Individual Artist Grants
Artist Equity Grant
FY26
Open: August 4, 2025 | Deadline: September 14, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: January 1, 2026
FY25
Open: August 5, 2024 | Deadline: September 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: December 1, 2024
The Individual Artist Equity program provides up to $4,000 to individual artists who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, People with Disabilities, people over 65, military veterans, and/or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual/Agender, Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2+). Historically, these people and their voices have been oppressed, unseen, and unheard. ARAC seeks to raise these voices up.
Art Project Grant for Individuals
FY26
Open: February 2, 2026 | Deadline: March 15, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: July 1, 2026
FY25
Open: February 3, 2025 | Deadline: March 16, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: June 1, 2025
This grant provides funding up to $4000 to any adult artists, in any arts discipline at any stage of their career.
Small Grants
This program has been suspended for FY26
Open: January 1, 2025 | Deadline: March 2, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. | Earliest Project Start Date: April 1, 2025
This grant provides funding up to $1000 to any adult artists, in any arts discipline at any stage of their career. This grant offers funding for costs associated with the exhibition, performance, or production of creative work, purchase of materials or equipment to create works of art, overcome a barrier to long term success, reach a new community or market, educational opportunities in the arts (excluding academic credit), and other opportunities to enhance your artistic development, such as working with a mentor artist, attending a conference, taking part in an artist residency program, or marketing yourself or your work.