The New York Foundation for the Arts is seeking applications for its Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant.
Donor Name: New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/14/2026
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating work in the visual arts, digital/electronic arts, video/film, and choreography.
Funding Information
Grant Up to $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individual Eligibility
- Applicants must:
- Be a generative artist creating work in Choreography, Digital/Electronic Arts, Video/Film, or Visual Arts
- Be 21 years or older on the cycle’s deadline Reside in the United States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory
- Be an artist in need, having an adjusted gross income of $80,000 or lower for an individual, or $160,000 for joint filers, averaged over the last two federal tax returns
- Not have received a Rauschenberg Medical or Dancer Emergency Grant within the last five years (since their original grant award date)
- Not be enrolled in any degree-seeking program
- Demonstrate current and ongoing activity in their artistic discipline
- Applicants must:
- 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 over the course of at least the last five years. If the work in the eligible discipline is tangential, incidental or infrequent, it is not eligible.
- Recent and sustained artistic activity is defined as at least one opportunity annually over the past five years (2021 to present) for the public to experience your work in an eligible discipline or disciplines.
- Eligible Events/Opportunities:
- Public showings of your work such as exhibitions, presentations, installations, screenings, or performances in art spaces, galleries, local businesses, art houses/film series, public art installations, public spaces, museums, fairs/festivals
- Public/community projects such as public art, murals, or community-based projects with public components
- Participation in residencies with public-facing components/presentations
- Public showings of works-in-progress are eligible
- Work being acquired for a public permanent collections can count as a public-facing activity for the year in which the purchase/acquisition took place.
- 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. The only exceptions for chronic conditions are:
- A recent diagnosis of a condition which requires long-term treatment, such as cancer or multiple sclerosis; expenses for initial exams/diagnosis, any emergency surgery, and other urgently-needed treatment to stabilize the condition.
- Extenuating circumstances which cause an unexpected and severe worsening of the condition.
- In each cycle, we can consider emergencies that have occurred within approximately the last six months. The earliest date for an eligible emergency is listed in the Cycle’s timeline information.
- 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. The only exceptions for chronic conditions are:
For more information, visit NYFA.
