Grants, Fellowships, and Competitions Sourcebook 2 Overview 4 Our Mission 5 How to Use This Booklet 6 Getting Started 7 Exhibiting 8 Set Goals and Define Your Project 9 Sample Grant Outline & Budget 11 Submitting Your Application 12 MICA Resources for Writing 13 Begin Your Research

14 Academic Fellowships and Scholarships 15 MICA Offerings 16 Graduate School & Study Abroad 17 International Travel Awards & Opportunities

18 Listings 19 Directories 20 National and Regional Partners 21 Registries and Organizations 22 Artist-in-Residence Programs 23 Grants & Competitions 24 About Competitions 25 Moving Image Festivals 26 Public Art Opportunities 27 Crowd Source Funding 28 Definitions

Grants and Competition Contents 2 Overview

Grants and Competition Grants and Competition 3 Our Mission

The Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Career Resource Library Development’s mission is to foster the Our resource library offers information professional growth of MICA students on all aspects of career development. and alumni. The Center strives to help Many of our handouts can be students and alumni succeed in their downloaded anytime from the website. chosen career paths by offering a variety Online Resource Library of programs, services, and resources. Weekly Workshops and We meet with students and alumni Special Programming introducing valuable research tools and providing resources for their journeys as Career Development offers workshops, creative professionals. informational meetings, and special programs on many professional Location development topics. The Gateway, 2nd Floor The Internship + Career Fair, as well as 1601 W. Mount Royal Avenue Fine Art Reviews are both held annually to bring organizations representing a Hours wide-range of regional art and design Professional staff members are available professionals to MICA students and Monday–Friday during the regular alumni seeking internships, jobs, business hours of 9am–5pm throughout exhibitions, residencies and networking the year. opportunities. MICAnetwork.com is the Center’s online Contact listing of employment, internships, and To schedule a career other opportunities. counseling appointment go to calendly.com/micacd.

Grants and Competition Our Mission 4 How to Use This Booklet

ABOVE: James Rieck ’03 (Mount Royal MFA). Pictured is Mixed Colorful Separates, 2014

After creating a cohesive and strong be important for allowing creatives to NOTE: LINKS MAY CHANGE. If you find The Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Career body of work and participating in sustain their practice. This sourcebook that a link is not active, type Development has not participated in multiple exhibitions, seeking grants offers some general guidelines and the home or main URL associated with it, the development of these sites and is and awards is the next step in an active a sampling, not an exhaustive list, then search within the site for the not responsible for the availability or professional artist’s studio practice. designed to generate enthusiasm and to award information. content. Links to sites are provided Grants and awards are not meant to provide information on some popular solely as a convenience to the user and serve as one’s only income, but can funders and resources. do not constitute any endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation by MICA.

Grants and Competition How to Use This Booklet 5 Getting started

As a professional artist, not only do you Some artists use a content management need great work, but part of creating system to keep themselves organized a successful career means treating like GYST. You should have multiple your practice seriously. In order to sized files for each image already be ready for success, make sure to prepared in order to have images small have high quality images of your work, enough to upload into Submittable or and all the pertinent information SlideRoom. If you do time based work, (year created, dimensions, title and make sure to have a demo reel prepared medium) for each piece in one place. or works uploaded to Vimeo. This information should be organized You will also need your artist’s and labeled in a way that it is easily statement, bio, an updated artist resume accessible when needed. If you would or CV, and a list with contact information like to document your work yourself, of potential references. review these tutorials: Photographing As a professional artist, you absolutely 2D Works, Photographing 3D Works. For need to have a website. If you do not performance based installation work have one yet, you can create a portfolio or pieces made from materials that are on MICA Portfolios. Your site should be hard to document, it may be worth it to listed on your artist resume so curators, hire a photographer. critics, etc. who like your work can continue to follow you.

