NDCA Awards $56,341.34 in Grants Across ND

The North Dakota Council on the Arts (NDCA) has recently completed its fall grant round for Fiscal Year 2009. $56,341.34 was awarded in three (3) different grant programs: Artist in Residence, Community Arts Access, and Teacher Incentive. All applications were evaluated by grant review panels and all awards were subject to approval by the NDCA’s Board of Directors.

General descriptions of the different grant programs are listed below. Complete guidelines and application instructions for these and other NDCA grant programs are posted on the NDCA’s web site at www.nd.gov/arts; through the NDCA’s office at (701) 328-7590; or via email at comserv@nd.gov.

Artist-in-Residence: Sponsor

The Artist-in-Residence program provides matching funds for schools and other non-profit organizations to bring artists into North Dakota schools and communities to conduct residencies of three days or longer. This program is designed to provide students, teachers, and community members with hands-on experiences and personal interactions with working artists. Residencies give students an understanding of quality art and appreciation for cultural traditions. Maximum Grant: 50% of the artist’s negotiated fee and expenses. Deadline Dates: November 1 and April 1.

Community Arts Access

As a community-based grant program, Community Arts Access is designed to benefit nonprofit organizations that present arts programming in small and rural communities in North Dakota. It also supports nonprofit organizations in communities of all sizes whose arts programming makes a deliberate and focused effort to serve a special constituency or an underserved audience in that community. Maximum Grant: $2,000. Deadline Dates: November 1 and April 1.

Teacher Incentive

The Teacher Incentive program is a means of providing financial assistance to teachers who wish to explore new and creative ways of incorporating the arts into the non-arts curriculum of a classroom. Projects may involve the visual arts, poetry/fiction writing, performing arts, architecture, folk arts, or any combination of artistic disciplines. Maximum Grant: $300. Deadline Dates: April 1 and November 1.

For easy reference, the awarded grants are listed below by grant program. The region (also listed below) of the applicant is listed first, followed by the applicant name, community, and the grant amount. In the case of Artist in Residence grants, the award is listed by the region of the school or sponsoring organization, which is followed by the community, name of the artist, and grant amount.

Region 1: Divide, Williams, and McKenzie counties.

Region 2: Burke, Mountrail, Renville, Ward, Bottineau, McHenry, and Pierce counties.

Region 3: Rolette, Towner, Benson, Eddy, Cavalier, and Ramsey counties.

Region 4: Pembina, Walsh, Nelson, and Grand Forks counties.

Region 5: Steele, Traill, Cass, Ransom, Sargent, and Richland counties.

Region 6: Wells, Foster, Stutsman, Logan, McIntosh, LaMoure, Dickey, Griggs, and Barnes counties.

Region 7: McLean, Mercer, Oliver, Morton, Grant, Sioux, Sheridan, Burleigh, Emmons, and Kidder counties.

Region 8: Golden Valley, Billings, Slope, Bowman, Dunn, Stark, Hettinger, and Adams counties.

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The North Dakota Council on the Arts is the state agency responsible for the support and development of the arts throughout North Dakota, and is funded by the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.