Grants & Artistic Support

Applications are open periodically throughout the year.

Provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.

Artist Space Trust is pleased to offer a Tenancy in Common unit that will be sold in partnership by Artist Space Trust and Northern California Land Trust. This nonprofit housing is offered through AST’s Community Land Trust Homeownership Program, preserving it as a permanently affordable home for artists.

The available home is a 3-bedroom, 1-bathroom Tenancy in Common unit that will be sold in partnership by Artist Space Trust and Northern California Land Trust. This nonprofit housing is offered through AST’s Community Land Trust Homeownership Program, preserving it as a permanently affordable home for artists.

David Herrera Performance Company's LatinXtensions is the only comprehensive culturally centered Latinx mentorship and networking program in the United States. The 12-month program advises emerging Latinx dance artists in developing their professional artistic practice. Capacity building focuses on non-profit management skills, producing, grant writing practice, equity best practices, engaging communities, building artistic networks, articulating values, and long-term career goals. Participants will exchange ideas, collectively troubleshoot production and administrative problems, and develop ways to create and support each other tangibly as a community. The program's second focus creates a network with other regional and national Latinx artists; thus developing a rich and thriving community support system of dance artists, presenters, curators, and collaborators.

• October 13, 2026 – for notification on January 11, 2027
• January 21, 2027 – for notification on April 12, 2027
• April 22, 2027 – for notification on July 5, 2027
• July 15, 2027 – for notification on October 4, 2027
• October 14, 2027 – for notification on January 10, 2027

$500 - $3,000. Provides urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:

• Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
• Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.

Supports community and volunteer-led groups at the grassroots level. Groups may apply for a grant ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 for a project or series of activities that improves the quality of life in their neighborhood.