Project and Discovery Grants

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Grant Name

Funder

Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage

Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Country or Region

United States

Research Field

Arts and Culture

Arts and Humanities

Cultural Activities

Film or Cinema or Video

Historic Artifacts

Installation Art

Interdisciplinary Art Forms

Media Arts

Performing Arts

Deadline

January 15, 2022 (Expired)

Grant Size

Upper $800,000USD Organizations may be eligible to apply for Project grants up to $400,000. Up to three organizations can also pool their individual grants towards a collaborative effort, not to exceed $800,000 in total. Multi-organization collaborators must each submit an individual application for their collective project. Organizations may be eligible to apply for Discovery grants up to $50,000.The implementation period for Project grants extends from January 1, 2020 and must conclude by June 30, 2022.The implementation period for Discovery grants extends from January 1, 2020 and must conclude by December 31, 2020.

Contact Info

(Exhibitions & Public Interpretation) epi@pewcenterarts.org

Carlos Diaz (Performance) cdiaz@pewcenterarts.org

Eligibility

Only organizations are eligible to apply as of the 2019 cycle. Support for individual artists and curators must be considered as part of an organization's proposal.Organizations must have 501(c)(3) designation at the time of submitting a Letter of Intent to Apply (LOI) and must have paid, professional artistic and managerial project staff. If awarded funding, grant contracts can only be signed by a person with legal and fiduciary responsibility for the organization.Organizations must be in sound financial health, as determined by audited or externally reviewed financial statements demonstrating no operating losses in two out of the past three years and showing positive working capital. Audited financial statements are required by the Center from organizations with annual budgets exceeding $500,000.Organizations must be located in the five-county Philadelphia area (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties).Organizations must have a substantial record of presenting professional public programs.

Description

Project grants are for making big ideas happen: bringing artistically and programmatically excellent, ambitious, and substantive performances, exhibitions, or interpretation projects to fruition. Projects can take various forms, and be produced by single organizations or multi-organizational collaborators. They may be wholly new undertakings for the applicant or represent the further development of an ongoing direction. Projects must deliver distinctive, high-quality, and meaningful cultural experiences to audiences in the Philadelphia region. They should also demonstrate awareness of leading practices in the field and be situated in relationship to them. Core artistic or program personnel must include one central practitioner with whom you have not worked before. Program series within the same application must be conceived for presentation under a single rigorously considered curatorial premise that cogently outlines what is at stake artistically and programmatically. Documentation that extends the life of the project and amplifies its non-regional audiences is a priority.1. Exhibitions & Public Interpretation: Areas of programming considered within this category include public display and/or interpretation of artworks, historical artifacts, scientific objects, living collections, buildings, stories, or ideas; film, video, or other moving-image presentations and technology platforms; and all other forms of exhibitions and public cultural interpretation, including those that take place in public spaces, online, and/or make use of participatory strategies.2. Performance: Areas of programming considered within this category include original works or new treatments of existing works in all performance forms; film, video, and other moving-image performance works; distribution of performance using experimental media or technology platforms; and performances in public spaces, online, and/or making use of participatory strategies.Discovery grants are for focused exploration that will seed future project proposals. They are designed to create the conditions that will allow applicants to be competitive and successful within the Project grant arena. Discovery grants support: the development of a creative process or strategy; deep examinations of a curatorial/program idea; rigorous topical research and knowledge acquisition; testing a hypothesis; piloting or prototyping a project or program; conducting audience research that will enhance artistic decision-making; and developmental consultations with creative minds from around the world. A public component is required of all Discovery grants.Major public events that are part of a Center grant should generally not be scheduled to take place before March 1, 2020. Eligibility Only organizations are eligible to apply as of the 2019 cycle. Support for individual artists and curators must be considered as part of an organization's proposal.Organizations must have 501(c)(3) designation at the time of submitting a Letter of Intent to Apply (LOI) and must have paid, professional artistic and managerial project staff. If awarded funding, grant contracts can only be signed by a person with legal and fiduciary responsibility for the organization.Organizations must be in sound financial health, as determined by audited or externally reviewed financial statements demonstrating no operating losses in two out of the past three years and showing positive working capital. Audited financial statements are required by the Center from organizations with annual budgets exceeding $500,000.Organizations must be located in the five-county Philadelphia area (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties).Organizations must have a substantial record of presenting professional public programs.

Website

https://www.pewcenterarts.org/apply#node-13765

Funding resources
Purdue Grant Writing Lab: Introduction to Grant Writing	Open Link
University of Wisconsin Writing Center: Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal	Open Link