Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation - Grant for Writing on Sculpture

Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation - Grant for Writing on Sculpture

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation
Amount: US $20,000
Last Updated: January 28, 2026

Summary

The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation offers a $20,000 grant for writers focusing on sculpture, encouraging diverse voices in this field. Eligible applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or hold an O-1 visa, and have published work within the last five years. The grant aims to support fresh perspectives on the history and aesthetics of sculpture, promoting artistic growth and innovation. Applications are limited to one submission per individual, ensuring a fair opportunity for all.

Overview

Grant for Writing on Sculpture 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

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The writing grant is specifically for a writer who generates fresh writing and thinking on the history, aesthetics, purposes, imagination or situation of sculpture.You are eligible to apply for the Grant for Writing on Sculpture if you meet the following requirements:You are an individual. You are a citizen or permanent resident of the United States, or you hold an O-1 Visa. At least one example of your writing has been published for the first time within the last five years. Types of writing that are supported for the Writing Grant include art criticism, art history, memoir, psychoanalytical study, philosophical meditation and literary study.Essays: magazine essays, catalogue essays, book essays Books: research or manuscripts currently in process or nearing completion. MemoirsApplications may only be submitted once.

Ineligibility

Grant for Sculpture: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.)Grant for Writing on Sculpture:The following types of work are not eligible: pre-publication material, such as proofs; work that has appeared in a publication for which you are the publisher or editor; collaborative writing; news reporting; letters to the editor; social media posts; essays on one’s own art or writing practice; student publications (including dissertations-theses). You are not eligible if you are an employee, consultant, or board member of the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation, or an immediate family member of such a person.