Interlace Grant Fund: Emergency Grants

The Interlace Grant Fund offers Emergency Grants to visual artists in the Providence area facing urgent needs like eviction or healthcare costs. Applications are accepted monthly, with awards between $50 and $500, totaling $1250 each month. Artists can apply repeatedly until they reach a maximum of $500. The grants are unrestricted and do not require reporting, ensuring support is provided without barriers. Recipients will remain anonymous to protect their privacy.

NOTE: Applications due on the 7th of each month.
Interlace Emergency Grants are intended to respond to various emergency needs.
These grants are modest but intended to mitigate the harmful effects of emergency situations and crises, such as eviction, utility shut-off, healthcare expenses, phone or internet service interruption, and more. Interlace Emergency Grants are open to all self-identifying Providence area visual artists.
Funds are dispersed monthly. Awards range from $50-$500 monthly, with a total pool of $1250 awarded monthly. If there are less than $1250 worth of qualified requests during a given month, funds roll over to the next month.
Artists are eligible to apply for emergency funding as often as they like during the current grant cycle (August 2024 – August 2025), until they have received a maximum of $500. (This means, for example, if you received $100 one month, you would be eligible to apply again for up to $400. If you then receive another $100, you would be eligible for up to $300, and so on.)
If there are more than $1250 worth of qualified requests, grants may be for amounts less than requested, depending on availability of funds.
The grant funds are unrestricted and include no reporting requirements.
Interlace will not publicly announce recipients of these grants.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants must live within a 10-mile radius of Providence and demonstrate need. Artists must live in the Providence area at the time of their request (artists temporarily living in other places are not eligible until they return to Providence).