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Starting in 2025, the DAG Foundation’s primary mission will be to support individual artists through the DAG Prize. These $20,000 grants are intended to help emerging artists in literature, music, and the visual arts to create work that will bring something new to the artistic landscape.
The DAG Prizes will start accepting applications on February 1, 2025. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2025.
The winners will be announced here in July, 2025.
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The DAG Foundation launched in 2024 with the intention to support early-career and emerging artists in literature, music, and the visual arts. In our inaugural year, DAG awarded one-time $20,000 grants to nonprofit organizations with strong histories of nurturing innovative artists whose work explores new directions for their art forms. We are proud to support:
One Story. A literary journal that, since 2002, has published one short story each month, and never published the same writer twice. One Story also offers writing classes, conferences, and an annual “Literary Debutante Ball.” One Story authors have won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the PEN Emerging Writers Award, and have been included numerous times in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology.
Salt Lick Incubator. An artist development organization supporting aspiring musicians in the early stages of their creative journeys. Founded in 2022, Salt Lick supports musicians by providing funding, collaborative opportunities, workshops, and strategic support from industry professionals to help musicians develop artistically, sustain their well-being, and forge viable careers.
The Wassaic Project. An artist-run community and arts education space that curates exhibitions, produces community events, and hosts artist residencies. Since 2008, the Wassaic Project has served hundreds of working artists and art students by providing time and space to create and exhibit their work, offering lectures, after-school programs, and summer camps, and developing programs that are creative, experimental, and accessible across the economic spectrum.
