Artist Resources
Sundance Collab Advisor Studio
Sundance Collab is the Sundance Institute’s online learning and community platform for independent filmmakers at all stages of their creative journeys. Join Sundance Collab to learn through live events and courses, connect with other filmmakers through the Community Forum, and move your project forward with help from the directory of resources and grants and opportunities.
Financial Planning for Creatives: From Taxes to Retirement
Applying for Grants
Applying for funding can be an opaque process, and artists are often left in the dark about what makes the best application. We have compiled some articles that will help you present yourself in the best possible light to panel reviewers and granting foundations.
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Finding and Securing the Right Grant for Your Work
- How to Craft a Successful Artist Statement
- Inside a Grant or Residency Panel Process
- Applying for Grants: Overview
- How to Write a Grant Proposal with Confidence: First Steps
- How to Write a Grant Proposal with Confidence: Translating Your Ideas on Paper
- Applying for Grants: Choosing Work Samples
- Applying for Grants: Creating A Realistic Budget
- Creating Your Artist Resume
Financial Tips
From taxes to funding to budgets, an artist’s finances are often complex and multilayered. Creative Capital helps artists consider all aspects of project funding and financial preparedness across all creative disciplines.
Navigating Current Challenges
In this time of upheaval and unprecedented challenge, artists are adapting to cope with the pandemic and economic shutdown. Our archived series of free online conversations shares resources and expertise for sustainable practices, assisting communities, and more.
Career Documentation and Archiving
Career documentation and archiving are essential components of an artist’s life, practice, and legacy. These resources offer practical and multidisciplinary guidance, tips, and additional resources on how to document and archive your work.
Digital Communications
These resources provide artists with a comprehensive understanding of how to use the web to effectively communicate about their practice, exhibitions, and events, whether through email communications or social media.
Taller Archive
These resources are from Taller, a Creative Capital program tailored to address the challenges faced by Latinx artists working in multiple cultural and linguistic contexts in New York City, while fostering a supportive peer community of artists advocating for themselves and each other.