The Media Arts Education program was established by William B. Pratt who has a life-long interest in Traditional and Folk arts, with experience as a musician working in the folk tradition and as a living history and production artisan in forged iron.
Donor Name: Montana Community Foundation
State: Montana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Media arts refers to creative practices that use digital, electronic, or multimedia tools to produce works in areas like video, photography, sound, and multimedia. The Media Arts Program will provide grants to support the production, education, distribution, and presentation of Media Arts in Montana.
The media arts include:
- Photography
- Film
- Video
- Audio
- Multimedia
- Digitally generated and distributed media
Documentary Media Production is defined as a practice of media making that deals with actual and factual (historical and contemporary) issues (ideally, from multiple points of view), institutions, and people; whose purpose is to educate, inform, communicate, persuade, raise consciousness, or satisfy curiosity; in which the viewer is commonly addressed as a citizen of a public sphere; whose materials are selected and arranged from what already exists (rather than being made up); and whose methods involve recording ‘real people’ as themselves in actual locations, using natural light and ambient sound.
Funding Information
Grants will range from $500 to $2,000. Small grants requests less than $750 can apply using a simplified application form.
Eligible Projects
- Media Arts applications may be made in one of the following three major categories: Preproduction, production, or post-production costs; Festivals or public programs; or Media Arts Education programs.
- Pre-production, production, or post-production costs for well-researched and – thought out original documentaries about Montana’s arts, culture and history, including those produced by Montana public radio, public television or public access or tribal stations; Montana nonprofit organizations with a media arts-related mission; and professional media artists working under the fiscal sponsorship of a nonprofit organization that has a mission to support media and other artists. Support for animation, graphics and film, video or audio restoration may be requested but only for the documentary being produced.
- The Media Arts program will support projects that are in the early stages of pre-production, including research, script development, and identification of production resources and personnel.
- Festivals or public programs, which, in whole or part, present documentaries about Montana’s arts, culture and history, and which request support to defray the cost of media productions to be presented, the involvement of professional media artists, and related program costs.
- Media Arts Education programs, which involve professional media artists, may be: In-school (K-12) Artist in Residence programs, After-school and community based programs, which include media history, aesthetics and the crafts of production and enable participants to create mini-documentaries that focus on the arts, culture and history of their communities, or Programs at tribal colleges in Montana.
- Pre-production, production, or post-production costs for well-researched and – thought out original documentaries about Montana’s arts, culture and history, including those produced by Montana public radio, public television or public access or tribal stations; Montana nonprofit organizations with a media arts-related mission; and professional media artists working under the fiscal sponsorship of a nonprofit organization that has a mission to support media and other artists. Support for animation, graphics and film, video or audio restoration may be requested but only for the documentary being produced.
- Eligible costs include fees, honoraria, and associated program costs for the involvement of professional media artists.
- Cooperative projects or initiatives that are within the intent of the programs purpose and aim to improve the field of Media Arts, may be considered on a case-by-case basis. These projects or initiatives may include the creation of local, regional or statewide Media arts associations, offering technical or business assistance for media artists, or encouraging arts organizations to offer media arts programming.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) organizations and governments including local, state, and tribal governments. Individual artist and other entities may apply under a fiscal sponsorship.
- Each organization may submit one application per year. However, organizations serving as fiscal sponsors for one or more media artists may submit multiple applications, including an application for the organization’s own programmatic purposes.
- Applications are encouraged that involve professional media artists who are women, tribal members, rurally based, or are from populations that can be considered underserved.
- Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact MCF staff to discuss their project prior to applying.
For more information, visit MCF.
