UPCOMING UCIRA GRANT DEADLINES

December 15, 2009 Deadline
o Undergraduate Action Research Grants ($500-$2,000 for student-led initiatives)
o Open Classroom Challenge Grants (for courses taking place Spring or Fall 2010)
o Social Ecologies, Social Technologies, and Integrative Methodologies Planning Grants (for convenings taking place Winter or Spring 2010)

February 15, 2010 Deadline
o Major Grants: Performance Practice and Research
o Major Grants: Literature
o Social Ecologies Planning Grants (for convenings taking place in Spring or Fall 2010)
o Social Technologies Planning Grants (for convenings taking place in Spring or Fall 2010)
o Integrative Methodologies Planning Grants (for convenings taking place in Spring or Fall 2010)


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UNDERGRADUATE ACTION RESEARCH GRANTS

Deadlines: For projects taking place Spring 2010/Fall 2010: December 15th, 2009 (notification date for applicants: February 15th, 2010)
For projects taking place Fall 2010/Winter 2011: March 15th 2010 (notification date for applicants: May 15th, 2010)
These grants are aimed at supporting arts and cultural projects with the capacity to have a significant impact on campus/community life. Projects may include, but are not limited to: exhibitions, performances, concerts, guest-artist visits, site-specific art, workshops, festivals and publications that foster innovation and campus engagement through the arts.

The undergraduate Action Research awards, which range from $500-$2000, support student-led arts initiatives. Funds are available for any currently enrolled UC student or student group on a competitive basis. Applications are due December 15th of each year for projects taking place during the following Spring or Fall quarters, and March 15th for projects taking place during the following Fall or Winter quarters.

All proposals must:

• Demonstrate art’s power to enhance understanding, build communities, and transform lives
• Employ peer-to-peer leadership and expertise to promote undergraduate student learning through the arts

In Addition, proposals should meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Expose students to innovative and experimental art forms
• Facilitate new ways of thinking about how the University can more effectively and imaginatively engage its students and their attendant communities
• Facilitate collaborative work with diverse communities
• Have a significant impact on student life and learning at the University of California
• Use the arts as a means of addressing challenging topics
• in the arts

Some background on the Action Research Initiative:
The UCIRA Action Research program awards are intended to support expanded praxis/participation-oriented proposals in which UC faculty and/or students partner as co-researchers and co-learners with representatives from a broad range of off-campus communities, organizations and agencies. Project proposals should be designed to develop and foster sustained relationships between academic and non-academic sectors and to encourage participants to work on mutually defined problems and projects situated within a real world context.

How to apply:
In preparing to apply you should:
1. Read the guidelines carefully
2. Write down any questions you have and call (805-893-7799) or email UCIRA for clarification (hunruh@ucira.ucsb.edu).
3. Have someone unfamiliar with your project read a draft of your application for clarity.
4. Check the application deadline.
5. Download the Summary Sheet from our website (www.ucira.ucsb.edu/grants.html)
6. Download the Host Venue Form if you will be using a public space that requires approval
7. Obtain a letter of support from a UC faculty or staff member familiar with you, your group or your project.

Deadlines:
Applications will be reviewed twice annually. When applying, please make sure that your event takes place well after the notification date. We do not provide retroactive funding so you we encourage you to apply early!

Applications must be RECEIVED BY 5:00 p.m. on the application deadline. In the event that the deadline falls on a weekend or holiday, applications must be received by the first business day following the deadline. Faxed applications will NOT be accepted.

Funding Process:
You must have an Office of Student Life trustee account or equivalent means of receiving the funds at your campus (note: each campus uses a different name for these accounts – check with your home department for details.) In order to do this you may be required to register as an official student activity group, or obtain permission through your department to receive the funds there. If you are awarded funding, we will send a record of the transfer to OSL or your departmental administrator, through whom you will be able to access your funds.

The Application Package:
To apply for a UCIRA grant, please submit 1 copy via U.S. mail and 1 copy via email in PDF format of the following set of materials:
1. A completed UCIRA summary sheet form (available on our website)
2. A narrative description of the proposed project
(Limit your proposal narrative to one page, with not less than 0.8 inch margins, 12 point font or larger)
3. The project budget proposal
4. Host Venue Form (available on our website)
5. Letter of recommendation from a UC faculty or staff person

Send completed applications to:
UCIRA
6046 HSSB
University of California
Santa Barbara CA 93106-7115

email electronic copy to zchapman@ucira.ucsb.edu

+ Download Flyer
+ Undergraduate Action Summary Sheet
+ Host Venue Form


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2010 Open Classroom Challenge or
What Would You Do With $5000?
Application Deadline: December 15th, 2009
Courses must be taught during the Spring or Fall of 2010.