Grants and Competition Getting started 6 Exhibiting

In order to be competitive when One of the best ways to find shows is Regional listings for Places to look for national applying to grants or residencies, you by networking with other artists and exhibition opportunities exhibition opportunities will need to have a history of exhibitions attending art openings. Artists are MICAnetwork Café Events on your resume. To begin exhibiting usually not given solo shows until they MICA Fine Art Reviews Re-Title.com your work, start at MICA by applying have had several group exhibitions. BmoreArt Rhizome to the undergraduate Student Space Following others on social media is Gallery or graduate Grad EX. Once you another great way to network and stay Art Place (MAP) College Art Association have exhibited on campus, then try connected with other artists and your SHOWSPACE NYFA Opportunities for some juried or group shows in the local artist community. Maryland Federation of Art Brooklyn Arts Council community; consider putting together DIY exhibitions with your peers. ArtDeadline.com DC Spacefinder ArtShow Art Deadlines List

LEFT: Wickerham & Lomax is the collaborative name of -based artists Malcolm Lomax ’09 (Painting BFA) and Daniel Wickerham ’14 (Painting BFA). Pictured is the Sondheim Exhibition Installation, 2015.

Grants and Competition Exhibiting 7 Set Goals and Define Your Project

In most cases, grant applications will require a narrative component—a statement Sample checklist Prepare Your Proposal of purpose or intent that describes the project, defines goals, and establishes a time What are the goals of your project? Again, each proposal will require line. This part of the application is where you must offer detail on how you will achieve What are the goals of the funding different elements. Here are some your goals and what types of support you will need. Please note that requirements organization? general guidelines to consider when vary widely from opportunity to opportunity. If your project is focused on working with preparing a proposal. a specific community group, make sure that you are engaging with them to better What stage is the project currently in? When preparing a proposal understand their needs and to create potential partnerships. How are you going to accomplish it? Be concise and clear. How long will it take you to complete the project? Use action verbs. How much funding will you need? Create a story that your reviewers can visualize. What types of support do you need? Give specific examples. Who is your audience? Create white space and small paragraphs. ALWAYS have someone proofread your materials!

LEFT: Allison Gulick, ’13 (Curatorial Practice MFA), received the Challenge America Fast-Track grant for $10,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The Challenge America Fast-Track category from the NEA offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations. Pictured is the title wall for her project, Reloading the Canon: African Traditions in Contemporary Art which took place at the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University in Baltimore, 2013. Photo by Nathaniel Phillips ’13.

Grants and Competition Set Goals and Define Your Project 8 Sample Grant Outline and Budget

TELL A STORY Heading Page Body Paragraphs Typically grant applications are only This lists your name and a title for your These paragraphs include further details one page. Always be sure to follow the proposal. Putting images of your work or about your work and the activities you directions as to how many words your relevant imagery for the project can be hope to accomplish to achieve your proposal can be. impactful. When choosing a title, select outcomes. Make sure to include details something direct that potential jurors that allow the reader to visualize your Example could immediately understand. plans. Be as specific as you can be, Grantspace.org sample unless the grant specifies otherwise. PROPOSAL Some grants are looking to support First Paragraph those that are proposing to conduct This is a very brief statement of your open-ended research with undefined mission, your work or your need, what outcomes. you want to accomplish, and the name of the grant for which you are applying. Last Paragraph Explain how will you know you are BELOW: Pragun Agarwal ’19 (Graphic Design successful. What will the impact be on MFA). Pictured is Toast Festival, 2019 your practice, career, your audience, or the community?

