The Arts Research Center is a think tank for the arts. It acts as a hub and a meeting place, a space for reflection where artists, scholars, curators, and civic arts leaders from a variety of disciplines can gather and learn from one another.
New LIFT & LOFT Grants for Students & Faculty!
Applications now open.
In fall 2024, the Arts Research Center will pilot two arts development grant opportunities: LIFT Grants for students & LOFT Grants for faculty.
ARC will support a minimum of eight LIFT awards, up to $500, for students to fund specific creative arts projects or arts research, and three $2,000 LOFT awards for faculty to support developmental phases of arts creation.
Applications will open September 16 and close November 1. Awards will be announced by December 1 and funds will be disbursed in late December 2024.
Learn more and apply
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"The struggle to ensure that art work is recognized as real work and compensated accordingly is an essential one, and it continues through the efforts of art collectives and organizations, the actions of artists, and countless individual decisions to accept or reject engrossing but unpaid jobs."
— Elyse Mallouk, “On Laboring for Love”, from ARC's Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Gathering