Collective Power Fund begins its 2024 grant cycle, offering $60,000 to artists and art collectives
Fourteen Grants Available at $2,000, $5,000, and $10,000 Tiers, in Collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program
Northwest Film Forum’s Collective Power Fund returns this year with fourteen grants for individual artists and artist-run collectives who live in unincorporated and incorporated King County. Individual artists will be able to apply for the lower two tiers; the $2,000 grants will be for Research & Development, to compensate artists for intellectual labor and idea development, while the $5,000 grants will be for New Work & Project Grants, to support the creation and presentation of visionary, artist-driven new work and projects. The $10,000 tier will be exclusive to artist teams or artist-run collectives.
“I can’t believe this grant is already in its fifth year! I feel privileged to continue supporting this work and aiding local artists,” says Mikayla Nicholson, Grants Manager at Northwest Film Forum. “Watching the Collective Power Fund grow with the input from the community has been a true joy, and I’m honored to support equitable opportunities for a diverse and underserved group of creatives!”
Collective Power Fund is presented as a part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program. Collective Power Fund focuses primarily on supporting work that incites public dialogue, pushes boundaries, explores genre fluidity, speaks its truth through an authentic perspective, and is often non-traditional, anti-institutional, socially responsible, or disruptive of existing structures and conventions. It encourages a community-forward environment of resource-sharing, mutual support, and fellowship in the Pacific Northwest arts ecosystem.
Collective Power Fund grants will be project-based and will distribute $60,000 in funding as follows:
- (1) $10,000 (Artist Team or Arts Collective)
- (8) $5,000 (New Work/Projects)
- (5) $2,000 (Research + Development)
Individual artists, who live in King County, will be able to apply for the $2,000 or $5,000 tiers. The $10,000 tier will be exclusive to artist teams or artist-run collectives within unincorporated and incorporated King County.
New Work/Project Grants ($5,000)
Support the creation and presentation of visionary, artist-driven new work/projects.
Research & Development Grants ($2,000)
Research Grants funds can be used to compensate for intellectual labor and idea development, to pay other artists and thinkers for their time and contributions, and/or for costs associated with gaining access to specific resources.
Project Criteria for this grant round include:
- Projects must function around a visual arts context
- Applicant must be the primary creator of the project and related work
- Projects must have a publicly accessible component
- Proposals must be for the development, completion, and/or presentation of a project
- Applicant must have creative control and rights of the proposed project
- Applicant can only submit one project per grant cycle
- Individual artists may apply to complete a body of work as long as part of their project expands beyond their own solo practice
- Funded projects must be completed by July 30, 2025
Notable dates:
- Wednesday, March 6: Application Opens
- Wednesday, May 1: Application Closes
- Late June: Recipients Announced
Info sessions:
- This year’s info session was recorded in advance by Forum staff, and posted to collectivepowernw.org