About The Program
Responding to emergent opportunities, New York Folklore provides information about funding opportunities to artists and cultural communities. Opportunities can take the form of support for apprenticeships, internships, projects by individual artists, or capacity building support to organizations. New York Folklore continues to serve as a fiscal sponsor for grassroots cultural community organizations.
Current Opportunities
Delaware County Arts Grants
Community Arts grants These grants provide support for arts and cultural projects to community-based organizations, groups, collectives or artists. Community Arts Grant support enables emerging artists and organizations to grow professionally and to enhance the cultural climate in communities and neighborhoods where they live and operate. Creative Learning grants support the role that local cultural organizations and/or individual artists play in engaging K-12 public school students, students in After-School programs, and students of all ages in Community-based Centers in rich artistic learning experiences. Individual Artist grant opportunities represent a “live & work” investment in local artists. An essential element of this funding is the inclusion of the community artist’s project and a reflection of community life, culture, and/or engage local communities.
Link: https://roxburyartsgroup.org/grants
Deadline: January 16, 2026
Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
Statewide Community Regrant
Opportunities for Individual, Teaching, and Community Artists. Grants are available for applications in Monroe and Livingston Counties. Guidelines will be published December 10th, Deadline is January 23rd at 5 PM. Requests can be made in amounts between $500 to $7,500.
Link: https://gvartscouncil.org/pages/grants
Deadline: January 23, 2026 at 5 PM.
New York State Rural & Traditional Arts Fellowship
The Fellowship takes a place-based approach with the goal of inspiring and building lasting connections to rural people and places and to acknowledge and support artists living and working within rural communities. This project is meant to celebrate the creativity and innovative nature of the artist and the connection between arts and land in rural communities.
Ten fellows in a wide range of artistic genres will be selected to represent their rural communities across New York State in 2026. Each will receive a $10,000.00 Fellowship.
Link: https://rtaf-ny.org/
Application Deadline: Friday, February 20, 2026
Bethany Arts Community
Emerging Artist Fellowship 2026
In 2026, BAC welcomes its fourth Emerging Artist Fellowship, running in two cohorts with two fellows in each cohort, from May 21 – September 3, 2026 and July 23 – November 5, 2026. The Emerging Artist Fellowship cohorts run for approximately fifteen weeks each: May 21 – September 3, 2026 and July 23 – November 5, 2026. Emerging Artist Fellows are provided with boarding, a private studio, and a $250 weekly stipend. Emerging Artist Fellows are responsible for their own transportation to and from BAC, any supplies or materials needed for their practice, and meals (Emerging Artist Fellows will have access to a communal kitchen area).
Link: https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/eafcall2026/
Deadline: February 20, 2026 at 11:59PM EST
The Community Arts Partnership
Grants for Arts Programs (GAP) along with our Artist in Community Grant (AICG) , and our Arts Education Grant is part of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) program, SCR makes exemplary arts programming available to geographically, ethnically, and racially diverse segments of the State’s population, and to support the continued development of local cultural resources responsive to community cultural needs. Tompkins County Artists and Non-Profits are eligible
Deadline: Early February 2026
Link: https://www.artspartner.org/content/view/CAPGrants.html
Arts Mid-Hudson and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) announce the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a funding program with over $170,000 in NYSCA funds to support the arts in Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties. This funding is available to individual artists to create new work in 2026, and to nonprofit organizations, Tribal Nations, individual artists, libraries, and municipalities for arts and cultural activities in 2026.
Deadline: Thursday, February 26th, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Link:https://www.artsmidhudson.org/statewide-community-regrants
Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) Program
The CNY ARTS Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) program funds projects taking place in Cortland, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga an Oswego Counties. There are five types of projects eligible for funding. Community Arts Projects, Community Arts Project MicroGrants, Arts Education Projects, Artist Commissions, and Special Projects community and cultural significance.
Project period January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026.
Link: https://cnyarts.org/grants/statewide-community-regrants
Application Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM