RFPs: Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants Program 2025 – United States

Funding Information

• The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies.

Eligibility Criteria

• Individual Eligibility:
  • Applicants must be a generative artist creating work in visual arts, film/video/digital/electronic arts (not a performer), or choreography
  • Applicants must be 21 years or older  on the cycle’s deadline
  • Applicants must reside in the United States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory
  • Applicants must be an artist in need, having an adjusted gross income of $75,000 or lower for an individual, or $150,000 for joint filers, averaged over the last two federal tax returns
  • Applicants’ medical emergency and treatment must occur in the U.S. (including D.C., Tribal Nations, and U.S. Territories)
  • Applicants must not have received a Rauschenberg Medical or Dancer Emergency Grant previously
  • Applicants must not be enrolled in any degree-seeking program
  • Applicants must demonstrate current and ongoing activity in their artistic discipline
• Artistic Eligibility:
  • Applicants must be artists with a demonstrated commitment to the eligible artform(s). You need to create original work in at least one of the eligible disciplines, AND have recent and sustained artistic activity. If the work in the eligible discipline is tangential, incidental or infrequent, it is not eligible.
  • Recent and sustained is defined as activity over the course of at least the last five years, since 2019, with multiple opportunities for the public to experience your work during this time (at least one opportunity annually). This can be through exhibits/screenings/performances/activities in art spaces, galleries, local businesses, art houses/film series, public art installations, public spaces, museums, fairs/festivals, community projects, and/or residencies with public-facing components. Works in progress are eligible; student exhibits, performances, and other activities are not. They do not accept portfolios/work samples. Reduced activity during the pandemic (2020-21) is acceptable.
  • Work that is created for online distribution and consumption is eligible IF it is a creative work, and was actively marketed to the public for showing at a specific date and time. If self-produced online presentations or sales of your work are your sole platform, such as Instagram or YouTube, or your work is only available on-demand, they cannot consider your application eligible.
• Eligible Artistic Disciplines
  • Only artists creating work in visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts or choreography may apply to this grant program. The applicant must be the primary maker of the creative work the individual with final creative control. For film/video, only the publicly named director and/or producer or credited co-maker are eligible; they must be the individual with the primary day-to-day responsibility for creating the work in its entirety. Performing artists in film/video or television/live performance, performing arts recorded digitally, and performances/writing distributed online are not eligible. Editors, cinematographers, assistant/line/field producers, television producers, screenwriters, television/film performers and crew members, dance performers, et al are not eligible.
  • Works which are intended for commercial or mass production, or are work-for-hire projects, are not eligible to be considered in the required artistic history. These include television shows, graphic and fashion design, commissions, and industrial films.
• Emergency Eligibility:
  • In this program, an emergency is a one-time, unexpected, non-chronic condition as a result of illness, violence, an accident or triggering event, or sudden medical event, that requires treatment to ensure your health or life, and which without treatment has extreme impact on your daily life and ability to carry out/return to your creative practice.
  • In each cycle, they can consider emergencies that have occurred within approximately the last six months. The earliest date for an eligible emergency is listed in the Cycles information. The medical emergency and treatment must occur in the U.S. (including D.C., Tribal Nations and U.S. Territories).

For more information, visit NYFA.