Deadline: 15-Dec-22
The New Music Creator Fund offers grants to individual music creators who need support to get to the next stage of their creative practice.
The program will support costs which relate to collaboration with other artists and practitioners. Individual performers may also apply as long as their collaborator is a music creator. The aim is to enable music creators to take the lead in the development of new and existing ideas and projects. They are also striving to stimulate creativity and collaboration between music creators and other artists from any discipline or background and to build community in response to the restrictions they have all been facing.
Program Approach and Priorities
- They aim to support and represent a broad range of individuals across the country and musical spectrum. They expect the applicant pool to be very diverse in terms of genres, styles, and aesthetic and they will be particularly interested in applicants that display originality of sound, music, and artistry, shaping the future of music creation and sound.
- Projects should be in progress or be developed in roughly the next year. The commitment to an equitable ecosystem for new music means that they are particularly interested in receiving proposals from BIPOC and other under-represented artists.
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Given the large volume of applications the process will prioritize the following in making determinations:
- Music creators who have evidence of experience making music professionally and are engaged in music on a professional level.
- Projects that do not already have funding or limited funding
- Projects involving new collaborations
- Projects that involve artistic growth or stretch, innovation, or have an impact on creative practice
- Projects that display originality of sound, music, and artistry, shaping the future of music creation and sound.
- Projects that impact or contribute to the community in some way.
Funding Information
- They plan to make 50 to 60 awards of up to $5,000 each (with the average grant being $3,000) with funding from New Music USA’s endowment and annual funders.
Eligibility Criteria
- The lead applicant must be a US-based music creator
- This is for individuals only; organizations cannot apply
- Each lead applicant may only submit one request
- If the lead applicant appears on another application as a collaborator, only one project containing the applicant will be selected for an award
- If a collaborator appears on more than one application, only one project containing the collaborator will be selected for an award
- Lead applicants may not have been funded in the previous round of the New Music Creator Fund (December 2021 deadline, announced in April).
- The applicant must be pursuing music on a professional level
- Activities/use of the funds should be in process and/or planned as of April 2023.
For more information, visit New Music Creator Fund.
For more information, visit https://newmusicusa.org/program/new-music-creator-fund/