The Individual Artist Fellowship grant program is designed to support outstanding and established practicing individual artists residing in North Dakota.
Donor Name: North Dakota Council on the Arts
State: North Dakota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 02/23/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Two fellowships of $5,000 are awarded annually for projects that will enhance or expand artistic skills and help general greater visibility to potential audiences.
Each proposal must include three community components (a minimum of two in person) in two or more of North Dakota’s eight regions (such as a public performance, exhibition, reading, open workshop, or demonstration). This will provide greater visibility for the artist’s work and promote meaningful engagement with audiences in North Dakota’s diverse communities.
This application includes:
- Visual Arts: Painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts, architecture, conceptual art, and textile arts. Also industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, and decorative art.
- Media Arts: Virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, internet art, video games, robotics, and 3D printing.
Funding Information
Maximum Award Request: $5,000
- No matching funds are required for this program.
- Grants to individuals are taxable income.
Project Period
July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Individual Artist Applicants Must:
- Be pursuing original artwork on an ongoing basis within an artistic discipline
- Be the originator of the work, not an interpreter of the work of others
- Be a United States citizen or have attained permanent resident status
- Be 18 years of age or older on the application’s due date
- Be a North Dakota resident as of January 1, 2024, and continue to reside in North Dakota throughout the contract period
- Not be enrolled as a student in any high school, college, or university at the time of application
- This Program Funds:
- Artists who see the arts as an ongoing vocation, rather than as a hobby, pastime, or occasional pursuit and who have already completed their training, if they pursued formal training at all.
- Artists who have a significant record of generating and publicly presenting and exhibiting or who have published work in the discipline for which support is requested.
- Artists whose primary goal is to generate new works.
- This Program Does NOT Fund:
- Collaborative groups or artworks. The applicant must be the primary creator in the project proposal.
- Fellowship Schedule and Eligible Disciplines
- This program serves six (6) disciplines that have rotating deadlines every three (3) years. It includes traditional arts that historically have developed informally or been passed on generationally and depict an ethnic or geographical art form.
Ineligible Applications and Expenses
- Projects completed in previous fiscal years
- Payment of project costs incurred before the project start date
- Fundraising events and activities
- Prizes, awards, or benefits
- Entertainment functions, including food, beverages, alcohol, and associated costs
- Sales inventory and related fees/taxes
- Projects that are part of a required course or curriculum
- Travel and projects that take place outside the geographic boundaries of North Dakota
- Projects that are not open to the general public
- Projects involving the arts as therapy unless artists are employed as art therapists
- Projects that violate any federal, state, or local laws, ordinances, or policies
- Projects that support activities that are essentially for the religious socialization of the participants or audience or discriminate against people or groups
- Projects that attempt to influence any state or federal legislation or appropriation
- Projects that are managed by another entity other than the applicant
- Application is not complete and received by 11:59 p.m. CST on the application deadline
- Applicant is a grantee of the Individual Artist Fellowship grant program in the last ten (10) years.
- Applicant is not in compliance with any active grant agreement with NDCA.
For more information, visit NDCA.
