PUB: Sustainable Arts Foundation

We are now accepting applications for our Spring 2012 awards! Our deadline is March 1st, 2012.

 

Winter 2011 Award Winners

A huge congratulations to the winners of our 2011 Winter Awards:

Sustainable Arts Foundation 2011 Winter Awards ($6,000 each)

Emily Barton, writer
Kim Curtis, artist
Kate Hopper, writer
Maria Shell, artist
Andrea Stolowitz, writer

 

Sustainable Arts Foundation 2011 Winter Promise Awards ($1,000 each)

Eden Unger Bowditch, writer
Paul Brigham, artist
Rebecca Campbell, artist
Stanley Goldstein, artist
Allan Reeder, writer
Jenny Robinson, artist
Claudia Rowe, writer

For more details about our winners, visit our Awardees page.

 

The Sustainable Arts Foundation is a non-profit foundation supporting artists and writers with families. Our mission is to provide financial awards to parents pursuing creative work.

Too often, creative impulses are set aside to meet the wonderful, but pressing, demands of raising a family. The foundation's goal is to encourage parents to continue pursuing their creative passion, and to rekindle it in those who may have let it slide.

Apply

2012 Spring Awards
Application deadline March 1
Awards announced May 1
2012 Fall Awards
Application deadline September 1
Awards announced November 1
Please read these instructions carefully before you begin.

We strive to keep our application process as simple as possible. Please keep one thought in mind: the better we understand your work, the easier it is to evaluate it. The unfortunate reality is that the majority of applications go unfunded. Please know that regardless of the outcome, we greatly appreciate the time and effort you put into your application.

Our standard application is an online application. It's simply much easier for us to process the volume of applications we receive and review them in this online format.

Because we don't want to prevent anyone from applying, we do accept applications via postal mail.

The application is very straightforward, and consists of 3 major parts:

contact information

Very basic stuff. We need your contact information so we can keep you apprised of the status of your application.

personal and artistic information

This is your chance to tell us who you are as a person, a parent, and an artist. We've organized this into a few sections:

Who I Am: Biography

Please tell us about yourself. Remember that the Sustainable Arts Foundation's unique trait is our focus on artists and writers who are also parents. If it's relevant, we'd like to hear how your family life inspires or challenges your artistic career.

What I Do: Artist Statement

Please give us a concise description of your work and goals as an artist.

What I've Done: Curriculum Vitae

We'd like to know about the public presentation of your work. Please paste (or attach on the next screen) your current CV or resume, noting especially, if applicable, any grants, awards, or fellowships, plus your exhibitions or publications.

What I'd Like to Do: How I Would Use this Award

If you have specific needs that would be met by this award -- child care, workspace, new equipment, research, travel -- please outline them here. If you have a budget for a specific project, let us know. The more we know about you and your work, the easier it is for us to envision how this award would succeed.

 

If you already have nicely formatted versions of any of the above that you'd prefer to use, please feel free to attach them in the Portfolio section of the application.

portfolio

Please supply samples of recent work. While you're welcome to include or make reference to older works, please know that we're particularly interested in the work you've produced since having children.

 

Submission Guidelines for Writers   ** UPDATED **

  • Writers: 2-4 samples (chapters, short stories, essays, manuscripts or published books)
  • Poets: 10 poems
  • PDF format only, please.
  • Please "blind" your attachments (no name or contact information on your attachments)

 

Submission Guidelines for Visual Artists   ** UPDATED **

  • 10-20 images
  • Use highest resolution available (we want to see your work at its best)
  • No video uploads, please. For those of you working in video/film, please provide links to your work online or send hardcopy materials.

If the works have titles, please use the appropriate field on the application, and also note any additional description of the work (date created, medium, etc.) If the work has been published or exhibited, please note that as well.

Hardcopy materials will not be returned.

 

We strongly urge you to prepare your responses offline. Computers crash, internet connections hang. We'd hate for you to lose your work due to a technical glitch. After preparing your answers, and the files you wish to upload, you can simply copy-and-paste them into our form in a matter of minutes.

questions

If you have any questions about the application process, please don't hesitate to contact us.

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