Deadline: 15-Mar-21
The South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC) is seeking applications for its Folklife & Traditional Arts Grants program which ensure to South Carolina’s living traditions remain vibrant and visible parts of community life.
The Folklife & Traditional Arts grant supports non-profit organizations and units of governments that seek to promote and sustain the traditional arts practiced across the state.
Funding Information
- Funding: Up to $6,000
Use of Funds
The Folklife & Traditional Arts grant funds projects that may include (but are not limited to):
- Presentation of Traditional Artists through workshops, concerts, festivals, exhibitions, radio programs, recordings, etc.
- Documentation of Traditional Arts and/or Folklife of South Carolina (Note: Such a project must result in some form of public presentation, whether through programming or access to archived materials.)
- Cultural Survey: Fieldwork done to identify traditions and traditional artists
- Production, Documentation and/or Distribution of a traditional artist’s work (for example, the production of publicity materials)
- Acquisition of difficult-to-obtain materials or equipment needed to create traditional art
- Conservation: Projects, such as apprenticeships, that serve to keep a traditional art form vibrant and visible
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be either:
- A unit of state or local government; OR
- A college or university; OR
- A nonprofit organization
- currently registered with the S.C. Secretary of State’s Office,
- reflecting S.C. as the primary address on all current official organizational documents,
- with federal tax exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service, OR
- applying through a tax exempt Fiscal Agent/Receiver organization.
- In accordance with federal government policy, all organizations – including (but not limited to) private schools, government entities, public school districts, and nonprofit organizations – must provide a valid DUNS number to receive an SCAC grant award.
Restrictions
- Applicants may only submit one Folklife & Traditional Arts project application per fiscal year.
- College and university departments are eligible, but only one application per department will be accepted.
For more information, visit https://www.southcarolinaarts.com/grant/flk/