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.

Grant applications are due April 19, 2024 at 5PM.  An additional cycle of ArtsAMP Graduate Student Research Grants will be available in fall 2024 with application details available in summer 2024.

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.

Apply:

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.
   

Quantum x 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:

• help to make quantum science and technology more approachable and accessible
• examine the role of quantum technologies in addressing the world’s grand challenges
• imbue creativity, community-building and community-transformation into the development and transition of these technologies
• increase the on- and off-campus impact and visibility of UMD and College Park as the Capital of Quantum
• 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.

Grant applications are due April 19, 2024 at 5PM. 

Funding:

With the 1:1 matching funds from the Division of Research to supplement quantum-related projects in any of the ArtsAMP programs, we hope to encourage more quantum-focused applicants, but applicants may also propose larger projects that run through September 2025; award maximums are double those listed on the portal for standard ArtsAMP programs. For these larger, Q&A Supplemental awards, summer salary is an allowable expense.

Up to $4,000 is available per project. All Q&A proposals must identify an eligible faculty PI. Division of Research funding cannot be transferred directly to students or general departmental accounts, so student program applications must identify a confirmed faculty mentor who will serve as a PI. Eligible PIs include any full-time member of UMD’s tenure-track, professional-track or librarian faculty, including adjunct or visiting researchers who have been authorized by their home department to serve as PI on external awards.

Apply:

Please complete the Quantum x 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.

Grant applications are due April 19, 2024 at 5PM. An additional cycle of ArtsAMP Collaborative Student MicroGrants will be available in fall 2024 with application details available in summer 2024.

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.

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:

• help to make quantum science and technology more approachable and accessible
• examine the role of quantum technologies in addressing the world’s grand challenges
• imbue creativity, community-building and community-transformation into the development and transition of these technologies
• increase the on- and off-campus impact and visibility of UMD and College Park as the Capital of Quantum
• 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.

Grant applications are due April 19, 2024 at 5PM.

Funding:

With the 1:1 matching funds from the Division of Research to supplement quantum-related projects in any of the ArtsAMP programs, we hope to encourage more quantum-focused applicants, but applicants may also propose larger projects that run through September 2025; award maximums are double those listed on the portal for standard ArtsAMP programs. For these larger, Q&A Supplemental awards, summer salary is an allowable expense.

Up to $3,000 per project. All Q&A proposals must identify an eligible faculty PI. Division of Research funding cannot be transferred directly to students or general departmental accounts, so student program applications must identify a confirmed faculty mentor who will serve as a PI. Eligible PIs include any full-time member of UMD’s tenure-track, professional-track or librarian faculty, including adjunct or visiting researchers who have been authorized by their home department to serve as PI on external awards.

Apply:

Please complete the Quantum x 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.

ArtsAMP Impact Student Grants may be awarded to individual students, teams, or student organizations. All current, degree-seeking undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply. Projects must have a goal of positive community impact.

To be successful, project proposals must:

• center artistic creativity or scholarship
• be designed to have a positive impact on communities either on or off campus
• articulate a coherent rationale for conducting the project,
• articulate how the grantee will design and measure community impact.
   

Grant applications are due April 19, 2024 at 5PM. 

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 Impact Student Grant Application and upload the following as a single PDF (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. Detail how communities will be consulted and assisted through the arts. 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.

Quantum x ArtsAMP Impact Student Grants may be awarded to individual students, teams, or student organizations. All current, degree-seeking undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply. Projects must have a goal of positive community impact.

To be successful, project proposals must:

• help to make quantum science and technology more approachable and accessible
• examine the role of quantum technologies in addressing the world’s grand challenges
• imbue creativity, community-building and community-transformation into the development and transition of these technologies
• increase the on- and off-campus impact and visibility of UMD and College Park as the Capital of Quantum
• center artistic creativity or scholarship
• be designed to have a positive impact on communities either on or off campus
• articulate a coherent rationale for conducting the project,
• articulate how the grantee will design and measure community impact.
   

Grant applications are due April 19, 2024 at 5PM. 

Funding:

With the 1:1 matching funds from the Division of Research to supplement quantum-related projects in any of the ArtsAMP programs, we hope to encourage more quantum-focused applicants, but applicants may also propose larger projects that run through September 2025; award maximums are double those listed on the portal for standard ArtsAMP programs. For these larger, Q&A Supplemental awards, summer salary is an allowable expense.

Up to $3,000 per project. All Q&A proposals must identify an eligible faculty PI. Division of Research funding cannot be transferred directly to students or general departmental accounts, so student program applications must identify a confirmed faculty mentor who will serve as a PI. Eligible PIs include any full-time member of UMD’s tenure-track, professional-track or librarian faculty, including adjunct or visiting researchers who have been authorized by their home department to serve as PI on external awards.

Apply:

Please complete the Quantum x ArtsAMP Impact Student Grant Application and upload the following as a single PDF (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. Detail how communities will be consulted and assisted through the arts. 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.