Deadline: 13-Sep-21
Nominations are now open for the Joyce Awards to support artists of color in major Great Lakes cities.
The Joyce Foundation is a nonpartisan private foundation that invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region. Their support for racial equity and economic mobility is not only a statement of their belief in a just and inclusive society, but also recognition they are essential conditions for building broad-based prosperity.
Award Details
- Since its inception, the competition has awarded more than $3.7 million to commission 72 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) must receive at least $25,000 as an artist stipend while the collaborating commissioning organization receives at most $50,000 to use towards compensation of staff time, production costs, materials, participant stipends, and other expenses.
Joyce Award Eligibility
- Artists
- Joyce Award applications 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 located 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.
- In addition, organizations that have received a Joyce Award in the past may re-apply if proposing a commission with an artist who has never received a Joyce Award in the past. 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, including communities of color;
- 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
- Arts or community-based organizations 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 (with projects beginning no earlier than June 1, 2022); 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.
- Demonstrate a commitment to racial equity in its work.
- Arts or community-based organizations 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:
For more information, visit https://www.joycefdn.org/apply