$150,000 in Grants for Chattanooga's Artists
CreateHere is pleased to announce $150,000 in grants for artists, artisans and creative entrepreneurs within a 50-mile radius of downtown Chattanooga. Grant categories include two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual arts, performing arts, literary arts and culinary arts.
Through three separate grant categories, MakeWork is providing a unique and multifaceted approach to artistic exploration and sustainability. The program is allocating funding toward the Project, Career Advancement, and Studio Assistance grants. Grant applicants will be juried by a panel of experts in the fields of arts and culture. All grant recipients will be encouraged to showcase their work to the community during the year as well as be provided opportunity though CreateHere’s SpringBoard program to explore sustainability options in their given discipline.
CreateHere’s vision is that people in all walks of life, from near and far, experience Chattanooga as a community that embraces a broad spectrum of artists, encourages their endeavors, and creates a dynamic space for them to live and work. From chocolatiers to landscape architects, graphic designers to sculptors, film writers to composers, CreateHere believes in the power of the creative individual.
Creative individuals have the power to stimulate community, create distinctiveness and function as an economic driver for the local economy. These grants will invigorate Chattanooga’s cultural and economic development, encourage the retention of local talent and empower artists to carry their work to the next level. The MakeWork initiative is a huge thumbs-up of support for Chattanooga’s diverse array of ambitious artists and entrepreneurs.
Project Grant (download application)
The MakeWork Project Grant supports individual artists in all disciplines with project-related costs that allow the artist(s) increased time to research and develop ideas or new works. The specific definition of eligible projects is purposely left flexible to respond to the artist’s ideas, dreams and needs. Applicants must propose a project, or phase of a project, that can be realized within the requested budget and completed within one year.
Career Advancement (download application)
The MakeWork Career Advancement Grant enables full-time, professional and emerging artists in all disciplines in the Chattanooga area to pursue professional development and skill building opportunities that will advance their work and careers.
Studio Assistance (download application)
The MakeWork Studio Assistance Grant supports emerging to mid-career artists in all disciplines with the cost of maintaining a working studio for one year. Individuals and collectives are eligible to apply.
Applications are available online for download at www.createhere.org and are due on March 31st, 2008. An informational meeting with details about MakeWork grants will be held on February 11th from 2-4 PM at the CreateHere Studio at 55 East Main Street.
For more information on CreateHere and MakeWork’s grants, contact Charissa Bruhn at 423-648-2195 or charissa@createhere.org.