List of institutions providing allowances and fellowships to artists in the field of visual arts.

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• Argentina
  - Fundación Pettoruti
  - Fundación Konex 
  Foundation that supports and promotes visual arts through scorlarships, awards and exhibitions
  - Fundación Arte BA
  ArteBA Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting artistic creation in the visual arts fiueld in Argentina, both locally and internationally.
  
  
• Austria
  - Amt der NÖ Landesregierung, Abteilung Kultur und Wissenschaft: Atelierwohnungen Krems (material support from the state of Lower Austria)
  - Bundeskanzleramt: Sektion für Kulturangelegenheiten / The Federal Chancellery of Austria sponsors to artistic projects in the field of visual arts, architecture and design to support artists; ten state scholarships are awarded to visual artists, five among them are directed towards artists who are under 35
  - The Museum für angewandte Kunst - Artist and Architects-in-Residence Programme
  The Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna and the ‘Friends of the Schindler House’ award eight scholarships to young artists in the Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles
  
  
• France
  - Association Bourse Agora
  It provides grants to young creators whose project is related to contemporary design every 2 years
  - Association Nationale pour le Développement des Arts de la Mode (ANDAM)
  Awards fellowships to promote and help young creators
  - Fonds d'Incitation à la Création 
  - Institut de France 
  Awards grants in the field of fine arts and sculpture
  - FIACRE - Bureau du Fonds d'Incitation à la Création - Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain - FRAC 
  - Conseil National des Arts plastiques - Délégation aux Arts Plastiques (Fine arts)
  - Picto Online - Bourse du talent (to promote young photograhers)
  - Photographie.com
  Programme "Bourse du talent" with Kodak Professionnel, Photographie.com, Prophot and Picto
  - Transphoto.net - "Bourse à la création"
  Fellowhip to promote creativity
  
  
• Germany
  
  List of institutions providing allowances and fellowships in Germany
  
  
• Japan
  ARCUS Programme
  Artist in residence programme in Ibaraki
  
  
• Portugal
  - Centro Português de Fotografia
  The Photography National Centre houses Portuguese photography but also aims to promote it and to give training for professionals as well as for the general public. It awards scholarships for people interested in studying photography.
  - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
  The Fine Arts Scholarship Programme is promoted with the Luso-American Development Foundation and the Ministry of Culture. This support Programme aims to finance projects promoting Portuguese contemporary art abroad.
  See the regulation here
  
  
• Spain
  Fundación Marcelino Botín
  Scholarships in the field of visual arts for training and research
  
  
• Switzerland
  - BAK - Bundesamt für Kultur: Dienst Kunst
  The Federal Office for Cultural Affairs offers professional artists the opportunity to spend one year in a studio in either Berlin or New York. The applicants are visual artists who are residents of Switzerland.
  - The Arts Society
  The Arts Society in Bern awards the Aeschlimann and Corti Scholarship to visual artists at a maximum age of 40 years. The artists are expected to work in Bern for a minimum duration of one year. 
  - Kunststipendium Laufenburg
  The cities of Laufenburg-Baden and Laufenburg-Switzerland award two scholarships to one artist from Switzerland and one from Germany. The applicants shall be visual artists at a maximum age of 35 years residents of South Baden-Württemberg or Northwest or East Switzerland for at least two years.
  - Foundation Künstlerhaus Boswil
  The Foundation Künstlerhaus Boswil offers residental scholarships to international artists working in the field of visual arts. The artists are expected to live and work in the Künstlerhaus Boswil during the period of their scholarship. A knowledge of German, English or French is demanded.
  - Association of Visual Arts
  The Professional Association of Visual Arts in Switzerland offers artists the possibility to live and work in the studio-youth hostel Maloja in the framework of the project '75-Jahre- Jungendherbergen'.
  Furthermore, Visarte.schweiz awards a scholarship to visual artists in the studio Cité des Arts in Paris.
  
  
• United Kingdom
  British Design and Art Direction
  
  
• United States of America
  List of institutions providing allowances and followships