The Project Award is designed to provide artists living and working in Alaska the resources to concentrate and reflect on their work, to immerse themselves in a creative endeavor, and to experiment, explore, and develop their artistry more fully.
Donor Name: Rasmuson Foundation
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 06/09/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The program provides one-year grants to Alaska artists that support the time, reflection, immersion, or experimentation beneficial to the development of their artistry.
A practicing artist is actively and currently working on their craft. This can be demonstrated through an active and consistent studio practice, exhibition, performance, publication, mentorship, project development or more. Culture bearers, literary writers, filmmakers, dancers, musical performers, composers, choreographers, folk and traditional artists and visual creatives such as painters, photographers, and sculptors are all artists.
Artistic Disciplines
Artists, makers, and culture bearers can select from these categories. If it’s more than one, consider multidiscipline.
- Crafts
- Dance/Choreography
- Folk & Traditional Arts
- Literary Arts/Scriptworks
- Media Arts
- Multidiscipline
- Music/Music Composition
- Performance & Theatre
- Production Arts
- Visual Arts.
Funding Information
Project Awards are $10,000 grants for early- to mid-career artists.
Grant Period
Short-term projects that have a clear benefit to the artist and their development and can be accomplished within one year.
Who may apply?
Artists and groups may apply if they meet the following grant requirements:
- The applicant (including any group members) must be an Alaska resident living full-time in the state for the previous two years and be in the state at the time of application.
- Must be at least 18 years of age or older at the time of application.
- Must currently be producing artist-driven work.
- Must identify a career stage and meet the specified criteria.
- Awardees are responsible for uploading an IRS W9 form and submitting an IRS Form 990 for year-end tax purposes.
For more information, visit Rasmuson Foundation.
