Opportunities for Artists and Organizations
Shana griffin
Good morning.
I hope you are well. Below is a list of upcoming grant and residency opportunities for artists and organizations I just assembled. More for artists than organizations! Many deadlines are within the next week or so. Please review, share, and apply!
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ARTISTS OPPORTUNITIES
Platforms Fund
The Platforms Fund is a collaborative effort of Antenna, Ashé Cultural Art Center, and Junebug Productions to provide support for the development and presentation of self-organized artistic projects in and around New Orleans. The Platforms Fund seeks to emphasize New Orleans’ historical characteristics of creativity, collaboration, and resiliency while pushing the boundaries of where community engagement and the dissemination of creative ideas can intersect. The Platforms Fund will provide grants of up to $10,000 to a diverse array of artist-driven projects that are ambitious, accessible, and experimental in nature. It is our hope that projects that receive support expand the arts ecosystem of the New Orleans region by charting unmapped territory in the structures and production of artistic projects.
For more information, visit: https://platformsfund.org/application/
Deadline: Friday, July 30, 2021, by 11:59 (CST)
Apply here: https://antenna.submittable.com/submit/194961/platforms-fund-artists-grants-2021-22
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Southern Artists for Social Change
The National Performance Network’s Southern Artists for Social Change program will provide $25,000 project grants to artists and culture bearers of color living, working, and engaging in social change in urban, rural, and tribal communities of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. NPN’s Southern Artists for Social Change envisions a world in which people of color living, working, and organizing for community change in the South have the power, resources, and opportunities to thrive. NPN’s mission is to contribute to a more just and equitable world by building artists’ power; advancing racial and cultural justice in the arts; fostering relationships between individuals, institutions, and communities; and working toward systems change in arts and philanthropy.
For more information, visit: https://npnweb.org/programs/southern-artists-for-social-change/
Deadline: Friday, July 30, 2021, by 11:59 pm (CST).
Apply here: https://npnetwork.smartsimple.com/s_Login.jsp
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Re:Generation
Monument Lab is excited to announce Re:Generation – an open call for locally-grounded, grassroots art and justice projects in 2022. We invite applications from collaborative teams rooted within a neighborhood, city, or region in the United States inclusive of Indigenous nations and communities, U.S. territories, and cross-border collectives.
Each Re:Generation team will receive a total of $100,000 toward their local commemorative campaign or project. The Re:Generation open call seeks applications from teams of two or more individuals working together. Each individual team may propose a new or expand upon an existing public-facing art, research, commemoration, and social justice project. We especially encourage applications for projects that have the potential to shift local and regional narratives, particularly in contexts where interventions into the commemorative landscape could foster wider transformations. Proposed projects might include: reimagining a city’s arts commission; developing a reparations-driven policy for public parks and places; redesigning public spaces with new proposed monuments through the lenses of racial and gender justice; visualizing narratives and networks of diaspora and migration; developing a public curriculum that tells a region’s story of urban renewal, land dispossession, or rural exploitation; creating a digital resource and archive that incorporates oral histories and a virtual interface or public exhibition; devising new art and history installations at sites of legacy monuments; or pursuing a variety of other approaches to creative campaigns.
For more full details visit Re:Generation.
Deadline: Saturday, July 31, 2021, by 11:59 pm EST.
Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLhiEmC6_d6NO5r52gAylLAXbZHdNHwxMHFXqpL-iHai4GPQ/viewform
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South Shorts.
With IF/Then Shorts, now in its fifth year of partnership with New Orleans Film Society invites diverse stories and storytellers from the American South to apply for a virtual residency to take community-conscious and cinematic short documentary films from the edit to reaching audiences.
Four selected film teams will receive a $5,000 post-production grant and participate in a five-week collaborative online editing residency: working with industry professionals, editing mentors, and their fellow filmmakers to fine-tune their rough cut. Filmmakers will benefit from not only the resources of their esteemed mentors but also work to build strong creative relationships while providing feedback and support to their fellow Southern filmmakers.
For more information: https://neworleansfilmsociety.org/south-shorts/
Deadline: August 4, 2021 (11:59 PM ET.)
Apply here: https://neworleansfilmsociety.org/south-shorts/
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Community Partnership Grants
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation - the nonprofit that owns Jazz Fest - is now accepting applications in five categories of the Community Partnership Grants program for the 2021-2022 grant cycle. Since 1979, the Jazz & Heritage Foundation has invested proceeds from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell directly into the community with grants to fund projects that support the foundation's mission. Over the last ten years, $10 million has been awarded in Community Partnership Grants. To read about the 2020-2021 grant stats and recipients, please read here.
