Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is pleased to announce Round 11 of the Precipice Fund, awarding grants of up to $5,000 to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects. For Round 11, they will only accept proposals for projects based in and around the City of Portland.
Donor Name: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)
State: Oregon
City: Portland
Type of Grant: Grant
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Deadline: 10/07/2022
Details:
They encourage applications from first-time grant writers, artists from underrepresented communities, and projects that reflect the region’s diversity of cultures, aesthetics, and creative practices.
Funding Priorities
The Precipice Fund prioritizes projects that:
- are innovative, experimental, and ambitious, as defined and expressed by the artists/applicants
- are artist-run, artist-centric, or artist-driven
- generate opportunities and platforms for other local artists
- challenge or break from traditional or established notions, models, and forms of practice, presentation, and organization are accessible to or engage public(s) via process, presentation, production, or publication
- are presented in unconventional or nontraditional sites, spaces, and contexts
- are considering audience diversity and public access
- contribute to the critical and creative depth of art communities in Portland and its surrounding areas are led by and/or center underrepresented artists or communities, including Black, Indigenous, brown, people of color, Disabled, Deaf, neurodivergent, queer, trans, non-binary, immigrant, refugee, and others historically marginalized by dominant cultures and mainstream art worlds.
Grant Amounts
In Round 11, the Precipice Fund will award grants of $500 to $5,000 each, for a total of $60,000 in funding. On occasion, a project may be awarded less than the amount requested.
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects must be rooted in visual art.
- Projects must be produced by independent, unincorporated entities. Proposals from or in partnership with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or commercial for-profit enterprise are NOT eligible.
- Projects must be collaborative (a minimum of two (2) and a maximum of six (6) applicants, with one person serving as the Primary Contact).
- The Primary Contact must reside in the Portland, Oregon area.
- Grant cycles are for one year. Funded projects must be completed, and final reports submitted by December 31, 2023
For more information, visit Precipice Fund Round 11 Grant.