Applicants are invited to apply for the 2024-26 Rural Regenerator Fellowship.
Donor Name: Springboard for the Arts
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 06/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Rural Regenerator Fellowship brings together individual artists, makers, and culture bearers, grassroots organizers, community development workers, public sector workers and other rural change-makers who are committed to advancing the role of art, culture and creativity in rural development and community building.
The 2024-26 Fellowship will focus on supporting artists whose work is connected to land, environment, and/or food systems. Rural artists who are using their creative practice to explore environmental justice, land and food sovereignty, agriculture, foodways, climate solutions, and/or sustainability are welcome to apply.
Fellowship offers
- Unrestricted $10,000 stipend to continue or expand rural artists’ existing work.
- Opportunities for exchange and learning with other Rural Regenerator Fellows across the Upper Midwest.
- A platform to build solidarity across rural geographies.
Project Period
The Fellowship is a two-year commitment.
Eligibility Criteria
Only individuals may apply. Organizations, collectives or other entities are not eligible.
- Applicants must be at least 21 years of age.
- Applicants must live in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, or Nebraska and/or the Native Nations that share those geographies.
- Applicants must live, work or have a strong connection to a rural community (50,000 people or fewer AND more than 40 miles from a metropolitan area).
- While they know that “rural” has a broad definition and that people have multi-centered relationships with place, we will only consider applicants that currently live or work or demonstrate a strong connection to communities of 50,000 people or fewer, and we prioritize people in places with 20,000 people or fewer..
- Not be a current or past Rural Regenerator Fellow (Participation in other Springboard programs, including CCLI, is ok).
- Not be an employee or board member of Springboard for the Arts (independent contractors, including current Artist Career Consultants, are eligible to apply).
- Not be an immediate family member of Springboard staff or board members.
For more information, visit Springboard for the Arts.
