The Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant Program provides funding of up to $4,000 to individuals or organizations for projects that support arts activities with both community significance and authenticity to the community represented in the art.
Donor Name: Arrowhead Regional Arts Council
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/27/2023
Size of the Grant: $4,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
This program supports artistic traditions that come from and are rooted in the cultural life of a community. Community members may share a common ethnicity, geographic or regional identity, occupation, language, or tribal affiliation. These arts are learned and passed on through community-based systems of training and education where younger generations learn and attain mastery of a form by observation and practice or through apprenticeships with elders.
Project Period
Project Start Date: April 1, 2023. Your project must be completed, and grant funds spent by June 30, 2024
Criteria
- Artistic Vision (25%): The strength of the artistic concept behind your project and details of the project itself.
- Community Significance and Authenticity/Cultural Connection (50%): Evidence that the project and artists are connected to the community that the project comes from. A description of the authentic community value of the project.
- Ability and Evaluation (25%): The capacity to undertake your project and evaluate its success. This includes: providing a budget that is realistic, feasible, and demonstrates a clear understanding of the scope of your project; and adequate support materials, including letters of commitment and support as necessary. Your plan should have a measurable outcome and a reasonable way to show that you were successful or ways to improve your project if you’d like to continue it.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations and Individuals are both eligible for this program.
Individuals
To be eligible to apply for this program, you must be at least eighteen years old, a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident status, and be a resident of Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, or St. Louis County or of the four Tribal Nations within their region including Bois Forte, Fond du Lac, Grand Portage, or Leech Lake (within Itasca County) for at least six months, and remain a Minnesota resident for the duration of the project. Individuals enrolled in arts-related degree programs are INELIGIBLE to apply.
Organizations
To be eligible, your organization must be located in the following Arrowhead counties: Aitkin, Cook, Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, or St. Louis or located in one of the four Tribal Nations within their region including Bois Forte, Fond du Lac, Grand Portage, or Leech Lake (within Itasca County).
What Kind of Organizations?
- State-registered and federally recognized non-profit, tax-exempt organizations
- Accredited schools
- Tribal governments
- Units of government
To be eligible, your organization must be located in the following Arrowhead counties: Aitkin, Cook, Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, or St. Louis. If your group has not yet received non-profit, tax-exempt status, you may apply by using a non-profit organization, accredited school, tribal government, or other unit of government as a fiscal sponsor.
For more information, visit Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant.
