Deadline: 28-Jan-22
This new partnership between Freelands Foundation and Art Fund offers grants for museums to acquire contemporary art and increase public access to work by women artists in the UK.
The Freelands Art Fund Acquisition enables museums and public collections to acquire work by award-winning women artists. Through bolstering contemporary collections in the UK, this initiative increases public access to work by women artists, and brokers new relationships between artists, organisations, museums and their audiences.
Funding Information
For each artist, a grant of up to £50,000 is available to museums to enable the acquisition of one or more work/s.
Eligibility Criteria
The Fund will consider applications from public museums, galleries, historic houses, libraries and archives based anywhere in the UK that are:
- Open for at least half the week for at least six months of the year.
- Fully or provisionally Accredited through the Arts Council Accreditation scheme or other national equivalents.
- Most organisations they support will hold collections, which may include fine and applied art and design, archaeology and/or social history. They will also be committed to delivering activity that increases public access to these collections, which has public benefit and aligns with Art Fund’s charitable objectives.
- All grant recipients will be asked to sign the terms and conditions.
- Theydo not offer funding under this programme in the following instances.
- Organisations that exist to make profit, including: Private Limited Companies, Public Limited Companies, Unlimited Companies, or Sole Traders.
- General Partnerships, Limited Partnerships, or Limited Liability Partnerships.
- Commercial organisations.
- Organisations with a focus on music, drama, dance and art forms outside the visual arts.
- Individuals or unincorporated bodies directly.
- Hospitals and places of worship.
- Schools or higher education institutions.
For more information, visit https://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/programmes/freelands-art-fund-acquisition