Project Grants Application and Guidelines
Apply for funding one semester in advance of your proposed project date. For example, Fall 2007 project managers should apply for funding during the spring semester, and Spring 2008 project managers must apply for funding during Fall semester 2007.
Application and accompanying material:
-
On-line Common Grant Application - Available now
Accompanied by the following:
- Budget form (optional). Only use if your project budget has changed since your Common Grant submission, or if you wish to include further detail about your expenses/revenue.
- List of all participating undergraduates and their defined roles/jobs (as complete as possible at time of application submission- include class years or Harvard affiliation)
- Additional Supplemental Material (where applicable)
- Music/Dance Concert projects:
- full listing of participants (name, position, class year-as complete as possible at time of application)
- list of pieces/selections (if not available please include a paragraph describing artistic goal of concert and selections/pieces which are being considered for inclusion).
- Theater applicants:
- director's statement
- production staff (as complete as possible at the time of application) including name, position and class year/Harvard affiliation.
NOTE: Theater project applicants, including Loeb Ex producers, can forward any updates to their project application (including budget figures) to the Council c/o Stephanie Troisi (in person at 74 Mt. Auburn Street or to troisi@fas.harvard.edu) through Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, 12 noon.
- Publication projects:
- 14 samples of current/past issues or work samples for new publications.
Supplemental forms and materials should be submitted to: Office for the Arts, 74 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Attn: Stephanie Troisi. APPLICATION DEADLINE: For projects occurring during Spring '08: November, 14, 2007.
Guidelines
Who is eligible?
Harvard undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty and staff may apply for projects whose main focus is in student artmaking.
What we ordinarily fund:
Projects that encourage undergraduate students' own original, creative work, or work
showing an original, creative approach to artistic traditions, rather
than essays or commentary about works of art created by others, that combine:
- high artistic merit
- artistic originality
- artistic experimentation
- educational benefit to undergraduates
- a "ripple" effect within the university
- involvement of and visibility to the maximum number of undergraduates
Occasionally, larger grants are given to improve artistic quality of existing organization, based on artistic merit.
What we do not ordinarily fund:
- curricular projects, including senior theses
- fundraisers, charity benefits, or tours away from campus
- professional teachers, conductors, choreographers, technicians or performers' fees
- presentation of performing groups from outside the University
- regular Loeb Ex shows (because they already have their own funding)
- operational support beyond start-up costs (limit, 3 years)
- projects that have minimal exposure to undergraduates
- political magazines or events that are not primarily artistic
- film projects; summer projects; ongoing classes; capital improvements to performance spaces
- Equipment purchases
- Fees for Student Services
- Receptions
- Making of CD’s
- Lighting/Sound Operator Fees
Grant amounts:
The entire grants fund is $20,000, and grants range from $100 to $1,000.
In 2007-2008, 80 OFA grants were awarded; the average grant amount was $335.
To encourage artistic innovation, the Council may also award
a special grant of up to $1,000 for the one-time project, from the
general applicant pool that reflects the most original, creative ideas.
Collaboration among art forms is encouraged.
Method of payment:
Grants are paid primarily on a reimbursement basis but the OFA can also
pay vendors directly. Students who receive grants must submit an evaluation
of their completed project to the Office for the Arts in order to receive
their final reimbursement.
Reimbursement deadlines:
Fall 2006 Projects: Friday, February 16, 2007.
Spring 2008 & ARTS FIRST Projects: Friday, May 16, 2008.
Council on the Arts
Office for the Arts Grants are awarded by the Council on the Arts, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Members for the 2007-08 Academic Year:- Julie Buckler (Chair), Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Director of Graduate Studies)
- Elizabeth Bergmann, Dance Director, OFA Dance Program
- S. Allen Counter, Director of the Harvard Foundation
- Deborah Foster, Senior Lecturer in Folklore and Mythology
- Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory
- Cathleen McCormick, Director of Programs, OFA
- Jack Megan, Director, OFA
- Nancy Mitchnick, Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Studio Arts, Visual and Environmental Studies
- Robb Moss, Director Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking, Visual and Environmental Studies
- Carol Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music
- Robert Orchard, Managing Director of the Loeb Drama Center and the American Repertory Theater Company
- John Stewart, Senior Preceptor in Music
- Marcus Stern, Associate Director, Loeb Drama Center
Grant Program Contact: Stephanie Troisi, 617.495.8676.
