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NEA:  Stage Directors   offers a cooperative agreement for manage a career development program for stage directors and stage designers.  This program enables emerging stage directors and designers to work in situations (including residency and mentoring activities) that will develop their artistic skills and enhance their contributions to America's nonprofit professional arts institutions. 

http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/index.html

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Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation:  Humanities Program   supports projects which address the concerns of: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized.  Programs in the following areas are eligible:  history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines.  

http://www.delmas.org/programs/humanities.html

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Lannan Foundation   awards grants to contemporary visual art and to literary arts.  Contemporary visual art grants offer funding to artists for the creation of new work, scholarly publications that encourage serious discussion of contemporary art and support to organizations that bring new and sometimes experimental works of art to a wide audience.  Funding interests in the area of literary arts include the creation of exceptional English language literature and efforts to develop a wider audience for contemporary poetry, fiction and nonfiction.  

http://www.lannan.org/

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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc:  International Grants to Visual Artists   encourages artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic.  Grants are intended for a one-year period.  The Foundation will consider need on the part of an applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work, personal living and medical expenses.  The size and length of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. 

http://www.albrightknox.org/resourcecenter/grantsetc.html