CREATIVE CAPITAL GRANTS
Creative Capital
DEADLINE: April 4, 2024
INFO: For our 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms.
The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants which can be drawn down over a multi-year period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities.
Grants are awarded via a democratic, national, open call, external review process. Our goal is to fund individual artists creating conceptually, aesthetically, and formally challenging, risk-taking, and never-before-seen projects.
GRANT APPLICATION DETAILS:
Creative Capital is committed to groundbreaking ideas that challenge what art can be. As Creative Capital Awardees have demonstrated, socially impactful ideas are embedded in a myriad of artistic forms and practices. We invite artists to propose experimental, original, bold projects in the visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms which push boundaries formally and/or thematically.
We invite artists to select a primary discipline for their proposals based on which experts are most suited and qualified to review the project proposal, with the understanding that radical art is often by nature interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, or antidisciplinary. By choosing to apply within a certain disciplinary category, we are asking you to choose how you want to frame the discussion around your work and to indicate which experts are most qualified to evaluate your project proposal.
2025: 50 Grants
Visual Arts: including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, multimedia, installation, video art, performance art, new genres, craft, and socially engaged, and/or sustainable visual art-based practices
Performing Arts: including dance, theater (new theatrical work, playwriting), jazz, music, opera, singing, and socially engaged and/or sustainable performing arts-based practices
Film/Moving Image: including experimental film, short film, animation, documentary film, narrative film, and socially engaged and/or sustainable film/moving image-based practices
Technology: including augmented reality/virtual reality, bio art, data visualization, hardware, software, digital media, internet art, and socially engaged and/or sustainable technology-based practices
Literature: including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and socially engaged and/or sustainable literature-based practices
APPLICATION CYCLE:
ROUND I: Tell us your idea. Letter of Inquiry (LOI)
Along with your project title, one line project description (25 words max), project description (250 words max), resume (1 page max), and artist website (if applicable), please answer the following questions:
How does your project take an original and imaginative approach to content and form? Please be as specific as possible. (150 words)
Please place your work in context so we may better evaluate it. What are the main influences upon your work as an artist? How does your past work inform your current project? Please use concrete examples, which may include other artists’ work, art movements, cultural heritage, science, philosophy, research/work from outside the arts field, etc. (150 words)
What kind of impact—artistic, intellectual, communal, civic, social, political, environmental, etc.—do you hope your project will have? What strategies will you employ to achieve the desired impact? (100 words)
Who are the specific audiences/communities that you hope to engage through this project? Please think beyond the broader art community where possible. How are you hoping to reach them? (100 words)
How might your proposed project act as a catalyst for your artistic and professional growth? In what ways is it a pivotal moment in your practice? (100 words)
In addition to funding, Creative Capital also provides scaffolding and support services for awardees (such as expert consultations, gatherings, alumni network, workshops). How would our non-monetary services help you to realize your goals for this project and/or your long-term artistic and professional growth? (100 words)
ROUND II: Project Details
Project itemized budget (1 page)
Project timeline (1 page)
Work samples (see application handbook for guidelines)
ROUND III: Final Panel Review
Submit proof of eligibility.
Confirm collaborators (if applicable)
Project updates (optional, 100 words max)
Full application guidelines are outlined in the Application Handbook.
All applications are reviewed by external reviewers who are scholars, curators, artists, past awardees, and experts in the field. The final recommendations for the awards are reviewed and then ratified by our Board. Awardees are announced in January 2025. Under no circumstances will the reasons for the rejection of an application be provided.
Any awarded projects which are directly related to any of the 17 UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals will have the opportunity to have the “Way” or the icon of that UN Sustainable Development goal attached to their project on the Creative Capital website in effort to advance the global dialogue around these critical issues impacting the future of our communities, our planet, and beyond. In keeping with the spirit of the 17 UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, we too have an expansive definition of “sustainability” that goes far beyond climate change and the environmental challenges we face—including: good health and wellbeing, affordable and clean energy, reduced inequalities, life on land, and peace, justice, and strong institutions.
