Grant Opportunity — Urban Artist Initiative
The Asian American Arts Alliance, Association of Hispanic Arts, Harlem Arts Alliance, the Queens Council on the Arts, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian - in partnership with the Bronx Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts - announce the continuation of their consortium grants program, the Urban Artist Initiative/New York City (UAI/NYC). This fellowship program provides individual NYC artists of color in all disciplines with general support to advance their artistic and professional development.
Pending funding, grants of $2,000 will be awarded to artists in all areas of visual, literary, and performing arts. UAI/NYC will consider applications from individual artists of color of African, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent who reside in one of the five boroughs of New York City.
UAI/NYC is a major project of the Creative Communities program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) – a ten-year national campaign to improve conditions for artists in all disciplines, so that artists can more readily do their creative work and contribute to community life. UAI/NYC has received major funding from LINC, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Booth Ferris Foundation.
The 2008 Urban Artist Initiative/New York City Application is now available. Please, click here to access it.
You may download a PDF of the 2008 Application Guidelines by clicking here.
Application Deadline: September 26, 2007.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
Asian American Arts Alliance
Contact: Kelly Kuwabara
(212) 941-9208 x3
Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 am - 6 pm
www.aaartsalliance.org
Association of Hispanic Arts
Contact: Julia Gutiérrez-Rivera
(888) 876-1240
Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 am - 6 pm
www.latinoarts.org
Harlem Arts Alliance
Contact: Linda Walton
(212) 410-0030 x212
or UAI@harlemaa.org
Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 am - 6 pm
www.harlemaa.org
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Contact: Johanna Gorelick
(212) 514-3704
For information about UAI/NYC, check the websites of:
American Indian Community House
(212) 598-0100
Amerinda (212) 598-0968
Queens Council on the Arts
Contact: Vivian Warfield
(718) 647-3377 x19
Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm
www.queenscouncilarts.org
URBAN ARTIST INITIATIVE
For more information on the Urban Artist Initiative:
Ted Berger, Project Director, (212) 246-3788
Bill Aguado, (718) 931-9500
Longwood Art Gallery, (718) 518-6728
Click here for more info.