updated May 10, 2013
The Ford Foundation’s Diverse Arts Spaces grantees are invited to take advantage of opportunities offered by the supported service organizations. The opportunities are categorized by discipline and type. Those with a deadline are listed before those that have no deadline and are ongoing programs.
- Annual Conference
- Capacity Building
- Creation of New Work
- Professional Development
- Promotion
- Touring Support, Travel, Residency
- Technology and Video
Annual Conference
ROOTS Week
Project Dates: August 6-11, 2013
Deadline: June 15, 2013
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Annual Conference
Description: ROOTS WEEK is part meeting, part retreat and part performance festival in the beautiful mountains near Asheville, NC. It’s a gathering created by artists, led by artists, for artists, and those who support art that is rooted in a community of place, tradition or spirit. ROOTS will provide a limited number of scholarships to attend ROOTS Week. Scholarships will support one person per DAS and will cover registration costs and include a travel subsidy up to $350 as needed.
Contact: Shannon Turner, shannon@alternateroots.org
Alternate ROOTS
Capacity Building
NALAC Regional Arts Training Workshop: Bronx, NY
Workshop Dates: Fall 2013 and TBA in 2014
Type: Workshop on Capacity Building
Description: NALAC Regional Arts Training Workshops are convened throughout the nation to assist in strengthening regional networks of Latino artists and organizations, while fostering active engagement with a diverse arts community. The seminar brings together national arts experts and local arts professionals for comprehensive capacity building opportunities and community dialogue. The next Regional Workshop will be convened in the Bronx in fall 2013 followed by three Regional Workshops in 2014.
Contact: Maria López De León, maria@nalac.org or Adriana Gallego, agallego@nalac.org
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
Creation of New Work
Our Nation’s Spaces
Project Dates: 2013 – 2014
Deadline: TBA (starting July 2013)
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Creation of New Work
Description: The goal of the Our Nation’s Spaces Grant is to strengthen and develop the relationships between Diverse Arts Spaces organizations, the communities they represent and with Native artists: visual, contemporary and traditional, performance artists; musicians, dance and spoken word. Also to provide Native artists with the opportunity to present and showcase new works outside of the predominately native arts spaces as well as within new markets.
More information: www.facebook.com/firstpeoplesfund – Tab will be available June 2013
Contact: Miranne Walker, miranne@firstpeoplesfund.org
First Peoples Fund
NALAC Diverse Arts Spaces Grant
Project Dates: January 15, 2014 – December 15, 2014
Deadline: November 13, 2013 (applications available August 2013)
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Creation of New Work
Description: The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Diverse Arts Spaces Grant Program is a funding initiative for the presentation or commissioning of work by Latino artists or ensembles working in all artistic disciplines. This opportunity is open to organizations that are part of the Ford Foundation Diverse Arts Spaces and grantees of LINC Space for Change Planning and Pre-Development program to identify and work with Latino artists and ensembles.
Contact: Maria López De León, maria@nalac.org or Adriana Gallego, agallego@nalac.org
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC)
NALAC Fund for the Arts
Project Dates: TBA
Deadline: TBA
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Creation of New Work
Description: The NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) provides grants to assist US-based Latino artists and arts organizations in the development, creation, presentation and sustainability of artistic excellence, as well as the opportunity to participate in activities that contribute to professional and organizational growth. Latino working artists, ensembles and small to mid-sized Latino arts organizations that demonstrate artistic excellence in pursuit of social justice through the arts are eligible to apply.
Contact: Maria López De León, maria@nalac.org or or Adriana Gallego, agallego@nalac.org
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC)
Professional Development
Native Artist Professional Development Training – Travel Grant
Project Dates: March 2014
Deadline: ongoing until February 2014
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Professional Development
Description: Travel Grant for an artist to participate in FPF Native Artist Professional Development Workshop along with FPF 2014 Artist in Business Leadership and Cultural Capital Fellows in March of 2014.
Contact: Miranne Walker, miranne@firstpeoplesfund.org
First Peoples Fund
NYFA Source – Resources for Individual Artists
Dates/Deadline: Ongoing
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Professional Development
Description: NYFA Source is a free national directory of 11,000 + resources and opportunities for artists working in all disciplines. This database is supplemented by a toll-free hotline for artists and new programs are added each day. NYFA will work with SDAS grantees to add resources to the database and can generate specific lists of resources tailored to each organization and their constituents.
Contact: Maria Villafranca, mariav@nyfa.org
New York Foundation for the Arts
Professional Development Programs for Individual Artists
Dates/Deadline: Ongoing
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Professional Development
Description: NYFA will work with SDAS spaces to provide free customized professional development programs to their artists either on-site or through distance learning. These programs are focused on helping artists build their professional careers and find connections & opportunities, with an emphasis on NYFA Source.
