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: 08/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Details:
Grant funds may cover administrative costs, equipment and space rentals, marketing, and other eligible expenditures.
The Nexus is designed to nurture new and emerging applicants into the creative community in support of creative project public programming for the city and its tourist through community activation and collaborations. Nexus will prioritize applicants who are new to city, funding particularly those who have been at immediate risk of cultural erasure and displacement within Austin and/ or have been institutionally marginalized.
Priority will given to:
- Applicants that 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.
- Applicants who have never received City of Austin Cultural Funding awards in the last five years.
Project Period
The project taking place between October 1 – March 31.
Eligible Activities
- Exhibitions
- Performances
- Workshops and classes that include a performance or exhibition that is open to and marketed to tourists
- Public art projects that are installed on public or private property and accessible by the public
Eligible Expenses
- Administrative expenses and artist fees (including staff hours and contractor costs)
- Space rentals
- Equipment rentals (not purchases)
- Supplies and materials
- Marketing and promotion expenses
- Insurance costs
- Fiscal sponsor fee, if applicable
Eligibility Criteria
- 501(c) nonprofit arts organization
- An individual artist aged 18 or older
- A creative business
- Applicant’s most recently completed fiscal year’s budget is $150,000 or less
- One year of operating history in the Austin metropolitan statistical area (MSA)
- 51% or more of the applicant’s creative production is within the Austin 10-1 districts or extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ)
- Applicant has not already received or is not currently receiving City funding for the same activities in the fiscal year in which they are applying
Ineligible Applicants
- 501(c) non-profit organizations or that are not primarily an arts organization.
- Any applicant with annual operating budgets above $150,000.
- Applicant organizations outside of the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).
For more information, visit City of Austin.
