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BLACK ROCK ARTS FOUNDATION GRANTS
Grants for Community-Building, Interactive Art Projects
We are pleased to announce our 2008 Grant Recipients. Click here for more!
We are no longer accepting applications for our 2008 grants. We will make the application available for next year's grant cycle in winter of 2008. Please email info@blackrockarts.org if you'd like to be added to a email list that will announce our 2009 grant cycle. Thanks for your interest in our grants!
About Our Grants
Since 2002, we have provided grants to artists to support interactive installations and performances across the country. In 2007, generous contributions from other foundations and from hundreds of individual contributers, enabled us to double, from four to eight , the number of grants we were able to make. Our goal is to continue this expansion, funding 40 individual grants, by the end of 2009.
2008's recipients represent a range of ideas and interactions worth celebrating. Some 2008 grants will sustain artworks originally conceived and created for exhibition at Burning Man, making it possible to
bring them to new audiences after the event. Others extend collective art projects initially piloted in the Bay Area, making it possible to implement facets of them again in San Francisco and communities beyond. Some projects employ a valuable connection with the emerging Burning Man Regional Network, expanding our geographic reach, while nurturing individual artists' capacity to create works in and with their own local communities. Last year's cycle also supports creation of work for specific San Francisco and Bay Area neighborhoods. Seed and challenge grants given in this cycle help artists obtain further support for international endeavors. Through these projects we see local actions budding into global projects.
This is an incredibly optimistic time for us. We see in our artists and their projects a reflection of our community of artists, supporters and donors. During this time of rapid expansion, BRAF's board, staff and volunteers are grateful for our donors and members.