The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant supports dedicated painters, sculptors, and printmakers with financial need, funding individual career needs to help them continue developing their work.
Funder: Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Due Dates: October 15, 2026 (Applications open) | January 15, 2027 (Application deadline, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time)
Funding Amounts: $25,000 per artist; 20 grants awarded annually
Summary: Individual support for painters, sculptors, and printmakers with at least 20 years of mature artistic practice and current financial need.
Key Information: Open internationally; portfolio images must begin in 2007 or earlier and demonstrate sustained mature work.
Description
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation’s Individual Support Grant recognizes serious, fully committed artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their work, regardless of commercial success. It supports individual painters, sculptors, and printmakers rather than exhibitions, installations, or specific projects. Artists may use the grant in ways they determine will assist their careers.
The program emphasizes sustained artistic maturity and current financial need. Maturity means intellectual, technical, and creative proficiency maintained over time, rather than an applicant’s age. Applicants must demonstrate that artistic goals have remained their primary involvement despite other personal or financial responsibilities. No preference is given to genre, media, or subject matter within the eligible disciplines. An independent panel of five arts professionals selects recipients annually.
