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BLACK ROCK ARTS FOUNDATION GRANTS
Grants for Community-Building, Interactive Art Projects
About Our Grants
Since 2002, we have provided grants to artists in support of interactive installations and performances around the world. We continue to increase the total dollar amount dispersed and number of grant recipients.
BRAF Grantees represent diversity, both in their chosen
media and strategies of bringing art into their communities. Each project
responds to a community’s culture, needs and environment in an innovative and
unique way. The concepts and implementation of the projects contrast greatly,
employing both high and low-tech media, inviting both expressive freedom and
refinement of craft, arising from both established collaborations and events
and grassroots efforts, reaching both small-town and metropolitan communities.
But all projects share a common goal: to include their community in the creation
of a project that exists for and belongs to the public – a project that
provokes immediate actions that connect individuals with each other and with
their community at large.
We'd like to extend our thanks to you, our supporters, for donating to BRAF and making our Grants to Artists program possible. Individual contributions are the primary source of funding for our grants. You make these projects happen! Visit donate.blackrockarts.org to keep this thriving program going!
What kind of work do we fund?
We fund highly interactive, community-driven works of art. We fund art that is accessible to the public, civic in scope and prompts the viewer to act. We like art that can be experienced in more ways than visually. We are fans of art that is meant to be touched, heard or experienced, as well as viewed. We prioritize funding art that involves the audience in its creation and presentation. Does this sound like your artwork? Apply for a BRAF grant!
While many of our grantees are inspired by the highly interactive, publicly engaging art experienced at the annual Burning Man event, the Black Rock Arts Foundation seeks to bring interactive, community-driven artworks to the rest of the world. Some of our grantees employ a valuable connection with the emerging Burning Man Regional Network, utilizing existing collaborations and established collectives to usher in new artwork into their local communities. Many of our grantees have no connection with the extended Burning Man network, but share the inspiration to spark civic engagement through interactive art.
Letters of Inquiry for our 2012 grant cycle were due December 1, 2011, and are no longer be accepted. No exceptions.
To apply for a BRAF grant for 2013, please read our criteria and instructions carefully, and sign up for our mailing list, which will notify you when LOI's for our 2013 cycle are being accepted.
Read more about our grant criteria, deadlines and application instructions.
Information on previous year's Grant Recipients :