Creatives Rebuild New York’s (CRNY) Artist Employment Program (AEP) will fund employment for up to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers (artists) in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State for two years.
Donor Name: Creatives Rebuild New York’s (CRNY)
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/25/2022
Size of the Grant: $25,000 and $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Goals
The Artist Employment Program seeks ecosystem-level change and has three primary stakeholders: artists, community-based organizations, and communities. CRNY has identified the following goals for each of these stakeholders:
- Artists
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- To provide financial stability for artists, especially under- and unemployed artists across New York State, given the catastrophic impact of the pandemic on artists’ livelihoods and incomes.
- To provide salaried employment that is in line with artists’ skills and expertise while allowing artists to deepen their artistic practice.
- To help artists grow in their understanding and capacity to work with organizations and communities.
- To foster a collective infrastructure to maximize artists’ influence within funding and policy systems.
- Community-Based Originations
- To support the financial recovery and stability of community-based organizations, both arts and non-arts, that suffered tremendous financial strain and loss because of the pandemic.
- To deepen organizations’ ability to work for and with communities and constituents.
- To develop new models for mutually beneficial collaborations between artists and organizations.
- Communities
- To create partnerships that support and enrich communities and meet community needs and desires.
- To increase the visibility and understanding of artists as workers; communities will be able to witness artists’ labor and processes.
Funding Information
Participating artists will receive a salary of $65,000 per year, plus benefits, with dedicated time to focus on their practice. Participating organizations will receive funds that range between $25,000 and $100,000 per year to support artists’ employment.
Eligibility Criteria
The Artist Employment Program requires a joint application between artists and organizations. Either the artist(s) or the organization may initiate the relationship, and both the artist(s) and the organization must be specifically named and have agreed to work together at the time of application.
Collaborations can include one or more artists. Organizations can apply to employ a single artist or multiple artists. In situations with multiple artists, those artists can work collaboratively or in distinct ways. The entire proposed collaboration will be evaluated as a unit, and thus all collaborating organizations and artists will be funded or none will. Collaborators will not be evaluated individually.
To be eligible to apply to AEP, organizations must:
- Be a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity or a government instrumentality, and/or fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) public charity
- Have their principal place of business in New York State
- Serve one or more of the following communities:
- Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color
- Immigrants
- LGBTQIAP+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic, Pansexual+)
- Deaf/Disabled
- Criminal legal system-involved
- At or below the poverty line (low-income)
- Rural
To be eligible to apply to AEP, artists must be:
- Primary residents of New York State
- An artist, culture bearer, or culture maker
- Not a staff member or related to a staff member (e.g., an immediate family member) of Tides or Creatives Rebuild New York.
- Artists who are under- or unemployed and/or who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, immigrants, LGBTQIAP+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic, Pansexual+), Deaf/Disabled, criminal legal system involved, living at or below the poverty line, and/or living in rural areas are encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit Artist Employment Program.
