Women in Photography

WIP-LTI/Lightside Individual Project Grant

The grant deadline has passed. This is for reference only.

2011 Grant Guidelines

Women in Photography and LTI/Lightside Photographic Services established the Individual Project Grant in 2008 to help support international female artists.

Deadline: Friday, July 8, 2011, 11:59 PM, PST

Guest Juror: Heather Darcy Bhandari, Director, Mixed Greens

Heather Darcy Bhandari is the Director of Artist Relations at Mixed Greens. Since joining the gallery in 2000, she has curated over fifty exhibitions while managing a roster of nearly two-dozen artists. Heather’s passion and enthusiasm for artists has led her to curate independent exhibitions, sit on the board of NURTUREart (a nonprofit in Brooklyn giving opportunities to unrepresented artists and curators), and co-author ART/WORK, a professional development book for artists published in 2009 by Simon and Schuster. She’s a member of the New Art Dealer’s Alliance (NADA), College Art Association, and is co-chair of programming for ArtTable. She is also an adjunct professor at Brown University. She has lectured, and participated in portfolio reviews and panel discussions across the country. Heather received a BA in visual arts and anthropology at Brown University and an MFA in painting from Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Mixed Greens, she worked at contemporary galleries Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin in New York City.

Available Grants:

WIP–LTI/Lightside Grant
$3,000 and WIP online solo show in September. One awarded.

WIP–LTI/Lightside Materials Grant
$1,000 in Kodak materials selected by the grant recipient. One awarded.

Applicant Eligibility
We accept applications from photographers who are at least 18 years old, regardless of geographic location.

Project Eligibility
We will fund projects that are new or ongoing. Applicants should submit no more than one proposal requesting support for one project.

Review Process
Humble Arts Foundation’s senior curatorial staff along with a guest juror, Heather Darcy Bhandari, Director, Mixed Greens, will review projects for visual strength, rigor, and clarity of stated project goals

Submission Guidelines
Submit exactly ten images. Each image must be a jpg, 72dpi and 600 pixels wide only, that means the width of the top of the image, not the side (length).

Application Fee
Artist members: Free
Non-members: $45 | Become an Artist member

Notification
Thursday, September 8, 2011

Disclaimer
We will notify applicants via the email address associated with your PayPal account. This is very important. Please check that account on Thursday, September 8, 2011 for notification. If you do not have a PayPal account and pay using an account that is not yours, we will send notification to that email address.

Application Process
Your application is complete after you have submitted the application, ten images, and have paid the $45 application fee. Under no circumstances will we consider incomplete applications.