The Native Arts & Cultures Foundation is seeking application to support artist and community-driven projects that are focused on engaging communities and the public to address community issues; build upon community cultural assets; and partner with organizations to develop and present the work.
Donor Name: Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/14/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts program supports artist and community-driven projects responding to social change issues through a Native lens. The program focuses on efforts that are built upon community cultural assets, resilience, and strengths and draws increased attention to Native communities, perspectives and challenges, shifting a national narrative of invisibility, misunderstanding and misappropriation. SHIFT provides invaluable resources for project development, production and presentation for the artists and their collaborators.
The program includes multi-year services for Native artists, cultural practitioners, and community partners, and allows for artists to consider more expansive projects and broad-based platforms for community engagement and presentation, while continuing to drive essential conversation on national and global issues.
They encourage artists who have experience developing projects that are focused on engaging communities and the public to address community issues; building upon community strengths; and partnering with organizations to develop and present the work to apply.
Program Services
- Financial Resources: two-year awards totaling $100,000 with $50,000 of the award earmarked for the lead artist or arts collective and the remaining monies for producing the project.
- Professional Development: artists will participate in trainings designed for established career artists who are navigating national and international landscapes, cross-sector work, community participation and movement building. Beyond typical emerging artist professional development formats that focus on the elements of small business development, training will focus on building skill sets around project development, organizing, community engagement, intersectional work and movement building.
- Evaluation: NACF will provide support to develop project deliverables, outcomes and internal/external NACF program reports. Project leadership will be expected to participate in regular check-ins, provide visual documentation, a mid-project report and a final project report detailing the project’s development and outcomes.
- Communication and Marketing Support
- Advocacy: NACF will provide support to present artists’ work and provide a platform for conversation around the impacts of their projects and Native voices to effect change around vital issues.
Funding Information
The lead artist compensation must be a minimum of $50,000 of the total $100,000 award.
Grant Period
Projects must be completed and presented within two years of the award, or prior to October 31, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Artist Applicant:
- Open to independent Native artists or Native artist collectives working in the disciplines of dance/choreography, fiction/poetry writing, film/video, multi-disciplinary arts, music, performance art, theater and screenplay writing, traditional arts or 2D + 3D visual arts.
- Artist applicant must be at least 18 years of age.
- Artist applicant must demonstrate US-based residency.
- Artist applicant must be an enrolled member or citizen of a federally-recognized or state-recognized American Indian tribe or Alaska Native corporation, or of Native Hawaiian ancestry. Applicants will be asked to provide documentation of their Native citizenship or ancestry in the application.
- Partner Organization/Co-Applicant:
- Open to US-based non-profit organizations, for-profit businesses, or tribal agencies working in collaboration with Native artists or collectives and which are not required to be arts related (e.g., non-profit social service organizations, for-profit galleries, or universities).
- Project may have a fiscal sponsor, but are not considered a “partner organization” if they are acting solely as a fiscal sponsor.
- Artist/collective must select an eligible organization to partner with on their project, or the organization must select an eligible artist to partner with on their project.
- Lead Artist cannot be a board member, paid consultant or employee, owner, or founder of their chosen partner organization.
- Lead Artist cannot partner with an organization of which their immediate family member is a founder, owner, paid consultant, or employee.
- All previous awardees who have received support from NACF prior to 2021 are eligible and encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit NACF.
