The South Carolina Arts Commission is seeking applications for the Folklife & Traditional Arts Project Grants to ensure that South Carolina’s diverse living traditions remain vibrant and visible parts of community life.
Donor Name: South Carolina Arts Commission
State: South Carolina
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/16/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
Traditional arts are expressions of shared identity that are learned as a part of the cultural life of a particular group. This shared identity may be rooted in family, geographic, tribal, occupational, religious, or ethnic connections, among others. As expressions of a living culture, traditional arts have been handed down from one generation to the next and reflect the shared experience, aesthetics, and values of a group. Traditional arts are dynamic, reflecting change and individual innovation over generations of practitioners.
This grant ensures that South Carolina’s many living traditions remain vibrant, visible parts of community life and supports nonprofit organizations and units of government that seek to promote and sustain the traditional arts practiced across the state. South Carolina’s cultural landscape encompasses diverse artistic traditions and practitioners, including indigenous, and longstanding, and more recently arrived art forms and communities.
Priority
Priority will be given to individuals or organizations that have projects in SCAC’s Opportunity Initiative Counties:
- Allendale
- Bamberg
- Calhoun
- Cherokee
- Clarendon
- Dillon
- Edgefield
- Hampton
- Jasper
- Laurens
- Lee
- Marion
- Marlboro
- Saluda
- Williamsburg.
Funding Information
Up to $6,000.
Grant Period
July 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025.
Uses of funds
The Folklife & Traditional Arts Project Grant funds projects that may include (but are not limited to):
- Presentation of traditional artists through workshops, concerts, festivals, exhibitions, radio programs, recordings, etc.
- Documentation of traditional arts and/or folklife of South Carolina (note: the project must result in a public presentation, whether through programming or access to archived materials.)
- Cultural Survey: fieldwork done to identify traditions and traditional artists
- Production, documentation and/or distribution of a traditional artist’s work (for example, the production of publicity materials)
- Acquisition of difficult-to-obtain materials or equipment needed to create traditional art
- Projects that preserve a traditional art form, e.g. apprenticeships or classes.
Who is Eligible?
Most S.C. nonprofit organizations, colleges & universities, and units of government.
For more information, visit SCAC.