2025 CREATIVE CAPITAL GRANT TIMELINE:
These dates may change.
March 4 to April 4, 2024: Letter of Inquiries (LOI) accepted
April 4, 2024 4:00 PM Eastern Time / New York Time: LOI deadline
June 2024: Notification of advancement to Round II
September 2024: Notification of advancement to Final Panel Review
January 2025: Public announcement of 2025 Creative Capital Awards
ARTIST ELIGIBILITY:
US citizen, permanent legal resident, or O-1 visa holder
At least 25 years old
Working artist(s) with at least 5 years of professional artistic practice
Applicant may not be enrolled in a degree-granting program
May not apply to the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant program in the same year
May not have previously received a Creative Capital Award
May not be an applicant or collaborator on more than one proposed project per year
Projects that are not eligible
Projects whose main purpose is promotional
Project is to fund ongoing operations of existing business
Curation or documentation of existing work
Projects that will be completed before January, 2025.
JUROR INFORMATION:
Creative Capital invites regional, national, and international experts in a wide range of disciplines to serve in our review process. External reviewers are offered honoraria for their time and expertise. All external reviewer names are confidential until the awards are announced.
creative-capital.org/about-the-creative-capital-award
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BAC 2024 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency
Bethany Arts Community
DEADLINE: April 10, 2024 by 11:59pm EST
INFO: Bethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress. BAC welcomes artists working across any discipline and medium, including visual artists, sculptors, writers, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and more to our Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. Any and all artistic mediums are encouraged to apply. Enjoy an environment where artists from different disciplines and walks of life can work in community and near each other, creating opportunities for generative collaboration and cross-pollination.
Residents will be surrounded by uninhibited creativity during their time at BAC, in the form of other Multidisciplinary Residents, local studio artists, BAC staff and board members, those presenting programs on campus, and more!
A unique component of residencies at BAC is Community Programming. As part of a residency, we ask each artist to develop and facilitate a Community Program related to their residency plan. This part of the residency is an opportunity for artists to engage with the local community in Ossining and Westchester County, and for the local community to engage with artists through their work.
The Fall Multidisciplinary Residency runs for two sessions, September 23 to October 7 and October 18 to November 4, each with its own cohort. Artists are provided room & board, a private studio conducive to artists’ medium and/or project, 3 basic meals a day*, and a $225 stipend per week upon completion of the residency. Artist is responsible for transportation to and from BAC and any supplies or materials needed for their practice. We ask that you only apply if you can stay for the entire length of this residency.
*Please note for the 3 meals included during the residency, Bethany Arts Community is only able to accommodate for vegan, plant-based, vegetarian, dairy-free, and/or gluten-free diets. We are currently unable to accommodate severe allergies (celiac's disease, tree nut allergy, peanut allergy, etc.) and other commonly-used ingredient allergies (garlic, allium allergy, etc). Please contact submit@bethanyarts.org with any questions or help making arrangements if you have an allergy.
Artist team applications will only be considered for groups up to 3 members.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Application Deadline: April 10, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST
Letters of Recommendation Deadline: April 17, 2024 at 11:59PM EST
As letters of recommendation (LORs) are sent out at the time of application submission, we give applicants another week to ensure that their LORs are in. Please ensure your LORs are submitted by this deadline to be considered for this residency.
Notifications: May 28, 2024
We're having two Q&A sessions for this residency application on March 27 & April 3, 2024 from 5-6PM EST. If you're interested in attending, please email submit@bethanyarts.org for the Zoom link. Attending these sessions will not impact the selection process for residency.
bethanyarts.submittable.com/submit/290581/bac-2024-fall-multidisciplinary-residency
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Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships
Jerome Foundation
DEADLINE: April 15, 2024 by 4:00pm CT / 5:00pm ET
INFO: Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships support early career Minnesota- and New York City-based generative artists who take creative risks in exploring, expanding, imagining, or re-imagining creative practices and experiences; reclaiming or reviving traditional forms in original ways; and/or questioning, challenging, or disrupting cultural norms.
