Offering six $1,500 student grants, fourteen $7,500 project grants, five $15,000 Community Activator grants, and one $25,000 Creative Impact Award to artists in 2022, Artists 360 includes learning opportunities to develop entrepreneurial skills, build sustainable careers and create a network of leading regional artists in Northwest Arkansas.
Monday, May 16, 2022
5:30pm
Mount Sequoyah
Fayetteville, AR
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
12:00pm
Eureka Springs Auditorium
Eureka Springs, AR
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
5:30pm
Arts on Main
Van Buren, AR
Thursday, May 19, 2022
5:30pm
CACHE Studios
Bentonville, AR
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Noon
Virtual Session
Thursday, June 16, 2022
4 p.m.
Virtual Session
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Artists 360 is designed to elevate and energize greater Northwest Arkansas artists by providing them with $7,500 grants to support creative projects, learning opportunities to develop entrepreneurship skills and build sustainable creative practices, and connections to a dynamic regional artist network.
Touring Project
Projects that involve the touring/presenting of your work within and outside of Arkansas.
Works in Progress
Projects that involve a specific phase of a work in progress that has a clear end goal. (Projects DO NOT need to have a public component.)
Creative Research and Professional Advancement
Projects that focus on professional advancement and creative research opportunities that strengthen an artist’s expertise and advances their creative practice.
Social Practice
Projects that activate Northwest Arkansas communities and address social issues, opportunities and challenges. Projects must focus on the creation and presentation of art and have a public component.
Each Artists 360 application should include:
Artists 360 is designed to elevate and energize greater Northwest Arkansas student artists by providing them with $1,500 grants to support creative practices and career advancement, learning opportunities to develop entrepreneurship skills and build sustainable practices, and connections to a dynamic regional artist network.
(Student artists do not have to be an arts major to be eligible for Artists 360.)
Each Artists 360 student application should include:
The Artists 360 Community Activator grant is for individuals or collaborative partnerships that will fund projects created by artists that provide opportunities to other artists, to create an active community of peer support in the Northwest Arkansas region.
The Community Activator grant is designed to elevate and energize greater Northwest Arkansas artists by providing them with:
These grants are designed for projects led by artists with a sustained practice who are engaged in collaborative projects that create groundbreaking work that generates dialogue and community engagement.
You are eligible to apply if you:
Artists working in and across a range of disciplines may apply. You will be asked to identify the primary discipline that applies to the project you are proposing within these categories:
You are not eligible to apply if you are:
*If you are an artist working within a 501c3 nonprofit organization, K-12 school or post-secondary institution, proposed projects must be separate from the cope of your compensated work for that organization or educational institution.
The Artists 360 Community Activator grant category is designed for projects led by artists with a sustained practice who are engaged in collaborative projects that create groundbreaking work that generates dialogue and community engagement. A community may be defined geographically (e.g., town, neighborhood) or by relationships and characteristics (e.g., identity, heritage).
Artists 360 grants will support a new project, or a significant component and/or further development of an ongoing project.
The annual Artists 360 Creative Impact Grant provides one artist based in Northwest Arkansas with unrestricted funds of $25,000 and professional development opportunities, including convenings that facilitate network building. This award is designed to strengthen the artist’s career and deepen the arts community in Northwest Arkansas.
This grant is awarded by nomination. Nominations may be submitted by self-nomination or by anyone who lives or works in the following Arkansas counties (Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Sebastian, and Washington).
In writing a nomination, nominators are asked to provide concrete examples of what the nominee has accomplished that merits receiving this award. Nominees may come from any artistic discipline, including but not limited to dance, film, folk, music, theater, and visual art. This opportunity is designed for artists that can be leaders and provocateurs for the artistic community in Northwest Arkansas. Artists that will be considered are at least mid-career, make exceptional work and are professionally recognized both within Arkansas and nationally, have noted contributions to Northwest Arkansas’s cultural ecosystem, and live in one of the following Arkansas counties: Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Sebastian, and Washington.
The nomination review panel for the Creative Impact Grant will use the following criteria in selecting the awardee.