New! Artist Engagement Initiative
The Kaplan Humanities Institute is excited to announce its new Artist Engagement Initiative!
This initiative seeks to expand interdisciplinary engagement among artists, faculty, and students across all programs and departments at Northwestern.
Building upon Kaplan’s longstanding support of arts programming at the university, this initiative will host one Artist in Residence each year and offer select grants to invite artists for co-curricular activities. Applications to the Kaplan Humanities Council are welcome from any unit at Northwestern, and for artists working in any medium or discipline.
The Artist Engagement Initiative will kick off in Spring 2023 with dedicated co-curricular grants to support engagement with artists in or beyond undergraduate or graduate classrooms. We invite you to think broadly about how to connect artists to your scholarly and pedagogical work and submit your ideas!
Kaplan will then announce submission guidelines for the more expansive Artist in Residence program by September 1, 2023. Please don't hesitate to be in touch before September if you are considering an artist residency and would like to talk through possibilities.
Information on the co-curricular grants is below. For further questions on the Artist Engagement Initiative, please contact Jill Mannor (jill.mannor@northwestern.edu).
Co-curricular grants
Application deadlines
- May 15, 2023—Deadline for classes taking place in fall quarter 2023 (or beyond)
- October 15, 2023—Deadline for classes taking place in 2024 (winter or spring) or any quarter in 2024-2025
The Kaplan Institute's new co-curricular artist grant program supports curricular engagement with artists and their work, aiming for a stronger integration of the arts into undergraduate and graduate teaching in any program or department. Co-curricular grants may help facilitate an artist's lecture or workshop; site visits to artists' studios or events; or other creative integrations of the arts into teaching. The grants can be used to cover artist's honoraria, materials, or transportation for visits or events.
Who can apply for grants?
All Northwestern instructors are invited to apply for co-curricular funds for undergraduate and graduate courses in any school or discipline at the university.
Effort will be made to distribute funds among many diverse departments and programs.
What can the grants cover?
Funds can be used to cover:
- Honoraria for guest artists working in any discipline or medium (not just visual or performing art)
- Flight and hotel for visiting artist
- Local transportation and food for site visits or events
- Workshop materials
- Tickets for museums, theaters, performances, special lectures, readings, or exhibitions (within Northwestern guidelines). Co-curricular grants are designed to make it possible to require such trips for your class by making them inexpensive and/or easily accessible.
Awards
- Co-curricular grants are capped at $1,000 per course
- Honoraria typically range between $250-$500 (but Weinberg allows honoraria payments of up to $1,000 without seeking pre-approval)
- Kaplan will transfer grant funds to faculty discretionary accounts, without exception
- Faculty's home department is responsible for processing individual payments and managing all administrative support once funds are transferred
The following restrictions apply to all AEI co-curricular grants:
- Grants are made only for particular offerings of courses; they are not permanent commitments
- A grant must benefit an entire class, not an individual student or subset of students
- The supported activity must be required of all students and must take place during the regular academic quarter
- Grants may not be used for entertainment or social events
To apply
To apply for Artist Engagement Initiative Co-Curricular funding, please complete the form here:
https://forms.office.com/r/kaUzZ3kj06
Thank you!
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