The International Cultural Partnerships (ICP) Grants Program – formerly the International Cultural Exchange (ICE) program – offers grants to Miami-Dade County-based professional cultural organizations to support meaningful artistic exchange, partnerships or collaborations with artists, arts professionals and/or organizations abroad.
Donor Name: Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
State: Florida
County: Miami-Dade County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/30/2022
Size of the Grant: $40,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The program’s objectives are the following:
- Support the efforts of Miami-Dade’s professional artists and cultural organizations to engage in international cultural partnerships activities, linking them to a global network
- Provide opportunities for intercultural and artistic collaborations, highlighting the partnerships of ideas, themes, stories and studies
- Elevate Miami-Dade County’s image abroad
Projects may involve any artistic discipline(s) and may take place in Miami-Dade County and/or abroad. Projects must demonstrate reciprocal relationships with another city, country or region, either as a component of the same project or over a specified period of time. Additionally, projects should demonstrate artistic excellence and originality within the organization’s overall programming goals.
Funding Information
Maximum Request $20,000, $30,000, $40,000
Funding Period
Grant Funding Period: October 1, 2022 – September 30, 2023.
Eligible Projects
- International collaborations among partner cultural organizations to develop NEW work to be presented or exhibited for the general public in the participating countries. Projects which present the highest quality of professional Miami-Dade County artists and cultural programs to international audiences, and which present the highest quality of professional international artists and cultural programs to Miami-Dade County audiences will be the most competitive. The newly created work must be presented in Miami-Dade and abroad.
- Residency programs that foster cultural partnerships for Miami-Dade County professional artists and/or arts professionals to work abroad and professional foreign artists and/or arts professionals (such as curators, historians, designers) to work in Miami-Dade County. Residency programs must be held in Miami-Dade and abroad.
- Departments within local colleges and universities that specifically engage in the creation, exhibition or presentation of professional arts or cultural programs that are available to the public are eligible to apply, provided the primary focus of the proposed program demonstrates that:
- the artistic/cultural collaborators in the program are professional artists; and
- the public at-large is the direct beneficiary and target audience of the program
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply, an organization must:
- be legally incorporated as a State Of Florida Not-For-Profit Arts Or Cultural Organization with a designated tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code; Proof of incorporation and IRS tax-exempt designation is required at the time of application.
- be an organization whose mission, primary purpose and function, as defined by the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of the organization, is the creation, performance, exhibition, and/or presentation of the arts or cultural programs;
- have a minimum one-year track record of year-round cultural programming and presentation;
- have its primary office in Miami-Dade County; and
- not be a municipality or governmental entity.
For more information, visit International Cultural Partnerships (ICP) Grants Program.
