The Artist Trust (AT) Endurance Grants re-envisions their work with COVID-19 relief into a new grant program that allows them to continue to help artists with emergency support for their financial needs.
Donor Name: Artist Trust
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 8/1/2022
Size of the Grant: $2,500
Details:
Its goal is to provide 40 unrestricted need-based grants of $2,500 to artists working in all disciplines across Washington State to assist with an unforeseen emergency, crisis, or catastrophic event. This grant will fund artists who identify with one or more of the following communities: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and/or Native, LGBTQIA+, immunocompromised, with immigrant status, have or are living with a disability, residing outside King County, and/or low income.
Artist Trust is a non-profit organization whose sole mission is to support and encourage individual artists working in all disciplines in order to enrich community life throughout Washington State.
Eligibility
The 2022 Artist Trust Endurance Grants are open to artists residing in Washington State working in all disciplines. This grant is also open to 2022 Artist Trust grant recipients. Recipients of the 2022 Artist Trust Endurance Grants are still eligible for other Artist Trust grants of the same year. All applicants will be asked to select at least one of the following needs they are experiencing as a direct result of an emergency:
- Food Insecurity
- Medical Bills
- Rent, Mortgage, or Foreclosure
- Utility Payments
Applicants must be:
- An artist practicing in one or more of our disciplinary categories; Literary, Media Arts, Performing Arts, Visual Arts.
- 18 years of age or older by application deadline.
- Washington State residents at the time of both application and payment (payment will be made in October 2022).
- Individual artists who are the originators of works of art.
- Having had an unforeseen emergency, crisis, or catastrophic event between February 1 – August 1 2022 (or within 6 months of the application closing on August 1) see What Is An Unforeseen Emergency, Crisis, or Catastrophic Event section on page 3 of our guidelines.
- Identifying as one or more of the following: Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC) and/or Native, LGBTQIA+, immunocompromised, with immigrant status, having or are living with a disability, residing outside King County, and/or low income.
Applicants must not be:
- Current graduate or undergraduate students enrolled at the time of both application and payment (payment will be made October 2022).
- Applying as cultural organizers, curators, or applying on behalf of a company, non-profit, organization, fiscal sponsorship, or community group.
- Current AT staff, Board of Trustees, END panelists, or their family.
For more information, visit AT.
