The Radical Imagination Artists Grant

The Radical Imagination Artists Grant, funded by Ndn Collective Inc, offers $50,000 grants for one year to individual Indigenous artists, artist cooperatives, and small nonprofits. This initiative aims to empower creatives focused on community engagement and radical visions for the future, particularly in Indigenous and racial justice. Applicants must be 18 or older and reside in specified regions. The grant supports efforts in defending rights, developing justice, and reclaiming Indigenous lifeways.

NOTE:  We will not have an open call for the Radical Imagination grant program in 2025.
Grant awards of $50,000 for one year are provided to individual artists, artist cooperatives, or small nonprofits who are deeply engaged with their communities to inspire and develop radical, alternative visions for the future and who are emphasizing solution building for Indigenous/Racial Justice.
This includes Artists, Creatives, Culture-bearers, Storytellers of any genre who are at any stage of their work life, but must have momentum, be visionary, and on a journey within a movement; have demonstrated experience in producing or co-designing community art projects; experience in managing funds, including any tax obligations; and a willingness to participate in broader community dialogue or participatory research.
Reimagining a better world through radical artistic visions.
The Radical Imagination Artists Grant offers power-building resources to visual and performance-based artists, writers, filmmakers, storytellers, and other creatives who are deeply engaged with their communities to develop alternative visions that inspire the Indigenous movement towards a new future and just world for all people and Mother Earth.
Radical Imagination Artists Grant Intent
The grant provides direct support to 10 individual Indigenous artists, artist collectives, or small non-profits for the development and amplification of their work.
Radical Imagination Artists Grant supports efforts to:

• Defend
• Propose solutions to dismantle structural racism while defending the air, land, waters, and Indigenous rights.
• Develop
• Imagine and practice justice within their communities while working to build a just world for all people and Mother Earth.
• Decolonize
• Reclaim Indigenous lifeways while amplifying community voices to dismantle inequitable systems.

Eligibility

The Radical Imagination Artists grant was designed specifically to support Indigenous artists, artist collectives, and small nonprofits. Applicants must be 18 years and over who are Indigenous to and reside in the post-colonial borders of the US, Canada, Mexico, and the related Island Nations of Hawai’i, Borikén/Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.