Resources
Supporting the Clarksville Arts community through sharing resources and funding opportunities. Find rotating opportunities below.
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Funding Opportunities
Individual Artist Fellowship
Granting Organization: Tennessee Arts Commission
Opportunity: Fellowships provide those individuals who by education, experience, or natural talent engage in a particular art form or discipline, and live and work in Tennessee. To qualify, an artist must be financially compensated for his or her work, and this compensation must be a significant source of support for their livelihood.
These are competitive awards. Eligibility qualifies an artist to apply but does not guarantee funding. Applications are scored by out-of-state adjudicators. The Commission awards approximately 1–3 fellowships each in Craft, Media, Visual Art, Dance, Music, Theatre, and Literary Arts, at $5,000 per recipient. No matching funds are required and no specific project has to be carried out with the funds.
Arts Build Communities Grant
Granting Organization: Clarksville Arts & Heritage
Opportunity: Arts Build Communities is a program funded by the Tennessee Arts Commission and administered by the Clarksville/Montgomery County Arts & Heritage Development Council in cooperation with the Tennessee Arts Commission.
ABC grants provide support for arts projects that broaden access to arts experiences, address community quality of life issues through the arts, or enhance the sustainability of asset-based cultural enterprises. Arts disciplines covered by this grant program include dance, music, opera/musical theatre, theatre, visual arts, design arts, crafts, photography, media arts, literature, interdisciplinary and folk arts.
The Current Art Fund
Granting Organization: Tri-Star Arts as a partner in the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Opportunity: The Current Art Fund seeks to support visual artists and artist collectives in creating independent, non-traditional, public-facing projects that contribute to the rich dialogue within contemporary visual art scenes across the state of Tennessee.
Our 2026 granting cycle will award project-based grants to fund artists’ innovative contributions to the visual arts conversation in Tennessee.
Artist Resources: Creative Capital
Granting Organization: Creative Capital
Opportunity: Creative Capital Foundation provides professional development resources and access to opportunities that help artists build sustainable practice.
Application for Creative Capital's 'State of the Art' Prize is currently closed, but visit their website and sign up for their newsletter to stay in the know for when the cycle comes around again.
Various Grants for Young Musicians
Granting Organization: Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Opportunity: Several grants and scholarships available to young musicians to study classical music, including: Young Scholars Program, College Scholarship Program, Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, Academic Achievement Award, and Young Musician Award.
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Artist Resources: Emerging Artists Grant
Granting Organization: Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
Opportunity: The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation exists to support young representational artists from around the world in the fields of painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing.
The grant may be awarded to an artist up to three times in their lifetime. Each application is carefully evaluated, and grants are awarded based on the quality of the submission, including the portfolio of artworks.
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