The Community Partnership Grants program offers grant awards of up to $5,000 to support music and art education programs, cultural events put on by Louisiana arts-based nonprofits, new artistic works that interpret Louisiana culture and other projects that support the Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s mission. Activities funded by these grants must occur between Sept. 1, 2021 and Aug. 31, 2022 and must take place in Louisiana. This grant allows for one application per category per organization or person.
For more information:
https://www.jazzandheritage.org/what-we-do/community-partnership-grants
Deadline: Friday, August 6, 2021
For individuals, apply here:
https://webportalapp.com/sp/login/21_new_orleans_jazz_and_heritage_foundation_individuals
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Residencies at the Joan Mitchel Center
Residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center are open to artists based in New Orleans and past Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipients.
New Orleans-based artists are invited to apply for five-month residencies in 2022 by submitting an online application between June 21 and August 16, 2021. Former Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipients who were selected for 2020 residencies (deferred due to COVID) will also be scheduled for one- to three-month residencies in 2022. New Orleans artists must meet the following eligibility requirements:
· You must identify as a visual artist and showcase a portfolio of work with a serious commitment to an artistic practice.
· You must have lived in New Orleans as your primary residence for at least 5 years or be a New Orleans native.
· Residents from both Orleans Parish and Jefferson Parish will be considered in this open call.
See virtual info session here: https://vimeo.com/569897677
Deadline: Monday, August 16, 2021
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Rebirth/Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Rebirth Festival Grants, a special 2021 grant program made possible by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, will support nonprofit festival organizations whose programming includes a humanities focus. These funds can be used to support humanities-based festival programming, including scholar stipends and travel, event promotion, facility rental fees, and more.
For more information: https://www.leh.org/grants/apply-now/rebirth-grants/
Deadline: Tuesday, August 31, 2021, by 11:59 (CST)
Apply here: https://www.grantinterface.com/Home/Logon?urlkey=leh
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2022 Louisiana Project Grants
2022 Louisiana Project Grants (formerly known as the Decentralized Arts Funding program). This program provides a system for funding arts projects in all regions of the state by giving artists, nonprofit arts organizations, nonprofit organizations, public and private schools, and local government agencies in each region the opportunity to develop art projects that meet their local needs. The purpose of the program is to cultivate innovative arts projects that have a lasting impact within each region of our state. Recognized artistic disciplines include dance, design, folklife, literature, media, music, theatre, and visual arts and crafts. The grant activity must take place between October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022. Grant amounts range from $2,500 to $7,500. The Arts Council New Orleans administers these grants for Region 1, which includes Orleans, Jefferson, and Plaquemines Parishes. The LDOA has updated program goals, priorities, and evaluation criteria to reflect renewed focus and intent.
The Arts Council New Orleans will be hosting an online workshop on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, from 2 - 3 pm. Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link the day before the meeting. To apply, you must create an account and fill out the application in the online grant platform, Submittable. Some nonprofit organizations and artists may already have a Submittable account and will only have to log in.
For more information:
Deadline: Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Apply here:
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New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund
The mission of the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund is to support cultural industries and culture bearers of the City of New Orleans through partnerships, grants, and programs to advance sustainable tourism. Our non-profit economic development corporation is dedicated to strengthening New Orleans culture-bearers with resources that uplift the city’s traditions and aid the evolution of skills, knowledge, and ideas into goods, services, and places that support our local cultural economy and tourism offerings.
Individuals and organizations who align with this mission may be eligible for funding. NOTCF will accept applications throughout 2021.
For more information: https://notcf.com/
and https://notcf.com/wp-content/uploads/NOTCF-Grant-Program-Description-2021.pdf
Deadline: NOTCF will fund applications throughout 2021
Apply here: https://notcf.com/funding-application/
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ORGANIZATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan
The National Endowment for the Arts Opens Applications for American Rescue Plan Funding
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced guidelines for American Rescue Plan grants. This new funding program comes out of a $135 million pool created through the American Rescue Plan Act earlier this year. Nonprofit arts and culture organizations and local arts agencies can now apply for grants of $50,000, $100,000 or $150,000 to cover general operating expenses. Applicants can apply regardless of whether they have received NEA funding in the past.
Grants can be used to fund staff salaries, fees/stipends for artists and contractual personnel to support organizational operations, facilities costs, costs associated with health and safety supplies for staff and/or visitors/audiences, and marketing and promotion costs. Organizations who have received a CARES Act grant, funding from other NEA programs and/or from other federal agencies may apply as long as there are no overlapping budget cost items. There are no matching fund obligations.
