North Carolina Artist Support Grants and informational webinars

The Artist Support Grant was created to provide direct support to individual artists during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative will fund professional and artistic development for emerging and established artists to enhance their skills and abilities to create work or to improve their business operations and capacity to bring their work to new audiences. Artists representing visual, craft, performing, traditional, and interdisciplinary art forms are encouraged to apply. Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to spending a significant portion of their time on their work as artists. The Artist Support Grants will support projects from December 2020 – June 30, 2021.  Awards may range from $500-$1,000. Applicants may receive full or partial funding.

All completed Artist Support Grant applications will be judged by a multi-county panel of established artists, arts professionals, and arts educators and administrators who will review and evaluate the applications and allocate funds for selected projects.

More information

Avery, Madison, Mitchell and Yancey Counties: http://www.toeriverarts.org/
Application Deadline: October 5, 2020

Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Polk, Rutherford and Transylvania Counties: http://www.haywoodarts.org/
Application Deadline: September 30, 2020

Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon and Swain Counties: https://www.coweeschool.org/
Application Deadline: September 30, 2020

(These grants are available in participating North Carolina counties. For counties outside the ones listed above, visit https://www.ncarts.org/invest-arts/grants-artists/artist-support-grants)

Informational webinars

Haywood County Arts Council Artist Support Grant Workshop #1
August 26 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
http://haywoodarts.org/event/artist-support-grant-workshop-1/

Haywood County Arts Council Artist Artist Support Grant Workshop #2
September 14 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
http://haywoodarts.org/event/artist-support-grant-workshop-2/

A workshop for interested artists will be offered on Zoom August 24, 2:30 – 3:30 PM. Please contact Melanie Finlayson at melanie@toeriverarts.org or 828.765.0524 for more information or to register. The Zoom workshop will have limited availability but will then be made available for all to watch on our websites a few days after the workshop.

Region 18 Grant Workshop
Click here to view a recording of the informational workshop held on August 19th: files.nc.gov/ncarts/macon-asg-8.19.20.mp4