The Nexus Grant offers $5,000 grants for new and emerging local small organizations, individual artists, and small arts businesses to produce creative public projects.
Donor Name: City of Austin
State: Texas
City: Austin
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/14/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Nexus grant is designed to nurture new and emerging applicants in the creative community. Funds support creative public activities for the city and its tourists through community-centered arts activities and collaboration.
Grant funds may cover administrative costs, equipment and space rentals, marketing, and other eligible expenditures.
Collaborations might include activities that involve:
- Artists
- Culturally specific groups
- Groups representing LGBTQIA and disability communities
- Nonprofits
- Social advocacy organizations.
Priority will be given to:
- Applicants that are representative of, serve and are accountable to communities that are at immediate risk of cultural erasure and displacement within Austin and/or have been institutionally marginalized and under-funded by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division. This may include applicants that directly serve Black/African American, Native American, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Islander communities or LGBTQIA+ and/or disability communities.
- Applicants who have never received City of Austin Cultural Funding awards in the last five years.
Funding Information
The Nexus award is $5,000.
Eligible Activities
- Exhibitions
- Performances
- Workshops and classes that include a performance or exhibition
- Public art projects that are installed on public or private property and accessible by the public.
Eligible Expenses
- Payments to administrators and artists
- Space rentals
- Equipment rentals (not purchases)
- Supplies and materials
- Marketing and promotion expenses
- Insurance costs
- Fiscal sponsor fee, if applicable.
Eligible Applicants
- 501(c) nonprofit arts organization:
- Maximum Annual Expenses: $150,000.
- Maximum Request Amount: $5,000.
- An individual aged 18 or older:
- Maximum Annual Expenses: $150,000.
- Maximum Request Amount: $5,000.
- Creative Business:
- Maximum Annual Expenses: $150,000.
- Maximum Request Amount: $5,000.
For more information, visit City of Austin.