The application deadlines:
Part 1 is August 12.
Part 2 is due August 19-25 for organizations that fall under A-L in the alphabet, and August 27-September 2 for M-Z.
Attend an upcoming webinar!
Alliance for Artists Communities is partnering with the NEA to host a webinar specifically for the residency field on Thursday, July 29th at 12pm ET. Brandon Gryde, Director of Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works and Artist Communities at the NEA will share insights and facilitate a Q + A. All staff, leadership and boards of artist residencies are encouraged to attend! Register here.
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Emerging Program Institute
Are you involved in launching or running a new artist residency program? The 2021 Emerging Program Institute (EPI) is designed to help you create and sustain inclusive, just, joyful, and accessible artist residencies.
Whether you have just started planning, or you want to assess how your new residency program is doing, this three-day online training will provide you with strategies, tools, and networks to set you up for success. This year's training runs from October 20-22, 2021 from 12pm-4pm ET each day. Grounded in the Alliance of Artist Communities’ field-tested Five Pillars of a Healthy Residency Framework, the EPI will help you explore key elements of your program’s Identity, Design, Operations, Resources, and Stewardship.
APPLICATION NOW OPEN: Due to overwhelming interest in AAC’s Emerging Program Institute, we have moved to an application process so that we can offer this training to a diverse cohort of 60 people, encouraging meaningful networking and exchange among participants. Non-members and AAC members are encouraged to apply. Applications are committee reviewed by staff. There is no cost to complete an application. If accepted, we will invite you to confirm your spot by completing the registration and payment process.
Deadline: Sunday, August 1, 2021
For more information and to apply: https://artistcommunities.org/events/2021-emerging-program-institute-virtual/apply-register
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Selley Foundation
The Selley Foundation (Selley) is a donor-advised fund of the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Selley Trustees review grant requests in the areas of education, arts, and in certain cases the environment. Selley supports nonprofits serving the greater New Orleans area with an emphasis on capital needs but occasionally will consider programmatic requests. In the area of education, the Fund will support capital items and special programs for higher learning institutions and high schools with a record of excellence. In the arts & culture, the Fund will support organizations that strive for excellence.
For more information: https://www.gnof.org/program/the-selley-foundation/
Deadline: Monday, August 2, 2021
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Community Partnership Grants
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation - the nonprofit that owns Jazz Fest - is now accepting applications in five categories of the Community Partnership Grants program for the 2021-2022 grant cycle. Since 1979, the Jazz & Heritage Foundation has invested proceeds from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell directly into the community with grants to fund projects that support the foundation's mission. Over the last ten years, $10 million has been awarded in Community Partnership Grants. To read about the 2020-2021 grant stats and recipients, please read here.
The Community Partnership Grants program offers grant awards of up to $5,000 to support music and art education programs, cultural events put on by Louisiana arts-based nonprofits, new artistic works that interpret Louisiana culture and other projects that support the Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s mission. Activities funded by these grants must occur between Sept. 1, 2021 and Aug. 31, 2022 and must take place in Louisiana. This grant allows for one application per category per organization or person.
For more information:
https://www.jazzandheritage.org/what-we-do/community-partnership-grants
Deadline: Friday, August 6, 2021
For organizations, apply here:
https://webportalapp.com/sp/login/21_new_orleans_jazz_and_heritage_foundation_organizations
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IMPACT
IMPACT is the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s discretionary grants program. Its goal is to promote a resilient, vibrant, and equitable region in which the special character of the Greater New Orleans region and its people is preserved, celebrated, and given the means to thrive. Funding for IMPACT comes from a portion of our assets, field of interest funds, and unrestricted funds. We are committed to increasing the dollars we have available for IMPACT through our fundraising efforts; however, at this time our IMPACT funding remains limited.
Nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations that serve the Greater New Orleans region are eligible to apply for funding. Organizations that are not tax-exempt but have a fiscal agent relationship with a 501(c)(3) organization are also eligible. The average grant size is $20,000; grants may be larger or smaller.
Nonprofit organizations with a current IMPACT renewal grant are not eligible to apply.
For more information: https://www.gnof.org/program/impact/
Deadline: August 11, by 11:59 (CST)
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Shana M. griffin
Interim Executive Director, Antenna
P: 504.298.3161 (office) | 504-289-2014 (mobile)
3718 St. Claude Ave. | New Orleans, LA
70117