The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) provides grants of up to $20,000 to environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.
Donor Name: New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The AWAW EAG supports environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement. Projects should not only point at problems, but aim to engage an environmental issue at some scale. Proposals should illustrate thorough consideration of a project’s ecological and social ethics. Projects that explore interdependence, relationships, and systems through Indigenous and ancestral practices are encouraged to apply.
Grant Period
Projects must have a public engagement component that is free to attend and takes place within the grant term (August 2025 to August 2026).
Eligible Projects
The intended impact of the project is an important factor in the selection process. Environmental art projects that qualify for this program may focus on the following themes, but are not limited to:
- Regeneration
- Eco-social engagement
- Decarbonization as decolonization
- Ecofeminism
- Climate change/climate collapse
- Systems-restoration
- Interspecies relationships
- Natural or built systems
- Recycling and repurposing
- Clean energy production
- Bioplastics.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must:
- Identify as a woman and/or female, including trans women and people of variable gender identities who were designated female at birth
- Be 18 years or older on or before the grant deadline
- Be an individual artist who is the project lead of the proposed project
- Collaborative projects are eligible and encouraged to apply
- While partnerships with organizations are allowed, organizations themselves cannot apply or serve as the lead applicant
- Have residence in one of the 50 states, a Tribal Nation, a U.S. Territory, or the District of Columbia on the grant deadline
- Not be enrolled in a degree-seeking program of any kind during the grant term (August 2025 to August 2026)
- Not have received an AWAW EAG previously as the lead applicant
- Past recipients of other NYFA and AWAW grant programs are eligible to apply
- Not be a NYFA or AWAW employee, member of the NYFA Board of Trustees or Artists’ Advisory Committee, and/or an immediate family member of any of the above.
For more information, visit NYFA.
