WFF Housing Stability Grant for Artists

The Woodman Family Foundation Housing Stability Grant for Artists (WFF HSG) provides grants of $30,000, distributed over three years, to NYC-based visual artists in need who are seeking support for stable housing. In its inaugural cycle, the WFF HSG will award grants to five artists.

The WFF Housing Stability Grant for Artists is offered in recognition of the increasing unaffordability of rental housing in New York City, and the housing insecurity it creates for artists. Its goal is to improve artists’ housing stability, through a $30,000 grant that is distributed over three years.

The WFF HSG hopes that recipients will be able to remain in, or find, reliable and stable housing for at least three years, thereby allowing them to focus on their creative practice and build more sustainable careers.

Recipients may use the funds for new housing which reduces their rent obligation, guarantees a stable rental obligation such as a lengthy lease in their existing or new housing, and/or provides greater access to live/work space.

The inaugural application cycle will open Tuesday, February 11 at 10:00 AM ET, and close on Tuesday, April 8 at 5:00 PM ET.

Image: Betty Woodman; Villa A Capri; 2006; Terra sigillata, canvas, glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, wood; 44 x 121 x 10 1/2 in.; © Woodman Family Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York