Announcing the 2025-26 FAIR Artist Grant
An opportunity for mission-aligned artists to win competitive funding from FAIR. Plus the latest news and reads from our community.
Applications Now Open for the FAIR Artist Grant
We are pleased to introduce the 2025-26 FAIR Artist Grant, an opportunity available to our community of artists who carry out work that aligns with, advances, and supports FAIR’s mission in the arts.
Through the FAIR Artist Grant, mission-aligned artists have the opportunity to win competitive funding that will reward them not based on their identity group or ideological allegiance—as many arts grants quietly continue to do—but instead on the quality and integrity of their work.
Since our first granting cycle in 2023, we have awarded $16,000 in direct funding to twenty artists spanning industry, background, and geography. Learn more about our 2023-24 Artist Grant Winners and 2025 Artist Grant Winners.
Art is the most powerful transmitter of ideas in human history. If we want to influence minds and change culture, we must create culture. Help us in our mission to build a new culture that frees artists from groupthink by donating to the Artist Grant Fund.
”Programs like the FAIR Artist Grant are absolutely worth supporting—they empower artists at the grassroots level, create space for bold storytelling, and help ensure that new voices continue to shape the future of American theatre. We’re deeply grateful.” (Frank Mihelich, 2025 Artist Grant Winner)
Freedom in the Arts launches new sector-wide research on artistic freedom
From FAIR Arts Fellow Rosie Kay: Freedom in the Arts (FITA) has launched three new confidential surveys exploring how boycotts, censorship and political pressure are shaping the UK’s cultural sector.
This is the first research of its kind, designed to inform the creation of a practical FITA Toolkit — a set of clear, lawful, and supportive resources to help artists, venues, and agents navigate pressures with confidence and integrity.
FITA Artists Survey | FITA Agents & Managers Survey | FITA Venue Survey
Latest from Our Community
Clifton Duncan for the State of the Arts – You MUST Avoid This Trap.
“Curiosity and Empathy are foundational to the craft of acting. In truth, they are foundational to any artistic discipline. They are the artist’s bread and butter, what sets them apart from the civilian population. And they’ve become rare in today’s atomized, hyper-partisan climate.”
Don Baton for The Spectator – The Decline of the Met
“In [this essay], I argue that the Met’s problem goes deeper than programming too many boring and irrelevant contemporary operas. The overarching problem is, rather, a leadership that treats its audiences with contempt. I also advance a few hard-won pearls of wisdom on the direction of American opera programming […]”
Franklin Einspruch for The Arts Fuse – Book Review: “Against Morality” — The Shaming Regime
“‘Against Morality’ is the cri de coeur of a cultural critic who realizes that the presentation of art and its adjacent pursuits, including much art itself, have become the subsidiaries of progressive politics.”
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