KFW is excited to announce new mini-grants up to $500 for KFW artists. Applications open July 15, 2024, and are accepted on a rolling basis.
Click here to read the full guidelines for the ACD Mini-Grant!
KFW recognizes the need for quick turn-around funds to support career advancement opportunities for Kentucky feminist artists that may come up outside of our regular grant programs. The KFW Artist Career Development Mini-Grant (ACD) provides up to $500 to support activities that further a KFW artist’s career, broaden the audience or impact of their work, and strengthen artist networks.
The Artist Career Development Mini-Grant is for current and previous KFW grantees whose primary residence is in Kentucky at the time of the application and during the grant activities. A match is required. KFW will provide ¾ (75%) of the cost of activities up to $500.
Artist Career Development Mini-Grants can be used for:
- Artist’s residencies and retreats to build your body of work, focus on research or the creation of a new project, and “radical rest” for artists. (Radical Rest is a term used to describe a comprehensive approach to healing from oppressive systems. It centers self-care to rejuvenate an artist’s work to create social change.)
- Perform, present, or screen your artwork, films or other performance pieces at panels, conferences, festivals, and juried showcases.
- Solo or group exhibitions of your work at galleries, museums, or in a community context. This can include framing and shipping costs for visual artwork.
- Travel costs to attend a career development opportunity that centers your artmaking.
- Strengthening your artist network by attending a regional, national, or international gathering of artists, or by hosting a gathering of feminist artists working for social change in your community.
- Entry fees to submit your original art to writing contests, film festivals, art festivals, etc.
This is a feminist art-focused grant. ACD Mini-Grants cannot be used for:
- Anything that is not artistic in nature. The basis of this grant is career development for a feminist artist’s career in artmaking.
- Artist fees. (Apply to the AMA or AE grant programs for KFW to cover artist fees.)
- Event sponsorship. If you would like KFW to sponsor an event, please check out the Sponsorship link on our website.
- Artist groups or organizations. This mini-grant is for individual artists only.
- Past events or activities that are not at least 30 days after the application is submitted.
- Participation in a college or university class.
- Formal apprenticeship or mentorship with an established artist.
- Anything that KFW cannot fund as a 501c3. See eligibility guidelines here.
If you have questions about eligibility, the grant timeframe, or the purpose of the mini-grants, please contact avery@kfw.org.
