Working Grants and Long-Term Grants - Visual and Applied Arts

Working grants provide practitioners in the visual arts, photography, design, crafts, illustration, textile art or architecture with the opportunity to pursue and deepen their artistic practice. The grants are available for periods of one, two, five or ten years. One and two-year working grants are tax-exempt, while five and ten-year grants are taxable. The Swedish Arts Grants Committee determines the appropriate grant period based on the applicant's experience and artistic development. Grant recipients are selected based on the quality of artistic activities and the applicant's financial need, with the goal of distributing grants to artists in different parts of the country and across a variety of artistic expressions. Applications are accepted once per year and require submission of work samples demonstrating current artistic practice.