Grants and Competition Sample Grant Outline and Budget 9 A budget will often be required in EXPENSES Cost in USD your proposal. Make sure that you are considering all of the relevant costs and Rental car that your plans are feasible. (Enterprise 36.00/day with surcharge & tax) $174 Some expenses that can be included Gas in a budget are in-kind donations (a (Graduate Studio Center to Ewing, Virginia; donation of materials, food, space, or 496 miles one way for total 992 miles) $110 non-monetary donations), and personal Campgrounds contributions (money you will need to ($20/night for three nights) $60 personally contribute to supplement the required expenditure of your proposal if Park Admission $32 the grant is less than what you require). Food $80 Materials Examples: (film, paper, drawing supplies) $44 Meyerhoff Internship Fellowship MICA Graduate Research Grant

Total $500

Grants and Competition Sample Grant Outline and Budget 10 Submitting Your Application

Supporting Materials On Rejection Suggested Online Tutorials Some opportunities may allow you to Rejection is a routine part of this Foundation Center Tutorial submit supporting materials. This could process, as you will not be awarded NYFA Tutorial include images of your work, screen everything you apply for. After receiving MICA Community Engagement Toolbox shots of airfare estimates, letters from this information, you can kindly contact contributing partners, or even sketches the administrator and ask to receive of proposed pieces. feedback on your materials unless they Most organizations will tell you very specify otherwise. This information specifically how they would like you to can often provide valuable tips for submit materials so make sure to follow future success by applying to the same their guidelines EXACTLY. Failure to opportunity the following year. follow application instructions could get you automatically eliminated. On Acceptance Now that you have gotten the grant or Consider labeling each page of your opportunity, make sure to write a note to grant application with your name the funders expressing your gratitude! so the administrator can keep your Follow all the defined guidelines for materials organized. If they do not delivering any submittables, receipts, offer specific suggestions and you are or final reports on time. Document your emailing your materials, make sure to project so you can share images with the have a clear subject line. Example: funder and use for your own promotional “BIG Grant Application Materials.” purposes. Label the files you are attaching in a way that is easy for your reviewers to know whom the file belongs to. Example: “SmithG_2016BIGGrant. pdf”. ALWAYS submit your materials on time if not before the deadline, as it is very unprofessional and inappropriate to seek extensions. Unless they specifically tell you not to put any identifying ABOVE: Jacqueline Bishop’16 (Studio Art MFA) is the coordinator for the international collaborative project, By the Work information on your files. of Her Hands, which was awarded the Museums Connect Grant in 2014 from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the American Alliance of Museums. She also recently received a grant of $88,000 from the State Department for her “Dialogues in the African Diaspora” project. Bishop’s work is currently on display by through the Arts-in-Embassies program in the US Embassy in Cape Verde and the US Embassy in Niger. Pictured is Flamboyant, 2015.

Grants and Competition Submitting Your Application 11 MICA’s Writing Resources

APPLICATION ASSISTANCE FOR GRANTS & COMPETITIONS MICA students and alumni have had incredible success with applications for grants and competitions. Career Development’s staff work closely with applicants and have helped MICA students build an amazing track record of success with some of the most prestigious and competitive programs.

WRITING ASSISTANCE MICA’s Writing Studio is available to all current students who need their materials reviewed. Students may struggle with the basics of writing, which can greatly affect the effectiveness ABOVE: Lu Zhang ’04 (General Arts BFA) received a MFA in Painting from the Frank Mohr Institute in the of written proposals and grant Netherlands. In 2014, she became an inaugural recipient applications. If writing is something you of a Rubys Artist Project Grant in Literary and Visual Arts. Pictured is topo(log) typo(log), 2015. Photo by JHU would like to improve, Bird by Bird and Homewood Photo. On Writing Well may be helpful books to review.

WRITING HELP FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS For undergraduate and graduate international students for whom English is a second language (ESL), ESL Services are offered. Students can seek assistance from the staff at the Writing Studio.

