For artists who want a clearer, more practical path to grant funding
The Praxis Grant KitThree practical grant trainings, a step-by-step PDF, and a curated grant list to help you find better opportunities, write stronger applications, and apply with more confidence.
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You got the same three giant grants everyone else got, the ones with 4,000 applicants and a 1 percent shot. You maybe even started an application.
Then you hit the part that asks for your project narrative and your budget and your artist statement, and you closed the tab. Because nobody ever taught you what a winning application actually looks like.
So the pile of unfinished applications grows next to the pile of finished paintings, and both of them just sit there.
You suspect the artists who win grants know something you do not. You are right. They do.
The free route
Googling “artist grants 2026” and getting a list of the same mega-grants, no idea which ones fit you, and zero help on the application itself.
The advice route
Articles and videos that tell you to be genuine without ever showing you a single winning application. Nice. Now write the budget section.
The just-wing-it route
You filled out one application cold, second-guessed every sentence, submitted it, and heard nothing back. No feedback, no idea what went wrong, so you never applied again.
We did not make this up. We took 7 artists who actually won grants, real money, real letters, and pulled their applications apart to find what they had in common. Then we turned it into a method you can run yourself.
Step 1
Find grants that actually fit your work, read the funder’s requirements correctly, and decide whether the opportunity is worth your time before you start writing.
Step 2
Build the pieces of the application in the right order: artist statement, project description, community impact, bio, CV, and budget, so the funder can understand exactly what they are supporting.
Step 3
Submit with a clear ask, the right support materials, and a plan for following up, instead of waiting until the deadline and hoping the application somehow comes together.
The goal is not to make grant writing mysterious. It is to give you a repeatable process you can use each time a real opportunity appears.
The Praxis Grant Kit is a practical grant-funding starter kit for artists: three video trainings, a step-by-step guide PDF, a proven grant list, and the weekly grant newsletter. It is designed to help you understand where funding comes from, how to approach funders, how to write the main parts of an application, and how to build a shortlist of opportunities worth applying to.
What you get inside:
Video
A complete introduction to grant writing for individual artists and writers, taught by a grant writer with 12 years of experience. You learn how to approach funders as investment partners, the three questions every grant must answer, and how to write the artist statement, community impact statement, project description, bio, CV, and budget.
Video
Chavisa Woods, a former nonprofit gallery fundraiser, explains how local bank branches can fund community art projects through discretionary grants. You learn how to find a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, pitch projects banks like to support, write a letter of intent with a specific dollar ask, offer the bank meaningful visibility, and report back so the relationship can become repeatable.
Video
A screen-share walkthrough of the Foundation Center’s Grants to Individuals portal. You see how to search by field, location, and type of support; read limitations and public 990 filings; save funder profiles; and verify deadlines on the funder’s own website.
Video
Brainard walks through the patterns behind 7 funded artists and how their winning applications worked, so you can see what strong funded applications tend to have in common.
The written version of the method so you can act without re-watching every lesson. Use it to move from research to writing to application planning.
List
A curated list of grant opportunities to help you start with real places to look instead of another open-ended Google search.
Ongoing
Fresh grant resources, open opportunities, and updates in your inbox every week. New grants keep coming, and so do we.
Artists using this stuff are getting funded. Their words, not mine.
“Pleased to announce I was awarded a professional artist grant from the city of St. Petersburg for $5,000.”
Neverne Covington
“On a mural I’m making, I’m using fundraising suggestions from Praxis Center to help pay for it. I received a $10k downtown improvement grant.”
Joe Maurer
“I received a grant to spend three weeks at Monte Azul Center for the Arts in Costa Rica, working with a master printmaker and a master paper maker.”
Sabra Crockett
| What You Get | Value |
|---|---|
| The Proven Grant List | $65 |
| The Step-by-Step Guide PDF | $45 |
| Video Bonus #1: Grant Writing 101 for Individual Artists & Authors | $95 |
| Video Bonus #2: How to Get Art Funding from Local Banks | $95 |
| Video Bonus #3: Finding Grants with the Foundation Center Portal | $95 |
| Bonus #4: Brainard’s 7-Winner Breakdown video | $95 |
| Bonus #5: The Weekly Praxis Newsletter with Grant Updates | $120/yr |
| Total Value | $610 |
Your Price Today:
$27
Get the Grant Kit for $27 →30-day money-back guarantee · Instant access
Get the Praxis Grant Kit, and if inside 30 days you do not think it is worth far more than $27, email us and we refund every dollar. Keep the list. Keep the videos. No questions, no forms.
This is for artists who will actually open the list and watch the videos. For everyone else, all the risk is on us.
Brainard Carey got into the Whitney Biennial and the Greater New York show at MoMA PS1, has interviewed more than 1,600 artists, curators, and dealers for Yale University radio, and wrote five books including Making It In The Art World. He has spent years watching which artists get funded and which get ignored, and the difference is almost never the art.
Will these grants apply to my kind of work?
The list spans mediums and the method works the same regardless of what you make. Painters, photographers, sculptors, printmakers, muralists, performers. Different work, same approach.
I’m not a confident writer. Won’t my application be weak?
That is the whole reason the 7-Winner Breakdown exists. You are not writing from a blank page and hoping. You are following what actually got funded.
I’m a beginner. Is this too advanced?
No. Most artists have never won a grant, beginner or not. The Kit starts at finding the right grant and walks you the whole way.
Is $27 really all of it?
Yes. The Kit is $27, one time. There is a bigger world inside Praxis if you want it later, but the Kit is the Kit.
How fast can I actually use this?
Open the grant list and you have real grants to circle in five minutes. Watch both videos and follow the PDF over a weekend and you have a shortlist and a method.
Two videos, the PDF, the proven grant list, and the weekly newsletter. A shortlist of grants worth applying to and the method 7 artists used to win them.
Get the Grant Kit for $27 →30-day money-back guarantee · Instant access
PS. The next 90 days can look exactly like the last 90 days: good work, good intentions, and another grant tab closed halfway through. Or you can spend $27 and a weekend learning the one thing you were never taught.