NEA Grants for Arts Projects
| To: | Chairs and Administrators, Departments in the Humanities; Associate Deans for Research; College/School Research Administrators |
| From: | Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research |
| Date: | December 22, 2023 |
| Subject: | National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grants for Arts Projects 2024 |
Deadline
| Deadline for Internal Review: | January 22, 2024 |
Project Description
OVCR is only accepting applications for internal review for the February 15, 2024 deadline. Applications will not be accepted for the July 11, 2024 deadline.
Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and culture ecosystem.
Through project-based funding, the GAP program supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.
The GAP program funds arts projects in the following disciplines: Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Media Arts, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts.
Go to Artistic Disciplines for detailed information about each discipline’s project types and application deadlines. Each discipline has identified the types of projects that are of greatest interest within this program, as well as the characteristics of competitive proposals to leverage the greatest opportunities for federal support to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem.
Amount: Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000. All grants require a nonfederal cost share or match of at least 1 to 1.
Duration of Award: Up to two years
Number of Awards: More than 1,000
Applications consist of two parts:
- Application Part 1: Grants.gov
Submit to Grants.gov the “Application for Federal Domestic Assistance/Short Organization Form.” This is a brief form that will collect basic information about your organization. You must successfully submit Part 1 in order to continue to Part 2. - Application Part 2: NEA Applicant Portal
Complete the “Grant Application Form (GAF)” and upload items through the NEA’s Applicant Portal. This web form is where you will enter the majority of your application material (e.g., project description, timelines, budget information, work samples, etc.).
Grants.gov Submission Deadline: February 15, 2024
NEA Applicant Portal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2024
Eligibility
UW–Madison may submit only one application to the FY 2025 Grants for Arts Projects program (i.e., one application per calendar year). A specific campus unit may qualify under NEA guidelines as an independent component of UW–Madison, in which case UW–Madison as the parent organization can submit a separate application on behalf of that campus unit. See the instructions below.
Website
The following link contains additional information on the program and specific application instructions:
https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects
Internal Competition Application Instructions
Applications for Internal Review
To submit your application, attach a single PDF to an email to: grants@research.wisc.edu
Please include the following information:
- Cover Sheet: Include the project title, name, and department of PI (Principal Investigator); the artistic discipline that most closely corresponds with your proposed project; and a list of project personnel and any partner organizations.
- CV of lead PI
- Project Synopsis: 200-character limit, including spaces.
- Project Description: 5,000-character limit, including spaces. Indicate the project’s start/end dates (up to two years including planning, executing, and closing out the project). The earliest start date is Jan 1, 2025. Describe the project activities that will take place during the period of performance. Please note that certain types of activities/costs are not allowable via this program.
- Engagement with Intended Community, Participants and Audience: 2,000 character limit, including spaces. Describe the intended communities, participants, or audiences involved in the project activities, and how they will benefit.
If your project will be delivered through a campus unit that you think may qualify as an independent component, provide the following additional information (OVCR will use this information to verify independent component status with NEA):
- Description of how the campus unit satisfies the NEA’s independent component status requirements: 1000-character limit, including spaces.
- 3-Year Arts Programming History: Highlight up to three examples of the campus unit’s programming (e.g., artists/works/projects) per year for each of three recent years prior to the application deadline. Programming must have started in or before February 2021. Limit each example to 750 characters, including spaces. Providing information in bulleted or list form is acceptable. For each representative example, where applicable, include:
- Date
- Title, Work, Event, and/or Program
- Venue and City/State, if applicable
- Key Artists and/or Personnel
- # of Classes, Performances, Exhibitions, Residencies, Readings, etc.
- # of Participants or Audience. If any programming would be listed in more than one year, you may provide consolidated participant/audience numbers with the listing for the first year
- Touring Info, if applicable
- For Publishers, provide data that demonstrates online and/or print readership
Sponsor Deadlines
Applications are due to NEA by February 15, 2024.
Questions?
Contact grants@research.wisc.edu.