Jerome Foundation seeks to support artists who are creating, developing, and presenting imaginative work that is deeply considered, presented with technical skill, is compelling, and offers a distinctive vision and authentic voice. This three-year Fellowship supports artists who embrace their roles as part of a larger community of artists and citizens, and consciously work with a sense of service and responsibility.
Support is directed to early career artists, which Jerome Foundation defines as within their 2nd–10th year as a generative artist.
Fellows receive $60,000 over three consecutive years ($20,000 each year) to support their time and expenses for the creation of new work, artistic development and/or professional artistic career development. The Foundation expects to award a total of 45 fellowships across 7 artistic fields.
jeromefdn.org/jerome-hill-artist-fellowship
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BLACK AND LATINO PLAYWRIGHTS CELEBRATION
Texas State University
DEADLINE: April 15, 2024
INFO: The Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration (September 2 - 8) is a workshop and showcase featuring the work of student and professional Black and Latino playwrights.
OBJECTIVES:
Provide Texas State University students majoring in theatre with the opportunity to work with professionals for a hands-on, rehearsal process that includes the collaborative process of "finding a play" in rehearsals, culminating with a public staged reading.
Showcase the work of Black and Latino playwrights from across the country.
Annually lend an ear to new voices and help writers, in collaboration with directors, actors and dramaturges, to shape their stories and hone their craft in an environment that allows the writer to explore and grow and learn fearlessly.
Share the play with the campus and community in a staged reading for audiences followed by a discussion and/or question and answer session.
DETAILS
Texas State University theatre students work with professionals in a rehearsal process.
Writers, in collaboration with actors and dramaturges, shape their stories and hone their craft.
The lab is rooted in the collaborative workshop process of "finding a play" through rehearsals.
This process fosters an environment that allows playwrights to explore, grow, and learn fearlessly.
The staged reading is followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
The workshop culminates in a script in hand reading presentation for the campus and community.
The script in hand reading presentation lends an ear to new voices, showcasing the work of Black and Latino playwrights from across the country while giving the writers some sense of the export of the work or what resonated with the audience.
TIMELINE: Notification of selected writers by June 30, 2024.
HOW TO SUBMIT A SCRIPT:
Play scripts may be delivered by regular mail, in person or using this submission form. Include a stamped self-addressed envelope if you wish your manuscript returned.
Send manuscripts to:
Department of Theatre & Dance | Texas State University
601 University Drive San Marcos, Texas 78666
ATTN: Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration
blpc.finearts.txst.edu/about.html
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2024-2025 BALDWIN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Baldwin For The Arts
DEADLINE: April 15, 2024
APPLICATION FEE: $25
INFO: The mission of Baldwin For The Arts is to support the creation of art that reflects the lived experiences of African, Asian, Caribbean, Indigenous, Hispanic/ Latino/a/x, and dual-heritage backgrounds.
A Baldwin Fellowship consists of a one-week private residency that includes exclusive use of a solo workspace, living accommodations, and three prepared meals per day. Unless you are accepted with an artistic partner to work on a joint project, please note that you will be the only artist-in-residence during the duration of your Fellowship.
DISCIPLINES:
Emerging and established artists of the Global Majority who specialize in the following disciplines are encouraged to apply:
**Literature: **All genres.
**Performance: **All disciplines which are performed in front of a live audience, including theater, music composition, and dance.
**Visual: **All art forms that use paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, and filmmaking (includes documentary, narrative, and experimental projects).
**Interdisciplinary: **All projects that use multiple disciplines, such as science, technology, literature, philosophy, to create new and unique artistic experiences.