Contact: Maria Villafranca, mariav@nyfa.org, to discuss and schedule a program
New York Foundation for the Arts
Promotion
Free Advertising on NYFA.ORG
Dates/Deadline: Ongoing
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Promotional Opportunity
Description: In addition to being listed in the NYFA Source database, NYFA is offering all SDAS-supported spaces free advertising for events and artist opportunities on NYFA’s site, which receives over 1.2 unique visitors each month. Listings will also be highlighted in NYFA’s organizational newsletter, which goes out to 35,000 readers every three weeks.
Contact: Maria Villafranca, mariav@nyfa.org
New York Foundation for the Arts
Touring Support, Travel, Residency
C/APP Presentation
Project Dates: January 1 – December 31, 2014
Deadline: October 14, 2013, 6:00 PM EDT
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Touring Support
Description: The Tour & Residency Program provides fee subsidies to enable qualified presenters in the ROOTS’ service region to bring artists on the Tour & Residency Roster into their communities. This program provides an opportunity to utilize the arts to encourage dialogue, foster understanding, educate audiences, and nourish cooperation and collaboration. Funds can be used to support ROOTS artists presented by DAS or to support DAS artists being presented by Southern presenters.
Contact: Shannon Turner, shannon@alternateroots.org
Alternate ROOTS
Transnational Cultural Remittances Grant Program
Project Dates: TBA
Deadline: TBA
Discipline: Multidisciplinary;
Description: The Transnational Cultural Remittances (TCR) grant program supports cultural exchanges that promote grassroots artistic collaboration and strengthen social networks between the U.S., Mexico and Central America. Individuals, collectives and organizations are eligible to apply for support of projects that demonstrate a continuous and ongoing exchange whereby artistic activity supports, preserves or extends the cultural practices between linked communities in two or more countries.
Contact: Maria López De León, maria@nalac.org or Adriana Gallego, agallego@nalac.org
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC)
Technology and Video
Distance Collaboration Program
Project Dates: June 30, 2013 – May 31, 2014
Deadline: RFP due June 15, 2013
Discipline: Multidisciplinary;
Description: The purpose of this program is to facilitate a network of organizations using videoconferencing and live streaming technology to further their artistic process, creativity and collaboration. There are two tracks:
- A one-year program of collaboration resulting in a shared production or event to showcase the use of videoconferencing as an art-making and distance collaboration platform. (Submit an RFP: Artspace CultureHub RFP.)
- Three network meetings to share technical information and showcase uses. (Open)
The purpose of this program is to facilitate a network of organizations using videoconferencing and live streaming technology to further their artistic process, creativity and collaboration. There are two tracks: 1) A one-year program of collaboration resulting in a shared production or event to showcase the use of videoconferencing as an art-making and distance collaboration platform. This track requires a submitted proposal; 2) Three network meetings to share technical information and showcase uses. (Open)
Contact: Naomi Chu, naomi.chu@artspace.org
Artspace working in partnership with CultureHub
Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL)
Project dates: Ongoing
Deadline: Rolling basis (contact marlene.cancio@nyu.edu)
Discipline: Multidisciplinary; Type: Preservation of video materials
Description: The Hemispheric Institute invites SDAS-supported spaces to submit video documentation of artists’ performances for inclusion in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL), the first major online library of performance practices in the Americas. Created in partnership with New York University Libraries, its mission is to preserve and make permanently available video documentation of political performance (theater, spoken word, dance, music, performance art, installation, performative activist actions, etc.) throughout the Americas. This unique repository holds over 600 hours of streaming digital video available through the Hemispheric Institute website, free of charge. Current collections include work by major artists, collectives and institutions such as El Teatro Campesino, Pregones Theater, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Split Britches, Danny Hoch, and the American Indian Community House’s collection of 20 years of Native American performance in New York City. Upcoming collections will include Augusto Boal, La MaMa ETC, New WORLD Theater, Franklin Furnace, and the ACT UP Oral History Project, among others.
HIDVL offers long-term historical preservation of artists’ work through an established infrastructure for processing and archiving video materials, as well as making them accessible to viewers around the world. A trilingual online Profile for each collection is also created, contextualizing video collections with photos, texts, interviews, bibliographies and additional materials. These online collections not only increase the reach of the work of artists and organizations, but can become an invaluable tool by providing a permanent resource for use in workshops, artist talks and master classes, as well as presentations to agents, potential funders and others. Artists/organizations keep the copyright to all their videos, and the originals are returned after digitization.
Through site visits or virtual meetings, the Hemispheric Institute offers SDAS-supported spaces the guidance they need to organize their collections, and, when needed, can offer modest grants ($1000-$1500) for organizations to get admin support for this endeavor and to ship the video materials to the Institute.
Contact: Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, marlene.cancio@nyu.edu
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
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