Louisiana's World Makers Awards

Louisiana's World Makers Awards

Program Type: Unrestricted arts and culture grants for Louisiana artists and cultural workers

Award Amount: $5,000 - $10,000 per individual award

Total Awards: 32 Louisiana artists, cultural workers, and tradition bearers received $320,000 in total funding

Geographic Scope: Louisiana state-wide

Focus Areas:

Climate impacts

Mass incarceration

Cultural memory and legacy

Displacement and erasure of Black and Indigenous communities

Eligibility Criteria:

Louisiana artists, cultural workers, and tradition bearers

Primary focus: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) artists

Priority given to those born, raised, and/or with generational ties to Louisiana

Specific funds allocated for:

- Elder artists and culture bearers
- BIPOC transgender and gender-nonconforming artists

Program Purpose:
FFL believes that artists, cultural workers, and tradition bearers offer communities new and expanded ways of seeing, being, and creating. The awards support visionary creative work that points communities toward justice and liberation, recognizing that being a culturally-rooted Louisiana artist is a radical act essential to the wellbeing of Louisiana.

Program Goals:

Sustain and illuminate visionary work of artists and culture bearers that makes other worlds possible

Increase financial resources flow to Louisiana's Black, Indigenous, artists of color, and TGNC artists

Provide flexible, unrestricted projects at any stage of development

Support personal and living expenses

Support artistic/cultural work addressing climate, incarceration, cultural memory, and/or displacement issues

Uplift and honor Louisiana's cultural traditions

Expand FFL's understanding of artistic and cultural practice across the state

Selection Panel:
Includes intergenerational Louisiana BIPOC artists and culture workers diverse in:

Race and ethnicity

Age

Geographic location

Gender identity

Artistic/cultural practice

Application Response:
Over 360 artists applied for this inaugural opportunity

Contact Information:
arts@foundationforlouisiana.org