Deadline: 20-Aug-20
The VicArts Grants is inviting new ideas, new modes of practice, and new approaches to the delivery of the arts that will build on Victoria’s position as a cultural leader.
This grants program invests in the creative endeavors and professional practice of Victoria’s artists and smaller arts companies. It provides one-off support for discrete projects and programs that will develop and bring dynamism to Victoria’s arts sector.
Aims & Priorities
The VicArts Grants program aims to develop a strong, innovative, and diverse independent arts sector in Victoria. It does this by:
- Supporting a broad range of independent artists and arts organizations.
- Increasing the availability and accessibility of the arts to the Victorian public and to build audiences.
- Supporting projects and programs by emerging and early-career creatives.
- Supporting projects and programs in regional Victoria.
- Supporting projects and programs that reflect the diversity of First Peoples’ arts and cultural practices in Victoria.
- Supporting projects and programs that reflect diverse communities in Victoria.
- Supporting the interstate and international touring of Victorian artists and Victorian works.
- Assisting artists and arts organizations in building the sustainability and financial viability of their professional practice and engaging in partnerships or collaborations with Victorian industries, organizations, or communities.
- The VicArts Grants program aims for the best use and broad distribution of State Government funds across the Victorian arts sector to maximize the benefit for the Victorian community.
Funding Information
- Applications will be accepted for requests between $5,000 and $60,000.
- Solo projects (i.e. one artist working alone) are eligible to apply for up to $20,000.
- The program also includes a 2-year funding stream, providing 2 years of continued annual support to a limited number of successful applicants. To discuss appropriate grant requests please contact program staff
Areas of Support
VicArts Grants supports a range of projects and programs for example:
- Creative Development of new work, practice-based research, and experimentation.
- Presentation of new work/s, productions, exhibitions, publications, or curated programs and festivals.
- Professional artists collaborating with Victorian Communities (see Making Art with Communities)
- National and international residencies/presentations/touring and market development activity.
Applications can be for smaller scale, individual projects, through to larger projects or programs that extend over multiple years. Applications are encouraged from a wide range of art forms. These include, but are not limited to, visual arts, literature, dance, circus, cabaret, music, theatre, multidisciplinary and experimental work.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals
- Organizations including arts, non-arts, community, and local government.
The primary focus of the proposed project:
- Victorian-based individual professional arts practitioners (emerging to established) and/or Victorian-based professional arts ensembles/organizations;
- An artistic activity.
For more information, visit https://creative.vic.gov.au/grants-and-support/programs/vicarts-grants
