The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) requests applications from qualified artists and humanities practitioners for its Fiscal Year 2023 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP) grant.
Donor Name: DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH)
State: District of Columbia
City: Washington D.C.
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/08/2022
Size of the Grant: Up to $12,500
Details:
The Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP) supports qualified individual artists and humanities practitioners who significantly contribute to the District of Columbia as a world-class cultural capital. AHFP recognizes the impact of individual artists and humanities practitioners within the District and supports the vitality that those individuals bring to the local community.
Program Objectives
By making its AHFP grant awards, CAH endeavors to meet the following goals:
- Encourage the contributions of individual artists and humanities practitioners to the District, by helping to sustain them in their practice; and
- Highlight and elevate the creative excellence and professional accomplishments of artists and humanities professionals residing in the District.
Supported Artist and Humanities Disciplines
AHFP is open to all arts and humanities disciplines. Applicants must select one of the following CAH categories that best represents their discipline:
- Dance: a performing art consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected.
- Design Arts: Pertaining, but not limited to the following fields: architecture, fashion, graphic, industrial, interior, landscape architecture, and urban/metropolitan.
- Go-Go Musician: Pertaining, but not limited to the following: composers, conductors, instrumentalist, vocalists, specifically practicing go-go music as the official music of the District of Columbia.
- Humanities: Pertaining but not limited to the following fields: history, philosophy, languages, literature (poetry, fiction, creative writing, screenwriting, spoken word, etc.), linguistics, archaeology, jurisprudence, history and criticism of the arts, ethics, comparative religion, and those aspects of the social sciences employing historical or philosophical approaches including, cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, international relations, and other subjects concerned with questions of value and not with quantitative matters.
- Interdisciplinary: Pertaining to art forms/art works that integrate more than one arts discipline to form a single practice (e.g., collaboration between/among the performing and/or visual arts).
- Media Arts: Pertaining but not limited to film, audio (including radio and sound installations), video, technology/experimental (including work created using computer or other digital/experimental media as the primary expressive media).
- Music: Pertaining but not limited to composers, conductors, instrumentalist, vocalist.
- Teaching Artists: Practicing, professional artists from any artistic field (music, dance, theater, visual arts, writing, etc) that provide arts-based education for grade school students.
- Theatre: Pertaining but not limited to: actors/performers, design (costume, lighting, set, sound), directors, playwrights, choreographers.
- Visual Arts: Any artistic creation including but not limited to: painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, crafts, installations, and conceptual art.
Funding Information
Award Amount: Up to $12,500
Eligibility Criteria
Prior to submitting applications, applicants must meet all of the following eligibility requirements:
- Be a legal District of Columbia resident for at least one (1) year prior to the submission deadline;
- Have a permanent District of Columbia address, as listed on government issued identification or tax returns. Post office boxes may not be used as a permanent address;
- Maintain District of Columbia residency during the entire granting fiscal year;
- Be an artist, arts professional, and/or humanities practitioner, aged 18 or older; Be in “good standing” with CAH. (Note: A CAH grant applicant who has failed, as of July 8, 2022 to comply with all applicable CAH-related mandates (e.g., failed to submit to CAH required reports related to prior CAH funding), is not in “good standing” with CAH and, accordingly, is ineligible to receive additional funds from CAH in FY 2023); and
- Obtain certification of ”Citywide Clean Hands” (CCH) from the District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue.
For more information, visit DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH).