Selection Criteria:
Selection criteria include originality, significance, innovative potential, interdisciplinary scope, and cogency of project design. Of particular interest are projects that do some of the following:
• Design, test, and implement innovative curricular initiatives.
• Recognize critical thinking as the source and opening of the art work and not merely the place of a post-mortem evaluation, appreciation, or interpretation of the completed work.
• Promote “action research” and “research-in-action” models of collaborative interdisciplinary arts practice capable of working transitively in and on real-world settings outside conventional studio, gallery, and performance contexts.

Eligibility:
Applicants must be UC faculty, staff or students whose research and teaching interests include visual art, digital media, music, dance, drama or film and video. Projects generated by students, staff and part-time faculty must have a full-time faculty sponsor.

Deadline for applications:
December 15, 2009

Support:
Three grants of $5000 each will be available for projects taking place in Spring or Fall 2010. UCIRA expects that the applicant's home department will undertake the administrative and clerical work needed to keep the projects running smoothly. UCIRA will assist with intercampus connections and publicity when applicable.

Application:
All applications should include:
(1) a fully completed cover sheet.
(2) a c.v. for each of the lead applicant(s)
(3) a host venue agreement form if resources beyond normal teaching and lecture spaces are required.
(4) a syllabus for the proposed course (we understand that the course may not yet have received academic senate approval; please be sure to indicate if the course is already approved by your campus or if it will be presented for approval.)
(5) A letter of support from the department chair/dean
(6) If the project features a crucial collaborative component with another department or campus, please submit a supporting letter(s) from key collaborators.
(7) A detailed description of proposed activities (1-2 pages single-spaced), including:
i. a letter outlining in detail the proposed activities the class will engage in and the projected outcomes of the course.
ii. a complete budget incorporating equipment, supplies, and any travel, accommodation or honorarium that may be associated with the project. In-kind donations and matching funds are suggested, but not required.

+ Download Flyer
+ Open Clasroom Summary Sheet
+ Host Venue Form
+ See past awarded grants

Please note the forms are different for the $5000 grants. Be sure you have the correct ones before submitting.

 

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SOCIAL ECOLOGIES, SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES, AND INTEGRATIVE METHODOLOGIES PLANNING GRANTS
Application Deadline: December 15th, 2009
For convenings taking place the Winter or Spring of 2010

Application Deadline: February 15th, 2009
For convenings taking place the Spring or Fall of 2010.

Purpose of the grants:
To convene groups of faculty, students, and outside partners to explore the possibility for new
collaborative area(s) of research and/or project development in relationship to one of our three
new areas of interest: Social Ecologies: California-centric embedded arts research; Social
Technologies: new models of value-exchange; and Integrative Methodologies: re-negotiating the
Art/Science paradigm.

Applicants may request funds to support the costs of meeting(s) for a core group of participants
including potential outside advisors to the project; travel to relevant sites/resource areas to learn
from other similar projects and consult with advisors there, and/or to identify collaborating
partners/organizations for subsequent stages of the potential project.

We recognize that not every planning grant will lead to a new collaboration; however, if a
substantial project/area of inquiry develops from the convening, applicants should work to
develop a preliminary proposal for initiative-related funding in subsequent years.

UCIRA’s key areas of interest:
• Social Ecologies: California-centric embedded arts research. With an eye to California’s
diverse landscape and the often embattled relationship between its natural and
developed spaces, UCIRA will provide opportunities for artists to investigate the radically
diverse terrains of the state. Embedding artists within various California institutions and
field contexts provides support for arts researchers interested in topics as diverse as
agriculture, land and water use, emergent technologies and new forms of knowledge
production and practice.
• Social Technologies: new models of value exchange. Current economic conditions have
precipitated a re-emergence of forms of artistic collectivism, exchange and ‘anticipatory’
practices, i.e. those that seek to imagine and address possible future economic and social modalities. UCIRA will establish opportunities for artists from across the UC system to enter into situated partnerships with artists, collectives and other agencies/institutions in order to explore new methods of value and idea exchange.
• Integrative Methodologies: re-negotiating the art/science paradigm. Artists generate
unconventional and imaginative knowledge systems that emerge from aesthetic reflection
and risk-taking processes. Their creative energies and skills can be used to catalyze, visualize and re-contextualize the work of scientists, encouraging alternative investigative methods and oblique approaches to problem-solving. UCIRA will support art/science and artist/scientist collaborative configurations designed to facilitate new, hybrid, and fusion models of exchange, co-creation and research practice

