Applications are now being accepted for the Collective Work Program.
Donor Name: A Blade of Grass
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline: 09/30/2025
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This year, A Blade of Grass is in conversation with artist groups through new program In Fellowship. As explore support for group work, they are excited to offer a cycle of Field Funds exclusively for cooperative, collective, and collaborative groups. Established collaboratives of three or more artists can apply for $500 towards any expense category from previous Field Funds open calls: Artist-led Gatherings, Accessibility & Translation, and Documentation & Archiving.
They believe all parts of the creative process are valuable—from seeding new ideas to sharing work with audiences and archiving fleeting experiences. So, they designed a process where all eligible applications have the same chance of being funded. For this reason, there is no need for applicants to make a case for why a project is deserving of support, instead ask applicants to speak directly and concisely to how they will specifically use $500.
This cycle of Field Funds is intended to support cooperative, collective, and collaborative groups of practitioners in gathering or meeting with folks, increasing the accessibility of their projects and practices, and/or tending to the documentation and archiving of their work. This cycle can support the following expense categories for eligible groups:
Gathering
- Pay fees to a facilitator
- Pay rental or other fees to a hosting venue
- Promote event or gathering
- Provide food and hospitality
- Provide honorariums to artists and/or participants
- Provide travel for participants
- Other (write in)
Accessibility & Translation
It encourages you to follow the leadership of disabled practitioners and hire disabled people to provide access when possible.
- Hire providers for events and gatherings (ASL interpretation, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), language interpretation)
- Commission providers to make materials accessible (language translation, image description, captioning for documents, presentations, written materials, video, audio, etc)
- Hire access consultants and coordinators
- Commission an accessibility audit of website or other materials
- Make access modifications to physical space
- Offer accessible transportation
- Provide masks, testing, or other COVID safety measures
- Other: Write in
Documentation & Archiving
- Commission photo, video, or audio documentation of a project
- Commission written documentation or reflection on a project
- Commission image descriptions, audio descriptions, captioning or other accessibility work for documentation
- Pay for support to design, create, or contribute to an inventory system of files or materials
- Digitize analog media or documents
- Buy supplies needed to house archival materials
- Pay for web hosting, inventory management, database subscriptions, or storage
- Pay other administrative costs for accessing and maintaining archival materials
- Other: write in
Eligibility Criteria
U.S.-based groups of 3 or more artists, creative practitioners, and/or culture bearers with a demonstrated history of collaboratively creating socially engaged art. Field Funds uses the terms artist and socially engaged art, but they understand that not all practitioners identify with the same language. Regardless of how they describe their work, eligible applicants will be able to show in their application that their practice:
- Applies creative strategies and interventions that make society more just, kind, safe, and free.
- Involves and builds relationships with communities and collaborators in ways that are meaningful to those they work with.
- Uses processes and skills beyond those used to create studio artwork or traditional performance—including advocacy, dialogue, facilitation, organizing, and research.
For more information, visit A Blade of Grass.
