The Roberts Foundation is accepting applications for both visual and performing arts projects for its Creation of New Work Grant.
Donor Name: Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation
State: Connecticut
City: Selected Cities
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/01/2026
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Roberts Foundation is considering applications for the Creation of New Work grant program throughout the year alongside the Excellence in the Arts grant applications. Multiple Creation of New Work grants may be awarded in a year. Based on the availability of funding, organizations will most likely be restricted to either an Excellence in the Arts grant or a Creation of New Work grant per year.
Foundation Funds
The foundation focuses its support on the creation, presentation and performance of works of art through three grant programs:
- Excellence in the Arts Grants: The quarterly grant program
- Creation of New Work Grants: Now a quarterly grant program as well
- Joyce C. Willis Grant: A new competitive award, similar to the Creation of New Work Grant, that supports a partnership between a grantee arts organization and an artist of color.
Funding Information
The artist(s) must complete their project within 24 months of the grant award.
Geographical Areas
- CNW is designed to support local artists. To be eligible, all artists affiliated with the project must primarily live or work on their art in:
- Hartford, Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Farmington, Glastonbury, Manchester, New Britain, Newington, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, South Windsor, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, and Windsor Locks.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations may apply for visual or performing arts programs. Sponsoring organizations are not restricted by their primary genre. For example, a theater may apply for a CNW grant if the resulting work is a visual arts or film piece.
- Projects in which the organization’s own artistic director or staff creates the new work are not eligible under the Creation of New Work Initiative but are eligible under the Foundation’s regular grant making program.
- The organization will be required to submit brief status reports every three months until the project is completed.
- The result of the collaboration must be new work that is exhibited for the benefit of the community. Preference will be given to pieces that are permanently installed and/or available free of charge.
- Should additional funds be necessary for the presentation of the resulting work, please contact the executive director to discuss options before submitting your application.
- Sponsoring organizations may apply for a CNW grant in consecutive years. However, if the organization received a CNW award previously, the project funded by that award must be completed prior to a new grant submission. Artists may not apply for a CNW grant in consecutive years.
- 501(c)(3) arts organizations in the foundation’s geographic giving area. The foundation gives priority to requests from organizations in the following cities and towns in Connecticut: Hartford, Bloomfield, East Hartford, Newington, West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor.
- Artists may not apply directly to the foundation but must seek out a partnering organization in the foundation’s geographic giving area.
- Organizations may apply for either the Creation of New Work grant or an Excellence in the Arts grant within a calendar year. Should an organization’s Creation of New Work application be declined, it may apply for an Excellence in Arts grant in a subsequent cycle.
For more information, visit Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation.
