Applications are now open for the Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency and Creative Opportunities-Optimizing Promise Grants Program offered by the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA).
Donor Name: Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)
State: California
City: Los Angeles
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/07/2022
Grant Size: $15,000
Details:
The Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR) Grant Program, formerly called Artists In Residence (AIR), supports freelance teaching-artists, social-activation artists, and social practice artists in providing community-based, participatory projects in self-selected non-arts venues within the City of Los Angeles. Competitive NEAR projects will gather, connect, and inspire participants and audiences who have little exposure to the proposed type of cultural opportunity. NEAR residencies can be five sessions ending in one public presentation or eleven sessions ending in one public presentation.
The Creative Opportunities – Optimizing Promise (CO-OP) Grant Program supports collaborations between any nonprofit social justice organization and a creative teaching-artist (a freelance artist or an artist already working within a non-profit arts organization in the same community as the social justice organization).
Goals
- Supply creative arts resources to neighborhood host / partner organizations in each Council District by providing direct and intimate access to contemporary teaching-artists;
- Support projects that will consistently engage no less than 20 participants on some topic of thematic learning, and the group will culminate their workshops by staging a final presentation to be view by no less than 40 other individuals.
- Sponsor the implementation of educational-participatory 6 or 12 session residencies by a spectrum of the City’s most qualified teaching-artists; and,
- Provide host organizations offering little or no arts programming with opportunities to test or develop new services, and envision the integration of either an artist-employee, a new branch of programs into its core service, or a new collaboration with a local arts-organization.
Funding Information
Depending upon its budget for FY23-24, DCA aims to support approximately 15-22 residences at either $6,000 or $12,000 (ideally one for each of the city’s 15 Council districts) and an additional 10-15 CO-OP residencies at $15,000 each.
Eligibility Criteria
Successful applicants:
- For a NEAR residency – applicant teaching-artists (or collaborative duos / teams / ensembles under the leadership of a single applicant) must be freelance entrepreneurs with community-based practices that have been largely self-developed and remain primarily self-directed;
- For a CO-OP residency, DCA encourages the social justice organization submitting the application to provide a residency for the teaching-artist named in the proposal. If the teaching artist is an employee (part-time or seasonal) of a local non-profit arts organization, then either non-profit can be the primary applicant. In either case, the workshops led by the artist at the should employ methodologies the artist has mastered to launch or sustain a partnership that benefits the 20 (or more) clients gathered and enrolled by the social justice organization;
- All applicants (whether individual or nonprofit must either reside in or be headquartered in Los Angeles County and all proposed projects must take place and culminate within the City of LA;
- Teaching artists should demonstrate through their resume (s) at least 2 years of experience instructing participants in the proposed artistic discipline within projects at non-arts venues, public schools, parks, libraries, and / or similar community centers;
- NEAR applicants will propose a residency involving a relationship with one (1) non-arts host organization, to take place at the same host organization’s location (or online with clients from the host / partner organization); and
- proposes feasible projects that can be consistently attended by approximately 20 individuals.
For more information, visit Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA).
