The Artist Growth grant program provides funding to artists at any stage of their careers for activities that foster the development of their artistic skills and career, expand their audience, and increase their ability to live and work in the SW MN Region.
Donor Name: Southwest Minnesota Arts Council
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/10/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Artist Growth applicants may request funding for costs including, but not limited to:
- Purchase of supplies or equipment
- Compensated time or childcare costs while working on a specific body of work
- Research
- One-on-one study with a mentor
- Attending workshops or conferences for professional or artistic development
- Rental of facilities for presenting work or for studio space
- Website or portfolio production
- Framing
- Recording
- Editing or other costs related to publishing.
Funding Information
Artist Growth grants are available for up to $4,000.
Geographical Areas
The Artist Growth 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.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be at least 18 years old by the time of signing their grant contract.
Ineligible Activities
The following requests and activities are NOT eligible for these grants:
- Projects that do not have an art focus.
- Equipment requests not specifically tied to the proposed project.
- Activities of a for-profit project or business or projects intended for mass-market distribution.
- Credits or materials necessary to fulfill degree requirements for students, including tuition, class projects, and school-related exhibits, performances, or shows. Projects that primarily involve developing curriculum plans, teaching materials, or other related activities intended to advance your professional teaching career; or applications that are primarily educational projects within a school system.
- 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.
