The Career Opportunity Grant Program supports Oregon arts practitioners across all disciplines and career stages in taking advantage of timely and concrete opportunities that can significantly enhance their artistic careers.
Donor Name: Oregon Arts Commission
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/25/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Recognizing that stipends or payments from these opportunities often fall short of covering all expenses, the Oregon Arts Commission provides this grant to ensure arts practitioners can fully participate without financial burden. This program ensures that Oregon artists and arts practitioners can benefit from and engage in career-building opportunities as they arise.
Opportunities should represent a natural, meaningful step in the applicant’s career, offering potential for significant impact in one or both of the following categories:
- Introducing work to new audiences
- These are opportunities to present the artist’s work in a significant way to new audiences or raise their artistic profile such as exhibitions, performances, or screenings.
- The development of new skills
- These are opportunities to develop a new artistic skill or further enhance one’s practice through participation in activities such as conferences, artist residencies, workshops, fellowships, master classes or apprenticeships.
Funding Information
- Funding of up to $9,000 may be available.
- Awards range from $500 to $2,000 depending on the scope and nature of the opportunity.
Project Period
November 1, 2024, to October 31, 2025.
Eligible Expenses
Career Opportunity funding requests must directly align with the opportunity, and may include:
- Travel associated with the opportunity;
- Hired professional services to fulfill/engage in the opportunity (such as lighting/sound or costume);
- Preparation, freight and/or shipping costs;
- Equipment purchases or materials needed to fulfill/engage in the opportunity;
- Rental of equipment, instruments, or facility integral to the opportunity;
- Professional fees needed to fulfill/engage in the opportunity;
- Registration fees associated with the opportunity;
- Costs associated with documentation of the opportunity; and/or
- Childcare costs that are necessary for you to take advantage of the opportunity.
Eligibility Criteria
This grant is available to individual Oregon arts practitioners working in all disciplines and at any stage in their careers. Artists from traditionally or currently underserved communities, including (but not limited to) rural communities and communities of color, are especially encouraged to apply.
At the time of the application deadline, all applicants must meet the following:
- Be 18 years of age or older;
- Have not received funding from the Career Opportunity Program in the past three (3) cycles (calculated from application deadline month to application deadline month);
- Have been domiciled in Oregon for at least 12 months prior to application deadline;
- Not be enrolled (either part- or full-time) in a degree-granting program; and
- Submit an individual application.
For more information, visit Oregon Arts Commission.
