Arts Fund: Specialty Field Scholarships - AFNGA AusArt Scholarship Grant

Arts Fund: Specialty Field Scholarships - AFNGA AusArt Scholarship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: American Australian Association
Amount: US $30,000
Last Updated: December 21, 2025

Summary

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.

Overview

Specialty Field Scholarships 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. AFNGA AusArt Scholarship 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

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. 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.