Kentucky Foundation for Women

Want to further your artistic journey?🎭🎨🎥✍️ Maybe even attend artist residencies, explore new techniques, or build a new body of work? This grant could be just for you!!

Our AE grant provides opportunities for feminist artists and arts organizations in KY to further their artistic development to create art for positive social change.

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Hey you! Did you know our new residency program isn’t just for sculpture artists?! Don’t let the JSP name fool you, there are multiple art forms welcome to apply!

APPLY NOW for our new KFW x JSP Residency! Apps close on August 17th!

KFW and Josephine Sculpture Park (JSP) in Frankfort, KY are partnering to provide a paid self-directed, process-based artist residency for emerging feminist social change artists of any discipline who reside in Kentucky. The program provides the resident artist the opportunity to support their artistic growth by developing and researching a project or ideas informed by Josephine Sculpture Park, an inspiring 40-acre park and organization with the mission to connect people to each other and the land through the arts.

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Join us and meet fellow KY artists via Zoom at one of our FREE Artist Enrichment Grant Workshops this month!!!

NOTE: the workshop that was originally going to be in Lexington has been changed to a virtual event.

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We hope to see you there!
-KFW Team

Come see us and meet fellow KY artists in Lexington or on Zoom at one of our FREE Artist Enrichment Grant Workshops this month!!!
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We hope to see you there!
-KFW Team

NEW! KFW x JSP Artist Residency!
Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW) and Josephine Sculpture Park (JSP) and excited to announce a new partnership: The KFW x JSP Artist Residency!
KFW and Josephine Sculpture Park (JSP) in Frankfort, KY are partnering to provide a paid self-directed, process-based artist residency for emerging feminist social change artists of any discipline who reside in Kentucky. The program provides the resident artist the opportunity to support their artistic growth by developing and researching a project or ideas informed by Josephine Sculpture Park, an inspiring 40-acre park and organization with the mission to connect people to each other and the land through the arts.

Applications for 2027 open July 17th and are due August 17th, 2026. Be thinking about your idea for a residency! More info: https://www.kfw.org/news/new-kfw-x-jsp-artist-residency/

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The application for Summer/Fall 2026 Loretto Residencies is now open and available. Application are due by May 15th and notifications will be sent by April 15th. Click here for additional information https://www.kfw.org/loretto-artist-residency-program/

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