Creative Research Grants

Overview

In 2024, FCA launched Creative Research Grants to fund the artistic exploration and development of experimental artists. Grants of $10,000 are awarded to artists for activities that inform and enhance artistic practice, encourage new creative directions, realize cultural exchanges, initiate or deepen collaborations, and/or facilitate the learning of artistic forms and traditions—whether related to or independent of any defined outcome or planned public presentation. The program values and supports critical exploratory phases of the artistic process.

In the pilot year, thirty artists and collectives received $10,000 in funding to conduct wide-ranging research and development activities over a period of eighteen months including archival work, study, rehearsals, studio time, and travel across the United States and 12 different countries.

Creative Research Grants are made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of Margo Leavin.