The Artist in Community Grant is a part of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Statewide Community Regrants Program (SCR) which Community Arts Partnership (CAP) administers for Tompkins County.
Donor Name: Community Arts Partnership
State: New York
County: Tompkins County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The aim of the grant is to support the creation of new work by an individual artist or collaborations of artists for 2024, with immersive community engagement.
SCR is a statewide effort to make exemplary arts programming available to geographically, ethnically, and racially diverse segments of the State’s population, and to support the continued development of local cultural resources responsive to community cultural needs.
Funding Information
The maximum Artist in Community Grant is $2,500. The maximum grant is $5,000 for all SCR grants. For example, if an applicant is applying for an AICG and an AE grant. The total request for both cannot exceed $5,000.
Uses of funds
The Grant can pay for artist stipend(s), consumable materials and supplies (up to $1,000), food costs (up to $200) mileage (up to $75), space rental, and any other expenses directly related to the creation, publicity, and completion of the artwork, and the community component.
Requests are rated on the following criteria:
- Artistic merit of the project in line with the guidelines.
- Strength of the applicant artist’s work based on the submitted artistic work sample.
- Strength of proposed new work.
- Depth of the artist’s interactions with a Tompkins County community of their choosing.
- Extent and anticipated impact of applicant’s community involvement.
- That community’s accessibility to created work.
- The artists’s response to cultural and community needs.
- Application completeness, thoughtfulness & presentation: as written by the applicant artist.
- Quality of the proposed plan, demonstrating clarity, purpose and innovation.
- The potential for expanding public understanding and appreciation of the arts.
Eligibility Criteria
Artists whose ongoing work involves communities are especially encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit CAP.