The Chatham Arts Council, in partnership with the Durham Arts Council, is proud to offer the Emerging Artist Grant to support individual artists in Chatham County and nearby partner counties
Donor Name: Chatham Arts Council
State: North Carolina
County: Chatham County (NC), Durham County (NC), Granville County (NC), Orange County (NC), Person County (NC)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/04/2026
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding opportunities for individual artists are rare—particularly in the performing arts—so this is pretty special.
Eligibility Criteria
- Emerging Artist Grants are open to artists living in Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, and Person counties. To be eligible for an Emerging Artist Grant, you must have lived in one of the five partner counties at least a year, must be 18 years of age, and cannot be a student enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in your art form.
- Criteria for making the awards include the accomplishment and commitment of the artist, the feasibility of the proposed project, and the impact the project will have on the applicant’s career.
- Artists, if you’re in one of these two places in your artistic life, check out the guidelines and application:
- You’ve mastered the basic techniques of your art form, and you’re undertaking a project that will further your professional artistic career, or
- You’ve been a working artist for a long time, and you’re undertaking a project that will move you to a new stage in your professional artistic career.
For more information, visit Chatham Arts Council.
