GRANTS

Grants

Some 80 grants, usually covering participation fees only, are available for participation in one of the classes at the Summer Academy. Additional subsidies for travel and living costs are offered by others.

Grants from the Society of Friends of the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

cover participating fees only.

Further details and contacts at www.summeracademy.at/grants

Applications should be made online only.

The grant application also counts as the application for a class, so need not be made separately.

Closing date for all grant applications is 3 April 2019.

Applications should contain the following:

application form for a grant
brief informative curriculum vitae
statement on the reason for applying and what you expect from participation in a course at the Summer Academy
portfolio, approximately 10 photographs of your work (for the courses in curatorial theory and praxis, writing and blogging, a portfolio is not necessary)

BKA Eastern Europe Grants

cover participating fees, travel costs up to € 200.– and living costs of € 190.– per week.

Co-financed through funding from the Austrian Federal Chancellery – Division II Arts and Culture, the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts awards BKA Eastern Europe grants to art students from the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine.

Applications should contain the following:

application form for a grant
brief informative curriculum vitae
statement on the reason for applying and what you expect from participation in a course at the Summer Academy
portfolio, approximately 10 photographs of your work (for the courses in curatorial theory and praxis, writing and blogging, a portfolio is not necessary)

Further Grant opportunities, which cover the participation fees and travel and living costs. Please apply to the relevant awarding body:

The American Austrian Foundation (AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts) Grants apply exclusively to art students from the USA. Please see here how to apply and send your applications by E-Mail.

The ERSTE Foundation offers fellowships for emerging curators and artists from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and the Slovak Republic. Applications to:
www.tranzit.org

The Free State of Bavaria offers grants for students at the art academies of Munich and Nuremberg. Applications to: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst, Salvatorstraße 2, 80327 München, Germany.

The Münster Academy of Fine Arts offers two grants for outstandingly talented students at the Academy. Grants are awarded by a jury in the course of the annual survey.
www.kunstakademie-muenster.de

The Society of Friends of the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts awards a grant to a student at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts.
www.hgb-leipzig.de/freundeskreis

KSA (Kingston School of Art), Kingston University, London, one of the UK’s leading fine arts schools, offers two grants for students of the BA (Hons) Fine Art course in their second year. Information/Application: Mark Harris, Associate Professor Fine Art, m.harris@kingston.ac.uk

The Province of Vorarlberg awards grants to talented artists and art students born in Vorarlberg. Information/application: Ms. Elisabeth Dobler, Tel.: +43 5574 511-223 12, elisabeth.dobler@vorarlberg.at, Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung, Kulturabteilung.

The Province of Burgenland awards grants to talented artists and art students born in Burgenland. Information/application: Frau Marion Nasztl: marion.nasztl@bgld.gv.at Referat Kultur, Land Burgenland.

Please note:

In case of cancellation at short notice or premature departure a cancellation fee of € 200.– will be charged if no substitute is available.

The Society of Friends thanks:

all members, supporter and sponsor of the Society of Friends of the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.

The culture fund of the Provincial Capital of Salzburg
The culture department of the Province of Salzburg awards grants to talented students from the 7th and 8th years of secondary school or from the 3rd year onwards of vocational college, and to students of art or architecture.
and the following special grants:

The M.E. Prigge-grant is dedicated to the artist Maria Elisabeth Prigge (1948–2007), who directed the painting classes of the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts on the island of La Gomera from 1997 to 1999, as well as the 2003 and 2005 graphic arts classes in Hohensalzburg Fortress. It is intended for young talented artists to participate in a graphic arts course (engraving, drawing, etc.), and is financed by the Prigge Society of Friends. It is not possible to apply specifically for this grant; applications take place through the process described in section 1.

The Bisi Silva Grant is dedicated to the founding director of the CCA (Center for Contemporary Art) in Lagos, Nigeria, who died, far too early, in January 2019. Through her initiative, co-operation with the Summer Academy has been carried on since 2012, awarding several students from African countries grants for participation in our courses. The Society of Friends has now established a grant dedicated to Bisi Silva, one of the most important figures in the African art world. The number of grants annually depends on the sum raised. A grant covers fees as well as travel and accommodation expenses for students nominated by the CCA in Lagos and selected by the Summer Academy jury.