Lake Region Arts Council (LRAC) is currently accepting applications for its 2022 Career Development Grant.
Donor Name: Lake Region Arts Council (LRAC)
State: Minnesota
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/07/2022
Size of the Grant: $2,000
Details:
Funding Information
Amount up to $2,000 per applicant (new this year)
Eligibility Projects
Your project’s primary focus must be fine arts.
You may not ask for funding to pay for:
- Tuition or materials for college or university credit.
- Projects that have received Minnesota State Arts Board funding.
- Routine completion of work in progress.
- Your project must be new work with a new expanded focus or audience.
- Curriculum plans, teaching materials, or teaching programs for classes, workshops, or trainings, regardless of the location to be presented. (public schools or private studios)
- Translation or editing of materials that is not a literary work or translation or editing of someone else’s literary work; it must be your literary work .
- Expenses or debts incurred before the grant request is approved. No money should be spent before the Career Development Grant Project Start Date.
- Religious socialization of the audience or participants such as a worship service, bible study, denominational hymn, altar cloth, etc.
- Projects may be spiritual in content without a specific religious indoctrination focus.
- Activities that attempt to influence any state or federal legislation or appropriation.
- General travel or living expenses which don’t have your artistic growth as the primary focus.
- Financially benefits a secondary group. Example: sales to be donated to a charity or proceeds for a private fundraiser.
Eligibility Criteria
Are you eligible to apply for the CD Grant?
- Are you a practicing artist, dancer, singer, musician, actor, performer, etc. or any other art form?
- Have you lived in the LRAC nine county region for at least six months? (Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse, and Wilkin counties) Residency is determined by voting location, payment of Minnesota state income taxes, possession of a valid Minnesota driver’s license or current utility bill.
- Are you 18 years or older?
- Are you a United States citizen or do you have permanent resident alien status?
- Are you submitting online your complete and accurate application with all required supporting documents and work samples?
If all your answers are Yes in this section, then you are eligible to apply for the grant.
- Have you received a LRAC Artist Quick Start Grant within the last 12 months?
- Have you received a LRAC Career Development Grant within the last 3 years?
- Have you received a LRAC Fellowship Grant within the last 5 years?
- Do you have an outstanding final report due to LRAC that is past the due date?
- Are you a LRAC employee, LRAC independent contractor, LRAC Board member or a family member of any of these positions? (Family members are defined as spouse, domestic partner, child or spouse of a child.)
If all of your answers in this section are No, then you are eligible to apply for the Career Development grant application at this time.
For more information, visit Career Development Grant.
