Creative Heights provides opportunities for artists and culture bearers to stretch their creative capacity, share new works and test new ideas.
Donor Name: Oregon Community Foundation
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/16/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Creative Heights initiative aims to increase Oregon’s cultural visibility and vitality while supporting unique opportunities for Oregonians to experience innovative arts and culture.
Scope of Proposals Sought
Creative Heights grants are for the creation and/or presentation of new and innovative performances, exhibitions, programs, and other works of art and culture. OCF is interested in reviewing proposals for a range of funding levels and timelines to best serve the specific needs of proposed projects. Project funding may be spent over a period of two years and can support any artistic or cultural expression, including visual, dance, folk & traditional arts, film/video/media, literary arts, museum exhibitions, music, theatre & performance arts, history & heritage, and multidisciplinary or emerging fields.
Funding Information
Up to $1 million in projects will be funded annually with grants from $10,000 to $100,000 per project.
Grant Period
Awarded funds can be used for up to two years from the distribution date.
Uses of Funds
Grant funding may be used for commissioning fees; pay for artists, curators, and scholars; costs associated with research, rehearsals, workshops; promotion; design and production; dissemination and documentation; and other direct costs related to creation, presentation, or exhibition.
Eligibility Criteria
Individuals, collectives or organizations may submit a Letter of Inquiry for Creative Heights funding. If selected to submit a full application, applicants must identify a potential Oregon-based 501(c)3 nonprofit partner to receive funds.
Creative Heights proposals must:
- Engage Oregon artists or culture bearers as lead collaborators
- Engage Oregonians as audiences, viewers or participants
- Compensate artists appropriately as professionals
Ineligible projects include those that primarily:
- Are educational in nature or whose outcomes are related to the acquisition of experience or skills vs. creating professional artistic or cultural work
- Include work not available to the public (for example, art for a private collection/nonpublic space)
- Are intended to advance capital investments or the administrative capacity of an organization (for example, building/renovating/purchasing structures or spaces; purchase of major equipment; projects to build systems, infrastructure, and skills above creative outcomes)
- Do not originate from an artistic/cultural creative impulse (for example, organizing or presenting existing artistic or cultural work without a clear curatorial vision; creating a festival, residency or other program without major investments in the creation or commission of work)
- Are proposals to complete a studio work (painting/album/film/publication/sculpture/etc.) without specific and robust plans for exhibition, dissemination, community interaction, or engagement in Oregon
- Are a continuation of existing work (for example, projects largely focused on touring/exhibiting/presenting previous work) without clear creative impulses to adapt, build or revisit the work in a meaningful way
- Will be completed within three months of receiving the award in August of 2024.
For more information, visit OCF.