Art & Design

Makersregeling Cultuurfonds Gelderland

Applying for the Gelderland Makers Fund allows makers from all art disciplines to do an artistic project, experiment, or creative process. You can think of developing an idea or text, making new work, or a public presentation, exchange, and collaboration. You live and work in Gelderland. You graduated max. five years ago from an MBO or HBO art course, or you have been working as an art professional for a maximum of five years if you are an autodidact. The Gelderland Makers is a partnership between Cultuur Oost and Voordekunst.

Mondriaan Fonds

The Mondriaan Fund has several grants. For a starting visual artist, if you have been working professionally for more than four years, as a podcast creator, social content creator, or on behalf of a small art initiative or collective. You can apply for a concrete plan in a defined working period, for an internship at home or abroad, or if you want to present work abroad. You can find the right grant at the Mondriaan Fund via this application help. Through a Mondriaan Fund regional agent, you can get advice on which grant applies to your work. The agent is also well aware of new initiatives, target groups, and current developments in visual art and cultural heritage. For the provinces of Overijssel, Gelderland and Flevoland, you need to contact the Oost/Midden regional agent.

Pictoright

Pictoright is the copyright organization for visual makers in the Netherlands: illustrators, artists, graphic designers, photographers, and other professional image-makers. Pictoright stands up for your rights, pays out collective compensation, and, if chosen, arranges licenses with users. You have three options: Resale rights and Collective (no annual costs), and our most extensive one, complete management of your copyright: Individual (46 EUR per year). Your subscription provides a better position for all creators. Pictoright collects and distributes all royalties to which authors are entitled and is active in the following areas: reproduction rights (license books, posters, press, merchandising, etc.); resale rights (droit de suite), and collective rights (i.e., reprographic rights, loan rights, TV/cable rights).

Fonds Kwadraat

Fonds Kwadraat offers talented artists, photographers, and designers the opportunity to take out an interest-free loan of up to €8,000 to develop, create, and present new work, such as an exhibition, equipment, website, presentation, or artist's book.

Stichting Stokroos

The Stokroos Foundation supports artists, designers, and cultural initiatives with financial support and coaching. They operate a donation program where you can receive a financial contribution to creating new work. Stokroos also supports partnerships between makers, cultural institutions, or representatives from other sectors with the talent development program.

Stichting Oscar Maarsman

The Oscar Maarsman Foundation helps young artists to develop their work further. If you want to be qualified for an allowance, you can register via the website with motivation.

Stroomversneller Arnhem, Cultuuracademy

Schakel025 is a platform that shares knowledge about the business and organizational side of working in the art and culture sector. The website is regularly updated with new information or current developments. The Stroomversneller is a subsidy that supports new initiatives in their artistic development for experimentation. You can apply for a maximum of € 3,000. Conditions are that you are a professional who wants to make a good product and present it to the public. The project is relevant, distinctive, and in addition to what is going on in the city of Arnhem. Your project must have a provable connection with Arnhem and occur in the city. Your application concerns project-related activities: activities that take place within a defined time frame, there is a clear beginning and end.

Heij Konijn Fonds

The Heij Konijn Fund in Arnhem annually supports ten to fifteen young artists with a financial donation of up to 2,500 euros per person for your further professional development as a visual and performing artist. A condition is that as an applicant, you are not older than 30 years, and you live, work or study in Arnhem and the surrounding area (this condition of location Arnhem does not apply to musicians). You can still be a student or graduate.

The Startversneller Gelderland en Overijssel

The Starversneller helps entrepreneurs in Gelderland and Overijssel successfully start their businesses by improving their entrepreneurial skills. Your company needs to be registered in Gelderland or Overijssel. In Gelderland you can qualify for coaching and request an extra voucher for a professional training course. In Overijssel you can apply for coaching, and you can participate in four meetings with other starting entrepreneurs to learn from each other, spar, and network. You are no longer than five years registered with the Chamber of Commerce to be eligible.

Dutch Foundation for Literature

The Dutch Foundation for Literature is the public fund for literature in Dutch, Frisian, Papiamentu, and Dutch Sign Language; the fund grants writers, translators, publishers, magazines, and festivals. The fund has different types of subsidies, e.g., to support activities of literary festivals, work, and travel grants for authors and translators, and supplement shortages for producing and promoting literary publications for publishers

Fimfonds

The Film Fund provides financial contributions to develop, realize, and distribute film productions: feature films, documentaries, animation films, cinematic experiments, and short films. In addition, the fund supports film activities such as festivals, film meetings, training, publications, and research. Their subsidy guide will help you find the right financing.

Fonds ZOZ

Fund ZOZ supports artists and online and offline creatives who want to contribute to Dutch society. You can apply for a project involving professional artists from the performing arts, new media, visual arts, film, and music. With your project, you try to bridge differences between people and breakthrough fixed thinking frameworks. With the power of stories, you want to strengthen the resilience in society and reduce polarization. If you want to test an initiative or idea, you can apply to the ZOZ Academy. Every year, ten projects are selected, and you receive a financial contribution of a maximum of € 5,000 to develop your concept into a first try-out, pilot, or prototype.

