Midwest Memory
Location: National
Type: Grant / Fellowship / Award
Categories:
Any discipline
Deadline: 10/01/2024
No entry fee required
Paid opportunity (110,000)
Midwest Memory, an initiative to fund new monuments that celebrate and preserve diverse stories and prioritize the inclusion of voices and experiences of BIPOC communities and support rural BIPOC and other practitioners in the rural Midwest.
• Eight communities will be selected. These communities must have an existing monument or memorial project or challenge for which they need additional support to take their project to the next level. Midwest Memory will grant $100,000 to each of the selected communities, plus an additional $10,000 in funding for cultural advisors.
• In addition to funding for production of new monuments, grantees will receive training and support, technical assistance, and connections with other grantees.
• This opportunity intends to build cross-sector collaboration in these communities to help enrich these projects.
These projects will prioritize public memory through research and storytelling, addressing systemic inequities and advancing racial justice and Indigenous visibility.
Interested teams, please join us for an info session on Thursday, September 5 from 5:00 – 6:00pm CDT. Register at the link in bio (under Events). The session will be recorded and posted to our website.
Learn more + Apply by 11:59pm CDT, October 1, 2024: https://bit.ly/MidwestMemory
Midwest Memory is a Forecast Public Art initiative, in partnership with Justice + Joy and The Outside, with generous support from Mellon Foundation.