Deadline: 31-Mar-22
The Arts Promotion Centre Finland is inviting applications for the 2022 Artist Grants to support the work of professional artists. Artist grants are not awarded to support studies or thesis work related to vocational qualifications or higher or lower university degrees.
Artist grants are not awarded to support studies or thesis work related to vocational qualifications or higher or lower university degrees.
Grants are not available to applicants
- who have received other or state working grants during the same year.
- who have received a supplementary State artist pension.
Funding Information
- Artist grants may be awarded for a period of ½ year, 1 year, 3 years or 5 years.
- You can apply for all periods on the same application.
- You can only be awarded a grant for the period you have applied for.
- The working plan must cover the entire grant period that you have applied for.
- The grant period begins at the start of the year. Half-year artist grants may begin in July 2023 upon request.
- The amount of each artist grant is €2,039.63 per month.
- The grant is paid monthly.
- The grant includes statutory pension and accident insurance issued by the Farmers’ Social Insurance Institution Mela.
- The grant recipient is obligated to pay the statutory pension insurance contribution in accordance with the applicable Farmers’ Pensions Act (MYEL), which also covers grant recipients.
- The premium percentage rate is 13-25% of the total amount of the grant.
- The amount of the insurance premium is based on the recipient’s age and computational annual earnings, as stipulated in the insurance decision.
Intended Recipients
- State artist grants are intended for professional artists and art journalists in different fields of the arts. The grant period begins in 2023. The number and duration of awarded grants vary by artform from six months to five years.
- A professional artist is one who creates, performs or interprets art as their primary or secondary occupation. A professional artist has an education in a specific field of the arts or otherwise acquired professional expertise in the arts.
- Taike recommends that applications be submitted for only one artform. Select the artform when filling in the application. If you are applying for a grant for the light and sound design of a theatre, you should select “Theatre” as the artform. Multidisciplinary art refers to professional artistic activities that combine different artforms in new and unusual ways – not established artforms, such as musical theatre.
Criteria
- The arts councils review all applications.
- The awarding of grants is based on an evaluation, comparison and overall assessment of applications.
- Factors that may influence the decision include the applicant’s prior artistic activities and the working plan, which must cover the entire grant period.
- The regional distribution and language of applicants are taken into consideration, as is the amount of funding allocated for each artform.
- Equality and fair treatment are also taken into account.
- All grants are discretionary, ie there is no subjective right to them, even if all the criteria are fulfilled.
For more information, visit https://www.taike.fi/en/grants-for-artists/-/stipend/9rRrDr7eX4Xl/viewStipend/11179