FY22 Funding Guidelines Released for National Endowment for the Arts

Guidelines and application materials for Grants for Arts Projects funding are now available on the National Endowment for the Arts’ website at arts.gov/grants (The program was previously called “Art Works”). Applications for projects beginning in 2022 will be due February 11 & July 8, 2021. Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000, and require a 1:1 institutional cost share/match.

A Grants for Arts Projects guidelines webinar for potential applicants will take place on January 6, 2021 from 3-4 p.m. Eastern Time. Click here to register. 

Application Limits

As an educational institution, Emerson College may submit only one application under these FY 2022 Grants for Arts Projects guidelines, with the following exceptions:

• Applications for Ploughshares, ArtsEmerson, HowlRound, and WERS, each of which NEA has classified as an “independent component” of Emerson;
• Emerson may submit more than one application in the Grants for Arts Projects category through the Media Arts discipline at the July 8, 2021, deadline.

If you are thinking of applying this year, please contact ORCS at your earliest convenience. Depending on the number of inquiries, the College may need to hold an internal competition to select a single project for submission.