The Professional Development & Artistic Planning grants offer up to $1,000 to support artistic planning and the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators.
Donor Name: South Arts
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: All Time
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
Professional Development and Artistic Planning Grants are available to support the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators, for strengthening program design or increasing organizational capacity. South Arts strongly believes professional development for presenters/programmers/curators is integral to success, including traveling to see new works and attending convenings. This grant program is open to film, visual arts, performing arts, traditional arts, literary arts, and multidisciplinary organizations.
This funding can support staff’s travel expenses to conferences, festivals, exhibitions, workshops, and other professional development opportunities. Funding also supports guest artists’ or guest curators’ travel expenses for onsite planning meetings with presenting organizations. These grants support travel expenses (for example, lodging and air/ground transportation), admission/registration fees, and other related expenses. In addition, these grants support expenses for virtual professional development opportunities and staff training (for example, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility training or technology training for virtual engagements).
South Arts is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. They have prioritized this commitment to ensure that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) led organizations, LGBTQIA+ led organizations, and organizations led by people with disabilities are represented as both applicants and grantees. In addition, they encourage applications for projects that engage BIPOC artists, LGBTQIA+ artists, and artists with disabilities.
Project Period
Eligible projects must occur between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Professional Development and Artistic Planning Grants support the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators, for strengthening program design or increasing organizational capacity. Presenters/presenting organizations are defined as organizations that present or host artists for engagements in their communities. Presenters can include but are not limited to community cultural organizations, community centers, churches, schools/colleges/universities, libraries, museums, film festivals/series, and performing arts centers. Programmers and curators include staff who program or curate in film, visual arts, performing arts, traditional arts, literary arts, and multidisciplinary arts. Typically, producing organizations or performing arts groups are not considered presenters, and are strongly encouraged to contact South Arts to discuss eligibility.
- Only nonprofit and governmental presenters/presenting organizations in South Arts’ nine-state region are eligible to apply. South Arts’ nine-state region includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
- Applicants must have not-for-profit, tax-exempt status; be an official unit of local, county, or state government; or be a federally recognized tribal community. Applications are accepted from any tribal community with not-for-profit, tax-exempt status. For nonprofit applicants, tax-exempt status will be verified by a third-party entity. Governmental applicants must provide proof of government status. South Arts does not accept applications from fiscal agents for this grant program.
- Applications will not be accepted from organizations that do not have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI).
- Applications are only accepted for new opportunities that organizations, under normal circumstances, are unable to attend. For the purposes of these guidelines, new opportunities are defined as events/activities that your organization has not participated in previously. Proposed projects must support or relate to the applicant’s work as a presenting organization.
- Applicants are limited to one Professional Development and Artistic Planning application per South Arts fiscal year.
- Applicants who have failed to submit final reports for any previous South Arts grant by the application deadline for this program will not be considered for funding from this grant program until they have completed a conversation with program director Nikki Estes.
- Applicants who did not properly acknowledge South Arts’ AND the National Endowment for the Arts’ support in programs and press materials for any previous South Arts grant may not be considered for funding from this grant program.
For more information, visit South Arts.
