Deadline: 20-Sep-21
Applications are now open for Denver Cares Artist Restart and Recovery Fund to provide up to $1,000 grants to individual artists who reside in the City and County of Denver and whose income has been impacted as a direct result of the COVID-19 crisis.
Through the Denver CARES Artist Restart and Recovery Fund, Denver Arts & Venues intends to assist independent artists who help build their city through cultural endeavors including music, film, theatre, visual arts, dance, literature, design and more.
The Fund will prioritize artists who are:
- experiencing severe financial distress and who have no other source of income, or are facing
- significantly diminished income or increased expenses as a direct result of COVID-19.
Funding Information
- Selected applicants will be eligible to receive a one-time award of up to $1,000.
- Examples of grant funding uses include, but are not limited to, basic living expenses such as food, housing, medical costs, childcare costs and dependent related expenses, and/or expenses related to supplies, educational opportunities or equipment that help facilitate an artist’s creative work.
Geographic Areas
Denver Arts & Venues is committed to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in all programs, initiatives and decision-making processes.
As part of their equity and anti-racism practice, Arts & Venues intends to make awards that will impact a broad constituency, and strongly encourages applications that represent Denver’s rich and diverse communities including artists from communities historically and systemically marginalized and who remain financially vulnerable to the impacts of COVID-19 and identify as the following:
- American Indian
- African American
- Latino/x/e
- Asian American and Pacific Islander
- People with disabilities
- LGBTQIA+
Eligibility Criteria
Grants are open to all self-identifying artists working in one or multiple disciplines whose income has been severely impacted or who have experienced additional costs directly due to COVID-19, and who need immediate assistance.
Practicing artists:
- Must be a resident in the City and County of Denver since January 1, 2020 (with the correct documentation)
- Should be able to demonstrate a sustained commitment to their creative work and career
- Must be able to verify their art as a primary income-generating activity
- Must provide proof of loss of income or increased costs directly due to COVID-19
- Must list intended use of funds
- Must be 18 years of age or older to apply
- Must retain all grant and expenditure documents for five years (if funded).
For more information, visit https://www.artsandvenuesdenver.com/covid-support/cares-artist-restart-recovery-fund