The Arts Access Annual Grant (AA) category offers direct support for arts projects which focus on increasing access to underserved and underrepresented populations which may include ethnic groups, people with disabilities, people age 60 years and older, and active duty military/veterans and their families.
Donor Name: Tennessee Arts Commission
State: Tennessee
Counties: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/18/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000 to $18,000
Grant Duration: 11 Months 15 Days
Details:
Arts Access support for arts projects that focus on increasing access to underserved and underrepresented people.
Proposed arts projects must involve one or more of these recognized art forms: visual, craft, media, design, music, theater, dance, folk or literary arts.
The following are examples of activities and expenditures that are consistent with the funding philosophy for AA:
- Contracted artists fees for professional artists
- Master classes, workshops, programs, projects or activities involving artists
- Specific aspects of workshops, festivals and conferences
- Public performances, productions and exhibitions produced by the applicant
- Exhibitions of art by professional artists
- Promotion, publicity and newsletters
- Materials and supplies needed for participants in the proposed art project
- Administrative and artistic staff support (except for applicants who apply for or receive operating support from the TN Art Commission in other grant categories).
- Technical/production support
The following activities and expenditures are inappropriate for funding through this program:
- Insurance Premiums
- Endowments
- Honoraria
- Office space rental
- Janitorial service and general physical plant maintenance
- Food and hospitality
- Permanent equipment purchases
- Scholarships and subsidized programming
- Payment of accumulated deficits
- Capital improvements
- New periodicals, books, etc. (such as vanity publications)
- Out-of-state travel
- Scholarly arts-related research and writing
- Cash awards
- Purchase of local public art
- Legal fees
- Planned fundraising events
- Events to which the general public is not invited
- Payments to members of the organization’s board
- Consultant fees for technical assistance
Funding Information
Funds awarded to a single organization in this category range in amounts from: $1,000 to $18,000 for arts organizations & for non-arts organizations.
The requested grant amount must be matched dollar for dollar (1:1). Funding will depend upon an organization’s rating in the review process and upon the total amount of funds available to the Tennessee Arts Commission for grant allocation. This grant category is competitive.
Funds requested may be listed in up to two expense categories on the budget page. The organization must be able to match the requested grant amount in cash, dollar-for-dollar. Applicant Cash Participation may be listed in multiple expense categories. The budget pages require that you include your entire projected budget rather than just an exact match to the grant request. Please itemize all expenses and income sources that support the proposed fiscal year under the appropriate categories.
An organization may submit only one AA application for any given fiscal year. AA applicants may also apply in the following grant categories for distinct activities (grant eligibility requirements apply):
- Arts Project Support.
- Rural Arts Project Support.
- Arts Build Communities.
- Partnership Support.
- Major Cultural Institution.
- Small Urban Partnership Support/Small Rural Partnership Support.
- Creative Placemaking.
- Arts Education categories (if eligible).
- K-12 schools are not eligible under this category. Arts education-based projects, especially those primarily serving youth, must be submitted in one of the four Arts Education grant categories.
Organizations eligible to apply in more than one grant category in a single fiscal year must submit applications for unrelated, separate and distinct projects. Organizations may not apply in different categories to support different activities of the same project or event.
For Projects Occurring
FY2023: July 1, 2022 – June 15, 2023
Eligible Applicants
- An organization is eligible to apply for funding if the organization is legally chartered in Tennessee, has an active IRS 501(c)3 status, can provide a current copy of the organization’s by-laws, and a DUNS number. Failure to provide all nonprofit status documentation will result in the application being disqualified.
- Arts organizations that receive revenue directly from a “New Specialty Earmarked Plate” under T.C.A 55-4-215 (a) (1) are ineligible for Commission grant funding.
Additional eligibility requirements and funding restrictions may apply.
- Debarment and Suspension. Grantees are required to sign contracts certifying to the best of its knowledge and belief, that it, its current and future principals, its current and future subcontractors and their principals are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by any federal or state department or agency.
- The Tennessee Arts Commission reserves the right to deny any application, if the proposed activity is outside of the scope or spirit of the agency’s mission, purpose, or this grant program.
For more information, visit Tennessee Arts Commission.
