Deadline: 28-May-21
Applications are now open for the Public Art for Neighborhoods (PAFN) Fund: 2020-21 Community Connection Grants Program Funded by the City of Indianapolis through the Public Art for Neighborhoods Program.
PAFN Community Connection Grants are designed to support the work of artists leading in their own communities, partnering with their neighborhoods and with neighborhood-based organizations.
The 2020-2021 grants will fund neighborhood-based arts projects, with a preference for projects that:
- help address the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, and/or
- help advance racial justice priorities on a hyperlocal level that have been identified by the neighborhoods themselves.
Funding Information
- A total of $50,000 has been reserved to make grants between $500 and $2,500 for projects that fit this purpose.
Eligible Projects
- The proposed project must be an arts- or culture-based event, program, activity, installation, or idea that is open to the general public to access free of any admission charge.
- Projects that use the arts (any art form or medium) to address issues or situations raised by the COVID-19 pandemic within the community, and/or engage the arts to support racial justice initiatives on a neighborhood scale, are prioritized for funding.
- The proposed project must take place in Marion County.
- The proposed project must have a defined beginning and end.
- The proposed project must be completed before September 6, 2021.
Eligibility Criteria
- Each project submitted for funding must have a Lead Applicant who will receive the funds, a Participating Artist (who may also serve as the Lead Applicant), and at least one Community Partner if the Lead Applicant is also the Participating Artist.
- Eligible Lead Applicants
- Individual artists (literary, performing, visual, etc.), or a group or collective of artists.
- Neighborhood-based and neighborhood-serving non-arts organizations, such as a neighborhood association, a community development corporation, a resident association, a neighborhood group, a social service organization, etc., who have a defined mission to serve a specific neighborhood.
- An organizational Lead Applicant must be physically based in the Marion County neighborhood where the project is planned to take place. 501c3 status is NOT required!
- Arts organizations, schools, units of city government, or for-profit businesses cannot be funded through this grant program.
- Eligible Participating Artists
- If the Lead Applicant is not an individual artist (literary, performing, visual, etc.) or a group or collective of artists, the Lead Applicant MUST identify at least one Participating Artist by name.
- The Participating Artist must provide a letter committing to work with the Lead Applicant if the Lead Applicant’s proposed project is funded through this program.
- The Participating Artist must be paid for their participation in the project.
- Eligible Community Partners
- If the Lead Applicant is an individual artist (literary, performing, visual, etc.) or a group or collective of artists, the Lead Applicant MUST identify at least one Community Partner by name.
- The Community Partner(s) can be a neighborhood-based and neighborhoodserving organization (such as a neighborhood association, a community development corporation, a resident association, or a neighborhood group), a non-profit organization, a unit of city government, a school, a church, or anyone else that can help the Lead Applicant complete the project successfully.
- The Community Partner(s) must be physically based within the neighborhood where the project is planned to take place.
- The Community Partner(s) must submit a letter outlining their role and commitment to the project at the time of application.
For more information, visit https://indyarts.org/pafn