Applicants are invited to apply for the Culture Bearers Award.
Donor Name: Arts Midwest
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 07/29/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Culture bearers keep their cultural traditions alive through craft, storytelling, dance, performance, visual arts, foodways, language preservation, and more. They are folk and traditional artists, folk arts and culture practitioners, taproot artists, elder artists, and ancestral knowledge bearers. They are deeply connected to their communities and share their knowledge with new generations.
Funding Information
The Midwest Culture Bearers Award is a $5,000 award.
Geographic Areas
You must live in the Arts Midwest region. This includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Native Nations that share this geography.
Eligibility Requirements
Through this award, we seek to recognize the work of Midwestern culture bearers, folk and traditional artists, folk arts and culture practitioners, taproot artists, elder artists, and ancestral knowledge bearers. We invite these individuals to apply for this award.
This award may be a fit if you:
- Are based in the Arts Midwest region of: North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, or the Native Nations that share this geography.
- Have an arts and cultural practice rooted in your own heritage and ancestry that you have engaged in for 10+ years.
- Practices may include, but are not limited to, craft, storytelling, dance, performance, visual arts, language preservation, foodways, and more.
- Are connected to your community and involved in the exchange and sharing of cultural knowledge and practice.
- Prioritize sustainability, leadership and the next generation in your work.
- This award is not a fit if:
- You are based outside of the Arts Midwest region.
- Your practice is rooted outside of your own heritage and cultural ancestry
For more information, visit Arts Midwest.
