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Arts Fund: Specialty Field Scholarships - AFNGA AusArt Scholarship Grant

American Australian Association

Foundation Grants for Arts

Funding Amount

US $30,000

Deadline

Deadline not published

Grant Type

Foundation

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Eligible organizations

  • Eligible applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents, emerging artists, and have a formal offer from an accredited US institution.
  • Be an emerging or early career artist;
  • If the artist has already begun their artistic development, it cannot be more than 75% complete at the time of the application deadline date.

Geography

  • To be eligible to apply to the AusArt Scholarship, applicants must:Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident applying for artistic development in the US;

Other requirements

  • Be applying at the graduate-level or above;
  • Be undertaking or planning to undertake artistic development for one-year full-time in the US;
  • Have a formal offer letter from the host body or accredited educational institution at the time of application.
  • Applications must be prepared and submitted by the artist (not a third party).

Not eligible / not funded

  • Not eligible: Dual Australian citizens or permanent residents are not eligible.
  • Not eligible: The project commencement date cannot be more than 8 months after the application deadline date.
  • Not eligible: You cannot apply if you have already been awarded a scholarship or grant by the American Australian Association.

Overview

The AFNGA AusArt Scholarship, offered by the American Australian Association, supports Australian graduate students in fine arts or related fields for one year of artistic development in the US. With funding of US $30,000, recipients can cover travel, living, and tuition costs. Eligible applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents, emerging artists, and have a formal offer from an accredited US institution. This scholarship fosters cultural exchange and artistic growth between Australia and the US.

The Arts Fund supports emerging or early career artists pursuing or planning to pursue artistic development in the Australia to USA and USA to Australia direction. The specialty scholarships outlined below will provide support between US $10,000 – US $40,000 to artists in fields of Fine Art, Fashion, Film Making and Writing. Scholarship funds may be used toward travel, living, tuition and other costs associated with the artistic development abroad.
The American Australian Association in partnership with the American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia Inc., offers the AusArt Scholarship to an Australian MA or Graduate student in the fields of fine arts, art history/theory, curatorial studies, arts administration or conservation studies, to support one-year of full-time artistic development at an accredited US educational institution.
Funding
The AusArt Scholarship will provide support of US $30,000 to be used toward travel, living, tuition and other costs associated with the artistic development abroad.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply to the AusArt Scholarship, applicants must:Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident applying for artistic development in the US;
Be applying at the graduate-level or above;
Be undertaking or planning to undertake artistic development for one-year full-time in the US;
Be an emerging or early career artist;
Have a formal offer letter from the host body or accredited educational institution at the time of application.Applications must be prepared and submitted by the artist (not a third party).If the artist has already begun their artistic development, it cannot be more than 75% complete at the time of the application deadline date.

Ineligibility

Dual Australian citizens or permanent residents are not eligible.The project commencement date cannot be more than 8 months after the application deadline date.You cannot apply if you have already been awarded a scholarship or grant by the American Australian Association.

What American Australian Association actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2023 — the most recent filing with itemized grants

American Australian Association reported $523K in grants for 2024 as a total without an itemized list; the grant details below are from 2023, its most recent itemized filing.

Grants in 2023
2
Total given
$86K
Median grant
$43K
Range
$10K–$76K
  • By dollars: New York 100%. Top recipient cities: New York, NY.

Example grants

  • Australian Fashion Foundation · New York, NY

    Program support

    $76K

  • Australian Theatre Festival NYC · New York, NY

    Donation to the 2023 australian theatre festival nyc

    $10K

IRS Form 990, 2023. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • Arts

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