Amplify Arts Public Impact Grant – US

Deadline: 10-Oct-21

Applications are now open for the Amplify Arts Public Impact Grant to give artists and organizers a platform to experiment, develop new audiences, and create and share work outside the confines of larger institutional systems.

Amplify Arts promotes unity, innovation, and progress in the arts to build strong and vibrant communities. Their Artist Grants program is designed to give artists a platform to experiment, develop new audiences, and create and share work outside the confines of larger institutional systems.

They seek to be inclusive and expansive in their definition of “community” and extend it to encompass geographic areas, shared identities, social groups working toward a common goal, etc. Artists and organizers must demonstrate a thorough commitment to the community or communities with which they identify and an understanding of potential hurdles that may arise from both, within and outside, of those communities.

Focus Areas

Applicants developing community-informed project-based work in response to systemic challenges that create and reproduce disparities and inequities in access to:

Breathable air, drinkable water, and habitable land;
Green spaces and grow spaces;
Health and wellness;
Affordable housing;
Transportation;
General education and achievement;
The arts and arts education;
Technology and training;

Funding Information

Their Public Impact Grant is a $10,000 project-based award granted by an external selection panel of culture workers and community members to an individual artist or organizer, collaborative duo, or collective working in any discipline to realize ambitious, well-researched work at the community level.
The 2-year grant term provides funding ($5,000 each year) and logistical support to Omaha-area artists and organizers whose working processes foreground civic engagement, community-informed collaboration, and creative problem solving to better understand the complexities of systemic challenges and their impacts on communities.

Eligibility Criteria

Any artist, organizer, collaborative duo, or collective maintaining a residence within the Omaha Metro Area including Washington, Douglas, Sarpy, and Saunders counties in Nebraska, and Pottawattamie, Mills, and Harrison counties in Iowa is eligible to apply. Applicants must be at least 21 years old. An undergraduate or graduate degree is not required to apply for this grant.
Amplify’s Public Impact Grant is open to artists and organizers of all disciplines regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, religious background, differing abilities, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Artists who have received past support from Amplify Arts in the form of an Artist Support Grant or Public Impact Grant must wait one year after their grant term has ended to reapply. This does not include Micro or Generator Grant recipients or those who have participated in Alternate Currents, Amplify’s Culture Work Fellowship or other Amplify Arts programs.
For collaborative groups:
- Artist collectives, collaborative groups, and duos are eligible if
  - At least one member of the group meets the eligibility requirements.
  - The primary creative output of each member of the group is generated within the group, not as an individual.
  - Members of the group are committed to working on a deeply collaborative level to advance the goals of the group, rather than those of the individuals within the group.
  - The group is not incorporated into a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
  - Collaborative groups should submit a group resume and discuss the nature and duration of the collaboration in their artist statement or statement of purpose.