Art Projects grants help fuel the experiences that make up the cultural fabric of King County. If you are sharing your work with the public, 4Culture can help you bring your ideas to life.
Donor Name: 4Culture
State: Washington
County: King
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/23/2023
Details:
Artists and arts groups all over King County use Projects grants to create and share their work.
Criteria
The fund these grants through a competitive process. For this grant, the panel will carefully evaluate your application using the following:
Core Criteria
- Project impact and public benefit: Art is the primary component of your project. You have described one or more compelling, feasible public events in King county.
- Quality and qualifications: Relevant work samples or other documentation that supports your application has been provided. If applying as a group, applicants must demonstrate that they have or will hire artists and/or arts professionals with relevant experience to achieve the project.
- Feasibility: The budget for your project is feasible and you’ve requested an appropriate amount of funding.
- Advancing equity: If your project and/or public event is intended to support people or communities historically marginalized in King County or that have been disproportionately impacted by structural racism, you have outlined why and how this will take place. This is not a requirement for funding.
Art Projects also gives you the opportunity to let the panel know how you’d like to have your project evaluated. You must select one of the following three Choice Criteria for the panel to use when they review your application:
Choice Criteria
- Sustained value: your project shows a dedication to artistic discipline and form over an extended period of time, has consistent value, or preserves a creative and/or cultural tradition.
- Community engagement: your project provides an interactive and educational art experience beyond a public presentation, for the general public or a specific community—geographic, ethnic, youth, senior, etc—which is integral to your project.
- Artistic development: your project deeply explores or expands your discipline, medium, or concepts in new directions, and/or is a departure from your past or current work.
You and Your Project Eligible?
You
You can apply for Art Projects as an individual or a group. Please note that you cannot apply in both categories—you must select one.
- Apply as an individual if you are the sole creator of a project, acting as a curator, or are leading other artists in the creation of your project. In this category, the panel will assess your contribution to the project and your work samples. If selected for an award, you must provide us with your Social Security Number—no fiscal sponsors may be used—to receive payment.
- Apply as a group if you represent a cooperative, non-profit organization, municipality, or business that creates art projects, or if you are a group of artists who have a history of working together, organized under a group name. In this category, the panel will assess your group’s contribution to your project and project-relevant work samples. You do not need to be a nonprofit, but you must provide an EIN (LLC, S-Corp, General Partnership, Nonprofit, etc.) when you apply—a Social Security Number will not be accepted. If you are awarded a grant, you may then request to reassign your contract to a fiscal sponsor (for example: Allied Arts Foundation, Shunpike, or Fractured Atlas). The King County mailing address of the EIN must match the mailing address used on the W9 Form you submit for payment.
You must meet these requirements in order to be considered for Art Projects grant funding:
- Individuals must be at least 18 years old and a resident of King County when you apply through completion of your project.
- Groups must be a King County organization with a core mission dedicated to the arts. If your group is not an arts organization, you must have a written agreement with an artist or arts group with whom you will collaborate.
- You may submit only one (1) individual OR one (1) group application per year.
In order to be eligible for Art Projects funding you must not:
- Represent or apply on behalf of a current recipient of 4Culture’s Arts Sustained Support program.
- Be an individual or group who received a grant through 4Culture’s Art Projects in 2022. These recipients may apply again in 2024.
- Be a member of an applicant group and also apply as an individual for a group-related project.
- Have an incomplete project with an open Projects grant contract awarded in or prior to 2020.
- Have a current, open contract for 4Culture’s Sustained Support, Community 4Culture, or Creative Consultancy programs.
- Be a school, school district, or religious institution.
- Serve as a current staff, board, or Arts Advisory Committee member of 4Culture.
- Be a 2023 Art Projects selection panelist.
Your Project
4Culture values the right to express and experience culture individually and as a community. These grants offer financial support for the creation of art projects that offer some community access to art or the artmaking process. Access can be formal or informal and can include events such as readings, screenings, exhibitions, performances, workshops, discussions, festivals, activities, and more.
You may apply to fund the portions of a project that begin after July 1, 2023. The public benefit/project impact portion of your project must be completed by July 1, 2025.
- Your project may include: the development of new work, the interpretation of existing work, the presentation of new work or a collection of works, support for professional development such as workshops, conferences, and residencies, support for renting or purchasing consumable materials that further your project.
- Your project may not: be fully produced or funded by a 4Culture Sustained Support organization, with a current, open contract—please contact us if you plan to develop or present your proposed project in partnership with a Sustained Support organization. They do not fund tuition and cost-of-living expenses for matriculated students in any degree program, food, beverages or fundraising expenses, permanent public art projects, including murals, general operating support, or capital construction projects.
For more information, visit Arts Projects Grant.
