Upcoming Grant Deadlines and Opportunities (2/13/18)
by Theresa Hubbard, Associate Director, Program Operations at Fractured Atlas
If you are in New York State and you’re interested in applying for 2019 NYSCA funding, please read through this blog post for information about our review process and internal timeline.
New England Foundation for the Arts is accepting applications for National Dance Project Production Grants.
Description: NDP Production Grants provide funding to artists/companies to create new dance works and touring subsidies to the U.S. organizations who bring that work to their communities.
Choreographers and/or dance companies apply to receive intertwined support for the creation and U.S. touring of a new dance work, which will be developed and premiere within 1–2 years from the deadline and will tour following the premiere. Applicants should demonstrate that they are working with an organizational partner who is helping to support the new work’s creation and/or touring in a significant way.
Creation funds and general operating funds are paid directly to the artist or their fiscal sponsor to cover expenses related to making the new work during the creation period. Grant recipients are expected to complete a final report within 40 days of the project’s premiere as designated in the contract.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: March 1, 2018
The Alexia Foundation is accepting applications for Student Grants.
Description: The Alexia Foundation offers a Student Alexia Grant to enable current college student photographers to produce substantial bodies of work that share the Foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. Work that helps bring about change is more valued.
Student applicants are encouraged to consider proposing projects close to where you are. Our experience is that you’re more likely to produce a successful body of work if you can easily access the setting where you’ll produce the work. Most student grant recipients had already started working on the project for which they received an Alexia grant.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: March 1, 2018
Artist Trust is accepting applications for 2018 Artist Trust Fellowships.
Description: Artist Trust Fellowships are merit-based awards of $7,500 to practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and ability residing in Washington State. These unrestricted awards are given annually to 10+ artists in recognition of artistic excellence and dedication to their practice. The first Fellowship Awards were selected in 1987, making it Artist Trust’s longest-running award program. Beginning in 2018, Fellowship is now open to artists of all disciplines each year and will no longer rotate between disciplines on a two-year cycle.
Geographic Focus: Washington
Deadline: March 5, 2018
IFP is accepting applications for Filmmaker and Screen Forward Labs.
Description: The IFP Filmmaker Labs ensure that talented, emerging voices receive the support, resources, and industry exposure necessary to complete, market and distribute their first feature. Focusing exclusively on low-budget features (<$1million), this highly immersive program provides filmmakers with the technical, creative and strategic tools necessary to launch their films — and their careers. Open to all first-time feature documentary and narrative directors with films in post-production.
The IFP Screen Forward Labs are a year-long program and incubator for the creators of narrative-driven, serialized projects that push storytelling forward. A weeklong intensive Lab provides participants with the knowledge, resources, and mentor support necessary for developing pitches, securing financing, and finding unique avenues for the distribution of their groundbreaking work. Open to series creators with projects that have at minimum a visual sample (completed episode, demo, excerpt) completed.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: March 5, 2018
California Arts Council is accepting applications for the Local Impact program.
Description: The Local Impact (LI) program provides support for community-driven arts project for small and mid- sized arts organizations. This program fosters equity, access and opportunity for historically marginalized communities by cultivating community participation in art making, learning and exposure.
Local Impact supports projects that provide access to arts participation and/or representation of and by the community identified in the application. Historically marginalized communities may include but are not limited to: specific ethnic and tribal groups, LGBTQ+, individuals with disabilities, low-income and rural communities, or immigrants and refugees.
Geographic Focus: California
Deadline: March 8, 2018
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is accepting applications for ArtsCONNECT.
Description: The ArtsCONNECT program supports the excellence of live performing arts engagements for audiences and communities across the mid-Atlantic region for touring projects proposed by presenter consortia. Projects must include public performances and community engagement activities that enhance meaningful exchanges between touring artists and a presenter’s community. The program supports tours of exemplary artists involving all performing arts disciplines, including dance, music, theater, multi-disciplinary work, and folk/traditional arts. Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation encourages the development of commissioning projects and/or projects that tour widely within the mid-Atlantic states and jurisdictions.
