Chatham Arts CouncilEmerging Artist Grants
We partner with the fine folks at the Durham Arts Council to bring the Emerging Artist Grant opportunity to Chatham County artists.
Individual artists living in Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, and Person counties who have lived in one of the five partner counties at least a year, are 18 · The 2027 grant application deadline is January 4, 2027.
From chathamartscouncil.org/emerging-artists-grants ↗About this program
Applications are Open! We're fortunate to partner with the fine folks at the Durham Arts Council to bring the Emerging Artist Grant opportunity to Chatham County artists.
Funding opportunities for individual artists are rare—particularly in the performing arts—so this is pretty special.
Artists, if you're in one of these two places in your artistic life, check out the guidelines and application: You've mastered the basic techniques of your art form, and you're undertaking a project that will further your professional artistic career, or You've been a working artist for a long time, and you're undertaking a project that will move you to a new stage in your professional artistic career.
Emerging Artist Grants are open to artists living in Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, and Person counties. Criteria for making the awards include the accomplishment and commitment of the artist, the feasibility of the proposed project, and the impact the project will have on the applicant's career.
Questions
Who is eligible for an Emerging Artist Grant?
Emerging Artist Grants are open to artists living in Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, and Person counties. To be eligible for an Emerging Artist Grant, you must have lived in one of the five partner counties at least a year, must be 18 years of age, and cannot be a student enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in your art form.
What are the criteria for making the awards?
Criteria for making the awards include the accomplishment and commitment of the artist, the feasibility of the proposed project, and the impact the project will have on the applicant's career.
When is the application deadline?
The 2027 grant application deadline is January 4, 2027.
Where can I find online applications and guidelines?
Lots of information—including online applications, guidelines, and information sessions via Zoom—is available at the Durham Arts Council's website.
Details
- Who
- Individual artists living in Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, and Person counties who have lived in one of the five partner counties at least a year, are 18
- When
- The 2027 grant application deadline is January 4, 2027.
- Ages
- 18 and older
Run by
Artists-in-Schools InitiativeOur Artists-in-Schools Initiative is here to change all that.Grassroots Arts GrantsWe're thrilled to have granted nearly $200,000 over the past two decades to other nonprofits using the arts to do extraordinary work in Chatham County through annual Grassroots Arts Grants.
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