Writing a Creative Arts Grant Proposal

Creative Art Grants can be for any medium, such as musical composition, painting, dance production and writing fiction.

No matter what medium, Student Art Grant proposals must situate your project in a larger creative context. They must also offer very specific details about the objectives, process and product resulting from the project, and show the project impact on your development. These suggestions are intended to help you present an effective blending of significance and detail that will appeal to granting agencies, including UAR.

Synopsis. A project synopsis is a brief but specific statement of the project objectives, methods and impact on you as an artist.

Project Narrative. The project narrative is an extended discussion of your objectives, methods and the artist’s creative biography.

Medium and Technique:

• Describe in detail the artwork you intend to accomplish.
• What area or media will you be working in?
• What conceptual approach are you taking with this project? What concerns do you address?
• How do you envision your final product?
• What techniques will you use? Why and how will you use them?

Current Dialogue:

• Cite sources that have inspired you for this proposal.
• Compare the proposed project with past or current work by other artists.
• Describe how your work relates to analogous works in other artistic métier.

Creative Biography:

• What formal or informal training have you had?
• What relevant experience prepared you for this project?
• How does your past work inform this project?

Process:

• How do you plan to accomplish this project?
• Provide a detailed timeline, including preproduction research
• Production schedule, itemizing tasks and allocating time and organization for each postproduction work, if applicable

Outcomes:

• How will this project or product enhance your interests and skills, directions and opportunities for further work?
• Exhibition, presentation, performance or publication: How, where and when do you plan to present your work?

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