Applications are now being accepted for the Professional Mid-Career Artist and Artist Career Development Grant Programs.
Donor Name: Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline:
- Professional Mid-Career Artist Grant: 10/01/2023
- Artist Career Development Grant: 03/01/2024
Size of the Grant:
- Professional Mid-Career Artist Grant: $3,000
- Artist Career Development Grant: $1,500
Grant Duration: 2 year
Details:
Artists may expand their present work, advance in skill or technique, or move in a new direction. This grant is for a specific project that contributes directly to your growth and development as a professional. Culture bearers refers to individuals who have been trained by traditional elders or master artists and whose artistic practice is reflective of the cultural life of a community that shares a common ethnicity, geographic or regional identity, occupation, language, or tribal affiliation.
Prairie Lakes values an equitable, diverse, and inclusive community and this is reflected in the policies and programs. They are committed to countering systemic inequities that exclude individuals and communities from access to the arts based on race, gender, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, class, age, and geography. This may include historically marginalized and underserved groups such as: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), People with Disabilities, LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, etc.), and Senior Citizens.
Types of Grants
- Professional Mid-Career Artist Grant
- This grant provides mid-career and beyond artists with financial support that enables them to further their work and their contribution to their communities. It is intended to recognize, reward, and encourage outstanding individual artists in the region. Applicants are expected to demonstrate professional achievement in their disciplines. Professional mid-career and beyond artist defined: professional achievement includes, but is not limited to: juried exhibitions, performances, and publications. Eligible artists are beyond the “emerging” stage in their careers. They have proved to be deeply engaged in their art form and may be ready to take a new “leap” in their career. They are committed to being artists and to creating a body of work. This project grant can support a broad range of study or activities, including exploration of new directions, continuation of work already in progress, or accomplishment of work not financially feasible otherwise. An artist may choose to take time for solitary work or reflection, engage in collaborative or community projects, embark on travel or research, or pursue other activity that contributes to their life as an artist.
- Artist Career Development Grant
- This project grant provides financial support to developing artists committed to advancing their work and careers. Artists in their formative stages of development are eligible, as well as artists expanding their present work, advancing in skill, technique and/or moving in a new direction. This program provides artists with small but critical grants for specific projects that contribute directly to their growth and development as professionals. These are art projects that produce work that involves personal creative expression.
Funding Information
- Professional Mid-Career Artist Grant: $3,000
- Artist Career Development Grant: $1,500
Eligibility Criteria
- Professional Mid-Career Artist Grant
- The Mid-Career Artist Applicant must be 25 years of age, a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status and must currently reside in and have been a resident of the nine county Prairie Lakes region for a minimum of six months prior to application; and do not intend to relocate outside the 9-county region during the year of the Artist project. Residency is determined by voting location, payment of state income taxes or a valid Minnesota driver’s license listing a town in the region. You must upload your Minnesota driver’s license or other document to verify residency. Each artist is limited to one grant per two-year period. Artists who receive a grant are ineligible to apply the following year. The maximum number of Prairie Lakes’ Mid-Career Artist Grants of $3,000 an artist can receive is four.
- Artist Career Development Grant
- The Artist Development Applicant must be 18 years of age and a U.S. citizen or an individual who has attained permanent resident status in the United States. They must currently reside in and have been a resident of the nine county Prairie Lakes region for a minimum of six months prior to application; and do not intend to relocate outside the 9-county region during the year of the grant project. Residency is determined by voting location, payment of state income taxes, Minnesota State ID or a valid Minnesota driver’s license listing a town in the region. You must upload your Minnesota driver’s license or other document to verify residency. I
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