SVCreates: Content Emerging Artist Award

Content Emerging Artist Award

SVCREATES recognizes the region’s finest artists who have demonstrated a commitment to developing their art forms and to enriching the greater Santa Clara County region with exhibitions, performances, presentations, and service. The SVLaureates and the Content Emerging Artist Award provide unrestricted cash prizes to support artists while they pursue their creative work.

The purpose of this program is to:

• Provide monetary support to encourage continuing development of the artist’s work
• Spotlight the important role individual artists play in contributing to a vital and creative community

Funding

SVCREATES will award up to three Content Emerging Artist Awards of $5,000 each.

• Content Emerging Artist Award - South County
  • Thanks to the support of dedicated south county funders, one award will honor an emerging artist making an impact through their art in the cities of Gilroy, Morgan Hill, or the San Martin area. Note, artists may live outside those cities, or in adjacent counties, but the majority of their work must be performed or presented in South Santa Clara County.
• Content Emerging Artist Award -
  • recognizes early career artists in all genres for artistic achievement and commitment to a path toward becoming a professional artist.
  • Genres include:
  • Visual Arts: including two and three-dimensional work that is created in the studio or in community spaces; including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture in all media, photography, video, mixed/multiple media, installation, new or alternative media and social practice art.
  • Performing Arts: including art that is presented for an audience on a formal or informal stage. Eligible applicants include artists creating work that is developed offstage, backstage, or pre-performance (choreographers, composers, stage directors, stage/set/costume designers). Or performers themselves (dancers, actors, spoken word artists, instrumental/vocal musicians).
  • Literary Arts: all written literary art forms, including poetry, prose, stage or screenplay.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• Applicant must:
  • Be an artist in their 2nd-10th year of creative practice, post-student status (if applicable), with some track record of creating and presenting full work (not beginning artists), and artists who are not at a point in their careers where they receive consistent development and production opportunities and significant recognition, awards, and acclaim (not mid-career or established artists).
  • Be at least 18 years of age at the time of the application deadline.
  • Spend at least five-ten hours a week on and may derive income from the practice/creation of art.
  • Have exhibited, performed, presented and/or published artistic work in a public context within the last three years.
  • Be the principal creator/performer or the sole author of work(s) submitted.
  • Be a resident of Santa Clara County or one of several bordering counties (Alameda, San Mateo, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties) for at least one year prior to the application deadline, and can demonstrate through professional history that artistic activity has had an impact on residents of Santa Clara County.
  • To be eligible for the South County Emerging Artist Award, artists must be presenting or performing their work in Gilroy, Morgan Hill, or San Martin.
• An Emerging Artist is defined as:
  • An artist in the early stages of their career (not defined by age)
  • Demonstrating a commitment to their practice, working intentionally over the last 3-5 years to develop and promote a career as a professional artist
  • Having some evidence of professional achievement through exhibitions or performances in public settings
  • Being rigorous in their approach to creation and production
  • Having developed an original body of work with a clear identity
  • Taking risks and embracing challenges

Ineligibility

• Applicant must not:
  • Be enrolled as an undergraduate student.
  • Be a prior recipient of the Content Emerging Artist Award or Artist Laureate Award from SVCREATES or Arts Council Silicon Valley.
  • Be a current employee or board member of SVCREATES or have been employed by or served on the board of SVCREATES within the past 5 years.
• This program does not include architecture, landscaping, industrial/graphic/computer systems design, journalism/photojournalism, or other commercial activities.