Deadline: 9 July 2024
Applications are now open for the Creative Australia Arts and Disability Initiative for d/Deaf artists or arts workers, or artists or arts workers with disability, seeking to undertake a project or activity to advance their practice, skills or career.
If you are a d/Deaf artist or arts worker, or an artist or arts worker with disability, these grants can provide support for significant projects to extend your arts practice, networks, skills, and ambition.
Your project should be ambitious, bold, and innovative. It should enhance your career and work, and strengthen your networks. It must include a clear plan with the steps you will take to achieve your goals. It must also outline the structure and support you will put in place for your development to take your career or practice to the next level.
Funding Information
- Creative Australia is offering ten grants of $30,000
What you can apply for?
- You can apply for:
- skills development
- mentoring
- residencies
- creation of new work
- creative development
- experimentation
- practice-based research
- presentation and promotion
- collaboration
What you can’t apply for?
- You can’t apply for projects or activities that:
- do not involve or benefit practicing artists or arts workers
- do not have a clearly defined arts component
- have already taken place.
Who can apply?
- Only individuals may apply to this initiative. If you are part of a group, you may apply on behalf of the group.
- You must identify as a d/Deaf artist or artsworker, or as an artist or arts worker with disability.
- You must be an Australian citizen or an Australian permanent resident.
- You may only apply once to this initiative at the 9 July 2024 closing date.
Who can’t apply?
- You can’t apply for a grant if:
- you received a grant from Creative Australia in the past and that grant has not been satisfactorily acquitted
- you owe money to Creative Australia
- you are an organisation.
For more information, visit Creative Australia.


