EASTERN N.C. ARTS COUNCILS SEEK APPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANTS
Dare County Arts Council is seeking applications for the 2019–2020 Regional Artist Project Grants. The deadline to apply is Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. Complete funding guidelines and applications are available online here. The Regional Artist Project program is managed through a partnership with the North Carolina Arts Council and 29 local arts councils throughout eastern North Carolina working as a consortium. Counties include Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties. Residents in these counties are eligible to apply for grants that provide financial support to artists in all disciplines, such as visual art/craft, music composition, film/video, literature/playwriting and choreography/dance, and at any stage of their career. Types of fundable projects include the creation of new work, purchase of equipment and materials and professional development workshops. Complete funding guidelines and applications are available online here. Since 1985, the state Arts Council has provided funds for the Regional Artist Project program to support professional artists. The regional consortium of eastern North Carolina arts councils matches the N.C. Arts Council to create a pool of funds for the artists. In the East, grant awards to artists generally range from $500 to $1,000, and follow a competitive application and review process. Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge serves as administrative arts council for the Eastern North Carolina Regional Consortium and manages the application and review process. Application forms and grant guidelines are available on their website here. Applications must be received no later than Friday, September 13, 2019. If applying online the deadline time is 11:59pm. If hand delivering or mail delivering, applications must go to the Pitt County Arts Council, located at 404 S. Evans St., Greenville, NC 27858 or can also be delivered to Dare County Arts Council at 300 Queen Elizabeth Ave, Manteo NC 27954. For more information, contact Holly Garriott, Executive Director, Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge, holly@pittcountyarts.org, (252) 551-6947 or Dare County Arts Council at (252) 473-5558