Deadline: 6-Mar-23
The Idaho Commission on the Arts is accepting applications for the Professional Development Grants Program.
Purpose
- This quarterly grant opportunity supports the professional development of artists and arts administrators. Applicants may receive funds for attending a conference, workshop, or other form of professional development.
Funding Information
- The grant funds up to 50% of projected expenses. Maximum request is $600.
What they cannot fund?
- Establishment of or contributions to an endowment;
- Fundraising projects that do not raise funds for the arts;
- Prizes, scholarships, or free tickets;
- Projects or programs to generate or attract audiences;
- Offsetting of debt, payment of fines, penalties, or legal fees;
- Activities that are primarily promotional or created for mass distribution, such as duplication of CDs, creation of portfolios, private gallery announcements, self-published books, brochures, or websites;
- Student exhibitions, anthologies, publications, or performances, unless those activities document an arts education grant;
- Costs associated with any degree or professional certification, such as tuition, fees, and teaching materials;
- Projects or activities already completed or beginning before the eligible start date or documentation of previously completed projects;
- Documentation of projects except for arts education activities;
- Projects primarily recreational, vocational, or religious;
- Activities restricted to an organization’s membership;
- Costs for consecutive attendance at annual activities that are routinely within an arts organization’s budget including, but not limited to, conferences of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Americans for the Arts, American Folklore Society, or the Western Arts Alliance;
- Pageants, festivals, or celebrations unrelated to arts, ethnic, or cultural activities;
- Journalism;
- Historical or academic documentary film and electronic media arts that do NOT demonstrate significant artistic emphasis, consideration, and distinction;
- Scholarly or academic works in history, languages, archeology, and political science;
- Lobbying expenses or political activities;
- Hospitality expenses such as food and drink, alcohol, flowers, etc. Any such expenses included in a project approved for funding must be paid with applicant funds;
- Capital expenses for an individual; or
- Writing intended for youth.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant must be a practicing artist, arts administrator, or K-12 teacher, educator, or Commission Teaching Artist
- Applicant must be at least 18 years old
- Applicant must be a United States citizen, legal resident, or refugee, and be an Idaho resident for at least one year prior to the application deadline
- Final reports for past Commission grants and awards must be submitted and approved
- Applicant may receive one Professional Development grant in a fiscal year
- Fellowship, Traditional Arts Apprenticeship, and Writer in Residence recipients are not eligible for a Professional Development grant during their award year or term
- Individuals who are currently enrolled in a degree or certificate-granting program are not eligible
- Multiple Professional Development applications for the same event or opportunity will not be accepted from members or staff of single organizations with budgets over $50,000. Two applications for the same event will be allowed from members or staff of organizations with budgets under $50,000
- Activities may not begin until 3 weeks after the application deadline
Evaluation Criteria
- Artist’s work is of excellent quality and a logical extension of previous work or aesthetic interest
- An arts administrator’s work history indicates professional experiences with high quality arts organizations or projects, or applicant works for an organization that produces programs of high artistic quality appropriate for its stated mission
- Educators and Commission Teaching Artists’ past work history reveals experience with quality arts or education projects
- Ability and plan demonstrates the applicant can realistically accomplish the project or activity
- The application is clear and complete; the budget is realistic and correlates with the narrative
- Opportunity has the potential to significantly affect or enhance applicant’s ability, career, artistic development, technique, managerial skills, teaching skills, or the applicant’s plans to improve student learning in the arts.
- A public aspect (exhibition, performance, reading, or demonstration) is present, where appropriate.
For more information, visit Idaho Commission on the Arts.
For more information, visit https://arts.idaho.gov/grants/profdev-individuals/
