Art makers are taking to the streets, storefronts, and parking garages of Dallas to bring art that matters to the people. TACA Pop-Up Grants reward and amplify the city’s most exciting, boundary-smashing artistic work; work that fuels a culture of creativity and innovation, and pushes to rethink everything we know about art.
Donor Name: TACA – The Arts Community Alliance
State: Texas
County: Dallas County (TX)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/21/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000-$2,000
Details:
The Pop-Up Grant Program plays a key role in TACA’s grantmaking strategy by distributing more frequent grant funding that goes to both local arts organizations and artists.
For purposes of this grant, TACA defines “Key Artists” and “Supporting Artists” as follows:
- “Key Artists” include persons whose work is a visible and key component of the core artistic program being awarded a Pop-Up Grant. This could include but is not limited to actors, musicians, dancers, visual artists, or other performance artists involved in the presentation of the program.
- “Supporting Artists” include persons whose work enables and supports the creation of the program. This could include but is not limited to designers, technical operators, pre-production personnel, or other “behind-the-scenes” artists involved in the presentation of the program. This does not include administrative staff or other employees that work for the organization who did not have a role on this specific program.
Funding Information
All Pop-Up Grants include unrestricted funding of $1,000-$2,000 to be used as the grantee chooses. Grantees with annual operating budgets of $5 million or less are also eligible to receive Artist Bonus funds between $2,000-$4,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Through Pop-Up Grants, TACA is looking to award artistic programming – live, virtually or using other mediums – produced or presented by nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations or fiscally-sponsored arts organizations that takes place in Dallas County. Programming must demonstrate a high level of performance in each of the program’s three evaluative criteria, which are defined and prioritized as follows:
- Creativity & Innovation: Artistic programming is unexpected, experiments with new/different presentation formats, or takes artistic risk
- Artistic Merit: Quality of artists engaged and artistic programming produced is exceptional
- Accessibility & Inclusion: Barriers to participation are low (e.g., low ticket prices, near public transit, etc.)
- Programming is relevant and/or reflective of marginalized voices, current events, or timely Topics.
For more information, visit TACA.
