Created in 1993 to further FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:

-Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding

-Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Our mission is to support experimental artistic practices.

Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.