Quick Response: Small Project Grants (Australia)

Deadline: 30-May-22

The New South Wales (NSW) Government is pleased to announce the Small Project Grants.

Small Project Grants (Quick Response) funding aims to:

• Enable artists and arts/cultural workers (including museum workers) to participate in outstanding and relevant time-sensitive opportunities
• Contribute to the creation, development, and/or presentation of new work
• Improve the capacity of professionals working in NSW to become arts and cultural leaders.

Project Focus

• Your project must be a clearly defined art and cultural project.

Funding Information

• Funding of between $500 and $5000 is available to support NSW-based professional artists and arts/cultural workers (including museum workers) to build their capability, portfolio of work, audience, and/or market.

Project Types

• Examples of projects that may be funded include but are not limited to:
  • Mentoring, skills development, or residency opportunities;
  • research and/or development of creative/cultural projects that develop new skills and/or engage with new ways of working including new approaches to museum practice, generating new income from your creative skills, and forming cross multi-disciplinary performances;
  • outstanding art and/or cultural opportunity, such as performing or presenting work at a nationally or internationally recognized festival, industry event, or exhibition; and
  • development of new work that would expand their audience.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicant type
  • Individual or group applicant/s must:
    • Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident and
    • Be a professional artist or an arts/cultural worker (including museum workers) with
    • a commitment to arts and cultural work as a major aspect of their working life (even if this work is not the main source of their income) and
    • a degree of training, experience, or manner of working that allows their work to be assessed against the highest practiced standards in their relevant artform or discipline and
    • Have been residing in NSW over the last 12 months.
  • If applying as an Individual:
    • You can apply with no ABN but if successful will be required to either
    • Obtain an Individual/Sole Trader ABN OR
    • Engage a Funds Administrator
  • If applying as a Group, you can provide:
    • a members’ Individual/Sole Trader ABN OR
    • a Partnership ABN OR
    • an Unincorporated Entity ABN
    • All other ABN’s are ineligible, including Company/Incorporated Association ABN’s.

For more information, visit NSW Government.

 

For more information, visit https://www.create.nsw.gov.au/funding-and-support/arts-and-cultural-funding-program/small-project-grants/