Grants and Competition MICA’s Writing Resources 12 Begin Your Research

Wide arrays of creative opportunities reviewed what has been funded in the are listed in this sourcebook. Always past. For residencies, make sure that the carefully review eligibility requirements, past participants are at the same point restrictions, deadlines, and specific in their careers as you are by reviewing guidelines for each opportunity, as it their resumes and websites. is not uncommon for these to change Ask questions: Each funder may from year to year, and for grant cycles to designate a process and/or support vary. Eligibility requirements can include staff to help guide applicants and gender, age, geography, ethnicity, career answer questions regarding the point, and education or training. application process. Make note of these Some grants, awards, and residencies resources and don’t hesitate to call them will not be easily found online, so with your questions. often the best way to find potential As you look for opportunities, make sure opportunities is by “mining” the resumes to keep an organized list of upcoming and CV’s of artists whom you admire. deadlines and required materials in one Most granting organizations have an place. Often awards will be due every overall mission statement and/or clearly year at the same time and artists may specified requirements for each grant. apply more than once for prestigious Make sure that they are seeking to fund awards. Keeping a calendar that lists projects like the one you are proposing. yearly upcoming deadlines is a great way Often artists submit proposals that do to always be looking ahead for future not fulfill the grantors requirements success. because the applicant has not carefully

ABOVE: Kei Ito ’16 (Photographic and Electronic Media MFA) was awarded $2000 worth of Nikon equipment from the 2014–2015 Nikon International Photo Contest. Pictured is Sound of Shouting, 2014. Ito was also selected by SPF (Society for Photographic Education) for the “2016 Student Awards for Innovations in Imaging”.

Grants and Competition Begin Your Reserach 13 Academic Fellowships & Scholarships

Grants and Competition Grants and Competition 14 MICA Offerings

FOR UNDERGRADUATES AT MICA FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AT MICA Competitive Scholarships for Graduate Research Development Grants Returning Undergraduate Students Grad Pop-Ups! Competitive Scholarships for Graduate Competitive Fellowships International Students Meyerhoff Internship Fellowship Competitive Scholarships for Diversity Grants Transfer Students OCE Grant Funds Chairs Awards Community Engagement Grants Meyerhoff Internship Fellowship

Diversity Grants PRIVATE SCHOLARSHIP The Y.L. Hoi Memorial Award Office of Financial Aid Community Engagement Grants List and Resources FASQA Award For additional sources of financial support or scholarships to fund Go-A your MICA education, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at 410-225-2285. LEFT: Rachel Guardiola ’15 (Mount Royal MFA). Guardiola was selected to create her piece Into the Zone (Anthology of Accounts and Findings) for Light City and traveled to the Arctic Circle in the summer to participate in The Arctic Circle Art & Science Residency. Pictured is Figure 38, 2014.

Contact your department chairperson Announcements may appear through or departmental office each year for departmental emails and in Career information on various opportunities Development newsletters. The Graduate for currently enrolled, returning, and Studies Division posts listings in their graduating students. weekly newsletter to inform master’s degree candidates of numerous available awards.

Grants and Competition MICA Offerings 15 Graduate School & Study Abroad

If you are seeking funding for graduate school, make sure to visit the financial aid offices of the schools to which you are applying. Typically the institution to which you attend will offer the majority of your scholarships. College Art Association IIE Passport Study Abroad Funding The Foundation Center United Negro College Fund American Association of University Women American Institute for Foreign Study Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship Mustard Seed Foundation Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation Fellowship for “New Americans” The Point Foundation the National LGBTQ Scholarship Worldstudio AIGA Scholarships MICA students have an excellent track record of success with national awards for graduate study.

ABOVE: Ryan Rennie ’15 (Ceramics BFA). Pictured is w, 2015.

Grants and Competition Graduate School & Study Abroad 16 International Travel Awards & Opportunities

Study Abroad MICA graduates have received grants Transitions Abroad and residencies for international travel and independent research. Sponsoring Asian Cultural Council organizations have included the British Council American Scandinavian Foundation, CECArts Link Cintas Foundation the Japan American Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the Fulbright Scholar Program (CIES) for Fulbright U.S. Student Program, and visiting lecturer appointments, faculty the U.S. Peace Corps. Fulbright U.S. Student Program (IIE) for study and research, enrolled students and alumni Idealist.org (fellowships) Japanese Exchange & Teaching Program (JET) Rotary Foundation Global Grants

ABOVE: Xinyi Cheng ’14 (Hoffberger MFA). Pictured is The Rain, 2014.

