Deadline: 16-Feb-21
The Oregon Community Foundation is pleased to announce Creative Heights Grants Program to provide opportunities for artists and culture bearers to stretch their creative capacity, share new works, and test new ideas.
The initiative aims to increase Oregon’s cultural visibility and vitality while supporting unique opportunities for Oregonians to experience innovative arts and culture.
The Creative Heights grants are for the creation and/or presentation of new and innovative performances, exhibitions, programs, and other works of art and culture. OCF is interested in reviewing proposals for a range of funding levels and timelines to best serve the specific needs of proposed projects.
Project funding may be spent over a period of two years and can support any artistic or cultural discipline, including visual, dance, folk & traditional arts, film/video/media, literary arts, museum exhibitions, humanities, music, theatre & performance arts, history & heritage, and multidisciplinary or emerging fields.
Funding Information
- Up to $1 million in projects will be funded annually with grants from $10,000 to $100,000 per project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Letters of Inquiry must be submitted by lead artists/creatives in partnership with an Oregon-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Projects may be proposed by staff from nonprofit organizations, or independent artists in conjunction with a sponsor nonprofit or the creative/artistic staff of a nonprofit organization.
- Grant funding may be used for commissioning fees; pay for artists, curators, and scholars; costs associated with research, rehearsals, workshops; promotion; design and production; dissemination and documentation; and other direct costs related to creation, presentation, or exhibition. Preference will be given to projects that are not within three months of completion upon receiving the award in August 2021.
- Ineligible projects are those that engage artists solely on a volunteer basis; are primarily educational in nature; do not engage Oregon artists, collaborators and audiences; or include work not available to the public (i.e., art for a private collection/nonpublic space).
For more information, visit https://oregoncf.org/grants-and-scholarships/grants/creative-heights/