Creative Work Fund Grants
The Creative Work Fund awards grants that range in size from $10,000 to $40,000 for projects in which artists and nonprofit organizations are working closely together to create new art works. Any kind of nonprofit organization is eligible to apply to collaborate with an artist. The Fund takes the idea of a close working relationship between the artist and the organization very seriously and specifically wants to support the creation stage for a new art work.
Each year, the Creative Work Fund invites artists in two broadly-defined artistic categories to apply. To be eligible for grants to be awarded in October 2011, the project’s lead artist must be a literary artist or a traditional artist. The Creative Work Fund defines these categories as follows:
Literary artists include those with experience writing poetry, spoken word poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. It does not include those who write criticism, journalism, or for educational purposes. (Playwrights apply with performing artists.)
Traditional artists create in art forms learned as part of the cultural life of a group of people whose members have a common ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation, or region. These expressions are deeply rooted in and reflect a community’s shared standards of beauty, values, or life experiences. Often they are learned orally or by emulation. Traditional artists may excel as individual artists, work as a group, or work collectively. They may produce works in a variety of forms—oral traditions, performances, crafts, multi-disciplinary works, and others.
A literary or traditional arts Creative Work Fund project may culminate in any form, but it must feature a lead artist with a strong track record as a literary artist or a traditional artist. (For example, a novelist might collaborate with a nonprofit film producer to create a film rather than a work for print publication.)
For details, read the "before you apply" section here.
Each year, the Creative Work Fund invites artists in two broadly-defined artistic categories to apply. To be eligible for grants to be awarded in October 2011, the project’s lead artist must be a literary artist or a traditional artist. The Creative Work Fund defines these categories as follows:
Literary artists include those with experience writing poetry, spoken word poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. It does not include those who write criticism, journalism, or for educational purposes. (Playwrights apply with performing artists.)
Traditional artists create in art forms learned as part of the cultural life of a group of people whose members have a common ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation, or region. These expressions are deeply rooted in and reflect a community’s shared standards of beauty, values, or life experiences. Often they are learned orally or by emulation. Traditional artists may excel as individual artists, work as a group, or work collectively. They may produce works in a variety of forms—oral traditions, performances, crafts, multi-disciplinary works, and others.
A literary or traditional arts Creative Work Fund project may culminate in any form, but it must feature a lead artist with a strong track record as a literary artist or a traditional artist. (For example, a novelist might collaborate with a nonprofit film producer to create a film rather than a work for print publication.)
For details, read the "before you apply" section here.
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