The CINTAS Foundation awards fellowships annually to creative artists of Cuban lineage who live outside of Cuba.

The Cintas Foundation was established with funds from the estate of the late Oscar B. Cintas, a former Cuban ambassador to the United States and a prominent industrialist and patron of the arts. Cintas fellowships acknowledge creative accomplishments and encourage the development of creative artists in architecture, literature, music composition and the visual arts. Past recipients include writers Oscar Hijuelos, Maria Irene Fornes and Reinaldo Arenas; visual artists Cundo Bermudez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Lydia Rubio, Gean Moreno, Baruj Salinas, Mario Petrirena, Jose Chardiet, Luis Gispert, Maria Brito, Liset Castillo, Carlos Alfonso and Andres Serrano; architect Andres Martin Duany, and composers Orlando Garcia and Tania Leon.