Grants and Competition International Travel Awards & Opportunities 17 Listings

Grants and Competition Grants and Competition 18 Directories

For Non-US Citizens For Non-US Citizens For international applicants searching “Most U.S. foundation on NYFA Source, be sure to click the box scholarships {funding} go to named “keyword” and type “international U.S. citizens and residents and applicants”. This will result in listings that not to international students or you should be eligible to apply to. alumni. However, Foundation Grants New York Foundation for to Individuals Online our searchable the Arts (NYFA) Source database of grantmakers that give to individuals lists more than 100 funders By membership only—login is available who give grants to foreign applicants at Career Development for a variety of purposes. If you use this and many public libraries also offer database, start with a Type of Support access for free. search for ‘foreign applicants.’” Foundation Grants to Individuals Online — Foundation Center Website College Art Association National Endowment for the Arts Women Arts The Granstmanship Center ABOVE: Elizabeth Turk ’94 (Rinehart MFA) was named a MacArthur Fellow for 2010, awarding her a $500,000, no-strings- Fundsnet Services attached grant. The Fellowship is for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Pictured is the artist in her studio, photo by Erik Stoner. Grants.gov Fiscal Sponsorship Directory Fractured Atlas

Grants and Competition Directories 19 National and Regional Partners

ABOVE: Dave Essa ’13 (Painting BFA) has been awarded an REGIONAL PARTNERS REGIONAL GRANTS NATIONAL ARTS COUNCILS Open Society Fellowship of $60,000 to allow him to work full time on his ongoing project working with inmates in AND AWARDS Like following Regional art the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup Previously, Association for Baltimore Essa had been awarded grants a Maryland State Arts Area Grantmakers The Rubys Artist Project Grants organizations, it is also helpful to be Council, Individual Artist Award, a Creative Baltimore Fund informed of opportunities and initiatives Grant, and a Grit Fund Grant. Pictured is My Mother Always Greater Baltimore Cultureal Allaince The Baker Awards Told Me I’d Grow Up To Be A Lawyer, 2015. offered nationally. Baltimore Office of Promotion The Urban Arts Leadership National Endowment for the Arts and the Arts Program Fellowship National Assembly of Station North Arts Sondheim Prize State Arts Agencies Highlandtown Arts Creative Baltimore Fund Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation PNC Transformative Art Prize Mid-America Arts Alliance D.C. Commission on Arts Hoop House Public Art Microgrants Maryland State Art Council and Humanities The Grit Fund New England Federation Maryland Humanities Council Awesome Foundation Grant As you seek opportunities, be aware for the Arts Baltimore County Commission Bethesda Painting Awards of what organizations are sponsoring US Regional Arts Organizations on Arts and Sciences each grant so you can reach out with The Trawick Prize Howard County Arts Council any questions and also be informed of The Hamiltonian Fellowship Program any open informational sessions. Baltimore Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship Non-profits often change the awards Baltimore Office of Sustainability they offer from year to year based on Mid Atlantic Creative Fellowships Fusion Partnerships their funding, and as a result the newest Individual Artist Award Strong City Baltimore opportunities may not be posted on The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage their websites. One way to stay informed Maryland Citizens of the Arts Open Society Foundation is to sign up to receive the organization’s Robert W. Deutsch Foundation newsletter, or consider becoming a member.

