KFW is excited to announce new mini-grants up to $500 for KFW artists.  Applications open July 15, 2024, and are accepted on a rolling basis.  

 Click here to read the full guidelines for the ACD Mini-Grant!  

KFW recognizes the need for quick turn-around funds to support career advancement opportunities for Kentucky feminist artists that may come up outside of our regular grant programs. The KFW Artist Career Development Mini-Grant (ACD) provides up to $500 to support activities that further a KFW artist’s career, broaden the audience or impact of their work, and strengthen artist networks.   

The Artist Career Development Mini-Grant is for current and previous KFW grantees whose primary residence is in Kentucky at the time of the application and during the grant activities.  A match is required. KFW will provide ¾ (75%) of the cost of activities up to $500. 

 Artist Career Development Mini-Grants can be used for:  

• Artist’s residencies and retreats to build your body of work, focus on research or the creation of a new project, and “radical rest” for artists. (Radical Rest is a term used to describe a comprehensive approach to healing from oppressive systems. It centers self-care to rejuvenate an artist’s work to create social change.)  

• Perform, present, or screen your artwork, films or other performance pieces at panels, conferences, festivals, and juried showcases.  

• Solo or group exhibitions of your work at galleries, museums, or in a community context. This can include framing and shipping costs for visual artwork.  

• Travel costs to attend a career development opportunity that centers your artmaking.  

• Strengthening your artist network by attending a regional, national, or international gathering of artists, or by hosting a gathering of feminist artists working for social change in your community.  

• Entry fees to submit your original art to writing contests, film festivals, art festivals, etc.  

This is a feminist art-focused grant. ACD Mini-Grants cannot be used for:  

• Anything that is not artistic in nature. The basis of this grant is career development for a feminist artist’s career in artmaking.   

• Artist fees. (Apply to the AMA or AE grant programs for KFW to cover artist fees.)  

• Event sponsorship. If you would like KFW to sponsor an event, please check out the Sponsorship link on our website.   

• Artist groups or organizations. This mini-grant is for individual artists only.   

• Past events or activities that are not at least 30 days after the application is submitted.  

• Participation in a college or university class.  

• Formal apprenticeship or mentorship with an established artist.  

• Anything that KFW cannot fund as a 501c3. See eligibility guidelines here.  

If you have questions about eligibility, the grant timeframe, or the purpose of the mini-grants, please contact avery@kfw.org.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY.