The Artist Support Grant provides direct support to individual artists for professional and artistic development, either to enhance their skills and abilities to create work, or to improve their business operations and capacity to bring the work to audiences.
Donor Name: Dare Arts
State: North Carolina
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $500 to $1,000
Details:
The Artist Support Grant is intended to support a broad range of talented visual, performing, literary, and interdisciplinary artists.
Funding Information
Grants will range in awards from $500 to $1,000.
Eligible Uses of funds
- Completion or presentation of a new work
- Career promotion
- Projects aimed at advertising artists’ work and/or demonstrating their skill level.
- Examples include:
- Websites
- Portfolios
- Audio-visual documentation
- Online presentation
- Training
- Costs to attend a class or workshop (in-person or virtual) aimed at either enhancing the artists’ skill level or professional development.
- Such as attending a master class or workshop taught by acknowledged authorities in their medium.
- Travel
- Costs of transportation, lodging, and food for training, professional conferences, or research.
- Artists fees
- Up to 50% of grant amount may be used towards artist fees!
Geographical Areas
Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Tyrrell and Washington.
Eligibility Criteria
- Emerging and established artists
- Eligible candidates may be either emerging or established artists. Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to spending a significant portion of their time on their work as artists.
- Individuals and groups
- Individuals and Artist Collectives: Both individual artists and small, unincorporated groups of collaborating artists are eligible to apply.
- All members of a collaborating team must be North Carolina residents, live in the region where they are applying, and meet the other eligibility requirements. Résumés documenting residence from all team members should be included with the application.
- Residency
- Artists should have lived in the region where they are applying continuously for at least one year prior to the consortium’s application deadline. An applicant must be at least 18 years old and either a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident. Proof of residence and status may be required by the consortium. Artists who live in more than one region should apply only where they spend the majority of the year.
Who are not eligible?
- Multiple awards
- Artists who are sole proprietors of organizations that have already received funding for FY 2024-2025 from the N.C. Arts Council are ineligible to apply.
- Conflict of interest
- Current board and staff members of the participating partner organizations and their family members are not eligible to apply for the award.
- Students
- The Artist Support Grant is intended for adult, non-student artists. Artists enrolled full-time in undergraduate or associate degree-granting programs may not apply for the grant.
For more information, visit Dare Arts.