The Art Study Opportunity for Youth grant program provides funding for students entering grades 5-12 to study their chosen art form with a practicing professional artist or attend an arts workshop, series of classes, or special training opportunity.
Donor Name: Southwest Minnesota Arts Council
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/27/2024
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The project must address specific training as opposed to unrestricted support. Funding for standard weekly lessons (such as piano or voice lessons) is eligible for students who qualify for the federal free or reduced lunch program. Arts supplies costs are eligible for students attending a MN public arts high school.
Funding Information
Art Study Opportunity for Youth grants are available for up to $500.
Geographical Areas
The Art Study Opportunity for Youth grant program is open to permanent residents within the SW MN Arts Council service region, consisting of eighteen counties (Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rock, Swift, and Yellow Medicine counties) and two tribal nations (Pezihutazizi/Upper Sioux Community, Cansayapi/Lower Sioux Community). They acknowledge that the Southwest Minnesota region occupies the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of the Dakota people.
Ineligible Activities
The following requests and activities are NOT eligible for these grants:
- Projects that do not have an art focus.
- Participation in a school or organization band or choir trip.
- Equipment requests not specifically tied to the proposed project.
- Credits or materials necessary to fulfill degree requirements for students, including tuition, class projects, and school-related exhibits, performances, or shows.
- Activities of a for-profit project or business or projects intended for mass-market distribution.
- Requests for new building construction or purchase of real estate.
- Fundraising events. Grant funding should allow projects to break even, not make a profit.
- Activities essentially for the religious socialization of the participants or audience.
- Activities that attempt to influence any state or federal legislation or appropriation.
- Applications submitted for the purpose of regranting, lobbying, or scholarships.
- Projects in which funds are to be used to match other SMAC grant projects.
- Requests for funds to account for deficits in projects begun prior to the project earliest start date. In other words, payment of debts incurred before the grant activities begin or outside of the grant project scope of activity
For more information, visit SMAC.
