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Grants for Creative Individuals (Massachusetts Cultural Council): Application Open Through December 11, 2023

Taking the place of long-running programs such as the Artist Fellowship, Cultural Sector Recovery Program, and Traditional Arts Apprenticeships, the Grants for Creative Individuals program seeks to “equitably advance creativity throughout the Commonwealth with unrestricted grants to individuals who demonstrate achievement of creative expression and commitment to their artistic/cultural practice.”

Eligible applicants can apply for unrestricted grants of $5,000, which will be awarded to “artist[s], culture bearer[s], or creative practitioner[s] active in any artistic/creative discipline… [who] demonstrate achievement of creative expression and commitment to their artistic/cultural practice.”

Who Can Apply

MCC encourages you to apply if you are:

An artist, culture bearer, or creative practitioner active in any artistic/creative discipline. For this program, the definition of “artist/culture bearer/creative practitioner” includes individuals whose creative expression is based in: community-based arts, crafts, dance, design, digital, film/video, folk/world/traditional arts, native/indigenous arts, literature, music, performance, photography, theater, and visual arts.

If you have any questions about whether your work is eligible for this grant, contact the MCC.

AND you meet all the following requirements:

  • You are 18 years of age or older.
  • You are a full-year resident of Massachusetts for calendar year 2023 AND when grants are awarded in Spring 2024. This means you maintain your “legal residence” in Massachusetts, and you meet the definition of a “full-year resident”. Both terms are defined in the Massachusetts tax code.
  • You are not currently enrolled at a college or university as a full-time undergraduate student or as a graduate student in the arts.
  • You did not receive a Cultural Sector Recovery Grant, Artist Fellowship grant, or a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant over $2,000 in 2021, 2022, or 2023.
  • You are not a governor-appointed Mass Cultural Council member. Mass Cultural Council staff and family are likewise ineligible to apply.

Additional Information

As this award is made directly to the individual, submission through Emerson College and coordination with ORCS is not required.

Artist Residency Opportunities: October-November 2023

The following funders have announced application cycles for artist residency programs and other opportunities. ORCS has compiled this list for faculty in School of the Arts who may have in an interest in such programs. Most of these residencies take place in the summer or winter break, or have flexible start dates.

These opportunities are primarily individual, direct-to-applicant awards. ORCS may be able to provide some application assistance, pending staff availability. Contact orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder

Summary

Application Due Date

The Buinho Residency program is designed for individuals hailing from diverse creative and research backgrounds. Running 2 weeks – 2 months, we empower our residents to delve into an array of cutting-edge technologies, including 3D Printing, Lasercut, CNC, and more.

October 27, 2023

Based in Buenos Aires, Exploration Residencies provide accompaniment, research resources and local contacts for carrying out projects. All of our residents receive tutoring and mentoring, accompaniment and work critiques from the ´ace team and specialized professionals. This program is aimed at professional and emerging artists from any discipline who want to work on visual, sound or performance art research, or who wish to have a space for reflection to create, investigate or write.b 4-8 weeks.

October 31, 2023

We offer solo residencies of 1-3 weeks in a well-appointed cottage in deep woods above Hammersley Inlet on Puget Sound. The cottage is five miles from Shelton, a small logging town. The place is good accommodation for writers, visual artists, academics, playwrights and artists in other fields. 

November 1, 2023

The Studios is a unique residency housed in MASS MoCA – one of the world’s largest contemporary art museums. The Studios residency hosts artist and writers within the museum’s factory campus and is surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Operated by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program, the residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time. Artists of any nationality can apply for stays of 2-8 weeks.

November 8, 2023

Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at Sulfur Studios, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for artists in all media to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. 

December 1, 2023

Chulitna Lodge Wilderness Retreat seeks to provide the time, space, clarity and facilities for all forms of creative professionals or enthusiastic hobbyists to make and meditate. From visual artists, to writers, to scientific researchers, music, dance and more we encourage all to apply for our various programs. 1-6 weeks.

