Artists in all disciplines are eligible to apply for grants to support their professional and artistic development through a partnership of the North Carolina Arts Council and Arts Davidson County, Davie County Arts Council, The Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, Randolph Arts Guild, and ArtsGreensboro.
Donor Name: ArtsGreensboro
State: North Carolina
Counties: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/30/2022
Grant Size: $500 to $2,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The Artist Support Grant provides direct support to individual artists for professional and artistic development, either to enhance their skills and abilities to create work, or to improve their business operations and capacity to bring the work to audiences.
The fund was created as part of North Carolina Arts Council’s reprioritization of grants to provide stabilization for artists and organizations since the onset of COVID-19.
Funding Information
- Grants will range in awards from $500 to $2,000.
- Award Period: January – December 2023
Eligibility Criteria
- The Artist Support Grant is intended to support a broad range of talented visual, performing, literary, and interdisciplinary artists.
- Eligible candidates may be either emerging or established artists.
- Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to spending a significant portion of their time on their work as artists.
- Artist Support Grants will be distributed to eligible applicants by ArtsGreensboro in the following counties: Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph.
- The grant is open to resident N.C. artists in all disciplines, from traditional to contemporary and established to emerging.
- The grant can be used to support a range of professional and artistic development;
- Creation of new work;
- Improvement of business operations;
- Marketing/expanding capacity to reach new audiences;
- Artist fees.
- Artists who have received an Artist Support Grant from FY 20-21 or FY 21-22 or are the sole proprietor of an organization that has received FY 21-22 funds from the NC Arts Council are ineligible to apply.
- Current board and staff members of the participating partner organizations and their family members are not eligible to apply for the award.
Artist Support Grants cannot be used for:
- Scholarships for undergraduate- or graduate-level education.
- Projects that support or oppose a particular candidate for public office.
- Projects that are exclusive to members of a particular religious faith group.
- Non-profit initiatives.
- Projects that do not have a direct effect on the applicant’s growth as an artist (e.g. the promotion of other artists’ work).
For more information, visit ArtsGreensboro.
