Deadline: 1-Jul-22
The Southwest (SW) Minnesota (MN) Arts Council is offering grants for Quick Support for Artists to provide artists with more quickly accessible funds for activities such as creating or sharing work, attending classes, and small artist-led community projects.
Funding Information
Quick Support for Artists grants are available for up to $1,000.
Eligible Projects
Eligible project types include:
- Artist-focused projects
- Creating new work: supplies or equipment, space, research, artist’s time, day care costs, etc.
- Sharing your work: framing, recording, editing, portfolio production, website, etc.
- Artistic or professional development: one-on-one study with a mentor or attending a workshop, class, or conference
- Community-focused projects
- Connect with your community to help them experience art in a new way, developing knowledge, skills, and understanding of the art.
Geographical Focus
- The Quick Support for Artists grant program is open to permanent residents within the eighteen counties of the SW MN Arts Council service region (Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rock, Swift, and Yellow Medicine counties) or on tribal lands within their service area.
- They acknowledge that this region occupies the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of the Dakota people, who have stewarded these lands throughout the generations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a region resident for at least six months prior to submitting an application and remain a resident throughout the contract period. Applicants may be asked to provide proof of residency, which must be demonstrated by the following, each showing an eligible address:
- A valid MN state ID/driver’s license or other federally recognized documentation
- Bills for utilities or mortgage/rent.
- Applicants must be at least 18 years old by the time of signing their grant contract.
- Other SMAC Grants for Individuals
- Artists who will be acting as grant review panelists in a particular round cannot apply in that round.
- SMAC Board Members are not eligible to apply during their tenure on the Board or until two years following their resignation from the Board. SMAC staff and the immediate family members (children, parents, or spouse/partner) of SMAC staff or SMAC Board members are ineligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://swmnarts.org/grants/smac-grants-for-individual-artists/quick-support-for-artists/