December 31, 2023

Film & Media Funding: Fall 2023

The following funders have announced film grant opportunities for Fall 2023. ORCS has compiled this list for School of the Arts and VMA faculty who have expressed interest in finding funding for film and media projects.

Some of these funders make awards to individual artists; some may require a fiscal sponsor. Emerson can serve as a fiscal sponsor many of those cases. Please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder Name

Film Type/Topic

Next Deadline

The Episodic Lab is open to any emerging writer applying with a completed draft of a half hour or hour-long television pilot they wish to workshop during the program. The teleplay should have a scientific, mathematical and/or technological theme and storyline or have a leading character that is a scientist, engineer or mathematician.

Application open: 10 November, 2023 – 10 February, 2024

Hatched provides support to US-based filmmakers who are nearing completion or have recently completed a documentary film and who have plans to strategize, build, and launch an impact campaign.

Application open: 15 November, 2023 – 17 January, 2024

The Climate Story Fund supports compelling storytelling and impact campaigns from around the world that move us closer to a climate just and biodiverse future. We are looking for creative nonfiction projects that can complete production this year with support from the Fund. Awards will range between $20,000 and $100,000.

Application open: 1 December, 2023 – 1 February, 2024

The New Filmmaker Program loans digital camera packages (based on availability) to filmmakers for student thesis films and  low-budget independent features.

Application open: 20 January, 2023 – 20 January, 2024

The Ford Foundation seeks to reduce inequality in all of its forms, and artist-driven documentary and emerging media projects are crucial to this effort. As part of the Creativity and Free Expression program, JustFilms funds social justice storytelling and the 21st-century arts infrastructure that supports it.

Application open: 5 September, 2023 – 5 September, 2024

Film & Media Funding: AY23–24

Many Emerson School of the Arts and VMA faculty have expressed interest in finding funding for narrative and documentary film, and media projects. ORCS has prepared a list of film and media funders to get you started.

Some of these funders make awards to individual artists; some may require a fiscal sponsor. Emerson can serve as a fiscal sponsor many of those cases. Please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder Name

Film Type/Topic

Next Deadline

narrative fiction feature film related to science, technology or economics in distribution phase

Application open: rolling deadline

documentary film, new works by New England filmmakers: all stages of production

August 31, 2023: Development/Pre-Production
January, 2024 (expected): Production/Post-production

public media film & television projects representing culture & experience of Native Americans

September 30, 2023
December 31, 2023
March 31, 2024
June 30, 2024

documentaries for public television about Asian Americans: production or post-production

October, 2023 (expected)

documentary; short film; feature film

October 31, 2023
March 31, 2024
June 30, 2024

documentary films related to California: Research & Development, Production

November 1, 2023

social issue documentary films highlighting Asian American narratives: research & development and early production

November, 2023 (expected)

feature-length documentaries addressing social issues: advanced development, production & post-production

November 15, 2023
May 15, 2024

small grants to individuals for independent film/media projects focused on environment or climate crisis

December, 2023 (expected)

short films, feature films, new media projects: development, production, post-production

January 1, 2024
June 1, 2024
August 1, 2024

documentary films, radio programs, podcasts that engage with humanities: development, production & distribution

January 10, 2024

non-fiction projects, priority to raising underrepresented voices

Early 2024

long form, shorts or episodic documentaries, podcasts, radio documentaries engaging in climate conversation

February, 2024 (expected)

narrative feature films that address social justice issues: screenwriting, development, or post-production

March, 2024 (expected)

documentaries & limited series on the Latino experience: production & post-production, limited research & development funds

June, 2024 (expected)

documentary producers with deep roots in southern states: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV. Projects in production only.

August, 2024 (expected)

Applicants of color working on standard-length non-fiction projects that have not begun production

August, 2024 (expected)

2024 Creative Capital Award Cycle

Many Emerson faculty artists have been interested in The Creative Capital Foundation’s annual awards. The Foundation will open its 2024 individual grant program on March 1, with letters of inquiry due on March 31, 2023. The Creative Capital Foundation provides awards and advisory services to artists in 34 different disciplines, including visual art, performing arts, film, and literature.

