What would you do if you were given $10,000 to go in search of creative inspiration? Dream big–and apply for a 2022-2023 Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship.
Donor Name: Indy Arts Council
State: Indiana
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/17/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
The fellowship focuses on personal renewal with the belief that the entire community will benefit through investments in individuals in the creative community. It is similar to the concept of sabbatical that the academic community has developed to keep the educational community infused with new energy. It is designed specifically to support arts administrators and artists in the pursuit of creative renewal, to refresh and reconnect them to their work in the Indy arts ecosystem.
All aspects of the Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Program are administered by the Indy Arts Council, Inc. The fellowship program is funded solely through a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Amount of Fellowship Awards
Forty (40) fellowships in the amount of $10,000 each will be awarded. Payments will be made in two installments only: $8,000 and $2,000 according to the schedule under Fellowship Agreement. Each fellowship recipient will be required to submit an IRS W-9 form so that an IRS 1099 income statement can be issued by the Arts Council for the fellow’s tax records. All taxes and reporting of taxes will be the responsibility of the fellowship recipient.
Examples of Fellowship Activities
Fellowship activities must occur between November 2022, and April 2024. There is no minimum time frame. Examples of possible fellowship activities include, but are not limited, to:
- Exploration of new ideas, cultures, art forms
- Pursuit of new or familiar avenues of artistic expression
- Research and/or instruction
- Wellness or artistic retreats
Fellowship activities may be conducted anywhere in the world. Funds may be used for travel, housing, and/or the equipment necessary to conduct proposed activities. Fellows will be responsible for making all arrangements and/or purchases for fellowship activities. Fellowship funds may not be used for tuition at degree-granting institutions.
Eligibility Requirements
These are general requirements. Each individual’s situation is different. It is the responsibility of the applicant to make the case in the application for meeting the eligibility requirements.
- You must have lived and/or worked in any of the following eight counties for a minimum of two consecutive years at the date of application: Marion, Morgan, Boone, Hamilton, Hendricks, Hancock, Johnson, or Shelby County. Applicants must live within this 8-county area for the entire 18-month fellowship (except for any duration of program-related travel).
- You must either be a professional artist or an arts administrator who has been working in the arts for at least five years (not necessarily consecutive years, in the same position, with the same organization, or with the same art form). Artists must be actively pursuing a career in the arts. Arts administrators must be working full-time in a nonprofit arts and culture organization.
- The “arts” includes the fields of dance, theater, media arts (film, video, digital arts, photography), music, literature, visual arts, folk arts, or multi-disciplinary art forms. You must have generated the majority of your income over the past two years through your work in one or more of these disciplines.
- Fellows from round one through round eight (1999 – 2013) are eligible to apply again. However, applicants from rounds nine, ten, and eleven (2015, 2017, and 2020) are not eligible. Renewal grants are limited to a maximum of two fellowships.
Each applicant must apply in either the professional artist or arts administrator category. If applying as an arts administrator (or you are an artist employed full-time by a non-profit arts organization):
- You must receive authorization from your employer if your proposed fellowship activities require a leave of absence. It is expected that fellows who take a leave of absence will continue their work in the arts sector upon completion of fellowship activities.
- Preference will be given to applicants who have worked in their institutions for four years or more.
- There is no limit to the number of individuals that may apply from a single organization; however, no more than two individuals from any one organization will be awarded fellowships.
For more information visit Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship.
