It’s Round 5 – Last Chance But Not The Least
Call for Grant Applications by the Ulrike Michal Foundation for the Arts
07.10.2024
The Ulrike Michal Foundation would like to announce the launch of their final funding round for grant applications.
The Foundation is able to offer:
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Four grants, each up to £3,000; and
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Four grants, each for between £3,001 and £5,000
for projects that “promote, encourage and extend the love, appreciation, enjoyment, understanding and practice of fine, decorative and applied arts among people of all ages through experiences at museums, art galleries, historic properties and in the community at large, both as individuals and communally, as participants and spectators.”
The foundation has been pleased to support art (fine and decorative) workshops, major art exhibitions, gallery investment, public art, the conservation of works of art, art in the community and artists’ residencies in projects organized by individual artists, community groups, schools, local and national museums, and art galleries. (A small selection of the amazing projects the Foundation has helped to happen accompanies this press release.)
Any fine or decorative art project that meets the broad aims of the foundation will be considered. The Trustees especially welcome applications that cherish, celebrate, develop, showcase and share the traditional skills of the fine and decorative arts.
David Brown, Chair of the Ulrike Michal Foundation: “At the start of Round 4, the Trustees issued a challenge because the Foundation had funded many workshop events and club exhibitions, that they would be especially interested in receiving applications for more innovative, unusual and long-term legacy projects. Artists, curators, and creative practitioners responded to the challenge with some wonderful plans and the Foundation was able to support nine of them.
With this being the final grant round of the Foundation, we issue this challenge once again. Be inspired by the purpose of the foundation to devise your project plan, submit your application and the Trustees will aim to help you make the best ones happen.”
Full details of the core grant scheme and the eligibility criteria are to be found elsewhere on this website.
The Foundation welcomes core grant applications for projects that will benefit communities across north Wales, Merseyside and the border counties of Cheshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire during the period from March 2025 through to April 2026, and the trustees will consider a longer time frame if the applicant can justify the need for additional time.
The Foundation will not be making any student grants in this final round.
However, students can apply for core grants as long as their projects meet the core grant criteria.
The deadline for all core grant applications is December 20th 2024, 5 p.m.
The Trustees of the Foundation reserve the right to alter the number of core grants depending on the quality of the applications.
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