The Brooklyn Arts Council is accepting applications for its Charlene Victor and Ella J. Weiss Cultural Entrepreneur Fund to support professional development for the next generation of women artists and arts administrators.
Donor Name: Brooklyn Arts Council
State: New York
County: Kings County (NY)
Borough: Brooklyn
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/08/2023
Size of the Grant: $2500
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
This fund allows Brooklyn women artists and arts leaders to leverage their creative passions with the entrepreneurial skills to sustain a creative career.
Professional development can be in the form of workshops; artist residencies; boot camps; conferences, and/or fellowships that will further develop the applicant’s skills as cultural entrepreneurs and build their foundations for careers in the arts.
Funding Information
- Grant Amount: $2,500.
- All funded professional development activities must take place between January 1 and December 31, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- Residents of Brooklyn (Kings County)
- Brooklyn-based women individual artists and arts administrators
- Current grantees that have not submitted a Final Report because their 2023 BAC project(s) are in progress.
- Women with disabilities and/or veterans
Review Criteria
Priority will be given to women individual artists and arts administrators whose primary mission is to provide arts and cultural programs at the community level, that are responsive to their constituency, with a history of service to Brooklyn.
The review panel will designate awards according to the following equally important criteria:
- Clarity of the professional development activities and budget.
- Demonstrated community interest and passionate advocacy for the cultural life of the borough; proven track record in their community.
- Realistic planning; clearly defined ability to execute the professional development activities; ability to set and accomplish specific, attainable goals and to define success for the proposed activities.
For more information, visit Brooklyn Arts Council.
