Artist Support Grants
Application Period is Now Closed – Check back in August 2024.
About The Grant
The Artist Support Grant is intended to support a broad range of talented artists in visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, music composition, choreography, and interdisciplinary arts. Eligible candidates may be either emerging or established artists. Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to spending a significant portion of their time on their work as artists.
Eligible Projects
- Completion/Presentation of a New Work — Cost of resources necessary to complete or present a significant new work (e.g., purchasing art supplies or equipment (digital may qualify) or space rental.
- Career Promotion — Projects aimed at advertising artists’ work and demonstrating their skill level (example, websites, portfolios, audio-visual documentation, and online presentation).
- Training— Costs to attend a class or workshop (in-person or virtual) aimed either at enhancing the artist’s skill level or professional development (example, a master class or workshop taught by acknowledged authorities in the applicant artist’s medium).
- Travel — Costs of transportation, lodging, and food for training, professional conferences, or research.
- Artist Fee — Costs of labor equals the time that one spends on a project. Fees are set aside within a project budget to compensate artists for services rendered, apart from expense allowance.
Eligibility
- Individual artists and small unincorporated groups of collaborating artists are eligible to apply.
- Artists must reside in one of the following counties Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, or Randolph.
- Artists have lived in the region where they are applying continuously for at least one year before the application deadline.
- Applicants must be at least 18 years old and either a U.S citizen or permanent resident immigrant.
- Artists who have lived in more than one region should apply only where they spend most of the year.
- If a collaborating team, all members must be North Carolina residents, live in the region where they are applying, and meet the eligibility.
You are not eligible if:
- You are an artist who is the sole proprietor of an organization that has received funding for the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 from the NC Arts Council.
- You are a current board, staff, or family member of The Arts Council of Greater Greensboro.
- You are an artist enrolled full-time in undergraduate or associate degree-granting programs.
- Artists pursuing graduate degrees in subjects other than their art form may be eligible if they meet the other eligibility criteria.
Evaluation Criteria
Artistic Merit
- Demonstrated talent in an art form and overall excellence of the artist’s work.
- Clear commitment to a career as a practicing professional artist.
Project Merit
- The benefit of the proposed project to the artist’s professional growth.
- Feasibility of the proposed project.
