Deadline: 14-Sep-20
The Joyce Foundation has launched a call for nominations for the Joyce Awards to support artists of color in major Great Lakes cities.
Since its inception, the competition has awarded nearly $3.7 million to commission 69 new works and collaborations between artists and cultural or community organizations in six Great Lakes cities: Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Each award of $75,000 supports an artist in the creation and production of a new work and provides the commissioning organization with the resources needed to engage audiences, new partners, and their surrounding communities at large. Of the $75,000 the artist(s) receive $25,000 in total as an artist fellowship while the collaborating commissioning organization receives $50,000 to use towards compensation of staff time, production costs, materials, participant stipends and other expenses.
Eligibility Criteria
- Artists: Joyce Award proposals may be submitted by artists living and practicing anywhere in the world, provided that they are proposing a collaboration with an arts or community organization in one of six Great Lakes cities: Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee or Minneapolis-St. Paul. There is no restriction in regard to art discipline or medium. Artists must be commissioned by an unrelated entity – no self-commissions or commissions by an arts organization or company founded or run by the artist. As Joyce Awards support the commission of new works, an artist’s proposed project should not have moved past the ideation stage. Although works need to be new, collaborations between artists and commissioning organizations need not be new. Joyce Foundation welcomes applications from artists and organizations who have worked together before. Hallmarks of past Joyce Award recipients include artists whose work:
- Demonstrates artistic excellence as well as new thinking or approaches while being firmly grounded in the history and evolution of an art form and the discourse which surrounds it;
- Is as artistically and intellectually relevant to the current moment and historical legacies in the place of commission as it is rigorous;
- Engages with and is informed by the stories and concerns of diverse communities;
- Creates opportunities for community access and learning from the ideation stage through the culminating production; and
- Will have a culminating and tangible program, product or process.
- Arts and Community-based Organizations: It is physically located or doing substantial work in the metropolitan areas of the six cities where Joyce Awards are made (i.e. Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee or Minneapolis-St. Paul), may submit an application. The most compelling applications have come from organizations that:
- Evidence the capacity to support an artist or group of artists through the commission and presentation of an original art work;
- Are most likely to use the proposed project and collaboration with the prospective artist to build upon and deepen connections with surrounding communities, existing and potential institutional partners and local civic leadership;
- Display the ability to harness additional funds as needed to ensure a project’s completion within a 12 to 18-month timeframe; and
- Can design and execute a robust community learning, engagement plan and audience development strategy that will ensure the community’s awareness of and access to the project from origination through completion.
For more information, visit http://www.joycefdn.org/apply
