The North Carolina Arts Council is accepting applications for its Artist Support Grant to provide direct support to individual artists, funding professional and artistic development for emerging and established artists to enhance their skills and abilities to create work or to improve their business operations and capacity to bring their work to new audiences.
Donor Name: North Carolina Arts Council (NCAC)
State: North Carolina
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $500 – $1,500
Details:
NC Arts Council Artist Support Grant / Region 10: Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin Counties.
Funding Information
Grant Award Range $500 – $1,500.
Eligibility Criteria
- Disciplines
- The Artist Support Grant is intended to support a broad range of talented visual, performing, literary, and interdisciplinary artists.
- Emerging and established artists
- Eligible candidates may be either emerging or established artists. Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to spending a significant portion of their time on their work as artists.
- Individuals and groups
- Individuals and Artist Collectives
- Both individual artists and small, unincorporated groups of collaborating artists are eligible to apply. All members of a collaborating team must be North Carolina residents, live in the region where they are applying, and meet the other eligibility requirements. Résumés documenting residence from all team m members should be included with the application.
- Individuals and Artist Collectives
- Residency
- Artists should have lived in the region where they are applying continuously for at least one year prior to the consortium’s application deadline. An applicant must be at least 18 years old and either a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident. Proof of residence and status may be required by the consortium. Artists who live in more than one region should apply only where they spend the majority of the year.
Ineligibility
- Multiple awards
- Artists who are sole proprietors of organizations that have already received funding for FY23 -24 from the N.C. Arts Council are ineligible to apply.
- Conflict of interest
- Current board and staff members of the participating partner organizations and their family members are not eligible to apply for the award.
The grant will NOT fund
- Scholarships for undergraduate- or graduate – level education
- Projects that support or oppose a particular candidate for public office
- Projects that are exclusive to members of a particular religious faith group
- Non -profit initiatives
- Projects that do not have a direct effect on the applicant’s growth as an artist
- e.g., the promotion of other artists’ work
Evaluation Criteria
- North Carolina Arts Council Artistic merit
- Demonstrated talent in an art form and overall excellence of the artist’s work o Clear commitment to a career as a practicing professional artist
- North Carolina Arts Council Project Merit
- Benefit of the proposed project to the artist’s professional growth o Feasibility of the proposed project
For more information, visit NCAC.
