Sustaining Practice: Find funding for your work

Posted: 20/02/25 05:06 | 1 Comments

Learning how to navigate the world of funding opportunities for your work can be very difficult.

There are numerous awards and grants available across all creative disciplines. But it is knowing how to find and apply for them that can be so frustrating.

The link below provides access to a funding guide, produced by the online art school WorkShowGrow, which explains how to navigate the process.

Relevant to all OCA students, staff and alumni, the guide is available for the next month as a free download – so do take the opportunity to access it now.

Please also share with your artist networks.

“Fund Your Work: 30+ Top Opportunities and Harnessing AI For Success”

“Fund Your Work: 30+ Top Opportunities and Harnessing AI for Success” is designed to guide artists through available grants and awards, demystifying the process and showing funding is an option—all while exploring how AI can make applying easier.

It’s never too early or late to start making external funding one of your income streams. Start getting acquainted with the right funders and AI tools. This guide will show you that there’s a suitable fund out there for everyone.”

Posted by author: Andrea Norrington

One thought on “Sustaining Practice: Find funding for your work”

Josh Adair says:

27th November 2025 at 11:35 pm

When it comes to figuring out how to keep a creative practice going and actually find the resources to grow, I feel like we often overlook the most unexpected things. Recently I was trying to streamline my own workflow and stumbled on an article Magento AI extension . Totally different field, but it explained so well how tech can take some load off and free up energy for your own work. It weirdly helped me stress less about “where to find support,” because sometimes the useful ideas are hiding in plain sight.

Log in to Reply