Visual Grant

Visual Grant is sponsored by Café Royal Cultural Foundation. The Café Royal Cultural Foundation Visual Grant awards an exhibition/project grant to New York City artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs.

Café Royal Cultural Foundation Café Royal Cultural Foundation At Café Royal Cultural Foundation, we believe in the power of a bold idea. We are honored to witness our grantees' visions come to life and receive critical acclaim at the highest levels.

We are immensely proud to celebrate the recent achievements within our community: our music grantees have earned an incredible two Grammy Awards and four Grammy nominations, while a performance grantee has been recognized with a prestigious Obie Award. This success is a testament to their extraordinary talent and dedication.

It reinforces our mission to provide artists with the crucial support needed to bring their groundbreaking projects to the forefront of the cultural conversation. The next grant cycle is now open. Your project has the potential to captivate, to innovate, and to be celebrated.

Let us help you realize it. Café Royal Cultural Foundation offers grants for artists working in the disciplines of Music, Visual Arts, Performance Arts and Literature. Recipients will be determined by the foundation’s executive committee on the basis of artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future achievements in their medium.

Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC supports musicians by awarding music production grants to artists in all genres of music. Production comprises the recording, mixing and mastering of artist projects. Grant winners have the option of working at world-renowned Flux Studios and receiving Flux’s independent artist rate, or at a Café Royal Cultural Foundation approved recording location.

Submissions: The maximum amount of 40 submissions for the Music Production Grant has been reached and unfortunately we are no longer accepting any more applications for Summer 2026. We understand that it takes time to complete your application and we hope that you will apply in our next round.

Café Royal Cultural Foundation advances the visual arts by awarding grants to artists across a variety of genres, including painting, drawing, sculpture and photography. Submissions: To ensure that each submission receives the attention it deserves we will be only accepting 40 applications for each of our categories.

Deadlines: Our Summer 2026 Grant cycle opens on June 2nd, 2026 and will close on August 3rd, 2026 or if we reach our limit of 40 applications, which ever comes first. Café Royal Cultural Foundation awards performance grants to individuals and groups focused on the production of theater, dance, and performance art.

Submissions: To ensure that each submission receives the attention it deserves we will be only accepting 40 applications for each of our categories. Deadlines: Our Summer 2026 Grant cycle opens on June 2nd, 2026 and will close on August 3rd, 2026 or if we reach our limit of 40 applications, which ever comes first. Café Royal Cultural Foundation awards grants to authors of prose (fiction/creative nonfiction), and poetry.

Submissions: To ensure that each submission receives the attention it deserves we will be only accepting 40 applications for each of our categories. Deadlines: Our Summer 2026 Grant cycle opens on June 2nd, 2026 and will close on August 3rd, 2026 or if we reach our limit of 40 applications, which ever comes first.