Deadline: 1-Oct-21
The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) has launched the 2022 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grant (FAA) to foster the sharing of traditional (folk) artistic skills between a master and an apprentice who is already familiar with the genre.
The program creates this opportunity specifically for individuals who share a common cultural heritage.
The folk arts are defined as those artistic practices which are community- or family-based and express that community’s aesthetic heritage and tradition. The learning process is informal and is passed on from generation to generation by word of mouth, apprenticeship, and imitation.
Funding Considerations
The following conditions for funding apply to all Folk Arts Apprenticeship applicants:
- Grant requests may range from $1,000 to $3,000. The Council reserves the right to increase or decrease either the amount or the number of awards granted in any given year.
- Grants awarded by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts are provided by the Rhode Island State General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, on behalf of the citizens of Rhode Island. For that reason, Apprenticeship award recipients must credit the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts on all printed material where funders and supporters are listed and on all printed programs.
- All RISCA grant awards are contingent upon the availability of funds from the Rhode Island State General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Grant applications are considered on a competitive basis. No applicant is guaranteed funding at any level, even if all basic criteria have been met.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications must be submitted by the master artist.
- Please note that RISCA encourages one-on-one apprenticeships. In some cases, more than one apprentice per master is appropriate and will be allowed. Please contact Elena via email to discuss the application.
- You must be a citizen or a permanent legal resident of the United States, and a resident of the State of Rhode Island for a minimum of twelve (12) consecutive months prior to the date of application to apply for support from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Rhode Island State Law (44-30-5) defines a “resident” as someone “who is domiciled in this state” or “who is not domiciled in this state but maintains a permanent place of abode in this state and is in this state for an aggregate of more than one hundred eighty-three (183) days of the taxable year.”
- Only one Folk Arts Apprenticeship application is allowed per person per deadline. Individuals may not apply for a Folk Arts Fellowship and a Folk Arts Apprenticeship at the same deadline.
- Folk Arts Apprenticeship applicants are ineligible to reapply for one fiscal year if they have received funding in this category for three consecutive years.
- Past RISCA grant recipients may not reapply for RISCA funds unless all final reports for previous awards have been submitted.
- RISCA staff, Council and their spouses and immediate relatives are ineligible to apply for RISCA funds.
For more information, visit https://risca.online/grants/folk-arts-apre-grant/