Round 2 opens summer 2024

Round 1 (2023) Grant Info

KINETIC GRANTS

Kinetic Grants are awards up to $2,000 to fund artist’s production for a new project with a publicly accessible component.

Examples may include but are in no way limited to exhibitions, performances, videos or film screenings, books/zines/brochures. 

The jurors will be looking for proposals that exemplify a distinctive or new approach to the creation or presentation of visual arts in our region.

Criteria

  • Project must be firmly based in or related to the visual arts

  • Artist or lead organizer must live in Erie or Niagara Counties

  • Must support production of work towards a public exhibition, event, or release

  • Anyone receiving an honorarium for an exhibition at BICA during the same FY is not eligible

  • This grant should represent a significant step towards the completion of a project (i.e. it should not be used as a small portion of a much larger project budget)

Application Components

  • Project title + 1-3 sentence description

  • Project description

  • Project budget (You can use our template, and also see an example budget!)

  • 10 Work Samples + Captions

Potential GRANTS

POTENTIAL GRANTS are awards up to $10,000 and are intended to act as seed funds to sustain novel, long-term platforms for artistic expression and experimentation that foster collaboration, dialogue, and discourse in our region.

Examples may include exhibition spaces (from formal to informal; your bedroom to a rented space); podcasts or radio stations; zines or forums for arts writing; collective spaces; community gardens; public lecture series. This grant is meant to fund artists in collaboration to create new platforms for presentation.

The jurors will be looking for projects that:

  • Nurture the creative ecosystem in our region

  • Exemplify collectivity, equity, or unexpected collaboration

  • Exemplify a distinctive or new approach to the creation or presentation of visual arts in our region

Criteria

  • Project must be firmly based in or related to the visual arts

  • Artist or lead organizer must live in Erie or Niagara Counties

  • Resulting project activities must be accessible and presented to the public within the above counties

  • The proposed project must be new or undergo a dramatic change (ie: a rebirth, a move, etc)

  • This grant is meant to support projects working outside traditional frameworks, organizations holding 501c3 status upon time of submission are not eligible.

Application Components

  • Project title + 1-3 sentence description

  • Proposal including list of potential collaborators, locations, etc. (max. 2000 words)

  • Project budget

  • 10 Work Samples + Captions

*First round projects should occur between January 1 and December 31, 2024.

FAQs

What do you want to know?

This is our first round administering grants from the Generator Fund! Let us know what your questions are and we’ll update this section as questions come in.