Teiger Foundation Climate Action Focus Grant

Overview

Background

Teiger Foundation supports contemporary visual art with a primary focus on curators.

It honors the vision of founder David Teiger, who, in his lifetime, championed professionals who pursued their own paths in making exhibitions, leading organizations, conducting research, and pursuing other aspects of curatorial practice.

In dialogue with artists and other art workers, curators are thinkers and leaders who play multiple and changing roles in their organizations and communities. Teiger Foundation’s goal is to support these activities and their continued reinvention.

Acknowledging uncertainty, fear, and loss in a time of enormous change, Teiger Foundation is committed to experimentation and creativity in exhibitions and programs; widely varied, innovative curatorial research and partnerships; and new perspectives on community-building and positive structural change within the field of visual art.

Teiger Foundation affirms the importance of visual art and experimental practice to culture and society at large, and therefore positions its work in support of racial justice and against white supremacy, in support of free expression, and towards an equitable transition from fossil fuels amidst the climate crisis.

Climate Action Focus

Teiger Foundation is committed to contributing to a just transition to a world without fossil fuels. We are currently developing a pilot Climate Action program whose goal is to offer tailored support for visual art curators and organizations to embed climate-consciousness into both their daily operations and programmatic missions.

Over the next two years, we will work in partnership with our grantees, current and future, to shape and adapt this program. We have already begun working in various ways with our current grantees, the non-profit members of PACT, and through their efforts understand more every day about how people in contemporary visual art can contribute to urgent climate action.

Taking into account how scale and scope influence the climate impact of different organizations, we believe that sustainable ways of mounting projects, hosting visitors, and supporting staff and artists can be modeled, built in community, integrated into mission, and clearly and creatively communicated.

We invite applicants to our current call for proposals to indicate their interest in participating in the Climate Action pilot.

Eligibility

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

* Proof of 501(c)3 status is required.

* Our current call for proposals is for curators in the U.S. and territories only.
* All of our funding opportunities can support curator-led projects at non-profit art organizations such as museums, public art initiatives, art centers, biennials, or similar platforms that are professionally curated and non-commercial.
* We will only be giving one grant per cycle per institution.
* Fiscally sponsored organizations are allowed to apply but the organization must have a minimum of two years of sponsorship.

Ineligibility

* We do not fund
* Projects unaffiliated with an established non-profit exhibition space,
* Projects proposed by individual artists,
* Endowments or capital campaigns, or
* Projects that do not involve contemporary art.