Travelling is always a part of the inner exploration of an individual including creative practice that can lead to amazing opportunities and inspiration. Each year thousands of artists from all over the world apply for travel grants. Applying for grants is a difficult process for every grant seekers including artists. Though the goal for the grant may be different in aspect to the interest of an individual, the aim of the awarded grant is to make huge support in sustaining careers as an artist. Applying for travel grants is a great way for artists to supplement their income to ease the financial burden that often comes as part of traveling.
These top 9 travel grants aim to push success in the development of artistic work through travel support.
FRAME Travel Grant Support for Finnish Visual Artists
Frame awards grants to promote and support Finnish visual arts in the following fields of contemporary art: fine art, photographic art, media art, art handicraft, comics art, performance art, and sound art. Frame awards travel grants that can be applied for at any time. The travel grant is intended for artists, art experts, and workgroups.
Applicant Country: Finland
Travel Grant-Arts Across Canada
The Travel component of Arts Across Canada funds activities linked to Canadian presentation, exhibition, artistic collaboration, networking and building market opportunities for Canadian artists, arts professionals, artistic groups and arts organizations. Grants provide support to participate in significant events, build a national presence and for festivals and presenters to conduct research for Canadian artistic programming.
Applicant Country: Canada
Grant Provider: Canada Council for the Arts
Terra Foundation Research Travel Grants to the United States
The Terra Foundation for American Art is dedicated to fostering exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States for national and international audiences. Recognizing the importance of experiencing original works of art, the foundation provides opportunities for interaction and study, beginning with the presentation and growth of its own art collection in Chicago. To further cross-cultural dialogue on American art, the foundation supports and collaborates on innovative exhibitions, research, and educational programs. Implicit in such activities is the belief that art has the potential both to distinguish cultures and to unite them.
Applicant Country: Worldwide
Grant Provider: Terra Foundation
British Council Festival Travel Grant
This funding aims to enable filmmakers to represent their work abroad, develop new contact networks, reach new audiences and increase the exposure of new UK film and film talent internationally. All the application process for travel grants has been managed by The British Council’s Film Department
Applicant Country: Worldwide
Grant Provider: British Council
Mobility First! – ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative 2019
Mobility First! supports a wide variety of activity types (workshop/training, conference/forum, festival/biennale, residencies, partnership meetings, research trips, short-term exploration/networking). This is a travel grant for artists and cultural professionals.
Applicant Country: Worldwide
Grant Provider: Asia-Europe Foundation
Cultural Export Fund-Travel Grants
Travel Grants form part of Arts Council Malta’s internationalization strategy for the culture and creative sectors. This culture export travel grants aim to support the mobility of artists and cultural operators to showcase and to expose their works to international audiences and to receive international feedback, to explore, to develop skills, to build networks, and to engage in international collaborations.
Applicant Country: Malta
Grant Provider: Arts Council Malta
STEP Travel Grants
Since its launch in 2003 to the present, the program STEP (previously Step Beyond) has supported more than 2,300 trips across 59 countries – covering the Council of Europe countries and the Euro-Mediterranean partnership countries. STEP travel grants support creative and critical artists and cultural changemakers traveling across Europe and its neighbors, to help foster a society with greater solidarity, participation, equality and a stronger sense of social justice.
Applicant Country: Worldwide
Grant Provider: STEP
New England Presenter Travel Fund
NEFA cultivate and promote the arts in New England and beyond. Its programs support artists across many forms of expression and many geographies, connecting them with collaborators and communities, fueling creative exchange and public discourse, and strengthening the creative economy. Each program and project that is brought to life at NEFA builds a stronger and more dynamic infrastructure for the arts.
Applicant Country: Nonprofit organizations, schools, federally-recognized Indian tribal governments, or units of state or local government based in New England
Grant Provider: NEFA
Cultural Exchange Fund (Award)
The Cultural Exchange Fund (CEF) is a travel grant program supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that assists U.S.-based APAP members in building partnerships and collaborations outside of the U.S. and to experience the work of artists from around the world in its cultural context. APAP recognizes that promoting global exchanges of artists, their work and crosscultural programs is essential to fully engage audiences and communities in the breadth and diversity of performing arts experiences.
Applicant Country: U.S.-based APAP members
Grant Provider: APAP
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