Deadline: 04-Dec-20
The Arts Council of Indianapolis has announced the Public Art for Neighborhoods Fund (PAFN) Community Connection Grants Program 2020-21 to support the work of artists leading in their own communities, partnering with their neighbourhoods and with neighbourhood-based organizations.
Public Art for Neighborhoods is a City of Indianapolis program administered by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, that ensures that City incentive funding for private development in certain districts returns benefits to neighbourhoods in the form of increased arts and cultural activity.
The 2020 Community Connection Grants are designed to support the work of artists leading in their own communities, partnering with their neighbourhoods and neighbourhood-based organizations, to help address the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and to advance racial justice priorities on a hyper-local level that have been identified by the neighbourhoods themselves. Through this funding, which is being directed as quickly as possible as an aspect of COVID-19 relief, artists can help envision a more connected, just, and equitable future for everyone.
The 2020-2021 grants will fund arts 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 neighbourhoods themselves.
Through this grant program, artists can help envision a more connected, just, and equitable future for everyone.
Funding Information
- A total of $50,000 has been reserved to make grants between $500 and $2,500 for projects that fit this purpose.
Eligibility Criteria
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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.
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Individual artists (literary, performing, visual, etc.), or a group or collective of artists.
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Neighbourhood-based and neighbourhood-serving non-arts organizations, such as a neighbourhood association, a community development corporation, a resident association, a neighbourhood group, a social service organization, etc., who have a defined mission to serve a specific neighbourhood.
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An organizational Lead Applicant must be physically based in the Marion County neighbourhood where the project is planned to take place. 501c3 status is NOT required!
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Arts organizations, schools, units of city government, or for-profit businesses cannot be funded through this grant program.
Project Eligibility
- The proposed project must be art- or culture-based event, program, activity, installation, or idea that is open to the general public to access free of any admission charge.
- The project must 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 neighbourhood scale.
- 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 May 31, 2021.
For more information, visit https://indyarts.org/pafn