field funds

Each year, A Blade of Grass distributes $25,000 to artists and creative practitioners working throughout the country with 50 grants of $500 each.

Field Funds supports both the public components of a project and the often unseen work that makes collaborative creative practice possible, such as research and relationship building. This program supports specific needs common to socially engaged art including artist-led gatherings, accessibility & translation, and documentation & archiving.

What can this opportunity support?

Artist-led gatherings for practitioners to bring groups of three or more people together. This could be a stand-alone gathering in person or online to further research, chase curiosities, or simply build connections. Or, this opportunity could support a larger project or event that is already in the works. There is no requirement that the gathering be public, and selected practitioners will have the freedom to use the $500 contribution as they see fit.

Gathering proposals can support practitioners to:

• Pay fees to a facilitator

• Pay fees to accessibility service providers (ASL interpretation, Communication Access Realtime Translation [CART] or live transcription, image description, etc.)

• Pay rental or other fees to hosting venues

• Promote a gathering or event

• Provide COVID-19 safety measures for events (testing, masks, hybrid options, etc.)

• Provide food and hospitality

• Provide honorariums to artists and/or participants

• Provide travel for participants