Creative Professionals: Grants

This nonprofit grant program supports both emerging and established artists by providing unrestricted funding to advance their creative practice. Grants are awarded based on artistic merit, alignment with ArtC’s mission, and the potential for public impact, without requiring specific outcomes or deliverables. These funds are not payments for services, but charitable support intended to foster independent artistic work and contribute to a vibrant creative community.

While there is no obligation to provide anything in return, many grant recipients choose to share a completed piece—such as a print, recording, or video—as a gesture of appreciation or to contribute to ArtC’s educational, archival, or promotional materials. These contributions, when made, are voluntary and always secondary to the primary charitable purpose of supporting creative development.

ArtC’s grantmaking process is guided by principles of public benefit, transparency, and non-commercial artistic support, consistent with 501(c)(3) nonprofit regulations.

 

Details:

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• Mission-Aligned Grantmaking: Grants are awarded to support artists whose work contributes to ArtC’s charitable purpose—such as promoting the arts, arts education, cultural preservation, or community enrichment. Funds may support general creative practice, specific projects, or professional development.

• Voluntary Artistic Contributions: Some artists choose to donate a piece of work or limited usage rights for ArtC’s use in exhibitions, offices, community events, or publications. These contributions are offered voluntarily and are not a condition of receiving funding.

• Use of Artistic Work Within Charitable Scope: When artists provide work, it is used solely in ways that further ArtC’s exempt purpose—for example, displaying artwork in nonprofit spaces, including music in mission-related videos, or archiving creative content for educational or cultural outreach.

• Support Across Disciplines: Grants may be awarded to visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, or multidisciplinary creatives. ArtC may also fund collaborations that support other ArtC-affiliated programs or projects, fostering cross-disciplinary creative exchange.

• No Quid Pro Quo or Private Benefit: All grants are structured to avoid any exchange of value that would constitute a private benefit. Artists are selected through a transparent process, and grant amounts are not tied to the value of any work shared. Any donated work is treated as a charitable contribution from the artist to the nonprofit.