Creative Learning provides grants for community arts education and participatory art-making projects in any discipline anywhere in the borough of Manhattan.
Donor Name: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
State: New York
Borough: Manhattan
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/12/2023
Size of the Grant: $4,000 – $8,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Creative Learning is designed to support Manhattan’s teaching artists and small arts organization in accessing public funds to provide community-based arts education projects and programming for youth, adults and/or older adults. The Program IS comprised of two funds: City funds, provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs’ Greater New York Arts Development Fund, and State funds, provided by the New York State Council on the Arts’ (NYSCA) Statewide Community Regrants program. Funding is intended for artists and organizations that are not able to apply directly to the City and/or State for aria funding.
Creative Learning often provides the first grant that an applicant receives, which can help leverage additional support. The program is accompanied by technical assistance to applicants, and networking and promotional opportunities for funded projects.
Creative Learning supports artist-led projects that draw on ads education practices to engage participants of any age in the creation of artistic works. Funding is provided for sequential, skill-based ads study and participatory arts projects that take place in accessible community-based settings such as afterschool programs, senior centers and community centers. Creative Learning supports projects taking place in neighborhoods from Inwood to the Battery.
Emphasis is placed on quality and depth of the creative process through which participants learn through and about the arts. The program encourages individual teaching artists to Collaborate with Community-based partners to develop arts programming to reach shared goals. Partnership projects should be conceived, planned, and implemented by teaching artists and administrators working together to utilize resources.
Applicants whose work is rooted in the lived experience of Manhattan’s Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Funding Information
- Creative Learning offers the opportunity to access City, State, or both sources of funds by completing a single application. Creative Learning awards grants between $4,000 – $8,000.
- This program supports projects serving communities from Inwood to the Battery taking place between January 1 – December 31, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants must meet the Core Eligibility Requirements in addition to the specific City and/or State funding requirements.
- Nonprofit Organizations:
- Creative Learning supports nonprofit organizations that meet the following Core Eligibility Requirements:
- Organizations must be based In Manhattan.
- Organizations must have proof of nonprofit status.
- Organizations must have a core artistic mission and/or history of arts programming.
- Applicants may not be directly applying to LMCC’s Creative Engagement program for the same fiscal year.
- Applicants may not be directly applying for DCLA (GNYADF) or NYSCA (Statewide Community Regrants) funds in another county/borough for the same fiscal year.
- First-time applicants are required to attend an information session webinar for Creative Learning before applying. Returning applicants are required to attend an information session webiner OR watch a recorded information session webinar for Creative Learning before applying.
- In addition, to access City funding:
- Organizations may not be directly receiving funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) for the same fiscal year.
- Organizations must have operating budgets under $100,000 for two of the last three completed fiscal years.
- Organizations may not be New York City agencies or departments.
- To access State funding:
- Organizations may not be directly applying for funds from the New York Slate Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for a grant for the same fiscal year, regardless of funding status.
- Organizations may not be directly applying to A.R.T./New York’s Opportunity to Create program for the same fiscal year.
- Organizations may not be New York State agencies or departments.
- Creative Learning supports nonprofit organizations that meet the following Core Eligibility Requirements:
- Individual Artists and Collectives:
- Creative Learning supports individual artists, as well as collectives, project based collaborations. and unincorporated groups that meet the following Core Eligibility MSS:
- Individual artists must be based In Manhattan.
- Individual artists may not apply or receive funds on behalf of any organization.
- Collectives must designate a lend artist (director, or equivalent), who meets all eligibility requirements for individual artists. to apply as an individual on its behalf.
- Applicants must be 18 years of age at the time of submission and may not be enrolled in a full-time undergraduate degree program.
- Applicants may not be directly applying to IMCC’s Creative Engagement program for the same fiscal year.
- Applicants may not be directly applying for DCLA (GNYADF) or NYSCA (Statewide Community Regrants) funds In another county/borough for the same fiscal year.
- First-time applicants are required to attend an information session webinar for Creative Learning before applying. Returning applicants are required to attend an information session webinar OR watch a recorded information session webinar for Creative Learning before applying.
- To access City funding:
- Individual artists and collectives need only meet the above Core Eligibility Requirements.
- To access State funding:
- Individuals and collectives need to be collaborating with a nonprofit Partner Organization to realize the proposed project. If desired, the Partner Organization may also act as the artist’s fiscal sponsor. The Partner Organization must:
- Be a primary project collaborator and contribute resources, monetary, or otherwise, such as facilities, materials, or access to participants or audiences, to demonstrate a true partnership for the project.
- Be based in Manhattan.
- Provide proof of nonprofit status.
- Provide a letter of commitment describing the organization’s role and planned contributions to the project.
- Not be directly applying to New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for a grant for the same fiscal year.
- Not be a New York State agency or department.
- Individuals and collectives may not be directly applying to New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for a grant for the same fiscal year, regardless of funding status.
- Individuals and collectives may not be directly applying to A.R.T./New York’s Opportunity to Create program for the same fiscal year.
- Individuals and collectives need to be collaborating with a nonprofit Partner Organization to realize the proposed project. If desired, the Partner Organization may also act as the artist’s fiscal sponsor. The Partner Organization must:
- Creative Learning supports individual artists, as well as collectives, project based collaborations. and unincorporated groups that meet the following Core Eligibility MSS:
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