the generator fund: potential grants

Western New York is where electric power as we know it began—when Nikola Tesla harnessed the force of the Niagara River to transmit energy over a great distance, lighting the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and transforming the world. Inspired by this legacy of innovation and possibility, the Generator Fund supports artists who are generating new ways of making, sharing, and thinking about art in our region.

Potential Grants are awards up to $10,000 and are intended to act as seed fund for longer-term projects that foster experimentation, collaboration, and community.

Examples may include, but are not limited to, exhibition spaces (from formal to informal; your bedroom to a rented space); podcasts or radio stations; zines or forums for arts writing; collective spaces; community gardens; public lecture series. This grant is meant to fund artists in collaboration to create new platforms for presentation.