Individual Professional Advancement Grants

DESCRIPTION

Individual Professional Advancement Grants (IPAG) will provide funding to Sonoma County individual creatives who experienced physical loss or damage to personal property due to the 2017 Wildfires, and who need assistance in re-launching their creative careers. Activities may occur outside of Sonoma County, so long as the recipient is a full-time Sonoma resident. These activities should be on a scale that they can be planned, developed, and executed by December 31, 2019.

Funds are best used for activities that advance the creative individual’s ability to make and sell, exhibit, distribute or otherwise share his/her artwork or creative services with audiences, consumers and fans. Please see the full guidelines for specific examples of the types of activities that my be supported by this grant.

GOALS

Support individual creatives in Sonoma County, affected by the 2017 Wildfires, as they rebuild the pathways and tools to support their artistic endeavors
Build Sonoma County residents’ sense of our shared creativity
Increase the visibility of Creative Sonoma

GRANT AMOUNT

Requests may be made for up to $5,000 (the minimum request amount is $500).

ELIGIBILTY

Full-time residents of Sonoma County, California, age 18 or older
Physical loss of or damage to personal property due to the 2017 Wildfires
Creative background – a 5-year history of working in the arts and/or creative industries

APPLICATION EVALUATION CRITERIA

Artistic Innovation and/or excellence as demonstrated in the application
Articulation and evidence of how the request will advance the applicant’s creative career
Demonstration of financial need
Feasible timeline and realistic budget
Completeness and clarity of application

HOW TO APPLY

Read the Guidelines, and then utilize the Application Help Tool, which contains all of the application questions and instructions. You will need to have or create an account on Submittable, our online application portal.

GUIDELINES
APPLICATION HELP TOOL (ALL THE QUESTIONS)

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

This one-time grant program closed to applications in December 2018.

This project is made possible in part by the California Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. To learn about how state and federal arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.ca.gov and www.arts.gov.

GRANTEES

Adrian Litman