This grant program will aid in Salt Lake City’s phased economic recovery efforts and provide necessary financial resources to incentivize individual artists in the creative sector. The Artist Career Empowerment Grant Program will directly contribute to a more expeditious and equitable recovery of Salt Lake City’s thriving creative economy.

Potential project ideas can be, but are not limited to, the projects listed below:

1. Projects which present a minimum of one public performance of the following artforms: Dance, visual art, music, theater, performance, new media (film/video/digital/web based/ archives etc), social practice art; or transdisciplinary artistic media. Examples include: opera, busking, DJing,web based work, illusions, and any other crafts which are creative in nature;
2. Projects which present a minimum of one public engagement opportunity grounded in creative industry such as; workshops, festivals, symposiums, showcases, digitally based, markets, fairs, panels, service projects, experiential, and educational courses;
3. Projects which develop and place one or more physical object(s), grounded in an artistic discipline, within a designated space accessible to the public. The object may be temporary or permanent, but must adhere to all relevant city code and permits. Examples include: sculpture, mural, installation;
4. Project that focuses on a restricted audience that has a significant impact on that population including but not limited to; hospitals, prisons, schools, rehabilitation centers, and other such locations;
5. At the $2,000 level, projects which include trainings/classes for self improvement or artistic inquiries. Tangible outcomes for such projects might include, but are not limited to, a presentation of artworks or a performance, a certificate/letter of completion, creation of artworks/recording/etc, or other artistic inquiry with a tangible outcome.