Grants & Funding

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USk Reportage Grant

Visual storytelling lies at the heart of the USk movement.

The USk Reportage Grant Program is open to individual sketchers, chapters, and creative collaborators worldwide.  Reportage is visual storytelling that focuses on contemporary events, telling their story through on-location drawings and a narrative formed by firsthand accounts, research and interviews. The program is designed to highlight the best examples of these efforts and to inspire new artist-reporters in our community.

2021 Reportage Grant Winning Projects

2023 Reportage Grant Recipients

Community Grants

USk chapters worldwide are invited to partner with a local community group (not-for-profit, school, art organization, city agency) to develop and implement a workshop for that group.

To learn more, email vicepresident@urbansketchers.org

Regional Events Grant Program

The USK Regional Event Grant Program will provide a official chapter team with up to $2,000 (USD) to promote urban sketching through to your chapter and connect the community of sketchers around your location.