Deadline: 2 July 2025
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists provides critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized in the visual art field.
Benefits
- Winning artists and finalists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development in the field.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: $10,000
Eligibility Criteria
- This is a grant for Black trans women who are early-career working in visual art.
- Please note that the grant’s intention is to support Black trans women, who are systematically overlooked and often excluded from formal visual arts institutions due to racialized transphobia and socioeconomic barriers to entry in the visual art world.
- This is a grant for U.S. based individuals, including the 50 states and its territories.
- Artists currently enrolled in college, university, or other educational programs are welcome to apply for this grant.
Application Requirements
- Contact info, narrative bio, and headshot
- Demographic information
- One sentence description of your artistic practice
- Two short essay questions on your artistic practice
- 2 references that can speak to your practice
- CV
- Work samples (12 samples maximum, details below)
- Choose from any of the following formats to upload work samples that best represent your practice.
- Allowed Media Types:
- Images (up to 10MB each)
- Video (up to 500MB each)
- PDFs (up to 20MB each)
- External media from YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud
- Images do not have to be a particular size, as SlideRoom’s servers will process them to fit their system. Their processors will resize anything larger than 1280 x 1280 x 72 ppi to fit within those limitations.
- Image file formats accepted: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tif, .tiff, .bmp, .tga
- Video file formats accepted: .m4v, .mov, .mp4, .wmv, .flv, .asf, .mpeg, .mpg, .mkv
- Please include title, medium, year, and brief description of each work sample.
For more information, visit Queer/Art.
