The Tennessee Arts Commission is seeking applications for its Rural Arts Project Support (RAPS) Grants to support arts projects and activities across all disciplines that focus on community vitality and engagement in rural counties.
Donor Name: Tennessee Arts Commission
State: Tennessee
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/16/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
Funding Information
Funds awarded to a single organization in these categories range from $1,000 to $25,000 for non-arts organizations, arts organizations, and entities of local government.
Project Period
July 1, 2024-June 15, 2025
Appropriate Activities
Proposed arts projects must involve one or more Commission recognized art forms, including: visual arts, craft, media, design, music, theater, dance, folk and ethnic, or literary arts. The following are example activities and expenditures that are consistent with the funding philosophy Rural Arts Project Support:
- Projects that involve and promote professional artists, especially Tennessee artists
- Visiting artists conducting master classes
- Specific aspects of workshops, festivals, and conferences
- Public performances, productions, and exhibitions produced by the applicant
- Exhibitions of art by professional and folk artists, especially Tennessee artists
- Projects involving and promoting folk and traditional artists
- Promotion, publicity, and newsletters
- Administrative and artistic staff support
- Research and documentation as part of an arts project or program development
- Consultancies and residencies for administrative and artistic activities
- The development of long-range planning documents
- Improved program accessibility for underserved constituencies, e.g. children, people living in rural communities or isolated settings, people with living with disabilities, people of color, and senior citizens
- Art in public places
- Extensions of literary projects, journals with continuing publication, or juried anthologies
- Apprenticeship programs
- Computer software/training
- Technical/production support
- Technical assistance projects
- Touring/presenting projects that bring professional and/or traditional folk performers to communities across the state
Eligibility Criteria
- First time applicants to this category are encouraged to contact Commission’s program staff prior to submitting an application to verify eligibility.
- Unique Entity ID (UEI): All applicants are required to have a Unique Entity ID. Information and application instructions can be found here.
- K-12 schools are not eligible under this category. Arts education-based projects, especially those primarily serving youth, must be submitted in one of the Arts Education grant categories.
- Applicant organizations must be chartered in Tennessee. National or regional 501(c)3 organizations, chartered and headquartered in Tennessee, and serving as an umbrella organization applying for funds for another group are restricted to one application only per fiscal year.
- Arts organizations that receive revenue directly from a “New Specialty Earmarked Plate” under T.C.A 55-4-301 (a)(1) are ineligible for Commission grant funding.
- Debarment and Suspension. Grantees are required to sign contracts certifying to the best of its knowledge and belief, that it, its current and future principals, its current and future subcontractors and their principals are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by any federal or state department or agency.
- Tennessee Rural Counties are: Bedford County (TN), Benton County (TN), Bledsoe County (TN), Campbell County (TN), Cannon County (TN), Carroll County (TN), Carter County (TN), Cheatham County (TN), Chester County (TN), Claiborne County (TN), Clay County (TN), Cocke County (TN), Coffee County (TN), Crockett County (TN), Cumberland County (TN), Decatur County (TN), DeKalb County (TN), Dickson County (TN), Dyer County (TN), Fayette County (TN), Fentress County (TN), Franklin County (TN), Gibson County (TN), Giles County (TN), Grainger County (TN), Greene County (TN), Grundy County (TN), Hamblen County (TN), Hancock County (TN), Hardeman County (TN), Hardin County (TN), Hawkins County (TN), Haywood County (TN), Henderson County (TN), Henry County (TN), Hickman County (TN), Houston County (TN), Humphreys County (TN), Jackson County (TN), Jefferson County (TN), Johnson County (TN), Lake County (TN), Lauderdale County (TN), Lawrence County (TN), Lewis County (TN), Lincoln County (TN), Loudon County (TN), Macon County (TN), Marion County (TN), Marshall County (TN), McMinn County (TN), McNairy County (TN), Meigs County (TN), Monroe County (TN), Moore County (TN), Morgan County (TN), Obion County (TN), Overton County (TN), Perry County (TN), Pickett County (TN), Polk County (TN), Rhea County (TN), Roane County (TN), Robertson County (TN), Scott County (TN), Sequatchie County (TN), Smith County (TN), Stewart County (TN), Tipton County (TN), Trousdale County (TN), Unicoi County (TN), Union County (TN), Van Buren County (TN), Warren County (TN), Wayne County (TN), Weakley County (TN), White County (TN).
For more information, visit Tennessee Arts Commission.