In celebration of their 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital has announced one-time theme for the 2023/2024 grant cycles: “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact.” In the next grant cycle, Creative Capital is seeking proposals for new artistic work that address social, economic, and environmental justice, and advance the global dialogue around the sustainability of artists, our communities, our planet, and beyond.

This year, artists will be able to submit applications for their projects in

Visual Arts: including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, multimedia, installation, video art, new genres, craft, and socially engaged and/or sustainable visual art-based practices

Film & Moving Image: including experimental film, short film, animation, documentary film, narrative film, and socially engaged and/or sustainable film/moving image-based practices

Creative Capital is one of the only non-profit organizations to offer awards to individual artists through an open application process; therefore, it is very competitive, with less than 1% of applicants receiving awards. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding, and career development services valued at $45,000.

In recent years, more than 75% of awardees have been artists of color—including Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous artists—of all ages, abilities, and regions across the United States.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
orcs@emerson.edu
Follow us on Twitter: @Emerson_ORCS

External Funding Opportunities: Spring 2023

The Office of Research & Creative Scholarship would like to share the following funding opportunities with deadlines this spring that may be of interest to faculty in the School of the Arts, Marlboro Institute and School of Communication. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please reach out to the ORCS office.

School of the Arts

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Applications due February 25, 2023
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

NEA Creative Writing Fellowships
Applications due March 8, 2023
The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed for artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted manuscript. In 2023, the program is accepting applications for fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction). Fellowships in poetry will be accepted in March, 2024.

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Applications due May 17, 2023
The Arts Writers grant supports writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The foundation also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.

Marlboro Institute

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowships
Applications due April 12, 2023
NEH Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Award amount ranges from $30,000 to $60,000 for a 6-12 month project period. Faculty may not teach during the grant period.

Boston Athenaeum Fellowship
Applications due April 15, 2023
The Boston Athenaeum (next to campus at 10-1/2 Beacon St) offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenaeum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a four-week residency and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible to apply.

NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges and Universities
Applications due May 9, 2023
The NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges & Universities strengthens the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Projects must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from such areas of study in the humanities as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills. The project period can be between 1-3 years and the total award is up to 150,000.

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Rolling Deadline
The Delmas foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.

School of Communication

Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program
Applications due early April, 2023
The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is nurturing a new generation of serious and enterprising journalists. This year-long program allows writers early in their careers to pursue projects they otherwise would be unable to research and report. Applicants should have less than 10 years’ experience as professional journalists and must be U.S. citizens. There are three tiers to the program: Fellowships provide up to $35,000 in grant money and expense assistance. Full Fellowships, which require that recipients devote their full-time efforts to their project, provide up to $75,000. Alumni Fund Fellowships provide support for recipients to write one in-depth, major essay on their topic.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Clinical Research Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA Clinical Research Grant advances knowledge of treatment efficacy and assessment practices.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Century Scholars Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA New Century Scholars Grants supports innovative studies that foster new research ideas and directions for investigators, and that will advance knowledge, tools, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Investigators Research Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA New Investigators Research Grant supports new investigators by funding preliminary studies that could launch larger-scale research investigations.

The Society of Environmental Journalists Fund for Environmental Journalism
Applications due in May, 2023

The SEJ offers a small grant for journalism story projects on a particular environmental topic. Proposals that support multiple journalists are encouraged. Award includes a $2,000 stipend per journalist and other travel or project costs up to a total of $5,000.

Film & Media Funding

Many Emerson School of the Arts and VMA faculty have expressed interest in finding funding for narrative and documentary film, and media projects. ORCS has prepared a list of film and media funders to get you started.

