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  • Our Town NEA’s Creative Placemaking Grants Program -Through project-based funding, the program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. Our Town projects engage a wide range of local stakeholders in efforts to advance local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes in communities. Competitive projects are responsive to unique local conditions, develop meaningful and substantive engagement in communities, center equity, advance artful lives, and lay the groundwork for long-term systems change.Applicants may request an amount between $25,000-$150,000, with a required minimum nonfederal cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
    • Part 2: NEA Applicant Portal Opens: August 8, 2024
      9:00 am ET
    • Part 2: NEA Applicant Portal Closes: August 15, 2024
      11:59 pm ET
  • Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA) – Dance/USA, the national service organization for the dance ecosystem, invites initial applications from dance artists for the third iteration of Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA), generously funded by the Doris Duke Foundation. The initial application period is open until August 15, 2024 at 6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT. DFA will award $31,000 to at least 25 individual artists, to be used at their own discretion. As part of their Fellowship experience, the Artist Fellows will have the option to participate in an emergent programming process that honors the Fellows’ choices around connection, rest, and desire. The facilitated process will be self-directed by the artists and administratively supported by Dance/USA. The program also offers the Fellows additional resources including one-on-one consultations with professional advisors, underwriting professional photography/headshot, press support, access for Disabled Artist Fellows, and family care/childcare subsidies during required Fellow cohort meetings.  https://www.danceusa.org/dance-usa-invites-initial-applications-for-the-third-round-of-dance-usa-fellowships-to-artists-program
  • ADAM KOLTON ALASKA STORYTELLING GRANT -For the third year running, Alaska Wilderness League has opened applications for its “Adam Kolton Alaska Storytelling Grant Award” which will accept submissions until midnight Alaska time, September 3.The Storytelling Grant is a merit-based, unrestricted award of $20,000 to a practicing professional storyteller of exceptional talent and ability who has experience living in Alaska and who tells a uniquely Alaskan story. If you know any outlets or individuals who might be interested in learning about this opportunity, please feel free to share! https://alaskawild.org/support-us/adam-kolton-memorial-storytelling-grant/
  • Best in the West Competition – There is an exciting opportunity to apply for cash to help grow or start your business! SWAAG is taking on the Best in the West competition, and we’ve changed the format slightly to support the arts and culture sector. Please apply, and/or share this opportunity with anyone in the YK Delta that might qualify.Are you an artist hoping to start or grow a small business? The Best in the West Artist Entrepreneur competition helps new, and established, arts businesses in the YK Delta region with startup/growth capital. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7Y0cf3q5RrsCmKOvMVaDebo3hXL-y48SDJnwr8y-VPLrx9w/viewform
    • Aug 30th: Applications due by 5:00 pm AKST (submitted via Google Forms) – – September 6th: Finalists notified.
    • September 13th: Deadline for finalists to accept.
    • September 15th-Oct 15th: (4) workshops available. Finalists must attend at least two workshops.
    • October 25th: Deadline for business plans + optional business pitch video
    • Oct 31st: Winners announced🎉
  • CaFÉ & WESTAF’s 50 Years, 50 Artists: A Celebration of the West – CaFÉ’s parent organization, the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), turns 50 in 2024! To celebrate, we invite artists in our region to submit their art for an online exhibition, 50 Years, 50 Artists: A Celebration of the West. In the spirit of this 50-year milestone, we seek artwork that explores the concept of time, whether in the past, present, or future. We invite you to interpret this concept however you choose—exploring memory, history, evolution, etc. We want to see your perspective on time reflected in your artwork. https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=13417
    • Entry Deadline: 9/14/24
  • Stories Grants – There are many stories that make up Alaska – many voices, many cultures, many identities. At the Alaska Humanities Forum, we believe that stories – and in particular stories that reflect a more inclusive narrative of our state – have the power to help bridge difference and spark connection by deepening our understanding of others, ourselves, and our communities. This means that stories are not only central, but critical, to the work of strengthening communities across the state.This grant seeks to invest in projects that share and give space to stories that need to be told, and especially those stories, voices and experiences that have been underrecognized or excluded from public discourse. By doing so, we hope this grant can contribute to building a deeper, more complex, and more inclusive narrative of Alaska’s past, present, and future.
    • Applications for Stories Grants are open July 17 – October 15, 2024!