Short Description
The Artist Grant is designed to help emerging artists from underrepresented groups whose practices involve some form of collaborative, collective, or creative processes that incorporate or benefit their community. This grant program is informed by extensive research into the challenges emerging artists in Europe and beyond are facing, as well as by learnings from previous open calls and hundreds of applications to our grant programs since 2022. Our aim–through this grant–is to improve living conditions for artists, enable them to dedicate more time to developing their practice, to increase the visibility of their work, and to boost their self-confidence. Ultimately, this grant program aims to help emerging artists realize their creative potential.
Eligibility
Before preparing your application, please read the following pages in full and ensure that you meet all eligibility criteria.
To be eligible for this open call you must:
- Identify as an emerging artist and have at least two and no more than 10 years of professional experience.
- Be developing an artistic practice that involves some form of collaborative, collective, or creative processes that incorporate or benefits your community.
- Identify as belonging to one or more underrepresented groups, or as someone who consistently faces systemic barriers to equal opportunities in career development, exposure, or access compared to the majority of artists in the creative and cultural industries in your country.
- Be based in either Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal or the United Kingdom and have a bank account with an IBAN number under your name in one of these countries.
- Be born in or before 2004.
- Have an updated website or public social media profile.
- Clearly outline how you intend to use the grant, and explain the specific ways it will support your artistic development.
- Be able to demonstrate how the grant will support you in overcoming economic, social, cultural, physical and health-related barriers that would otherwise prevent you from progressing your career.
- Be willing to demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to being a positive ambassador for the growing TSAF Grantee Network.
Main artistic field or discipline
- activity
- Architecture
- Dance
- Design
- Digital Arts
- Film and Video
- Literature
- Music
- Multidisciplinary
- Painting
- Performing
- Photography
- Sculpture
- Other
How to Apply
Online Application
Program Benefits & Awards
They are offering 10 unrestricted grants of €10,000. Each grant will be transferred in monthly installments of €1,000 over a period of 10 months (January–October, 2026). There are no restrictions on how recipients may choose to spend their grant, though it is intended to help cover living costs and expenses associated with artistic development. This may include, but is not limited to, securing workspaces, purchasing equipment, enrolling in paid courses, or any other investment that supports artistic progress.
In addition to financial assistance, the program provides non-financial support. The Grantee Network hosts virtual events where recipients can share their work, challenges, and experiences with peers. Whenever possible, the organization also showcases and promotes grantees’ works across its various communication channels.
Entry Fee
None
Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 13 October 2025
Website Link: https://thesupportingact.org/programs
