The ARPA Artists Grant supports Artists and Culture Bearers residing and working in Southern Arizona.
Donor Name: Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
State: Arizona
County: Cochise County (AZ), Graham County (AZ), Greenlee County (AZ), Maricopa County (AZ), Pima County (AZ), Pinal County (AZ), Santa Cruz County (AZ), Yuma County (AZ)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/29/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The 2025 ARPA Artists Grant is a pilot program of the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona that was developed in response to articulated community needs with the working Artist in mind. The program is open to individual Artists and Culture Bearers who have identified a Client they want to work with or to whom unpaid artistic services were provided during the published funding period.
Grant funds are intended to help support Artists and Culture Bearers to provide arts services to Clients like: arts programming, workshops, facilitation, mentorship, provide artistic services, artwork or consultations.
Funding Information
$2,500 | $5,000 | $10,000 to provide direct artistic services to community or civic clients.
Grant Period
May 1, 2024 – February 28, 2025.
Eligible Services
Funding awarded to individuals must have supported specific activities or work such as presentations, training, research, and/or creation of an artwork, with tangible outcomes. This is considered a fee to the Artists for services rendered within eligible timeline, that have not yet been paid in full.
Examples of services that may be provided by the Artist may include, but are not limited to:
- Presentation (Delivery of arts programming, performance, etc.)
- Training (workshop, instruction of other kinds)
- Design of Artwork in any medium (installation, animation, social media design, etc.)
- Creation of Artwork in any medium (visual, literary, performance, etc.)
- Consultation (advising and strategy)
- Mentorship (peer to peer mentorship, career development, artistic technique development, portfolio consultations, etc.)
- Facilitation
Additional examples of services that applicants might have provided to clients:
- Provide graphic facilitation for a team gathering or other entity
- Visual notetaking services
- Perform at a free public event
- Provide creative thinking for strategy and design sessions
- Design curriculum, workbooks or other collateral
- Provide voiceovers/ voice recording for materials to make more accessible
- Animated videos that bring to life the client’s mission
- Photograph headshots for staff
- Direct, perform and shoot commercials for a client
- Serve on a design team for productions.
Eligibility Criteria
Open to individual Artists and Culture Bearers (Artist) that meet all the following eligibility criteria at the time of application:
- An individual artist providing services to an eligible client.
- Reside and provide services in counties and regions south of the Gila River. This includes Pima, Santa Cruz and Cochise counties and southern portions of Pinal, Yuma, Greenlee, Graham, Maricopa County and/or Native Sovereign Nations of Ak-Chin Indian Community, Sovereign Nation of the Cocopah, Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, Gila River Indian Community, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Tohono O’odham Nation, San Carlos Apache Nation.
- Must have had been practicing as an artist since 2019.
- Previous Grantees must be current in all reporting to Arts Foundation.
- Funding recipients will be required to submit a W9 IRS form.
- Funding recipients will be required to submit a co-signed scope of work agreement between artist and client.
- Funding recipients will be required to provide an invoice for services rendered.
- Funding recipients will be required to provide confirmation signed by client that services were completed.
- Funding recipients will be asked to create a Bill.com account in order to remit payment.
- Funding recipients will be required to complete a Risk Assessment by submitting a Self-certification to ensure the grantee is not disbarred, suspended, nor have any other exclusions or disqualifications.
- Funding recipients will be required to provide documentation of good standing.
- Funding recipients will be required to disclose in writing any potential conflicts of interest that may be present when conducting funded activities.
- Funding recipients will be required to submit a final report to the Arts Foundation 30 days (about 4 and a half weeks) after the end of the funding period to document expenses and provide a brief description of services rendered.
- Funding recipients will be required to comply with all National Policies, including the completion of Section 504 Self-Assessment and appointing a Section 504 staff coordinator.
Ineligibility
The following entities are not eligible to apply for this program.
- 501(c)3 Non-profit organizations.
- For-profit entities.
- Fiscally sponsored organizations.
- Religious institutions or religious group-sponsored organizations whose primary purpose is the religious socialization of individuals or whose arts programming exists as parts of religious sermons or services.
- Political organizations.
- Private, public and non-profit schools.
For more information, visit AFTS.