Some of these funders make awards to individual artists; some may require a fiscal sponsor. Emerson can serve as a fiscal sponsor many of those cases. Please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder Name

Film Type/Topic

Next Deadline

narrative fiction feature film related to science, technology or economics in distribution phase

Application open: rolling deadline

long form, shorts or episodic documentaries, podcasts, radio documentaries engaging in climate conversation

February 1, 2023

narrative feature films that address social justice issues: screenwriting, development, or post-production

March 24, 2023

public media film & television projects representing culture & experience of Native Americans

March 31, 2023

documentary; short film; feature film

March 31, 2023

2023 call for new Visual Arts & Film/Moving Image projects that push boundaries

April 1, 2023

non-fiction projects, priority to raising underrepresented voices

April 17, 2023

feature-length documentaries addressing social issues: advanced development, production & post-production

May 15, 2023 November 15, 2023

short films, feature films, new media projects: development, production, post-production

June 1, 2023

documentaries & limited series on the Latino experience: production & post-production, limited research & development funds

June, 2023 (expected)

documentary producers with deep roots in southern states: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV. Projects in production only.

July, 2023 (expected)

documentary films, radio programs, podcasts that engage with humanities: development, production & distribution

August 9, 2023

documentary film, new works by New England filmmakers: all stages of production

August 31, 2023: Development/Pre-Production
January, 2024 (expected): Production/Post-production

Applicants of color working on standard-length non-fiction projects that have not begun production

September, 2023 (expected)

documentaries for public televison about Asian Americans: production or post-production

October, 2023 (expected)

social issue documentary films highlighting Asian American narratives: research & development and early production

November, 2023 (expected)

documentary films related to California: Research & Development, Production

November 1, 2023

small grants to individuals for independent film/media projects

December, 2023 (expected)

2022 MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artist Program

Black Public Media, MIT Open Documentary Lab, and MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology are seeking applicants for the MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artist Program to support Black creatives who use emerging technology as their medium for documentary and nonfiction storytelling.

Typically participants are filmmakers, artists, journalists, or creative technologists, and the OpenDocLab and Black Public Media communities are primarily composed of storytellers. The mission of this joint program is to support and develop the emerging-tech storytelling skills of a maker who is underrepresented within creative technology industries and bring Visiting Artists into community with like-minded storytellers.

This is a 9-month independent study program from September 2022 to May 2023.  Recipients have the option to do the program remotely or in person at MIT. This is an individual application, and both full-time and part-time faculty are eligible to apply.  The deadline to apply is July 7, 2022. 

More information, including how to apply, can be found here:

https://submissions.blackpublicmedia.org/submit/9e043f44-e27c-467d-8682-51d7afc49729/2022-mit-black-public-media-visiting-artist-program

2023 Creative Capital Award Cycle

Many Emerson faculty artists have been interested in The Creative Capital Foundation’s annual awards. The Foundation will open its 2023 individual grant program on March 1, with letters of inquiry due on April 1, 2022. The Creative Capital Foundation provides awards and advisory services to artists in 34 different disciplines, including visual art, performing arts, film, and literature.

In celebration of their upcoming 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital has announced one-time theme for the 2023/2024 grant cycles: “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact.” In the next 2 grant cycles, Creative Capital is seeking proposals for new artistic work that address social, economic, and environmental justice, and advance the global dialogue around the sustainability of artists, our communities, our planet, and beyond.

This year, artists will be able to submit applications for their projects in Performance, Technology, and Literature.

Creative Capital is one of the only non-profit organizations to offer awards to individual artists through an open application process; therefore, it is very competitive, with less than 1% of applicants receiving awards. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding, and career development services valued at $45,000.

In recent years, more than 75% of awardees have been artists of color—including Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous artists—of all ages, abilities, and regions across the United States.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
emerson.edu/orcs
Follow us on Twitter: @Emerson_ORCS

Faculty Spotlight: January Part II

Julide Etem, affiliated faculty in the department of Visual and Media Arts has a new article “A Transnational Communication Network Promoting Film Diplomacy: The case of Turkey and the USA, 1950–86” in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television published by Taylor & Francis Research Insights.

David Kishik, Associate Professor of philosophy in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies has an article “Homo Schizoid: Destituent Power & Nonrelational Life” in Ethics & Politics, an open access philosophical journal published by the philosophy department at the Italian Università di Trieste in Northern Italy.

Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Assistant Professor in the department of Writing, Literature and Publishing has a new essay “Sounding the Americas: The Politics and Aesthetics of Racialised Acoustics” in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies published by Taylor & Francis Research Insights.

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