The Demonstration Projects program supports artists and scholars from diverse disciplines to develop ideas and approaches that extend the conventional limits of arts research at the University of California. It seeks to encourage innovative, experimental, and risk-taking projects in both the visual and performing arts.

- Individual - up to $5000
The Individual Demonstration Project grants are designed to assist individuals in the production of artwork, broadly defined. Grants are intended to support the direct costs of goods and services required to produce the body of work and may not be used for salary supplement.  Individual Demonstration Project grants are available to UC faculty only ( i.e. ladder rank and lecturers with security of employment).

- Collaborative - up to $25,000
Collaborative Research Awards are reserved for proposals that seek to maximize the potential for coordinated interdisciplinary arts research and experimental arts practice. Consideration will be given to those proposals that encourage curricular development and innovative resource-sharing within individual campuses and/or across two or more UC campuses. Projects that transcend boundaries, are collaborative in nature, engage contemporary culture, and strive to extend the conventional limits of arts research at the University of California are strongly encouraged. Applications may be initiated by UC faculty, staff or students. Evidence of multi-campus involvement, where appropriate, is required at the time of application.

Collaborative Demonstration Project grants are awarded with the expectation that UCIRA money will be leveraged by organizers who will seek additional funding from outside granting agencies and/or from their home campuses. At a minimum, UCIRA funds must be matched with additional, documentable, funds in a ratio of one to two: that is, organizers will secure from some other source at least one additional dollar for every two dollars of UCIRA funds. (For example, the UCIRA expects that a $5,000 grant will be matched by at least $2,500.)

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