Emergency Grants
Interlace Emergency Grants are intended to respond to various emergency needs, including those that continue to be COVID-related and those that arise for other reasons.
Overview
These grants are modest but intended to mitigate the harmful effects of emergency situations and crises, such as eviction, utility shut-off, healthcare expenses, phone or internet service interruption, and more. Interlace Emergency Grants are open to all self-identifying Providence area visual artists.
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Funds are dispersed monthly. Awards range from $100-$500, with a total pool of $1000 awarded monthly. If there are less than $1000 worth of qualified requests during a given month, funds roll over to the next month.
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Eligible applicants must live within a 10-mile radius of Providence and demonstrate need. Artists must live in the Providence area at the time of their request (artists temporarily living in other places are not eligible until they return to Providence).
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Artists are eligible to apply for emergency funding as often as they like during the current grant cycle (September 2023 – April 2024), until they have received a maximum of $500. (This means, for example, if you received $100 one month, you would be eligible to apply again for up to $400. If you then receive another $100, you would be eligible for up to $300, and so on.)
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If there are more than $1000 worth of qualified requests, grants may be for amounts less than requested, depending on availability of funds.
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The grant funds are unrestricted and include no reporting requirements.
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Interlace will not publicly announce recipients of these grants.
Review & Selection Process
Emergency Grant applications are reviewed by an independent and diverse group of local arts, education, and community-service professionals. All applications are anonymized by Interlace staff before the review process.
Timeline
Interlace awards Emergency Grants on a monthly basis via a lottery process from September 2023 - April 2024.
August 16, 2023
First round of applications open
On the 7th of each month
September 2023 - April 2024
Applications due
By the 21st of each month
Applicants notified
Final week of each month
Funds dispersed
Eligibility
Applicants must:
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Self-identify as a visual artist;
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Have lived for at least one year in the state of Rhode Island within a 10-mile radius of Providence (see map for reference of the Providence area);
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Be over 18 years of age at the time of the application;
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Not be a full-time student/enrolled in a degree program; and
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Not receive more than $500 total in Emergency Grants during the granting period of September 2023 - April 2024
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Eligibility for Emergency Grants is not impacted by prior or current engagements, awards, or programming affiliations with DPPP, PCG, or Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Applicants who received Emergency Grants during a previous year's cycle may apply again. Applicants may also apply for other Interlace Grants (Project Grant, Mentorship Program, TAG).
Not Eligible:​
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​Artists employed by or related to DPPP and PCG employees, residents, or board members cannot apply.
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Organizations (such as non-profits, artist-run collectives, independent art businesses) are not eligible for funding as entities; however, individual artists associated with entities are eligible as individuals.
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Eligibility requirements help determine those most in need. In the spirit of generosity and compassion for fellow visual artists, applicants are encouraged to apply using the honor system: if your livelihood or well-being does not require this grant, please consider forgoing an application to increase the chances for whom these grants would be most beneficial.
Application
Applicants for Interlace’s Emergency Grants must submit their applications via Submittable, which requires users to sign up for a free account to apply. While creating an account may feel like an extra step, Interlace uses this tool to protect applicants' privacy.
If you would like to read the application questions before signing into Submittable, please see the following PDF, which shows what the application requires: