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APPLY to Interlace Grant Writing Mentorship Program (2025)

While there are certainly artists who build careers without ever writing a grant, grants can be a useful way to gather helpful resources and feedback for a variety of creative endeavors. Even when a grant is not awarded, the processes of articulating ideas, refining a proposal, and mapping out a timeline and budget can be useful for the development of project management skills that all artists at some point or another will need to utilize.

The Interlace Grant Writing Mentorship Program pairs an artist who has written successful grants in the past with an emerging visual artist who is newer to grant writing. Mentors will help Emerging and Mid-Career Artists (“Mentees”) with the Interlace Project Grant application processes as well as provide general mentoring support. 

Please note: Only visual artists eligible to apply to the Interlace Fund are eligible for this program. Read more about eligibility here: https://www.interlacefund.org/project-grants

Mentors do the following

  • Support mentee in applying to the Interlace Grant Fund (due September 14, 2025). Specifically, mentors will meet with mentee a minimum of three times:                          
    • Once in June/July to learn about mentee’s practice, goals, and project ideas (a studio visit could be great, or getting coffee and looking at their sketchbooks or web representations of their work, etc.) and to agree to an exact timeline for August and September meetings. Mentor and mentee will also review Interlace guidelines at this meeting. 
    • Once in July/August to workshop a draft of the mentee’s Project Grant proposal, including giving feedback on narrative, budgets, work samples, bio/CV, etc. 
    • Once in August/early September to finalize and submit the Project Grant proposal.
    • Mentors and mentees will also be expected to attend a Project Grant Info Session in July or August. 

     

  • Mentors will also be available through the fall of 2025 to provide as-needed (and as-available) support for mentees. For example, if a mentee is applying to other grant programs, fellowships or academic programs, or jobs, they might ask for support from their mentor. Past mentors have also helped mentees reflect on their studio practice more generally, on how to share work with an audience, and other such concerns. 

Emerging and Mid-Career Artists (Mentees) do the following:

  • Develop Interlace Project Grant application from ideation to full submission, with mentor’s support (see above) 
  • Provide informal feedback to Interlace staff about this pilot program if desired 

Interlace will do the following

  • Hold a pre-mentorship skill share gathering for Mentors, review tips for coaching/mentoring
  • Match Mentors with Mentees
  • Give support along the way
  • Provide Mentors with a $250 stipend - mentors are encouraged to spend some of that ($20-ish) on Mentee - taking out for coffee to talk about projects, etc. Stipends will be mailed after Mentors complete a brief reflection form.

Information about Mentee identity will not be shared publicly, in an effort to make sure that Interlace Jurors are not biased by having insight into who the org has been supporting. Mentees are not guaranteed funding from Interlace or other grants to which they are applying.

Full project description is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GDYMRjtiIC7QzwC_izoWwE3IkM1xjdO3eTNBKAem2T0/edit?tab=t.0

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APPLY to Interlace Emergency Grant (Due May 7, 2025)

INTERLACE GRANT FUND: INTERLACE EMERGENCY GRANTS

Interlace Emergency Grants are intended to mitigate the harmful effects of emergency situations and crises. These grants are meant to function as small interventions and expressions of support and solidarity with local visual artists. Emergency Grants are open to self-identifying visual artists whose primary residence is within a 10-mile radius of Providence and in the state of Rhode Island. We currently have two funders (The Warhol Foundation and the Rhode Island Foundation) that allow us to distribute a total of $1750 per month in grants of $100 - $500.   If applicants do not receive funding, they may re-apply. If applicants do receive funding but the amount is less than $500, they may re-apply as long as they do not receive more than $500 total during the grant period (August 2024 through August 2025).

ELIGIBILITY
 

  • Applicants must currently live within a 10-mile radius of Providence and in the state of Rhode Island
  • Applicants must have resided in the Providence area of the state of Rhode Island for at least one year, and be a resident upon receipt of grant funding
  • Applicants cannot be enrolled in a degree-granting program
  • applicants must be 18+
  • applicants cannot be enrolled in a degree-granting program
  • Applicants must be able to receive a check in their legal name, if awarded funds
  • If applicants do not receive funding, they may re-apply. If applicants do receive funding but the amount is less than $500, they may re-apply as long as they do not receive more than $500 total during the grant period (current cycle: August 2024-August 2025)

In the spirit of generosity and compassion for fellow visual artists, applicants are encouraged to apply using the honor system: if you do not need this grant to mitigate the effects of an emergency situation, please consider forgoing an application to increase the chances for whom these grants would be most beneficial.  Grantees will be notified as close to the 7th of the month as possible and no later than the 21st of the month.

           For more information please visit https://www.interlacefund.org/relief-grants

INTERLACE GRANT FUND