The Artist in Business Leadership (ABL) Fellowship is a yearlong program that helps independent Native artists pursue art as a way to build a business to support themselves and their families.
Donor Name: First Peoples Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 07/16/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The program provides them with network-building, professional development guidance and funding towards business needs.
The ABL Fellowship offers $10,000 in grant funding towards a proposed project that supports the artist or culture bearer’s work in their community. Applications are open to artists at all stages of their career.
Eligibility Criteria
- A Native artist who either owns or is launching an active art-centered business, or who is seeking to grow and improve business aspects of their income-producing creative practice.
- Must be at least 18 years of age at the time of application
- Must reside and be based within the U.S.
- Applicants who reside outside of the U.S. are ineligible to apply.
- Applicants must be an enrolled member of, or provide proof of lineal descendancy from, a U.S. federally-recognized or U.S. state-recognized tribe, or be able to provide proof of ancestry as an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian.
- Applicants may not be enrolled in any academic, degree seeking program.
- Native artists working in a wide variety of mediums are welcome to apply.
- Artists whose primary mediums are within the performing arts field should apply to the Native Performing Arts (NPA) Fellowship. This includes theater, music, dance, live performance, spoken word and more.
- Recipients of any 2025 First Peoples Fund (FPF) fellowships are not eligible to apply for the 2026 ABL Fellowship.
- Previous grantees with any First Peoples Fund programs must have submitted a final report for any awarded FPF grants.
- Please note: Current 2025 FPF Fellows are ineligible to apply.
For more information, visit First Peoples Fund.
