Artists can apply to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation by submitting an online application. The Foundation provides unrestricted financial resources to exceptional visual artists. The grants can be used in any way that allows an artist to meaningfully pursue their practice. Grants are typically used to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency, and offset living expenses.

The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from professional visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and/or artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis: there are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time and the Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses. Our unrestricted grants range up to $50,000 with the size of the grant determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.

The Foundation does not accept commercial art, graphic art, video art, generative art, performance art, filmmaking, craft, or any work that primarily falls into these categories, as they do not fall within our funding guidelines. The Foundation does not have an open photography grant program. The Foundation does not make grants to students or fund academic study.

REVIEW PROCESS

The review process is led by a panel of recognized specialists in the fields of the Foundation’s concern. All completed applications will be promptly acknowledged and considered. If further information is required after the completed application has been received, the artist will be contacted directly by the staff of the Foundation. The application process typically takes nine to twelve months.

REAPPLICATION PROCESS

The review process is led by a panel of recognized specialists in the fields of the Foundation’s concern. All completed applications will be promptly acknowledged and considered. If further information is required after the completed application has been received, the artist will be contacted directly by the staff of the Foundation. The application process typically takes nine to twelve months.

FOUNDATION GOVERNANCE 

The Directors reserve the right to review and redefine Foundation program guidelines according to the donor’s original intent and their determination of how artists will be best served.