Grants and Competition National and Regional Partners 20 Registries & Organizations

ARTIST REGISTRIES The Irving Sandler Artists File PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS American Society of Media One way artists can gain exposure is to Maryland State Arts Council Industry specific organizations often Photographers participate in artist’s registries. Curators The Painting Center list opportunities. Becoming a member Society for Photographic Education can easily find artists who participate for of relevant professional organizations White Columns Curated Artist Registry American Institute for exhibition opportunities. sometimes allows special access to the Conservation of Historic WESTAF Registry MICA Portfolios grants and other opportunities. and Artistic Works Art in Embassies BRIC Arts (Brooklyn Artists) American Art Therapy Association National Sculpture Society The Creative Finder Animation World Network Sculptor.org The Drawing Center AIGA: The Professional National Alliance for Media Organization for Design InLiquid Arts and Culture (NAMC) American Institute for Architects Regional Manufacturing National Education Association Institute of Maryland College Art Association

BELOW: Site Ma ’19 (Graphic Design MFA). Pictured is Imaginrium of Taste, 2019.

Grants and Competition Registries & Organizations 21 Artist-in-Residence Programs

There are different financial models for residencies. Some charge a fee for you DIRECTORIES Penland School of Crafts to attend while others are free. Some allow you to do a work exchange to offset NYFA Source Pryamid Atlantic costs, and some even provide you a stipend. Typically artists may pay for their first Alliance of Artists Communities Residency Unlimited experiences, then as their career progresses they are admitted into more prestigious ResArtis paid residencies. Rauschenberg Foundation TransArtists Before applying, always be sure to check out the portfolios and artist resumes of Sculpture Space artists who have attended previously to see if you would be a good fit for the program. Skowhegan School of NOTABLE NATIONAL RESIDENCIES Painting +Sculpture Writing a Letter of Intent for an artist residency is somewhat similar to writing a grant Archie Bray Foundation proposal, but it may ask you to specify why you would like to be at that particular site. Smack Mellon Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts The Core Program Blue Sky Project Vermont Studio Center Blue Mountain Center Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Creative Alliance Women’s Studio Workshop Djerassi Resident Artists Program

Fabric Workshop & Museum NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL Franconia Sculpture Park RESIDENCIES Grand Arts Baltic Art Center, Sweden Headlands Can Serrat, Spain I Park est Nord est, Canada Jentel FABRICA, Italy John Michael Kohler Arts Center Instituto Sacatar, Brazil Kala Art Institute Irish Museum of Modern Art Lower East Side Keyholder Residency Karrvaz Foundation Grants Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Netherlands Instituut voor Animatie film National Parks Service Arts in the Parks Nordic Artists’ Center in Dale OMNI The Banff Center, Canada ABOVE: Sara Dittrich ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture BFA) Pictured is Physical Arrangement for String Quartet, 2015, created in collaboration with Benjamin Buchanan.

Grants and Competition Artist-in-Residence Programs 22 Grants and Competitions

Alexander Rutsch Award, Dorthea Lange—Paul Taylor Prize, American Illustration + American Painting Photographers Photography, Illustrators and The Rome Prize, Franklin Furnace, Photographers Artists & scholars Performance and New Media Aaron Siskind Foundation, Bush Foundation, Honickman First Book Prize, Photographers Community Engagement Photographers AIGA’s Design For Good list, Art Prize, All Artists Knight Prototype Fund, Social Impact Design Artist’s Fellowship, Designers, Makers Art Directors Club (ADC) Young Emergency Grant Puffin Foundation, All Artists Guns Award, Design & Media Arts BELOW: In 2013, Matthew Adelberg ’15 (Painting BFA), 16’(MAT) was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields grant. Center for Craft Creativity Cinereach, Emerging Film Makers CMYK Magazine, Design, Pictured is The Good and The Bad Inclination, 2015. Photography, Illustration and Design, Craft Artists Nathan Cummings Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, Inequity or Climate Change Society of Publication Designers (SPD) Competition, Graphic Design All Artists Multi-Arts Production Fund, Creative Work Fund, All Artists Performance Art Adobe Achievement Awards, Design and Media Arts Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, New American Paintings, Painters Tremaine Foundations, Curators Representational 2D Art Working Artist, All Artists Foundation for Contemporary Artists, Whitney ISP, All Artists & Curators All Artists Virginia Agroot Foundation, 3D Artists Film Independent, Film Makers