IMPORTANT DATES:
April 15: Application Period Ends
April 30: References due
Mid-June: Interviews Scheduled for Final Round Applicants
Mid-July: Baldwin Fellows Announced
COST: Jacqueline Woodson created Baldwin For The Arts, Inc. as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization to offer no-cost residencies for literary, performance, visual and interdisciplinary artists of the Global Majority. To ensure Baldwin Fellowships are as accessible as possible, we cover all costs for accepted Fellows including travel, room and board, all meals, artistic workspace and a modest budget for related materials and supplies.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
In addition to being an artist of the Global Majority, applicants should note that all applications must be submitted through SlideRoom and will require:
a [X-word] description of proposed project;
a brief description of proposed project;
an artist resume that lists education and/or training, relevant experience, awards and achievements, and other residencies attended;
Name and contact info for (1) professional reference and (1) peer reference;
sample(s) of current and/or past work (varies depending on discipline); and
A $25 non-refundable application processing fee paid online by debit or credit card. Please note that application fee waivers are available.
If your application makes it to the final round, you will be required to participate in a virtual interview with the application committee in June.
Currently, Baldwin For The Arts only provides Fellowships for artists of the Global Majority who reside in the US and Canada.
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The Black List x TRW Collection
The Black List / Theatrical Rights Worldwide
DEADLINE: May 1, 2024
INFO: The Black List and Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW) have partnered to publish and license a minimum of six plays annually from writers discovered on blcklst.com.
The six plays will be published and licensed under The Black List x TRW Collection, which will make the work accessible to a wide range of customers, including schools, colleges and universities, community and regional theaters, and more. The Black List and TRW hope to add at least six plays each year to The Collection. All writers are welcome to submit their plays for consideration.
REQUIREMENTS:
You must post an original stage play on www.blcklst.com and opt-in to the Program during the Submission Period.
You must agree to (1) these Submission Requirements, (2) all terms relating to the Program posted on Black List’s website, which you should review and read in full, and (3) the Submission Agreement, which governs the submission of your script to Company and Black List. The Submission Agreement includes important, legally binding terms and conditions, including arbitration of any disputes, which you must read in full before accepting.
If requested, you must submit by a date determined by Company the following materials, which are also governed by the Submission Agreement:
A professional resume and personal statement;
Contact and other personal information; and
Executed originals of the Submission Agreement.
If selected by Company for the Program, as a condition of your participation, you must agree to Company’s terms of participation, including without limitation a publishing deal and/or licensing deal, which shall be negotiated in good faith.
You must be at least 18 years of age and not a minor in the state or country of your residence at time of submission.
If the submitted materials written by a team consisting of one or more writers, (i) each member of that writing team must comply with these Submission Requirements, including agreeing to the Submission Agreement described below and (ii) all members of the writing team must opt-out of the Program if any other member becomes ineligible (including as a result of failing to timely agree to the Submission Agreement or failing to timely provide the materials listed above).
The submitted materials must be wholly original to you and you must be the sole owner of all rights. The submitted materials must not in any way infringe upon the copyright of any person or entity or, to the best of your knowledge in the exercise of reasonable prudence, constitute libel, defamation or invasion of privacy or any other rights of any third party. You understand and agree that Black List will share any information that you provide in connection with the Program with Company.
blcklst.com/programs/the-black-list-x-trw-collection
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2024 BIPOC Playwright's Festival
Boise Contemporary Theater
DEADLINE: May 5, 2024 at 11:59pm MST
INFO: Boise Contemporary Theater is seeking submissions for its fourth annual BIPOC Playwrights Festival, which runs Aug. 14 - 25, 2024 in Boise, Idaho. Writers will receive a $1,000 stipend, transportation and lodging, and will have one week to workshop their play with a director and full cast, culminating in two staged readings on BCT's Mainstage.
2024 also marks the launch of the Young Playwrights Initiative, which will select one unproduced work by a writer between 18 and 25 years old for inclusion in the lineup.
Writers will have four days of rehearsal to workshop their piece with a director and cast, followed by two (2) staged readings of their work on the BCT mainstage.
Festival dates: August 14th - 25th, 2024
Playwrights will arrive on Thursday, August 14th.
Workshop will take place August 15th - 19th.
Readings will take place August 20th - 24th.
