TIER 1: Artist Career Empowerment Grant Program

TIER 1: Artist Career Empowerment Grant Program

Posted by Salt Lake City Arts Council

Posted: Mar, 14, 2016

Funding Opportunities

Website: https://saltlakearts.org/grants/tier1-artist-career-empowerment/

 Salt Lake City, UT, 84112

The Artist Career Empowerment Grant Program is designed to stimulate artists’ careers, and by extension benefit the arts and cultural sectors, the creative community, and economic ecosystems of Salt Lake City.

All interested applicants to the Tier 1 Artist Career Empowerment Grant are required to attend one Virtual Grant Program Orientation sessions.

OVERVIEW

We aim to distribute approximately $150,000 to an undetermined number of individual artists before June 30, 2023. Grants will be made in the following three amounts; $10,000, $5,000 and $2,000. The amount funded is based on request and the application’s score in accordance with the Funding Priorities and Evaluation Criteria. Applicants are encouraged to write their project in close relation to the Funding Priorities and Evaluation Criteria whenever possible to maximize their score.

GRANT PROGRAM PURPOSE

The Artist Career Empowerment Grant Program is designed to stimulate artists’ careers, and by extension benefit the arts and cultural sectors, the creative community, and economic ecosystems of Salt Lake City.

As the Salt Lake City Arts Council, we acknowledge that our current economic conditions have disproportionately impacted our creative sector. Further, we acknowledge that Black, Indigenous, and/or other racialized persons have persisted through even greater challenges stemming from the COVID-19 Global Pandemic as well as the violence of prolonged systemic racism and inequities which exist in our industry and society at large. Thus, we are committed to  addressing these systemic inequities by providing this grant opportunity.

This grant program will aid in Salt Lake City’s phased economic recovery efforts and provide necessary financial resources to incentivize individual artists in our creative sector. The Artist Career Empowerment Grant Program will directly contribute to a more expeditious and equitable recovery of Salt Lake City’s thriving creative economy.