Deadline: 1-Mar-21
The East Central Regional Arts Council (ECRAC) Essential Artist Award program is designed with McKnight Foundation funding to recognize, reward, and encourage outstanding professional artists.
The Council will fund artists at various stages in their professional careers. These Awards will allow artists to set aside time to work, purchase supplies and materials, undertake advanced study (not related to a degree) or to pursue other career goals. The Essential Artist Award program is open to artists in all artistic mediums.
ECRAC’s mission is to support the arts and bring the life enhancing values they afford to Region 7E residents. The vision is that all Region 7E residents can participate, appreciate, create, and invest in the arts. The values of ECRAC are arts in action; integrity; artistic merit; and legacy.
Funding Information
The grant request for the Essential Artist Award is $8,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant may be any professional individual artist who is a permanent resident (for at least 6 months) in one of the five Minnesota counties of: Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, or Pine. The applicant must be at least 18 years of age.
- The applicant must be either a U.S. citizen, or have attained permanent resident alien status.
- The applicant must not have any outstanding or unacceptable final reports with ECRAC.
- The applicant must not have any Misuse of Funds determination with the Minnesota State Arts Board or Regional Arts Councils. Applicants must use the ECRAC grant application form online. The applicant must not have received ECRAC’s McKnight funding for two years (Example: FY 2019 ECRAC/McKnight grantees are not eligible again until FY 2021.) Individual artists may not have more than one active ECRAC grant at a time.
- The Essential Artist Award program is open to professional artists in all artistic mediums, see the definition of art on the previous page. This includes but is not limited to: visual (2 or 3 dimensional and photography), film/video screenwriting, dance/choreography, music, theater arts/playwriting, prose and poetry. This is not a program for college credits.
For more information, visit https://www.ecrac.org/grants/individual/ecrac-essential-artist-award