a terrific organization for parent writers based in New York. They’ve compiled a short list of resources for artists who have been impacted by the recent storm:

http://www.penparentis.org/announcements/help-for-sandy-hit-authors-and-artists

Our sincere best wishes for everyone affected.

A huge congratulations to the winners of our 2012 Fall Awards:

Sustainable Arts Foundation 2012 Fall Awards ($6,000 each)

Carin Clevidence, Writer
Suzanne Kamata, Writer
Sara Press, Artist
Adrian Sykes, Artist
Stephanie Zadravec, Playwright

Sustainable Arts Foundation 2012 Fall Promise Awards ($1,000 each)

Anna Laurie Mackay Allred, Artist
Lacy M. Johnson, Writer
Derek Sheffield, Poet
Ashley Shelby, Writer
Krista Steinke, Artist
Sarah Pemberton Strong, Poet
Peter Tonningsen, Artist

For more details about our winners, visit our Awardees page.

We are very pleased to announce a new initiative: The Sustainable Arts Foundation Residency Grant Program. This is a two-year pilot program designed to encourage artist and writer residency programs to make their residencies accessible to artists and writers with children.

Currently, our primary focus is our award program for individuals. We offer unrestricted cash awards to artists and writers, each of whom has at least one dependent child under the age of 18. In our first two years, we have awarded over $100,000.

We expect that the funding awarded through these new residency grants will not only support the organizations that receive them, but that the ideas they generate can be shared and their effects multiplied.

For more details on this program, please visit our residency grant page.

We are now accepting applications for our 2012 Spring Awards. The deadline is September 1, 2012.

We look forward to reviewing your work.

A huge congratulations to the winners of our 2012 Spring Awards:

Sustainable Arts Foundation 2012 Spring Awards ($6,000 each)

William M. Adler, Writer
Jason Engelund, Artist
Thendara M. Kida-Gee, Artist
Travis Mossotti, Poet
Tom Noyes, Writer

Sustainable Arts Foundation 2012 Spring Promise Awards ($1,000 each)

Dorothy Barnhouse, Writer
Jung Han Kim, Artist
Lisa Olstein, Poet
Kelcey Parker, Writer
Naomi Wanjiku, Artist

For more details about our winners, visit our Awardees page.

Happy New Year!

We are now accepting applications for our 2012 Spring Awards. The deadline is March 1, 2012. We very much look forward to reviewing your work.

We’re thrilled to announce that our 2011 Winter Award winners have been announced:

Sustainable Arts Foundation 2011 Winter Award Winners ($6,000 each):

Emily Barton, writer
Kim Curtis, artist
Kate Hopper, writer
Maria Shell, artist
Andrea Stolowitz, writer

Sustainable Arts Foundation 2011 Winter Promise Award Winners ($1,000 each):

Eden Unger Bowditch, writer
Paul Brigham, artist
Rebecca Campbell, artist
Stanley Goldstein, artist
Allan Reeder, writer
Jenny Robinson, artist
Claudia Rowe, writer

Congratulations to our winners. Learn more about their work at http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org/awardees.

We’re thrilled to announce that the Sustainable Arts Foundation will be funding a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. The fellowship offers a four-week residency as well as a stipend to cover lost income, child care, travel, or other financial expenses.

Please visit the Vermont Studio Center website for more details.

Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to apply.

We’ve been absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of interest in our awards. Once we’ve gathered a few more statistics, we’ll share them.

But it’s clear that our mission — to support parents pursuing creative work — has certainly been validated, and we’re very much looking forward to reviewing your submissions.