HERE ARE EXAMPLES of grants and fellowships available to artists and the Mainers who have won them:

• Guggenheim Fellowship, amount varies but averages $37,000, won most recently by Brunswick photographer Michael Kolster in 2013 and painter Katherine Bradford of Brunswick in 2011.

• Gottlieb Foundation, $25,000, won this year by Falmouth painter Jeff Kellar and previously by Dozier Bell of Waldoboro in 2009.

• Pollack-Krasner Foundation, ranges from $5,000 to $20,000 and averages $15,000, won by Bradford in 2000 and Bell in 1993.

• Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, has been as much as $13,000 and now is $5,000, won this year by Jason Anthony of Damariscotta, Alicia Eggert of Portland, Watie Akins of Brewer, Sumner McKane of Wiscasset and Robin Martin-Cust of Deer Isle.

• Creative Capital, averages $50,000, won in 2013 by Portland writer Jessica Anthony.

• Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant, up to $30,000, won in 2013 by photographer Justin Kirchoff of Eliot, in 2011 by installation artist and sculptor Kim Bernard of North Berwick and in 2010 by painter Gail Spaien of Kittery Point.

• U.S. Artists, $50,000, William Pope.L, then a teacher at Bates University in Lewiston, won in 2006.