Professional Development and Artistic Planning Grants

Summary

The Professional Development and Artistic Planning Grants, offered by South Arts, support the professional growth of presenters, programmers, and curators in the Southern U.S. These grants facilitate travel to conferences, workshops, and other opportunities to enhance organizational capacity and program design. Emphasizing diversity and inclusion, South Arts encourages applications from organizations led by BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled individuals. Funding covers travel, training, and related expenses, promoting equitable access to professional development.

Grant Details

• Funder: South Arts, Inc.
• Grant Amount: Up to US $1,000

Overview

• Funding can support staff’s travel expenses to conferences, festivals, exhibitions, workshops, and other professional development opportunities.
• Funding also supports guest artists’ or guest curators’ travel expenses for onsite planning meetings with presenting organizations.
• Grants support travel expenses (e.g., lodging and air/ground transportation), admission/registration fees, and other related expenses.
• Grants support expenses for virtual professional development opportunities and staff training (e.g., diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility training or technology training for virtual engagements).
• South Arts is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, prioritizing representation from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) led organizations, LGBTQIA+ led organizations, and organizations led by people with disabilities as both applicants and grantees.
• Applications are encouraged for projects that engage BIPOC artists, LGBTQIA+ artists, and artists with disabilities.

Eligibility

• Presenting organizations must have not-for-profit, tax-exempt status or be an official unit of local, county or state government. (Tax-exempt status will be verified by a third party for nonprofit presenters; governmental presenters must provide proof of government status).
• Applications are only accepted for new opportunities that organizations, under normal circumstances, are unable to attend.