Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
NYFA’s Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants provide one-time support to visual, digital, film, and choreography artists facing unexpected health emergencies to help them return to their creative work.
Funder: New York Foundation for The Arts
Due Dates: July 14, 2026 (Cycle 37) | September 15, 2026 (Cycle 38) | November 17, 2026 (Cycle 39)
Funding Amounts: Up to $5,000 per grant; approx. $150,000 distributed per cycle; one-time award per eligible emergency.
Summary: One-time grants supporting generative artists in visual, digital, film, or choreography fields facing recent, unexpected medical, dental, or mental health emergencies.
Key Information: Highly competitive; strict eligibility on discipline, income, and emergency type.
Description
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 to artists in financial need who have recently experienced an unexpected medical, dental, or mental health emergency. The grant aims to help generative artists—those creating original work—in the fields of visual arts, digital/electronic arts, video/film, and choreography access urgent care and return to their creative practice. The program is administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and funded by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, honoring Robert Rauschenberg's legacy of supporting artists in crisis.
