Fall 2024 ArtsAMPlification Grants for Students

ArtsAMP Graduate Student Research Grants are awarded to degree-seeking individuals or teams of graduate students in any graduate program on the College Park campus. Priority will be given to projects that help advance students toward degree benchmarks, including thesis and dissertation projects.

To be successful, project proposals must:

• be interdisciplinary in nature and scope center artistic creativity
• demonstrate the potential to advance the practices, perceptions, or capabilities of the
• represented disciplines beyond the project
• articulate a coherent rationale for conducting the project 
• articulate how the grantee will collaborate with others to integrate disciplines

While artistic creativity must be central to the project, proposals that include multiple disciplines will be prioritized, as will projects that connect the arts to the sciences, or use the collaborative artistic process to address social justice.

Deadlines:

Grant applications are due on Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 5 p.m.

Grant application period: September 27-October 24, 2024
Award Notifications by: Mid-November

Funding:

Up to $2,000 is available per project. Funds can be transferred directly into your student account or with agreement from your department's business office, can be transferred to your department for the management of funds. Please note: any funds paid to a student's account may be taxable and can affect any financial aid. Please consult with financial aid for additional information on how it would affect your individual situation. Funds must be used within one year of award receipt.

Please complete the ArtsAMP Graduate Student Research Grants Application and combine and upload the following documents as a single PDF. All materials should be single-spaced, with one-inch margins and 12-point font. 

• Project Description: Summarize the proposed project’s objectives, outcomes, and connections to Arts for All. Explain how two or more disciplines will interact to create new creative experiences or knowledge. Articulate how you will enhance your disciplinary skills with the expertise of others outside of your discipline. Explain how this project will advance your degree progress or professional goals. Please also include an anticipated timeline (two pages maximum). 
   
• Project Budget and Justification: Provide an itemized budget and justify planned expenditures. Include any other sources of funding and whether those funds are committed or pending. Allowable expenses include (but are not limited to) programming and research expenses, conference fees, supplies, rentals, software, and equipment related to the project.  Unallowable expenses are food, alcohol, and travel.
   
• Department Business Manager: Provide the name of department business manager to which Arts for All will transfer the funds for disbursement if you elect not to have funds submitted to your student account.

ArtsAMP Collaborative Student MicroGrants may be awarded to individual students, teams, or student organizations. All current, degree-seeking undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to projects with collaborators from at least two different disciplines. 

To be successful, project proposals must:

• be interdisciplinary in nature and scope
• center artistic creativity
• demonstrate the potential to advance the practices, perceptions or capabilities of the represented disciplines beyond the project
• articulate a coherent rationale for conducting the project
• articulate how the grantee will collaborate with others to integrate disciplines

While artistic creativity must be central to the project, proposals in which multiple disciplines act as equal partners will be prioritized, as will projects that connect the arts to the sciences or use the collaborative artistic process to address social justice.

Deadlines:

Grant applications are due on Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 5 p.m.

Grant application period: September 27-October 18, 2024.
Award Notifications by: Mid-November

Funding:

Up to $1,500 per project. Funds can be transferred directly into your student account or with agreement from your department's business office, can be transferred to your department for the management of funds. Please note: any funds paid to a student's account may be taxable and can affect any financial aid. Please consult with financial aid for additional information on how it would affect your individual situation. Funds must be used within one year of award receipt.

Please complete the ArtsAMP Collaborative Student MicroGrant Application and combine and upload the following documents as a single PDF. All materials should be single-spaced, with one-inch margins and 12-point font. 

Project Description: Summarize the proposed project’s objectives, outcomes, and connections to Arts for All. Explain how two or more disciplines will interact to create new creative experiences or knowledge. Articulate how you will enhance your disciplinary skills with the expertise of others outside of your discipline. Explain how this project will advance your degree progress or professional goals. Please also include an anticipated timeline (two pages maximum).

Project Budget and Justification: Provide an itemized budget and justify planned expenditures. Include any other sources of funding and whether those funds are committed or pending. Allowable expenses include (but are not limited to) programming and research expenses, conference fees, supplies, rentals, software, and equipment related to the project. Unallowable expenses are food, alcohol, and travel.