Grant and Funding Opportunities
Adequate and sustainable funding is one of the biggest challenges for artists and arts institutions. JCAC seeks funding from a variety of sources for re-granting. When funds become available, we will share them here.
Open and Upcoming Grants
Elevation Advanced Artist Grant
The Elevation Advanced Artist Grant offers financial support for 10 artists with 7 plus years of career experience, seeking to continue education, training, and/or career in the visual and performing arts. Awards are based on artistic merit, evidence of commitment to a career in the arts, and financial need.
The Elevation Advanced Artist Grant Application has closed.
Individual Artist Fellowship
The Individual Artist Fellowship program provides residents of Jersey City who are exploring a career in the arts with an unrestricted grant to support and supplement their creative output over the year.
For the 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship Guidelines and to Apply - Click Here
2024 Applications Will Close March 4, 2024- 5PM ET
Previous Grants
Antenna Grant for Women in the Arts
The Antenna Grant for Women in the Arts offers financial support and mentorship for young women of color pursuing an education, training, and/or career in the visual arts.
Applications currently closed.
Arts Relief Fund (2022)
The purpose of this new round of Arts Relief Fund grants is to help our local arts and culture sector recover from the pandemic. Grants will provide financial support to Jersey City nonprofits that contribute to our progressive, equitable, and multicultural arts sector.
Applications currently closed.
Jersey City Artist Recovery Fund
The purpose of these grants was to help support artists’ basic living and career-sustaining needs due to the loss of work and earning opportunities caused by COVID-19 illness or related business disruptions.
Applications currently closed.
Arts Relief Fund
During the COVID-19 pandemic, JCAC partnered with the JCEDC to provide emergency relief grants to our arts community. The intent of these grants was to provide support to artists and arts organizations who had been directly impacted by the public health crisis.
Applications currently closed.