We created the Artist Development Fund to provide meaningful financial support to help artists overcome barriers to mounting creative productions to accelerate creation and delivery of content from underrepresented communities.
The funding is aimed to help artists overcome barriers to creative productions, such as equipment purchase or rentals, venue rentals, hiring models, obtaining props, costumes, makeup, research costs, and more.
The fund offers empowerment of artists’ own voices, and financial support for talented artists with eventual impact of promoting imagery that has been historically underrepresented in commercial media. The fund also ensures artists are compensated for their work.
Here are some details about the program:
40 selected artists from self-identifying communities will each receive a flat fee of $7,500.
We will commission photos, vectors/illustrations, or video assets from each artist
200 video assets, or 375 photo, vector, or illustration assets, or 250 mixed assets (images and video) will be delivered by selected artists
Creative expectations: Content is authentic, empowering, contemporary, and inclusive
To apply, you must be an Adobe Stock Contributor. If you don’t have an account yet, please join here. Additional Artist Development Fund selection criteria includes:
1. Artists’ current portfolio and aesthetic sensibility
2. Authenticity
3. Technical ability, specialty, and expertise
Learn more on the Artist Development Fund website.