Shutterstock is committed to ensuring our content is representative of a globally diverse world—offering a range of perspectives in both our visuals and the artists who create them. Through The Create Fund, we provide historically excluded artists with financial and professional support to help close access gaps, fill content gaps, and further diversity and inclusion within our content library and our contributor network.
Create Fund Artist Investment Program
Our Create Fund Artist Investment Program concentrates on artists from diverse backgrounds that can help us fill content gaps in specific areas. Selected artists receive a cash grant, production, and marketing support, as well as other hands-on help needed to successfully complete their projects.
Diversity in 3D Program
Shutterstock has the largest 3D marketplace in the world. Under our Create Fund Artist Investment Program, we are offering a total of $30,000 in production grants to three 3D artists from diverse backgrounds to provide more opportunities as that marketplace grows.
Apply nowSee Create Fund Grant contestsand partnerships from the past.
Artist Investment Program Winners
We have been awarding grants to emerging artists since 2020. Get to know these recent winners and the amazing content they have produced.
Recent spotlights
Mario Enrique Velásquez Guerra Guatemala City
“I want to provoke empathy and awareness in society.” A multi-faceted photographer and designer who applies his colorful upbringing to his real-life storytelling style. See the work
