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IAC Grants for Artists
Opens: July 10, 2024
Deadline: Open Deadline
Creative Catalyst Grant offers support to Illinois artists and non-profit organizations for arts-related projects, programming, events, and/or professional development.
The Creative Catalyst Grant replaces the previous ArtsTour & Live Music, Short-term Artist Residencies, and Individual Artist Support Grants.
Opens: September, 2024
Deadline: TBD
The Creative Accelerator Fund (CAF) provides holistic support to Illinois artists. A primary goal of the program is to bolster a creative workforce that composes a significant portion of Illinois’ creative and economic activity.
Opens: October, 2024
Deadline: TBD
Award Size: $3,000 awarded to the mentor
The Folk Arts Mentorship (FAM) Program is designed to support a mentoring relationship between an established traditional artist and apprentice that concludes with a free public presentation of achievements made by the apprentice during the apprenticeship period.
IAC Initiatives for Artists
Opens: TBD
Closes: TBD
The ArtsTour Roster is a resource created in collaboration between the Illinois Presenters Network and the Illinois Arts Council. This directory lists Illinois performing artists, companies, and ensembles that tour the state.The Artstour Roster is used by Illinois presenters to identify artists, companies and groups to perform in their communities. Artstour jurors evaluate artists based on the artistic and technical quality of their work; their professionalism; promotional materials, and references; demonstrated ability to tour; and the quality of the documentation submitted.
Illinois Creative Collaborative
Additional State Funding and Other Resources
Deadline: August 30
CDB/AIA is now accepting Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois artists to create permanent original public art for the Nursing and CTE Building at Spoon River College in Macomb, Illinois. Project budget is $26,000.
Deadline: July 29, 2024
The Midwest Culture Bearers Award is a $5,000 award to honor and amplify the work of nine Midwestern culture bearers each year. Arts Midwest recognizes that these individuals are deeply rooted in the practice and preservation of their cultural traditions through craft, storytelling, dance, performance, visual arts, language preservation and more.
Deadline: August 8, 2024
Ear Taxi Festival is seeking applicants for its Composer Showcase in preparation for next year’s festival in 2025. The festival will hold four Composer Showcase events. Five composers will be commissioned and paired with an ensemble for each event, with a total of twenty commissioned composers. Selected composers will be given a $350 stipend. To participate, composers are asked to submit a proposal for a NEW work they would like to write for one of the selected ensembles.
Deadline: August 15, 2024
One of the few regranting programs available to independent artists with an unrestricted financial award, Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA) supports dance and movement-based artists from across the U.S. and its territories who work at the intersection of social and embodied practices.
DFA will award $31,000 to at least 25 individual artists, to be used at their own discretion.
Search for additional state and national resources for organizations through the IAC's Discipline-Specific Resources database.
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