Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation - Grant for Sculpture

The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation offers a $20,000 grant annually to support sculptors and writers on sculpture, promoting creativity and artistic development. This grant is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents, as well as O-1 Visa holders, who demonstrate a strong commitment to sculpture. Eligible expenses include materials, research, and living costs. The foundation values diversity and does not discriminate based on background, ensuring a wide range of applicants can apply.

In this grant program, the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation’s goal is to encourage and support sculptors as well as writers on sculpture, both emerging and established.
The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation encourages submissions from sculptors and writers of all backgrounds. It does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, socioeconomic status, education, or disability.
Funding
The JBSF offers one $20,000 grant per year. Funds will go toward creating a work or a body of work that is essential to the artist’s development and a contribution to sculpture as a field. The grant recipient is expected to complete the project within one year of receiving the award.

Eligibility

The sculpture grant is specifically for an artist who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to sculpture that includes an informed and imaginative engagement with its materials, histories, and situation. You are eligible to apply for the sculpture grant if you meet the following requirements:You are a sculptor.
You are a citizen or permanent resident of the United States, or you hold an O-1 Visa.
You are not currently enrolled in a degree-granting program.
You are not an employee, consultant, or board member of the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation, or an immediate family member of such a person.Eligible expenses:Materials, equipment and suppliesResearchArtist’s compensation fee (fee incurred by creating time to work)Travel (airfare, car rental, ground transportation, lodging, meals, per diem)
Living expenses (including childcare)Applications may only be submitted once.

Ineligibility

Expenses relating to the following are not eligible and your application will be rejected if your budget proposes to use the grant funds for any of these: loans or other debts; reimbursement of payments already incurred; purchase of land or building; tuition expenses; fees paid to third parties for promotion, marketing, or sale of work; health-related expenses (dentistry, hospitalization, etc.)