Grants & Opportunities

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

 
Open call for submissions of artwork for the upcoming exhibit Everybody’s Art at Headwaters Arts Center, running September 5– October 31, 2026.
 
This open call exhibition will feature work by self-taught artists or those who employ traditional art forms to explore themes deeply rooted in community, tradition, and daily lived experience. Whether skills are self-taught or passed down from hand to hand, folk art is what we make with the materials we have that tells a story about who we are. The artwork in this exhibition will exemplify the creativity inherent in the human experience and remind us that art is for everybody. We invite submissions of artwork that arise from lived experience, tell a story, and explore identity. Artwork may have a utilitarian, decorative, or purely expressive function; it may employ traditional methods and materials or explore innovative or self-taught techniques.
 
The submission deadline is August 7, 2026, 12 noon.

 

New York Folklore

Fall 2026 Folk Arts in Education Residencies 

New York Folklore is pleased to offer this opportunity, through a Regrants and Services grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Limited funds are available to support a two or three-day residency with New York State based tradition bearers and traditional artists in New York State schools.

Deadline: September 8th at 11:59 pm.

Link: https://forms.gle/9cu7DiSKnMpsnQMQA