ARC Grants

The Arts Research Center currently offers two Arts Development grant opportunities: LIFT Student Grants, and LOFT Faculty Grants. 

Applications are currently open!

Thanks to the generosity of the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanites, ARC is offering ten student grants and three faculty grants for the 2026/27 year. 

Applications close Oct 2, 2026 at 11:59pm.


The goal of the grant program is to seed arts development and support:

  • creative arts projects/arts research for students across disciplines, including workshops, conferences, archival research, performance or exhibition costs, collaborations, materials, or publication

  • critical developmental phases of arts creation for faculty, including manuscript workshops, staged readings, composition, exhibitions, performances, residencies, or other activities to advance work in creative writing, visual arts, music, theater, performance, film, or other arts practices

  • promotion of the arts research of students and faculty at Berkeley

  • nurturing of creative talent within the arts community (Depts of Art Practice, Art History, Creative Writing, Film & Media, Music, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies) as well as students and faculty working on arts research in diverse disciplines across campus, including the sciences and social sciences, architecture, public policy, business, education and law.


LIFT/LOFT Arts Development Grants are designed for current full-time UC Berkeley undergraduate & graduate students and current ladder rank faculty members doing creative work, across the division and beyond. For more grant and funding opportunities for Art & Humanities faculty, please visit the A&H website, here.


Past ARC Arts Development Grant Receipients

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