Lifecycle: { "status": "2026 applications closed; review underway", "edition": "2026", "cadence": "annual", "launched": 2006, "duration": "project-specific", "renewable": null, "dates": { "opens": "2026-04-01", "deadline": "2026-05-06", "decision": "2026-12-02" } } Funding and benefits: { "cash": { "amount": { "minimum": 15000, "maximum": 50000 }, "currency": "USD", "scope": "per grant" }, "total_pool": null, "benefits": { "salary_or_stipend": "project grant", "tuition": null, "travel": "may be budgeted when allowed", "housing": null, "insurance": null, "research_budget": "supports articles, books, short-form writing, and translation", "in_kind": [ "Creative Capital administration and grantee visibility" ] } } Eligibility and filters: { "citizenship": "US citizen, permanent resident, or qualifying O-1 status", "residence": "United States eligibility", "countries": [ "United States" ], "destination": "project-based", "age": "25 or older", "experience": "published author/writer", "education": null, "career_stage": "arts writer, critic, journalist, scholar, or translator", "fields": "contemporary visual art", "route": "individual application", "nomination": false, "institution": null, "language": "writing or translation category requirements", "location": "project-based", "remote": true, "exclusions": [ "institutional applicants", "work outside contemporary visual art" ] } Application: { "opens": "2026-04-01", "deadline": "2026-05-06", "decision": "2026-12-02", "start": null, "end": null, "url": "https://www.artswriters.org/downloads/2026_ARTS-WRITERS-GRANT-APPLICATION-GUIDE.pdf", "materials": [ "project narrative", "work samples", "budget", "CV/publication record" ], "selection_stages": [ "eligibility", "two independent evaluators", "jury review", "award" ] } Past editions and people: { "people": { "leaders": [], "latest_recipients": [], "latest_edition": 2025, "past_recipients": [], "coverage": "complete 2025 roster is published at the official grantees URL; names not duplicated here pending structured ingestion" }, "history": { "editions": [ { "year": 2025, "selected": 31, "total_awarded_usd": 1040000, "range_usd": [ 15000, 50000 ] } ], "statistics": [ "More than 450 writers funded over 20 years", "More than USD 13.5 million awarded", "More than 300 evaluators and panelists have served" ] } } Known evidence gaps: [ "project duration", "2026 cohort size", "2025 names not transcribed" ] Source conflicts: []