Grants for Pottery
Potters these days need business skills as well as artistry in order to thrive. They need to be able to market their work, to know which venues best fit them, and how to fill out all that paperwork. Grants make a lot of this easier to do by providing a financial cushion for the artist, or a space to work. There are many grants available to potters, but the likelihood of getting one of them depends entirely on the grant writing skills of the artist.
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Critical Ceramics
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Critical Ceramics is an online ceramics publication with an international readership. The publication provides a yearly grant for potters and ceramic artists of all stripes. Applicants must be 21 or over and may not be students. Critical Ceramics also offers information on other grants, including emergency grants meant to help artists suffering at the hands of illness, loss of work, and other threats. Critical Ceramics is associated with the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, which fosters artists in Oregon. The value of these grants is $35,000, $10,000, and $5,000.
Virginia A. Groot Foundation
P.O. Box 1050
Evanston IL 60204-1050
763-550-9003
criticalceramics.org
Northern Clay Center
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The Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, offers a studio grant for potters valued at $2,200. This grant provides the artist with a fully furnished studio space in the Minneapolis area for a whole year. This is an annual fellowship. The goal of the Northern Clay Center is to further the ceramic arts on a regional, national, and international level. The Center awards grants, hosts exhibits, and offers classes for artists of all levels.
Northern Clay Center
2424 Franklin Avenue East
Minneapolis MN 55406
612-339-8007
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Getty Foundation Grants
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Don't be fooled into only looking at grants meant specifically for pottery. A number of foundations offer grants without specifying a particular artistic medium. The Getty Foundation is a major awarder of grants in California. Not only does the Foundation give grants for art history and conservation, but they also invest money in the professional development of graduate and undergraduate students in the art world.
The Getty Foundation
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 800
Los Angeles, California 90049-1685
310-440-7320
getty.edu/foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
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The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation offers fellowships for already established artists of all kinds in an effort to develop their careers further. The Foundation awards fellowships through a pair of contests, one for the United States and one for South America and the Carribean. The Foundation usually awards around 225 fellowships every year. Peer artists review each application.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
90 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-687-4470
gf.org
The Puffin Foundation
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The Puffin Foundation awards annual grants to artists and art organizations, particularly those who have traditionally been disenfranchised from the mainstream art world. The Foundation also hosts two exhibit spaces, one in New York and another in New Jersey. The grants awarded go to artists, musicians, filmmakers, photographers, theaters, and dancers.
The Puffin Foundation
20 Puffin Way
Teaneck, NJ 07666
201- 836- 8923
puffinfoundation.org
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