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Updated Red Bull Arts Detroit Micro-Grant $500 Program [COVID-19 Response]

April 16, 2020 - June 30, 2020

Red Bull Arts Detroit is committed to the support and development of the Detroit arts community. As such, we’re dedicated to providing financial resources for local artists. Our Micro-Grant Program is designed to enable artists at all stages of their careers with the ability to continue their practices. Unrestricted direct-funding to artists is essential always, and is particularly critical at this moment.

In response, Red Bull Arts Detroit is modifying and expanding its Micro-Grant program to award a $500 grant each week to a Metro-Detroit based artist. These funds are meant to support artists in continuing their work however they see fit in this difficult moment. The adapted Micro-Grant program will continue in this new structure at least through the end of June.

Micro-Grant Program Award Details

On a weekly basis, a lump-sum $500 grant given to an artist based in Metro Detroit.
Potential opportunity to share projects through Red Bull Arts social channels.

Eligibility and Expectations

Open to artists aged 18+
Artists must be residing and working in Macomb, Oakland, or Wayne counties for the last year at minimum.
Applicants must be able to receive taxable income in the United States regardless of their citizenship status.
Both individual artists and groups can apply. Groups that apply together will collectively receive one $500 grant.

Application Guidelines

Applications are open on a rolling basis.
Applicants who have applied in the past and were not selected are encouraged to reapply. There is no requirement to wait a certain amount of time since your last application.
You may not apply if you have received a Micro-Grant in the last six months.
Please provide a CV or resume (if you are not able to do so or do not have a CV or resume you may submit without one); a portfolio of 1-5 examples of your work; and a letter of purpose which states why the Micro-Grant is important to you now and how it will impact your work.

applicable to artists working in these mediums:

All Mediums

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About Red Bull Arts Detroit

Red Bull Arts is an experimental, non-commercial arts organization dedicated to the cultivation and advancement of the arts by providing new opportunities for artists, extending the boundaries of exhibition making, and fostering meaningful public engagement with the arts. As one of Red Bull Arts two public-facing spaces, Red Bull Arts Detroit offers dynamic educational and public programming as the home of our curatorial fellowship, local micro-grant initiative, and artist residency program, which provides housing and studio space for 9 emerging artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines every year.

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