Artist Grant — $1,200 unrestricted grant with no proposal

There's a $1,200 grant with no proposal and no artist statement. You email them pictures. That is the whole application. It's called Artist Grant. They've been going since 2017 and they give $1,200 unrestricted to one visual artist three times a year. Unrestricted, meaning nobody tells you what to spend it on. Here's the actual application and I want you to hear just how short this is. You send an email. In it, you put either a link to your website or three to five images of your work plus a short bio. You tell them whether they can share your work on their social media and that's it. Their own site says, and I'm quoting, no grant proposal required. It's open to visual artists anywhere in the world, 18 and over. Painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, mixed media, and installation. Now, the honest bits, because I'd rather you knew. There's a $30 application fee. It isn't for film, music, theater, or dance. And if you've won it before, you can't win it again. There are three deadlines a year, so there's always one coming. Miss the next one and there's another one behind it. But here's what I actually want you to take from this. You have spent years telling yourself you can't apply for funding because you haven't got the CV, or the statement, or the right words. This one wants none of that. It wants to see the work, which is the only thing you already have. Follow for more of the money the art world never mentions and send this to an artist who's been…