Playwrights will depart Sunday, August 25th
PLEASE NOTE: Exact travel and reading schedule will be confirmed in early June. Please apply with the intention of being in Boise for 10 days. However, artists may be able to leave earlier, depending on their placement in the lineup.
Travel, lodging, and a $1,000 artist stipend will be provided.
APPLICATION CRITERIA:
A completed application includes:
Script
Logline
Resume/CV
Artist statement (<200 words) describing why you would like to participate and how your play
would benefit from a workshop experience.
Please note that all plays must meet the following criteria:
Submissions must be full-length stage plays (no short or incomplete scripts, screenplays or
teleplays).
Submissions must be unproduced, original works.
Submissions may have been previously developed or workshopped in conjunction with a theater,
arts nonprofit or school, so long as they have not been fully produced.
Submissions are encouraged to include NO MORE than 5 actors. Larger casts will be considered,
but smaller shows are preferred.
Any questions can be directed to Festival Director Lily Yasuda at: ly@bctheater.org For general information on the festival, visit bctheater.org/bipoc
ABOUT BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER
Boise Contemporary Theater (BCT) is a professional nonprofit theater company in Boise, Idaho, whose mission is to inspire our community to examine our perspectives and better understand ourselves, each other, and the world around us by creating thought-provoking stories of the human experience. Founded in 1997, BCT is the only nonprofit professional theater within 300 miles dedicated to producing challenging new work. BCT is a recipient of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, a two-time recipient of the National Theater Company Award from the American Theater Wing, and the 2022-23 City of Boise Cultural Ambassador. Now in its 26th season, BCT has presented over 90 MainStage productions, including over 25 world premieres, such as Eric Coble’s The Velocity of Autumn (which continued to Broadway).
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Marble House Project
DEADLINE: May 6, 2024 by 11:59pm EST
INFO: Marble House Project is a multidisciplinary artist residency program that fosters collaboration and the exchange of ideas, by providing an environment for artists across disciplines to live and work together. The residency integrates sustainable practices, including small-scale organic food production and waste conservation. Residents sustain their growth by engaging with the grounds while working on their artistic practice. Marble House Project is founded on the belief that the act of creating, whether in the studio or in nature, is how human potential expands and community thrives.
Marble House Project accepts approximately 60 residents and is open to artists living in the United States and abroad. You must be at least 21 years old. Each session accommodates eight artists and is specifically curated to bring together a diverse group of creative workers, to maximize potential for collaboration and dialogue while in residence and beyond.
All residents live together in the historic, eight-bedroom Manley-Lefevre house, a communal space organized around responsibilities-sharing systems which highlight sustainability and community. The residency is an opportunity to develop and carry out practices of mutual support, group conversation, and to cultivate adaptive relationships with the environment. This can take the form of discussions with guest multidisciplinary artists, thinkers, and activists and other individual and group activities that benefit our community of residents.
Residents will be paired and asked to cook for shared dinners three times over the course of their residency, Monday-Friday. . Each session culminates with a short video interview and artists are invited to share their work with our community and each other. Marble House Project provides private bedrooms, food, private studio space, and artist support. We are not able to cover costs related to travel or materials. There is no fee to attend the residency.
Applications are accepted in all creative fields including but not limited to writing, dance and choreography, performance, music composition and sound, film and video, visual arts, and culinary arts. Applications are reviewed by a jury of alumni and staff. Artists are selected based on quality of work, commitment to practice, and project description. Please choose the application that best describes your work. Two artists may apply together as a collaborative, and should complete one application. Within each application you will be asked to select the session dates best for you.
RESIDENCY DATES FOR 2025
March 11th - April 1st
April 6th - April 29th
May 6th - May 27th
June 3rd - June 24th
July 8th - July 22nd. Parent / Artist Residency
Parent artist residency. This residency is only for parent artists who will be attending with their children. Children must be four years old by the start of the residency. Please note that if you only apply for this residency it is very competitive. If you choose other dates you will also be considered for those as well. To find out more about the family friendly residency please visit http://www.marblehouseproject.org/residencyprograms/
October 7th - October 28th
November 3 - November 24th