newark artist accelerator

The Newark Artist Accelerator (NAA) is a project grant for Newark-based, multidisciplinary visual artists. Grants are awarded in the amounts of $2,500, $5,000, and $7,500. Projects are artist-led and include collaborative ventures, pop-up exhibitions, events, and interventions of an ephemeral nature that are radically accessible to the public.

\Beginning in 2021, in response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on artists, their families, and their communities, the Newark Artist Accelerator was initially established to provide emergency relief to artists in New Jersey. The NAA Fund continues to provide immediate need, merit-based funding to artists’ projects and collaborations annually and is committed to sustaining this grant program through ongoing funding from local foundations and donors. To date, the annual fund has distributed nearly $300,000 in both emergency and project-based grants.