The American Composers Forum is pleased to announce the 2025 McKnight Visiting Composers Residency Program.
Donor Name: American Composers Forum
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline: 10/29/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The intent of the McKnight Artist and Culture Programs is to recognize and support artists and culture bearers who are beyond emerging and have sustained experience in their area of practice. Visiting Composers demonstrate achievement, commitment, and high-level proficiency in artistic and/or culture-bearer practice. This program invites artists to respond to or reflect on the unique qualities of people and communities in Minnesota.
The addition of culture bearer acknowledges that the McKnight programs support creative leaders from cultures that don’t use the word “artist” (such as Native American and Hmong), as well as those who center the transmission and preservation of cultural lifeways.
- The ACF McKnight Visiting Composer Residencies invite music creators living outside of Minnesota to spend approximately 30 days in the state over an 18-month period, fostering connections and taking part in creative projects that engage the local community.
- ACF will select two music creators for an artistic residency in Minnesota.
- Proposals should respond to or reflect on the unique qualities of people and communities in the home state.
- For example, the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area is currently home to one of the largest and most tribally diverse urban Indigenous populations.
- New work may be part of the residency but is not required. The focus is on the exploration of an artist within a Minnesota community.
Funding Information
- Two residencies of $10,000 will be awarded. Awards are subject to state and federal income tax guidelines.
- This year composers will receive up to $3,000 to support travel expenses related to their visit to Minnesota.
- Funds are distributed directly to the music creator across installments.
Eligibility Criteria
- You live outside of Minnesota.
- You must have a Social Security Number or Tax ID (such as an ITIN) for the program administrator to process financial awards.
- You are beyond early practice and have sustained experience in your discipline.
- You demonstrate achievement, commitment, and high-level proficiency in music creation practice.
- You have not received a McKnight Artist Fellowship within any artistic discipline in the last five award years. Recipients of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 McKnight Fellowships in any discipline are not eligible. 2019 fellows are eligible to apply again for 2025 fellowship awards. Past fellows can search the McKnight Artists Fellowship webpage to confirm their award year.
- You are not staff, board, or immediate family of the McKnight Foundation or fellowship administrative partners (including ACF).
- You are not enrolled full-time in an academic program. (Low-Residency MFA students, and Ph.D. and DMA candidates who have completed all requirements except their dissertation, are not considered “full-time” students.)
For more information, visit ACF.
