The New Music Creator Fund offers grants to individual music creators who need support to get to the next stage of their creative practice.
Donor Name: New Music USA
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/15/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $5,000
Details:
The program will support costs which relate to collaboration with other artists and practitioners. Individual performers may also apply as long as their collaborator is a music creator. Their aim is to enable music creators to take the lead in the development of new and existing ideas and projects. They are also striving to stimulate creativity and collaboration between music creators and other artists from any discipline or background and to build community in response to the restrictions they have all been facing.
Program Priorities
- Main aim is to support and represent a broad range of individuals across the country and musical spectrum.
- Given the large volume of applications, the process will prioritize the following in making determinations:
- Music creators who have evidence of experience making music professionally and are engaged in music on a professional level.
- Projects that do not already have funding or limited funding.
- Projects involving new collaborations.
- Projects that involve artistic growth or stretch, innovation, or have an impact on creative practice.
- Projects that display originality of sound, music, and artistry, shaping the future of music creation and sound.
- Projects that impact or contribute to the community in some way.
What the program supports
- Applicants will be able to seek support for a variety of activities which may form part of their collaboration. Applications must be led by music creators and can involve creative collaborators from any discipline.
- They are open to hearing from you about the support you need to initiate or sustain collaboration with other artists and to help you keep creating in these uncertain times. They will prioritize proposals with the most potential to have a significant impact on the creative practice and potential. They are most interested in hearing how this project will help provide a breakthrough or help you advance in your career, the impact it will have, and why funding for the project is needed at this particular time, the urgency for support.
They envision that costs incurred through your collaborative work may include:
- Support for the time you need to create new material and initiate new collaborations with your proposed artist(s)
- Creation fees for a work in progress that does not have additional support
- Performer or other collaborator fees
- Project specific equipment
- Recording costs
- PR/marketing
- Technical assistance/skills building
- Support for digital presentation
- Workshopping
- Joint R&D (research and development) into new project ideas
- Other costs you consider to be essential e.g. childcare for yourself or a collaborating artist
Funding Information
They plan to make 50 to 60 awards of up to $5,000 each (with the average grant being $3,000) with funding from New Music USA’s endowment and annual funders.
Eligibility Criteria
- The lead applicant must be a US-based music creator
- This is for individuals only; organizations cannot apply
- Each lead applicant may only submit one request
- If the lead applicant appears on another application as a collaborator, only one project containing the applicant will be selected for an award
- If a collaborator appears on more than one application, only one project containing the collaborator will be selected for an award
- Lead applicants may not have been funded in the previous round of the New Music Creator Fund (December 2021 deadline, announced in April).
- The applicant must be pursuing music on a professional level
- Activities/use of the funds should be in process and/or planned as of April 2023.
For more information, visit New Music USA.
