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Artist Grants

Artist Grants

Night Bloom: Grants for Artists supports the arts ecosystem in the greater Tucson area through funding collaboratively-focused visual arts projects by individual artists and artist groups within Tucson and the broader Sonoran Desert region. Grants in amounts ranging from $3,500 – $7,500 support efforts to create experimental and community-embedded opportunities for artistic exchange that engage with the region’s unique contexts and possibilities. 

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Night Bloom: Grants for Artists is organized by MOCA Tucson in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. 

Requirements

The Night Bloom: Grant for Artists is open to all self-identifying visual artists. Lead applicants must be legally allowed to work in the United States, and reside within Pima County. Submissions of a project narrative, budget overview, work samples (images and/or videos), are required. Applicants will be reviewed by a panel of three jurors independent from MOCA from Tucson, the Southwest region, and from across the nation. Grants will be distributed in 2025 and projects must be realized by June 2026. 

Important Dates

  • Application opens: April 1, 2025

  • Arts Grants Writing Workshop: April 22, 2025 at 5:30pm. Register here.

  • Application deadline: Extended to May 8, 2025

  • Notification of grant award by: July 1, 2025

  • Grant funds disbursed: July – August 2025

  • Grant funded activities: July 2025 – June 2026

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