Funding Amount

Up to $3,000

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

Artist Support Grants

Overview: Support professional and artistic development for emerging and established artists to enhance their skills and abilities to create work or to improve their business operations and capacity to bring their work to new audiences.

Award Amount: Up to $3,000 per grant

Geographic Scope: Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln and Rowan counties (regional partnership)

Focus Areas:

  • Equipment and materials purchase

  • Professional development

  • Development or upgrading of promotional materials

  • All artistic disciplines eligible
  • Eligibility:

  • Professional and emerging artists

  • Artists of all disciplines

  • Based in eligible counties
  • Funding Support:

  • North Carolina Arts Council

  • City of Charlotte through the Infusion Fund

  • Generous private donors
  • Background:

  • 2022 round: 74 awards granted from 120+ applications

  • Combined funding of $198,100 in 2022

  • Represents nearly 150% increase in applications year-over-year

  • Artists represent creative disciplines from film and theatre to visual arts and dance
  • Contact: Bernie Petit | bernie.petit@artsandscience.org

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    artsvisual-artistsprofessional-development

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