Geographic Focus: Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, or West Virginia
Deadline: March 9, 2018
Creative Pinellas is accepting applications for Emerging Artist Grants.
Description: The Emerging Artist Grants Program provides recipients with funding towards the production of new work, to be exhibited and/or performed at the culmination of the grant award period. The Grant is available to artists who currently live in Pinellas County, and have done so for no less than one (1) year prior to March 12, 2017.
This award seeks to assist in the recognition and support of artists early in their career, regardless of age, who are gaining momentum and who may be at a critical juncture of their development in which financial support would assist them with attaining their goals. Creative Pinellas will strive to pair grantees with a professional artist mentor for the duration of their grant award period. Mentors and grantees must meet regularly and demonstrate a record of conversations focused on developing the grantee’s skills and career.
Geographic Focus: Pinellas County, FL
Deadline: March 12, 2018
Jim Henson Foundation is accepting letters of intent for Production, Workshop, and Family grants.
Description: The Jim Henson Foundation awards grants each year for the creation and development of innovative works of puppet theater. Production Grants of $7,000 are awarded for the production of new works ready to be presented in the coming year. Workshop Grants of $3,000 are for the development and workshopping of these pieces. Workshop Grants and Production Grants can be combined over a two year period for the greatest benefit to the piece; keep in mind, however, that a Production Grant does not need to be proceeded by a Workshop grant and a Workshop Grant in no way ensures a future Production Grant.
Family Grants of $4,000 fund the development of new and innovative work specifically for children, families, and teenagers. Please keep in mind that Family Grants will be evaluated by the same high artistic standards as works for adults.
Grants are made only for the development of new works of live puppet theater. The Foundation does not award funds for the presentation or remounting of existing work. Grants cannot be applied retroactively; substantial portions of a proposed project must take place after the funds are awarded. The foundation does not fund publications, parades, pageants, exhibitions, spectacle, festivals, film or television projects, projects for school credit, workshops, education or outreach activities, or purely digital performance.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: March 12, 2018
New England Foundation for the Arts is also accepting applications for National Theater Project Creation and Touring Grants.
Description: Creation & Touring Grants provide funds for creation and U.S. touring of artist-led, ensemble, devised projects. These grants are highly competitive and are awarded to approximately six projects annually.
Theater artists apply to receive support for both the development and U.S. touring of artist-led, ensemble, devised theater projects. Grants support the development of the project, costs and incentives needed to establish a plan for touring, and subsidies for presentation of the work. Funded projects are expected to complete an evaluation within one month of the project premiere as designated in the contract.
Awards range from $80,000 to $130,000. Part of the award is distributed directly to the artist to support creation and development. The remaining grant amount is set aside as artist-directed allocations distributed to presenters of their choice to cover part of their artist fee.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: March 12, 2018
Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone is accepting applications for the UMEZ Arts Engagement grant program.
Description: The UMEZ Arts Engagement grants program is designed to enhance the diversity and frequency of cultural presentations in Upper Manhattan. Grants are made to support artist-driven projects and organizations with budgets under $750,000 to make their work more widely available to the public. Unlike other UMEZ grants, applicants to the UMEZ Arts Engagement grants may request funds to support programming and general operations.
To administer this program, UMEZ is partnering with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), which is the Manhattan-based regrantor of funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Geographic Focus: Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
Deadline: March 13, 2018
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is accepting applications for French-American Jazz Exchange.
Description: The French-American Jazz Exchange (FAJE) celebrates the United States and France’s shared passion for jazz. A program of FACE Foundation and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, in collaboration with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, FAJE is designed to foster the creative and professional development of jazz artists from France and the United States.
FAJE Creative Project Grants support projects jointly conceived by French and American professional musicians that encourage artistic exploration, foster intercultural dialogue, and contribute to the dynamism of jazz. FAJE Creative Project grantees are encouraged to showcase completed work through public performance. To facilitate this, the FAJE program has expanded to include FAJE On Tour. FAJE On Tour will provide performance support to American non-profit presenters nationwide who present FAJE grantees’ recently completed creative projects.
For this funding cycle, projects must take place between July 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019.
Geographic Focus: National
Deadline: March 16, 2018
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