The Rainin Arts Fellowship is a grant from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation administered by United States Artists that funds visionary Bay Area artists making significant contributions to the region's cultural ecosystem. Each year, four artists in dance, film, public space, and theater receive unrestricted grants of $100,000, along with supplemental support including financial planning, communications assistance, and legal services.

The fellowship is nomination-based and prioritizes artists of color, immigrant artists, disabled artists, and LGBTQIAP+ artists who have been historically excluded from funding. Panelists review nominees annually across the program's four discipline tracks.

The Rainin Arts Fellowship — United States Artists Deaf’s IMPRISONED directed by Antoine Hunter and choreographed and performed by Urban Jazz Dance Company, 2018. Performance, 70 minutes. Performed at CounterPulse in San Francisco.

The Rainin Arts Fellowship is an annual program honoring visionary artists and collaboratives working in dance, film, public space, and theater for their significant contributions to the Bay Area’s cultural ecosystems.

Each year, the Rainin Arts Fellowship awards four artists annually with unrestricted grants of $100,000, as well as supplemental support tailored to address each Fellow’s specific needs and goals, including financial planning, communications and marketing help, and legal services.

Program design, administration Announcing the 2025 Rainin Arts Fellows The Rainin Arts Fellowship Panelists organized by year Alliance for California Traditional Arts Associate Artistic Director/Director of In Dialogue Berkeley Repertory Theatre Artist; Director of Narrative Change & Field Building (Youth Speaks); Producing Director (Campo Santo) Youth Speaks, Campo Santo Film SF | San Francisco Film Commission Public Programmer; Short Film Programmer; and Co-Director UCLA Film & Television Archive; Sundance Film Festival; Camera Obscura Director of Education and Community Founder and Executive Director Director of Special Initiatives Alliance for California Traditional Arts Educator, Independent Curator, and Community Organizer Actor, Writer, Director, and Teacher Writer, Curator, and Connector Artist Development Associate Manager: Narrative Choreographer and Director African & African American Performing Arts Coalition Performance Artist and Cultural Worker Center for Asian American Media