AFK Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst

The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) supports all art forms in every district of Amsterdam. The Fund provides multi-year grants and project grants. To be eligible for a contribution, you must live in Amsterdam or have established your professional practice there. There is a project subsidy for Professional art and a project subsidy for Cultuurmakers. Or you can apply for a stipend as a maker if you have a plan for research, development, experiment, or a visual work of art in a public space.

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

The fund supports projects in visual arts, historic preservation, history & literature, music, nature, theatre, dance, film, and neighborhood culture. The Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds also awards several prizes, grants, and stipends every year. To honor volunteers, to encourage talent, or to crown an oeuvre. In addition, the fund offers grants and stipends for emerging and proven talent. As an alumnus, you can look at the Applications for individuals page. Here you will find subsidies for musicians, visual artists, glass artists, voice and language use, playwrights, and documentary makers. The Cultuurfonds grants are for graduates of HBO or university for further education or research abroad or the purchase of a musical instrument. If you want to continue studying abroad next year, you can apply for a scholarship between 1 February and 1 April 2023. The fund applies to all studies, from a completed bachelor's degree in art to a master's degree in medicine. A Cultuurfonds grant from the Cultuurfonds can help you take your next step.

Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie

The fund for architecture, design, digital culture, and possible crossovers. It supports unique and innovative projects and activities by designers, makers, and cultural institutions in the creative industry. The interdisciplinary interaction between the cultural, social, and economic domains is essential in an application.

Werktuig PPO

PPO stands for permanent professional development and is a program of Platform ACCT (Labour Market Cultural and Creative Future). It finances development plans for everyone working in the creative or cultural sector, both for employees and self-employed people. Everyone should regularly consider whether their skills align with the rapidly changing market. PPO finances 1/3 of the total costs of your development plan with a maximum of € 2,000 (including VAT). Assuming your employer or client contributes 1/3, you pay the remaining amount yourself.

VSB Fonds

The VSB Fund supports projects across the Art & Culture sector spectrum, from performing arts to cultural heritage and from new media to visual arts and cultural education. The fund supports cultural education projects, impact productions, and community art projects. In Art & Culture, they contribute to performances, exhibitions, and festivals.

Mingler Scholarship

The Mingler Scholarship originated from the Mingler network, initiated by the Academy of Arts and De Jonge Akademie. They are both members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Once a year, a Mingler Scholarship is made available to collaborate between a scientist and an artist. The Scholarship is intended for artists (from all artistic disciplines) and scientists (researchers from the humanities, social, and natural sciences) who want to start a research project together. Only collaborations between art and science are eligible. The Scholarship consists of an amount of € 10.000, made available by the Niemeijer Fund Foundation.

Cultuurlening

The Cultuurlening is an initiative of Cultuur+Ondernemen and made possible by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science in the context of the Talent Development Policy. It is a loan of a maximum of € 40,000 at a low-interest rate of 1%. The loan is intended for individuals and organizations from all disciplines in the creative sector who have a professional practice. You must live and work in the Netherlands, and you want to take a concrete next step in your development. The loan is for investments in your professional practice that you can earn back. Artists, creatives, recent graduates, or cultural institutions that participate in a talent development program of the 'culture funds' (film, visual arts, literature, creative industry, performing arts, urban arts) are eligible for the Culture Loan in any case. If this does not apply to you, but you think you qualify for the loan, you can submit an application with a personal motivation of no more than one A4 sheet and an external reference. The Culture Loan is not tied to specific disciplines and is open to original ideas, projects, artists, and creatives.

Amarte Fonds

Filmmakers, musicians, theater makers, visual artists, and writers in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books can apply for a development grant (writing fee) or a project contribution from Amarte. In addition to a financial contribution, you can also receive extra professional support from an expert.

DutchCulture | TransArtists

DutchCulture | TransArtists combines and shares knowledge and experience on artist-in-residence programmes and other international opportunities for creative professionals to temporarily stay and work elsewhere. They offer you all about facts, use and value of international artist-in-residence opportunities.


On the Move

If you are looking for funding for artistic projects in or outside the Netherlands, you can check out the Cultural Mobility Funding Guide on the website of DutchCulture. On the Move and DutchCulture have teamed up to provide you with this updated guide including information and tips on how and where to find funding for your mobility as an artist, a cultural professional or a cultural organisation to and from the Netherlands. They provide resources for artists and arts workers at all stages of their careers. Their open call listings span all art forms and disciplines, and focus on cross-border projects which cover at least some of the costs of travel. The funding guides, produced in collaboration with other organisations, detail regular schemes on a national or transnational basis.