In this grant program, the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation’s goal is to encourage and support sculptors, whether emerging or established, and writers about sculpture.
Donor Name: The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/31/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The writing grant is specifically for a writer who generates fresh writing and thinking on the history, aesthetics, purposes, imagination or situation of sculpture.
Supported categories of writing include essays and books.
- Essays: magazine essays, catalogue essays, book essays
- Books: research or manuscripts currently in process or nearing completion.
Funding Information
- The JBSF offers one $20,000 grant per year.
- The JBSF grant program operates on a 2-year cycle with alternating grants that support writing in even years and sculpture in odd years.
Eligible Expenses
- Writer’s fee (amount incurred by creating time to write)
- Research
- Travel (airfare, car rental, ground transportation, lodging, meals, per diem)
- Living expenses (including childcare)
- Fees for image permission
- Reproduction and copying costs
- Costs relating to editing, transcription, or translation
- Expenses relating to the following are NOT eligible and your application will be rejected if your budget proposes to use the grant funds for any of these: loans or other debts: reimbursement of payments already incurred; purchase of land or building; tuition expenses; fees paid to third parties for promotion, marketing, or sale of work; commissioning work by others; health-related expenses (dentistry, hospitalization, etc.).
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to apply for the grant in writing on sculpture if you meet the following requirements:
- You are an individual.
- You are a citizen or permanent resident of the United States, or you hold an O-1 Visa.
- At least one example of your writing has been published for the first time within the last five years (between January 1, 2019, and the present).
- Types of eligible work:
- Books, essays, memoirs.
- Minimum requirements for submitting writing samples:
- Up to three published writings from magazines, literary journals, or other publications (including online). The samples can originate from the same publication (although submitting samples from diverse publications is encouraged).
- No sample should be longer than 2,500 words. If the original text exceeds 2,500 words, the sample can be an excerpt from it.
- The samples should demonstrate your strength as a writer and their relevance to your project proposal.
- The following types of work are NOT eligible: pre-publication material, such as proofs; work that has appeared in a publication for which you are the publisher or editor; collaborative writing; news reporting; letters to the editor; social media posts; essays on one’s own art or writing practice; student publications (including dissertations-theses).
- You are not eligible if you are an employee, consultant, or board member of the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation, or an immediate family member of such a person.
Guidelines
The Application consists of the following sections:
- Personal Information
- Project Proposal (2 parts)
- Budget Proposal
- CV upload
- Bio (optional)
- References (2)
- Writing sample uploads (up to 3).
For more information, visit JBSF.