The Danish Arts Foundation is offering grants to promote artistic quality within contemporary Danish craft and design projects.
Donor Name: Danish Arts Foundation
Country: Global
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/21/2023
Size of the Grant: DKK 100,000
Details:
Funding Information
- If you receive a grant of:
- DKK 100,000 or less, they pay the grant as closely as possible to the start date you have stated in your application. You should therefore make sure that the start date you enter matches the date of the first expenses for your project.
- More than DKK 100,000 with a project period longer than six months, they pay the grant in installments.
Eligible Projects
- Examples of projects:
- Exhibitions in Denmark and abroad as well as trade fair participation;
- Residencies;
- Production of new works;
- Presentation and all forms of communication (oral, written, visual, digital, and print) of the work of Danish craftspeople and designers to appropriate audiences, including travel and accommodation costs for specific exhibitions and projects.
- Setting up business and international collaboration on the production of new types of Danish products which help establish the specific identity and profile of craft and design.
- Production of content for different media: reviews, articles, communication of academic research projects and more.
Eligibility Criteria
- Professionals with close ties to Danish craft and design: craftspeople, designers, curators, writers, communication experts, museums, galleries and others with an interest in developing and promoting Danish craft and design.
- International exhibition venues and professionals developing and promoting Danish craft and design abroad.
- The Committee for Craft and Design Project Funding funds currently active craftspeople and designers. Exhibitions must present contemporary craftspeople and designers, but group exhibitions are not restricted to artists who are still currently active in their field. Communication projects – books, conveying research results, etc. – are not required to be about contemporary arts and crafts.
Ineligible
- The Danish Arts Foundation has elected to limit the group of potential applicants due to the fact that the Danish Arts Foundation has limited resources and wishes to prioritize supporting professional artists who are not currently part of any student programme.
- You cannot receive funding for:
- Activities completed before the application deadline;
- Travel and accommodation for assistants;
- Courses of study/training courses;
- Educational institutions and student projects;
- Capital investments, e.g. new machines for production.
- Upkeep, including rent, utilities, water, heat, etc.
- Projects that the committee previously has supported.
Assessment Criteria
- The overall criteria of assessment, when the Danish Arts Foundation reviews applications are artistic quality. The Committee evaluates artistic quality in craft and design in terms of whether the proposed project demonstrates:
- Professionalism: The project develops and challenges practices, ideas, traditions and materials.
- Coherence: The project is well thought through from idea to method and means.
- Significance: The project demonstrates a high level of reflection in terms of how it aims to create significance in relevant contexts.
- The Committee is aware that craft and design is a broad area and it funds projects of high artistic quality throughout the whole field. This means projects that demonstrate aesthetic potential and a keen understanding of the craft, its materials and sensuousness, as well as projects centered on specific design solutions to specific problems or projects of a more intangible nature.
For more information, visit Danish Arts Foundation.
