Funding is awarded to low-budget grassroots arts organizations and artist-run projects in Kansas City.
Criteria:
- Primary contacts for organizations must be an artist of any discipline, over 21 years of age, and cannot be currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program (BFA, MFA, or other)
- Organization or proposed project (if submitting as an individual) cannot have an annual operating budget over $50,000 or own assets worth over $50,000
- Open to artist-run initiatives and Arts and Culture operations located in the 5-county region of the Kansas City metro or fiscally sponsored artist collaboratives, collectives, or companies (can include art spaces, festivals, ongoing operations, or one-off events)
- Open to the following disciplines: visual art, film, dance, theatre, spoken word/performative poetry, multidisciplinary, new media, new/experimental music, social practice, arts publications/arts writing, conceptual or social design projects
- Applicants must have 24 months of operating history if applying as a collective, organization, or company. Unaffiliated artist-organizers pitching one-time events or projects must have a demonstrated history of prior organizing success via CV.
- 100% of funds will be awarded to organizations whose mission and leadership will positively impact the advancement of BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and/or Disabled communities, in recognition of the oppression of those communities in the art sector and the gap that has been created particularly in the Kansas City art scene.
