Creative Work Fund expands grant offers to San Benito
The Creative Work Fund (CWF) is inviting artists and
organizations to apply for funding for collaborative projects
featuring performing artists or visual artists. Artists and
organizations from 14 California counties are eligible to apply for
funding including, for the first time, San Benito and Santa Clara
counties. To assist applicants, CWF is offering a series of
seminars from late August through mid-October 2009.
Creative Work Fund expands grant offers to San Benito
The Creative Work Fund (CWF) is inviting artists and organizations to apply for funding for collaborative projects featuring performing artists or visual artists. Artists and organizations from 14 California counties are eligible to apply for funding including, for the first time, San Benito and Santa Clara counties. To assist applicants, CWF is offering a series of seminars from late August through mid-October 2009.
“It’s wonderful to be able to extend the Fund’s reach to more California artists and community organizations,” said Frances Phillips, director of the Creative Work Fund. “We hope to encourage active participation from artists in San Benito and Santa Clara.”
Since 1994, the Creative Work Fund has awarded $6.7 million in grants to artists and nonprofit organizations that collaborate to create new art works. Since 2004, the Fund has gradually expanded the geographic range of its program funding. With this year’s addition of San Benito and Santa Clara counties, artists and organizations from Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, and Stanislaus are now eligible to submit letters of inquiry by Nov. 6.
The Creative Work Fund has scheduled three seminars to assist artists and organizations in the newly eligible counties with the application process. More seminars will be announced soon; check www.creativeworkfund.org for updates.
Applicants are not required to attend a seminar, but the seminars fill quickly. To reserve a spot, visit the Application Seminars page under Apply for a Grant at www.creativeworkfund.org (preferred method), or call 415-402-2794 at least two days before the event.
The Creative Work Fund is a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund that is supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation.
The Fund awards grants to projects in five broad artistic categories: literary arts, media arts, performing arts, traditional arts and visual arts. Each year, the Creative Work Fund focuses on two of these categories. For its November 2009 deadline, it is inviting projects featuring performing artists or visual artists and defines these artistic practices as:
Performing artists may be creators – such as playwrights, choreographers, and composers – or may be performers. The performing arts encompass dance, opera, performance art, theater, or vocal and instrumental music.
Visual artists include those with experience in painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, installation art, public art, drawing, crafts, graphics, ceramics, design, or artists’ books. (Video and sound-based installation artists and artists creating new genre, time-based works should apply as media artists in a future year.)
More information can be found at www.creativeworkfund.org.
Seminars:
San Benito County: Aug. 26, 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Galeria Tonantzin, 115 Third St. (corner of Washington and Third), San Juan Bautista
Santa Clara County: Thursday, Sept. 10, 3:30-5: p.m. or 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), 510 S. First St., San Jose
