2024 Visual Arts Fund Grant
Location: MN — Twin Cities Metro
Type: Grant / Fellowship / Award
Categories:
Visual Arts
Deadline: 09/28/2024
No entry fee required
Open to artists statewide
Paid opportunity (10,000)
The Visual Arts Fund is a grant program established in 2016 by Midway Contemporary Art with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Minneapolis–Saint Paul is one of 35 cities and regions included in Warhol’s Regional Regranting Program, which is aimed at promoting vibrant artistic activity in cities across the United States and Puerto Rico.
In 2024 the Visual Arts Fund will award $60,000 (six $10,000 grants) to artist organized projects in the Twin Cities metro region. Proposals must name a lead organizer, but can include any number of artists as collaborators; individuals or groups may apply. The VAF supports the development of projects and initiatives that engage the public with visual art and seeks to support a wide array of innovative and diverse projects that otherwise might not occur.
*What We Fund*
– Projects that have a publicly accessible component
– Projects could include exhibitions or installations held in temporary spaces, new publications, a series of events or performances, digital initiatives, public art projects, and other activities that are related to the visual arts
*What We Do Not Fund*
– An individual artist presenting exclusively their own work
– Projects that are part of the programming of a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization
– Projects at a commercial gallery
– Projects that do not offer an opportunity for free public engagement
*Eligibility*
– Projects must function primarily within a visual arts context (rather than performing arts, music, literature, or other arts). Projects can have interdisciplinary elements but must have a strong basis in the visual arts.
– A publicly accessible component of the project must take place within the Twin Cities seven-county metro region.
– Projects must be artist-organized and self-initiated; 501c3s, incorporated businesses, and students* are not eligible to apply (*PhD students are eligible).
– Projects cannot charge admission or other fees to the public or to participants.
– Projects cannot start before January 1, 2025 and must be completed by June 30, 2026.
– The Lead organizer must play a key role in the creation and execution of the project and live within the seven-county Twin Cities Metro region (Hennepin, Scott, Ramsey, Dakota, Anoka, Carver, and Washington counties); additional collaborators can live anywhere.
– Lead organizers do not need to be U.S. Citizens, but must have social security numbers in order to receive payment.
– Lead organizers may only submit one application per application round.
– Lead organizers of projects funded through past granting cycles are only eligible to apply for a 2024 VAF grant if their grant period has ended, their project has been completed and they have submitted their final survey by the close of the application.