The Arts Council for Wyoming County is seeking applications for its Individual Artist Grant to increase support for artist-initiated activity and highlight the role of artists as important members of the community.
Donor Name: Arts Council for Wyoming County
State: New York
County: Wyoming County (NY), Allegany County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $2500
Details:
The Arts Council for Wyoming County encourages artists to apply for project funding through an initiative specifically designed for artists to create new work in their own communities. This grant supports and enables artists to grow professionally and to enhance the cultural climate in Allegany and Wyoming Counties. An essential element of this funding is a community engagement component.
Community engagement is an essential element of this funding. Individual Artist projects must include a form of community engagement, to be determined by the artist. The purpose is to impact a segment of the community, and it could take the form of a public program or engagement with community members during the creation of the artist’s work. Artists are not expected to do both a public program and engagement with a segment of the community during the creative process. Rather, they can select the type of engagement that is appropriate for their project.
Engagement through a public program may take the form of an exhibition, performance, reading, screening, workshop, or artist talk that is open to the general public. Alternatively, artists can include community involvement in the development and creative process of the artists’ project. This can be in the form of feedback, response, interaction and/or social practice by or with community members. Some examples of this type of interaction are interviews with a segment of the community, creation of parallel work by a community group, or stories and anecdotes collected from a community group that relate to the concept or content of the project.
The program looks for proposals of high artistic merit and asks that the artist consider the unique characteristics of Allegany and Wyoming Counties when developing the project. Artists involved in any art form, whether visual, literary, media, or performing arts, may apply. Projects must be completed in the same county as the applicant’s address.
Funding Information
Individual Artist Grants are in the amount of $2,500.
Allowable Expenses
- Activities/Projects of local arts organizations including both live and virtual activities.
- Artist fees.
- Marketing/publicity costs.
- Direct administrative expenses and/or planning and preparation expenses for a proposed event.
- Supplies and materials needed to execute the proposed project. Individual items may not exceed $1,000. Examples: art supplies, sheet music, hardware, memory cards, and other consumable equipment.
- Equipment, software, subscriptions, and training needed to execute the proposed project. Individual items may not exceed $1,000. Examples: cameras, lighting equipment, subscriptions, and training tools.
Eligibility Criteria
Artists apply directly for the Individual Artist Category. Artists must be 18 years of age at the time of application. Student projects are not eligible for support.
- The project must take place in Allegany or Wyoming County and in the same county as the applicant address. The applicant must provide a physical address
- Project must take place within the calendar year 2024
- The artist must notify the ACWC Grant Coordinator of any and all public events that are part of the project at least 30 days before the event.
- There must be some type of tangible finished work at the end of the grant period such as finished poems, photographs, video, CD, etc. The finished work may also be presented in some form of an exhibition, performance, etc.
- Artists that are applying for the Community Arts or Arts Education grant through a sponsoring organization can also apply for this grant, but not for the same project.
- Collaborative projects are acceptable; however, applications must be submitted in the name of a single artist.
For more information, visit ACWC.
