Native Performing Arts Fellowship

Location: National
Type: Grant / Fellowship / Award
Categories:
Theater / Performance

Deadline: 09/23/2024

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The Native Performing Arts Fellowship (NPA) supports Native performing artists, emerging and established, to develop and enhance their skills and knowledge of their craft.

The FPF’s Native Performing Arts Fellowship provides grants of up to $10,000 for Native individuals who practice/work within the performing arts landscape (theater, dance, music, etc.). This is not a project-based grant. Developing or completing a creative project can be a component of the fellowship but does not need to be the primary goal or outcome. This fellowship also includes professional development opportunities such as a tailored Native Arts Professional Development (NAPD) curriculum that provides a variety of tools and resources for performing artists’ needs, guidance from industry professionals, and access to FPF’s annual multi-day fellowship convening to network with other artists across various mediums.

Grant amount: $10,000.
Application Opens: August 12, 2024
Application Closes: September 23, 2024
Award year: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025

Eligibility:
– Must be at least 18 years of age at the time of application.
– Applicants must be an enrolled member of, or provide proof of lineal descendancy from, a U.S. federally-recognized or U.S. state-recognized tribe or be able to provide proof of ancestry as an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian.
Native practitioners of all performing arts mediums are welcome to apply. This includes theater, music, dance, spoken word and more, in both traditional and contemporary forms.
– Artists and culture bearers may not apply to the same program in succession. For example, if you are a 2025 NPA Fellow, you are not eligible to re-apply to the NPA Fellowship program in 2026.
– If you are a previous grantee with First Peoples Fund (FPF), you must have submitted a final report for any previously awarded FPF Grants.