Deadline: 4 March 2024
Idaho Commission on the Arts is providing funding to support the professional development of artists and arts administrators.
Applicants may receive funds for attending a conference, workshop, or other form of professional development.
Funding Information
- Award Amount: Up to $600
- Reimburses up to 50% of projected expenses. Maximum request is $600. Recipients must submit a final report to receive reimbursement.
Ineligible Funding
- Establishment of or contributions to an endowment;
- Fundraising projects that do not raise funds for the arts;
- Prizes, scholarships, or free tickets;
- Projects or programs to generate or attract audiences;
- Offsetting of debt, payment of fines, penalties, or legal fees;
- Activities that are primarily promotional or created for mass distribution, such as duplication of CDs, creation of portfolios, private gallery announcements, brochures, or websites;
- Self-published books
- Student exhibitions, anthologies, publications, or performances, unless those activities document an arts education grant;
- Costs associated with any degree or professional certification, such as tuition, fees, and teaching materials;
- Projects or activities already completed or beginning before the eligible start date or documentation of previously completed projects;
- Documentation of projects except for arts education activities;
- Projects primarily recreational, vocational, or religious;
- Activities restricted to an organization’s membership;
- Costs for consecutive attendance at annual activities that are routinely within an arts organization’s budget including, but not limited to, conferences of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Americans for the Arts, American Folklore Society, or the Western Arts Alliance;
- Pageants, festivals, or celebrations unrelated to arts, ethnic, or cultural activities;
- Journalism;
- Historical or academic documentary film and electronic media arts that do NOT demonstrate significant artistic emphasis, consideration, and distinction;
- Scholarly or academic works in history, languages, archeology, and political science;
- Lobbying expenses or political activities;
- Hospitality expenses such as food and drink, alcohol, flowers, etc. Any such expenses included in a project approved for funding must be paid with applicant funds;
- Capital expenses for an individual; or
- Writing intended for youth.
Eligibility and Restrictions
- Applicant must be a practicing artist, arts administrator, K-12 teacher, educator, or Commission Teaching Artist
- Applicant must be at least 18 years old
- Applicant must be a United States citizen, legal resident, or refugee, and be an Idaho resident for at least one year prior to the application deadline
- Final reports for past Commission grants and awards must be submitted and approved
- Applicant may receive one Quarterly Grant in a fiscal year. The State of Idaho’s fiscal year runs July 1 through the following June 30
- Fellowship, Traditional Arts Apprenticeship, and Writer in Residence recipients are not eligible for a Professional Development grant during their award year or term
- Individuals who currently are enrolled in a degree or certificate-granting program are not eligible
- Multiple Professional Development applications for the same event or opportunity will not be accepted from members or staff of single organizations with budgets over $50,000. Two applications for the same event will be allowed from members or staff of organizations with budgets under $50,000
- Activities cannot begin until July 1, 2023 and must begin before July 1, 2024.
For more information, visit Idaho Commission on the Arts.
