Deadline: 1-Feb-21
The East Central Regional Arts Council (ECRAC) is seeking applications for the Mid-Career Artist Grant Program. ECRAC is a regional grant-making agency that supports the arts through funding from the Minnesota State Legislature and The McKnight Foundation. The Council distributes grant awards to artists, arts and other non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and local units of government and provides technical assistance for these grants.
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.
Mid-career artists are recognized by their peers and arts professionals, have produced an independent body of work and have a record of commissions, projects, or exhibitions.
Funding Information
- The grant request for ECRAC Mid-Career Artist Grants can be up to $2,500.
What Can Be Funded?
The following are examples of individual artist projects and are not meant to be limiting or all-inclusive:
- Money to Produce Artwork. Those materials and/or services necessary for the completion of new work or works of art. This does include time to work (i.e., an applicant’s time in the project).
- Money to Present Artwork. Costs involved in the arrangement of a visual arts exhibit, portfolio production, composer or musician demo production, or film/video.
- Money to Learn. Costs involved in training or mentoring with a renowned professional artist excluding college or university courses for credit.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant may be any mid-career 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.
- Applicants must use the ECRAC grant application form online. The Mid-Career Artist 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.
Where to Apply
East Central Regional Arts Council has moved to an online granting system. All applications going forward must be submitted through the ECRAC Grant Portal. Links for each grant program application will only become available about 4 weeks prior to each grant deadline.
- Getting Started: On your first visit to the ECRAC Grant Portal, you will need to create a new account with a username and password. Please note that if you are applying as an organization, your organization can only have one username and password for the online system. Please be sure to keep this information as you will need it again to access the Portal for grant requirements and for all future requests.
- Returning to an Application: Your application does not need to be completed in one session and can be returned to and edited until you formally submit the application. Please be sure to save your application often while working on it and before you exit the system. To return to your application, you can access the ECRAC Grant Portal through the Manage My Grant page. There you may login using the email address and password you created the first time you entered.
- Uploading Information: There are fields in the application that will require you to upload information (documents, media, etc.). Please note that your information may not be completely uploaded until you click “Save”. Be sure to save your application often so as not to lose any progress or information.
For more information, visit https://www.ecrac.org/grants/individual/ecrac-mid-career-artist-grant