Grants and Competition Grants and Competition 23 About Competitions

Some of the most prestigious individual AVOID SCAMS artist awards do not take applications— Some competitions are unethical. awards are made through a nomination Before entering, you might consider process. While you cannot apply for how your project will be used and what these awards, applying for and receiving value the competition offers you. For other grants and awards can bring Design, read the AIGA statement on you to the attention of nominating design competitions and speculative committees, can help build a network work here. For Fine Arts, information of leaders in the art world who know on how to avoid scams check out your work, and can raise your visibility stopartscams.com. to the organizations that administer these awards.

ABOVE: Chat Travieso ’07 (General Fine Arts BFA). In 2015, Chat was named a United States Artist Fellow for 2015, a prestigious $50,000 award. Pictured is Sit Anywhere: Borenquin Plaza, 2014.

Grants and Competition About Competitions 24 Moving Image Festivals

DIGITAL, VIDEO, FILM & ANIMATION Leeds International Film Festival Festivals are important for promoting MadCat Women’s International new work. Often selected participants Film Festival are given lodging, food and travel expenses. Start showing your work in Ottawa International smaller lesser-known festivals, and Animation Festival as your career progresses you can be included in the more prestigious events. ACM SIGGRAPH: The ACM special interest group on Computer GRAPHics IndieWire and Interactive Techniques Annecy International SLANT Animated Film Festival Slamdance Brooklyn International Film Festival SXSW CineMart International (Rotterdam) Sundance LA Film Festival CTN Animation Expo Johns Hopkins Film Festival

ABOVE: Film and Video Chair Nadia Hironaka was awarded a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The foundation, which bestows the fellowship annually to those “who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts,” recognized Hironaka in the film-video category. Pictured is Light Switch Daydream, 2005.

Grants and Competition Moving Image Festivals 25 Public Art Opportunities

PUBLIC ART & CREATIVE PLACEMAKING DIRECTORIES Artists can answer calls for RFP’s (requests for proposals) in order to be considered to Americans for the Arts Public Arts create a piece of public art. Many cities have a percent-for- art program meaning that Art Place America a certain amount of the budget for all new public buildings has to be spent on public Café for Artists art. Be sure to use a program like SketchUp to let the selection panel envision your piece or provide a to-scale model. Las Vegas Art Commission Project for Public Places Public Artist Public Art Fund Public Art Review

LEFT: In 2014, Landry Randriamandroso ’09 (Community Arts MFA) was commissioned to do five murals of birds as part of Baltimore City’s 1-Percent-for-Public-Art Program, which connects visual artists and local residents for neighborhood beautification projects. Pictured isRed- bellied Woodpecker, 2014.

Grants and Competition Public Art Opportunities 26 Crowd Source Funding

MICA partnered with Kickstarter to FUNDRAISING PLATFORMS create the MICA curated Kickstarter FOR INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS page. Since then, many MICA AND SMALL BUSINESSES undergraduates, graduate students, Kickstarter and alumni have successfully raised IndieGoGo the funds necessary to complete their projects. CrowdRise Career Development can meet with Fundmytravel you to advise you when curating a IOBY Kickstarter project. Check out the guide for How to Kickstart Your Project for additional information. If you start a Kickstarter campaign to fund a project and would like it to be showcased on the curated MICA page, email the details to [email protected] once the campaign is live.

LEFT: Jessica Karle ’12 (Graphic Design MFA) and Tim Hoover ’12 (Graphic Design MFA) raised $18,502 through their Kickstarter campaign to fund a book to promote their venture Kern and Burn (pictured). The book was created to inspire those who pursue self-initiated projects. Their blog 100 Days of Design Entrepreneurship shared their process and research for the book.

