ARC (Artists' Resource for Completion)

Guidelines

Eligibility requirements:

Artists in any discipline may apply. Applicants must be 18 years of age or older, and permanent residents of Los Angeles County. The proposed opportunity may take place anywhere in the world. Full-time, matriculated students are ineligible to apply.

To be eligible, artists must have secured an invitation from an established arts organization to present the work. The artist may not be a paid staff member or contractor with the host organization. A rental venue does not qualify as a host. Curators are not eligible to apply.

Individuals may receive only one ARC grant in a calendar year. Applicants seeking a second or third ARC grant will be held to a higher standard regarding the potential career impact of the proposed project.

Artists who have incorporated as 501(c)(3) organizations with annual budgets under $100,000 may apply, though the application must still be submitted by an individual and must demonstrate individual career impact. The artist's own nonprofit may not serve as the host for the purpose of this grant.

Grants of up to $3,500 will support:

Purchase or rental of materials, equipment, or space to complete work already scheduled for a specific event – an exhibition, performance, publication, reading, etc.
Auxiliary travel or shipping associated with the proposed event
Stipends/fees for collaborating artists (performers, designers, etc.) whose participation would expand or enhance the proposed work

Grants will not support:

Core project expenses (ARC is intended to be an enhancing, rather than an enabling, grant.)
Marketing, promotion or documentation of the proposed event
Participation in residencies
Expenses involved in establishing or maintaining an organization or company
Tuition, entry fees or registration fees
Living expenses
Catalogues or books
Documentation
Curators' fees or curatorial expenses

What are "core" expenses and why don't you fund them?

Core expenses are the basic expenses you will need to incur to fulfill your obligation to the host venue to present your work. If you are a dancer and have been invited to perform in Houston, for example, your plane ticket would be a core expense. (If you can't get there, there's no performance.) We assume that you have already committed to do the proposed project, whether or not you get Durfee support. Accordingly, core expenses are those that enable the event. ARC expenses are reserved for those that will polish and improve it.

We don't fund core expenses because we don't feel we can be responsible for the viability of all ARC applicants, whose public presentations are scheduled to take place within a short span of time. To do so would be destabilizing for both artists and venues.