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MAJOR GRANT LINES

**The application deadline is February 15, 2010 for Performance Practice and Research and Literature applications.**

The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts has introduced new guidelines for our major grants program beginning in Fall of 2009. The goal of this restructuring is to provide a more sustained and comprehensive support mechanism for projects supported by the Institute. UCIRA will now also offer additional follow-up support, both creative and financial, to its grantees to help ensure that funded projects have the greatest possible visibility and public impact. The application deadline for all new grants is Feb 15, 2010. Please refer to our website for information and deadlines for the continuing Open Classroom Challenge and Undergraduate Action Research Grant categories.


About New Major Grant Lines
Funding will be offered to proposals in disciplinary clusters on a two-year alternating cycle, with Visual Arts Practice and Research, and Emerging Fields funded in 2008-2009; and Performance Practice and Research and Literature funded in the 2009-2010 cycle. In keeping with the mission of the Institute, UCIRA funding is intended to support projects, both individual and collaborative, that represent the most innovative and relevant arts research taking place within the UC system. Quality and depth of proposals will be the primary consideration for evaluation over questions of campus or disciplinary representation. We continue to have an interest in work that encourages curricular development and innovative resource-sharing within individual campuses and/or across two or more UC campuses, as well as expanded praxis/participation-oriented proposals in which UC faculty and/or students partner as co-researchers and co-learners with representatives from a broad range of off-campus communities, organizations and agencies. UCIRA is committed to supporting risk-taking research that might not otherwise find funding from other University or extramural sources. We encourage you to consult with UCIRA staff before submitting a proposal.

 

2010 – Deadline: February 15, 2010
Funding is offered for projects commencing July 1, 2010 or later. Proposals will be accepted for work relating to the following disciplinary categories: Performance Practice and Research and Literature. The initial award cap is $10,000 and includes a requirement that the applicant obtain partial matching campus funding; i.e. that each application show substantive and quantifiable campus support in the form of real dollars, commitments of release time, equipment, space, etc. as appropriate to the project. Several types of follow-up support are now available to funded projects – see below for details.

Definitions:
Performance Practice and Research projects may include, but are not limited to, new areas of exploration in:

  • tactical media / dance / theater / spoken word / music / composition and performance / puppetry / other interdisciplinary performance projects that encourage critical engagement and public intervention

Literature projects may include, but are not limited to exploratory research and experimentation in:

  • poetry / fiction / nonfiction / arts-criticism / playwriting / hybrid-writing forms and/or genre-defying literary work

Follow-up support for grantees
UCIRA is committed to providing ongoing support, both creative and financial, to the projects we fund in order to help ensure that they have the greatest possible visibility and public impact. This support takes the following forms: 

  • Education: seminars on grant writing for the arts with a special focus on how to secure additional extramural funding for UCIRA-funded projects
  • Promotion: publicity, circulation and dissemination of UCIRA-funded projects and research
  • Additional Funding: additional funding opportunities are available to grantees to support the life of each project, including funds for:
    • materials/equipment (up to $2,500)
    • travel to present the project (up to $2,000 for individual and $5,000 for collaborative projects)
    • project expansion (up to $5,000)
    • opportunity funds (up to $500)
  • Publication: funded projects will receive exposure and critical peer review through the online UCIRA project publication series and/or showcase archive beginning in 2009.

The UCIRA board would like to recognize the assistance of Ruby Lerner (Executive Director) and the Creative Capital Foundation’s innovative funding model on which these new forms of support are modeled.

+ Main Grant Summary Sheet
+ Host Venue Form
+ See past awarded grants

 

UCIRA Mission
The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts is a system-wide organization representing the arts and artists of the UC system. UCIRA provides information, advocacy and funding for university-based arts education and research. Through our grants programs we support UC artists and scholars from diverse disciplines dedicated to sustained public engagement, innovative approaches to form and content, and risk-taking research in the performing, visual, literary and media arts. We have additional interests in the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between creative research and teaching in the arts, and in supporting and showcasing projects that serve as demonstrations of best practices by artists within the University of California system.

 

 

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