How to Apply

Potential GRANTS

Potential Grants are awards up to $10,000 and are intended to act as seed funds to sustain novel, long-term platforms for artistic expression and experimentation that foster collaboration, dialogue, and discourse in our region.

Examples may include exhibition spaces (from formal to informal – your bedroom to a rented space); zines or forums for arts writing; collective spaces; podcasts or radio stations; public lectures or event series. This grant is meant to fund artists in collaboration to create new platforms for presentation.

The jurors will be looking for projects that:

• Nurture the creative ecosystem in our region

• Exemplify collectivity, equity, or unexpected collaboration

• Exemplify a distinctive or new approach to the creation or presentation of visual arts in our region

Criteria

• Project must be firmly based in or related to the visual arts

• Artist or lead organizer must live in Erie or Niagara Counties

• Resulting project activities must be accessible and presented to the public within the above counties

• The proposed project must be new or undergo a dramatic change (ie: a rebirth, a move, etc)

• This grant is meant to support projects working outside traditional frameworks, organizations holding 501c3 status upon time of submission are not eligible.

Application Components

• Project title + 1-3 sentence description

• Proposal including list of potential collaborators, locations, etc.

• Project budget

• 10 Work Samples + Captions