Grants & Funding
For Arts & Organizations
For Individuals & Artists
The Artist Support Grant (ASG) supports a broad range of talented artists in multiple art genres. ASG funds professional and artistic development for emerging and established artists to enhance their skills and abilities to create work or to improve their capacity to bring their work to new audiences. ASG was created to provide direct support to individual artists during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. The ASG is replacing the former grant referred to as: Regional Artist Project Grant (RAPG). The Artist Support Grant program is managed through a partnership with the Arts Council of Moore County to serve artists in Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly, and Union counties. Funding is provided by the North Carolina Arts Council and participating arts councils.
Artists at any stage of their careers, emerging or established, are eligible to apply for grants in all disciplines, such as visual art and craft, traditional art forms, music composition, film/video, literature and playwriting, choreography and dance. Types of fundable projects include the creation of new work, purchase of equipment and materials, and professional development workshops. Grant awards generally range from $500 to $3,000, and are intended to fund projects that begin no earlier than January 1, 2025, and conclude by December 31, 2025. Grant funds must be utilized by June 30, 2025. Deadline to apply is Friday, October 11, 2024, by 5:00 pm.
GRANT APPLICATION WORKSHOPS
Grant workshops are offered to assist artists in strengthening applications. Attendance is not required but strongly encouraged. All grant workshops are open to any artist in Region 12, no matter your county of residence. ASG workshops will take place on the following dates:
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: August 27, 2024 @ 5:30 pm via Zoom (This will be recorded with link available to view later.)
IN-PERSON WORKSHOP: September 10, 2024 @ 5:30 pm @ Moore County Arts Council Galleries at Campbell House, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines, NC
Reservations for each grant workshop are required by contacting the Arts Council Moore County @ 910-692-2787 or chris@mooreart.org.
Click here to download the ASG Grant Guidelines. Click here to download an ASG fillable PDF Application.
The deadline for applications is Friday, October 11, 2024. Must be received by 5:00 pm.
Grassroots Downloads
2024-2025 Grassroots Subgrants Guidelines and Requirements (PDF)
2024-2025 Grassroots Subgrant Application (PDF)
2024-2025 Grassroots Subgrant Application (PDF)
2024-2025 Grassroots Subgrant Final Report Form (PDF Fillable Form)
2024-2025 Grassroots Subgrant Final Report Form (PDF)
2024-2025 Grassroots Subgrant Final Report Form (Word)
No Overdue Tax Debt Form (Word)
Artist Support Grant Downloads

Grassroots Grant Recipients
2024-2025
Albemarle Parks & Rec – artist fees for multicultural performers for Food Truck Fridays
Badin Historical Museum – artist fees for the dancers, storytellers, drummers, singers for the Hardaway PowWow
GHA Autism Supports – various arts programming for clients
Locust Parks & Rec – Expanding movie nights to a cultural enriching event by including a mariachi band for “Encanto” movie night and African drummer before “Mufasa” movie night
Pfeiffer University – Eugene Earnhardt Speaker Series – Michelle Gillespie, Educator & Author
Stanly Arts Guild – operational funds for the Gallery
Stanly County Chorale – support for the Christmas and Spring community concerts
Stanly County Concert Association – operational funds to prepare for upcoming season of professional musical artists
Stanly County Concert Band – Fall concert and Spring Concert
Stanly County Partnership for Children – free theatre experience for preschool-aged children and their families
Stanly County Schools – Performing Artists for the Cultural Education Program. Multi-cultural Artist included Soul Street Dancers, a Houston-based Hip Hop group performing for all 7th & 8th graders in Stanly County Public Schools and John Brown Jazz Quarter – introduction of Jazz to all 9th & 10th graders in Stanly County Public Schools
Stanly County Senior Center – Senior Spirit Day @ EE Waddell Center, Albemarle
Uwharrie Players – operational funds for their 2024-2025 season
In house programming: Community concert with the Charlotte Symphony and Make Music Day – June 21, 2025
Past recipients
Albemarle Downtown Development Corporation – artist fees for Ghost mural restoration
Friends of the Agri-Civic Center – artist fees for mural at the Stanly County Agri-Civic Center
Norwood Central Business District – artist fees for murals in the outdoor art gallery
The Talent Company – support for their youth driven theatre productions
Uwharrie Youth Arts – support for the performance of the City Youth Ballet’s The Nutcracker
Artist Support Grant Recipients
2025
Eli Williams – Mural Project
2023
Susan Lackey – Equipment (Large Easel)
Richard Cutright, Jr – Computer/software for recording music
2022
Jennifer Brogdon – Writer’s Workshop
2021
Austin Coats – Sound equipment and Studio Recording Time in pursuit of musical career
Christian Payne – Camera for live streaming performances and actor workshops
2020
Annette Lowder – artist residency in Shigaraki, Japan
2019
Lorraine Turi – purchase a Canon 5d Mark IV camera to experiment with video in her current project Last Seen. Last Seen is a collection of photographs that have been taken at the last place a species was seen in the wild before going extinct.
2018
Susan Lackey – attend a mentoring style studio experience with master artist, Carrie Burns Brown, Kanuga Watermedia Workshops in Hendersonville, NC
Rodney Rock – purchase Nikon D500 camera to further his artistry in photography
2017
Caroline Stephenson – attend the Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University
2016
Mark Stephenson – attend the Portrait Society of America Annual Conference 2016 in Washington, D.C.