Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting Washington State artists working in all creative disciplines. Founded in 1987 by a group of arts patrons and artists who were concerned about the lack of support for individual artists, Artist Trust is guided by the leadership of a Board of Trustees and a professional staff.

Click here to read about Artist Trust's outreach throughout Washington State in 2008.

Financial Grant Programs

• Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) award up to $1,500 for artists to begin, further or complete specific works of art;

• Artist Trust Fellowships are unrestricted awards of $7,500 that recognize artistic merit and continued dedication to an art-making practice;

• The Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement is an annual, unrestricted award of $10,000 given to a female visual artist, age 60 or over, who has dedicated a lifetime to her art-making.

Professional Resources

An important complement to our artist grants, Artist Trust Professional Resources are used repeatedly throughout the year by thousands of artists across Washington State and beyond. You can take advantage of these services on our website, over the phone, or by visiting our office. Artist Trust offers the following Professional Resources:

• Resources: Includes a searchable database of current and ongoing opportunities including Grants, Awards, Prizes, Scholarships, and Residency Programs; current Employment listings and Employment resources; current Studio Space & Housing listings and housing/space related resources; discipline-specific resources, as well as legal resources, health resources, and emergency assistance programs. Click here to learn how to submit a listing.
  
  
• Artists' Assets: A Professional Resource Guide for Artists is a comprehensive 80-page print publication of information about hundreds of organizations, agencies, guilds and service providers that offer vital resources for artists. Artists' Assets is published annually. You can download your own copy from our website.
  

• The EDGE Program is our 50-hour professional development training program for artists.

• Art Source is our triannual newsletter full of articles of relevance to artists and arts patrons across Washington State. 

• (re)Source: A bi-monthly e-newsletter that informs you of timely events and opportunities and new additions to our website listings. Click here to subscribe.

• Workshops and Events: Searchable calendar of workshops and events across the state. The workshops listed include Artist Trust's Grant Writing and Moving Forward: Resources for Artists workshops, as well as Washington Lawyers for the Arts legal clinics and workshops, and workshops and events offered by other organizations around the state. Events by Artist Trust grant recipients and EDGE graduates are also listed. Click here to learn how to submit a listing.

• Professional Development provides answers to artists questions, such as: How do I prepare a budget for an art project? or How do I write an artist resume? and more.

• The Resource Room is a walk-in artist resource center full of professional development books and periodicals, a computer and printer for research or creating your resume, and much more. Open Monday-Friday 9:30am-5:30pm. Artist Trust is located at the corner of 12th Avenue and East Denny Way in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood (three blocks east of Broadway). 
  

• WAHIP: The Washington Artists Health Insurance Project is an ambitious effort to forge new strategies to improve artists’ access to health insurance in Washington State. WAHIP is a pilot project of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) in partnership with Artist Trust, and supported with funding from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation and Nathan Cummings Foundation. The project will serve as a model for development of state-based health insurance expansion that benefits artists working in all disciplines.