How To Apply Yourself is an information session about the Artists 360 grant program. The session includes tips on grant writing, the submission process, and a Q&A. The session will be presented by David Wayne Reed, M-AAA Constituent Engagement Specialist.

Date: Monday, April 25, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Fayetteville Public Library (Walker Community Room), 401 W Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas

Artists 360 is a program providing grant funding and professional development opportunities to individual artists of all disciplines in the Arkansas counties of Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Sebastian, and Washington.

Applications for the 2023-2024 cohort open May 1 and run through June 28, 2023.

Artists 360 Grant Opportunities

Project Grants / Student Grants
Practicing artists are eligible for $7,500 project grants. Student artists are eligible for $1,500 grants. All grants will include learning opportunities to develop entrepreneurial skills, build sustainable careers, and create a network of leading regional artists.

Community Activator Grants
Five annual grants of $15,000 for individuals or collaborative partnerships that will fund projects created by artists that provide opportunities to other artists, to create an active community of peer support in the Northwest Arkansas region.

Creative Impact Grant
One annual grant of $25,000 will be awarded to an artist recognized both within and outside Northwest Arkansas. This grant award recognizes an exceptional artist that contributes to and nurtures the region’s cultural ecosystem.

Additional Artists 360 How to Apply Yourself information sessions are available. Visit maaa.org/events.

For more information about Artists 360, visit artist360.art.

Artists 360 is made possible through philanthropic support from Steuart Walton and Tom Walton through the
Walton Family Foundation.

About Walton Family Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation is, at its core, a family-led foundation. Three generations of the descendants of our founders, Sam and Helen Walton, and their spouses, work together to lead the foundation and create access to opportunity for people and communities. We work in three areas: improving K-12 educations, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in our home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta. To learn more, visit waltonfamilyfoundation.org.