Open Call: Accessibility & Translation

Field Funds open call is looking to support your accessibility efforts with a $500 micro-grant! This cycle of Field Funds is intended to support practitioners in increasing the accessibility of their projects and practices. This cycle can support expenses for practitioners to:

• Hire providers for events and gatherings (ASL interpretation, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), language interpretation)
• Commission providers to make materials accessible (language translation, image description, captioning for documents, presentations, written materials, video, audio, etc)
• Hire access consultants and coordinators
• Commission an accessibility audit of website or other materials
• Make access modifications to physical space
• Offer accessible transportation
• Provide masks, testing, or other COVID safety measures

Requirements

U.S.-based Artists, creative practitioners, and culture bearers with a demonstrated history of creating socially engaged art. Field Funds uses the terms artist and socially engaged art, but they understand that not all practitioners identify with the same language. Regardless of how they describe their work, eligible applicants will be able to show in their application that their practice:

• Applies creative strategies and interventions that make society more just, kind, safe, and free.
• Involves and builds relationships with communities and collaborators in ways that are meaningful to those they work with.
• Uses processes and skills beyond those used to create studio artwork or traditional performance—including advocacy, dialogue, facilitation, organizing, and research.

Please note that Field Funds does not accept applications from nonprofit organizations or commercial businesses.

Application Instructions