Grants and Competition Crowd Source Funding 27 * *Some of these terms are interchangeable and Definitions may be used in different ways than defined below.

Individual Artist Grant Emergency Grants Fellowships Institutional Grant Funding provided to an artist to Grants awarded to artists in times of Awards and grants for research, Funding given to an institution such use freely without stipulation; given as a need typically given after a medical independent projects, and advanced- as a non-profit organization, university way to support and encourage an artist’s emergency, natural disaster, or level study, often in conjunction with an or school. continued ability to make their work, and financial tragedy. academic institution. Individual artists are not eligible to apply usually highly competitive. Examples: Examples: to these unless they are working as a Examples: Craft Emergency Smithsonian Fellowships partner with an institution. Sometimes Maryland State Arts Council’s Relief Fund (CERF) Windgate Fellowship Awards artists can apply for these grants if they work through a Fiscal Sponsor. Individual Artist Award Foundation for Contemporary Examples: Project or Production Grant Arts Emergency Grants Scholarships Our Town Funding for an individual or an Awards and grants of financial aid for organization to initiate or complete Professional Development tuition and fees. Selection criteria may The Andy Warhol Foundation a specific project or program. or Career Grant include one’s past accomplishments for the Visual Arts Examples: Grants awarded to artists so that they and experiences; often offered by the Creative Capital Ruby Grants can participate in trainings, workshops, institution for which the applicant will be conferences, or residencies that are paying tuition. intended to help them develop new skills Examples: Travel Grant or progress in their careers. Print and Graphics Grants awarded to allow travel to Examples: Scholarship Foundation another location that would be beneficial to the development of an artist or Fund For Teachers Korean American designer’s work. ArtTable Internship Scholarship Foundation Examples: Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant Program Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Grants and Competition Definitions 28 Apprenticeship Programs Equipment Access Awards Request for Proposals (RFP) Letter of Inquiry/ Opportunities to gain insight and Competitive programs that award This term is often seen for opportunities Letter of Interest (LOI) professional advice by working with an winners with access to special to submit proposals for murals or public A short letter that summarizes a non- established career artist. equipment, such as printmaking studio art projects. profit’s or individual’s proposal sent to keyholder programs. a potential funder or sponsor.

Calls for Entry Space Awards Museums, commercial galleries, Fiscal Sponsorship Competitive programs that grant studio Letter of Support/Recommendation alternative spaces, and periodicals Refers to the practice of non-profit space at no or minimal cost. A partner organization’s formal letter offer opportunities for artists to submit organizations offering their legal and that demonstrates encouragement and artwork for exhibitions or publications tax-exempt status to groups engaged approval of participation for a grant through a juried process. in activities related to the organization’s application. missions; typically involves a fee-based contractual arrangement between a Contests project and an established non-profit. Monetary awards or exposure and BELOW: Lofty Nathan ‘09 (Painting and Video BFA) has received The Grainger Marburg Travel Grant, fellowships from The Garrett Scott Foundation, Compound Group, and IFP Spotlight. Pictured is 12 O’Clock Boys, 2013. recognition in exhibition venues such as magazines, art fairs, or film festivals. In-Kind Gifts Donations of materials, merchandise, equipment, or labor. Crowdsource Funding An approach to fundraising that enables many individuals to collectively fund a Matching/Challenge Gifts specific project or small business. Donors match a particular amount of money raised from other sources.

Artist-in-Residence/Residencies Offer space and time for artists to Request for Qualifications (RFQ) apply singular focus to the creation of Often cities or commissions advertise new work. RFQ’s for artists interested in being considered as candidates for public art projects or public art registries.

Grants and Competition Definitions 29 We hope that you have found this resource helpful. We are here to assist MICA students and alumni with their applications and proposals. Give us a call to book your appointment today at 410-225-2420.

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