Initiative Planning & Implementation Grant
UCIRA offers planning and implementation grants for projects relating to any of our three current areas of interest:
Art+California: California-centric embedded arts research
Art+Exchange: new models of value exchange
Art+Science: integrative methodologies
Planning grants are available for projects that may need further development before applying for implementation. Award amounts generally range from $500-$2,000 depending on the scope and needs [...]
Open Classroom Challenge
Every year UCIRA poses a systemwide 5K challenge: What could you (and your students) do with $5,000? Up to four grants are awarded each year to facilitate projects that engage creatively with real world issues in the classroom and expand and transform the teaching/learning environment.
Sample project: Situated Social Architectures, a social design course taught by [...]
Undergraduate Action Research Grants
The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) is pleased to announce a new funding program dedicated to supporting undergraduate student-led initiatives in the arts. The undergraduate Action Research 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.
+ More info + Browse our grantsOpen Sorcerer Grants
UCIRA’s Open Sorcerer grants provide support for peer-to-peer workshops geared toward practical knowledge sharing in the fields of art and technology, art and engineering and art and science. Workshops should be theme-based, structured and technology-specific. The goal is rapid knowledge acquisition and exchange, and the practical application of that knowledge in and to the creative [...]
+ More info + Browse our grantsUCIRA Major Grants
UCIRA offers up to eight Major Grants of $10,000 each year. Additional follow-up support for materials/equipment, travel to present finished work, and project expansion is also available to each funded project. In 2013, applications will be accepted in the Visual Arts Practice and Research and Emerging Fields categories. In 2014, [...]
+ More info + Browse our grantsNEW! Graduate Arts Grants
UCIRA’s Graduate Arts Grants provide support for graduate-level artist-generated projects, which can include (but are not limited to) the development, completion or presentation of new work.
*Please note that graduate students are also eligible to apply in the Major Grants Category. We do not exclusively fund travel requests (travel requests should be a minimal [...]
NEW! Co-sponsorship of Visiting Artists
UCIRA will provide funding to help offset the cost of bringing Visiting Artists to one or more UC campuses. Applicants must be UC faculty, staff or students whose research and teaching interests include visual art, digital media, music, dance, drama or film and new media, and who wish to [...]
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UCIRA is pleased to announce a new mini-grant program open to faculty and students working in all art forms. Mini-grants provide up to $1,000 to cover the cost of small-scale projects, or to bridge the gap between what you currently have and what you need to get your project done and into the public eye. [...]
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