The information below is from the 2022-2023 funding cycle. Please see the opportunity website for updated information.
The Arts Initiative was established in 2006 as an annual program designed to foster the advancement of the arts and arts-related scholarship at UCLA. To date, more than one-hundred projects across the arts and humanities have been supported by Arts Initiative funding. In 2020, the Chancellor's Council on the Arts was established to connect and mobilize UCLA' s diverse artistic communities, drawing upon their strengths in areas such as visual and performing arts, theater, film and television, creative writing, digital arts and media, architecture and urban design, dance, music, humanistic research on the arts, public arts curation and presentation, K-12 arts education, community arts, and international programs in the arts and arts policy.
The 2022-23 Chancellor's Arts Initiative will be administered through a partnership between the Chancellor’s Council on the Arts (CCoA) and the UCLA Office for Research and Creative Activities (ORCA). With a streamlined application process, funding will be available to directly support faculty research and creative activities in the arts.
Recipients of Arts Initiative funding will continue to be featured on the Go Arts Portal, a digital platform designed to bring together the university’s arts organizations with the goal of articulating and amplifying the power of the arts to elevate and enrich lives. Through storytelling, programming, and advocacy, Go Arts deepens connections both across campus and with local and global communities.
Information about last year’s grant recipients can be found here.
Award Amount and Details
- A total of just under $150K in grants is available.
- Arts Initiative grants are between $5-15K (maximum award amount).
Deadlines and Date Information
The due dates listed below are the most recent due dates our office is aware of. Please see the opportunity home page for information about potential upcoming deadlines or other opportunities.
- Application Due Date: January 9, 2023 by 11:59 pm
- Announcement of Grants: Winter Quarter 2023
- Project Funding Period: Project funds must be used by December 31, 2023
Eligibility Information
- While this funding opportunity is open to all academic senate faculty, lecturers, adjuncts, and other non-senate faculty (including academic administrators), at least one PI or co-PI must have an affiliation with one of the units affiliated with the Chancellor’s Council on the Arts.
- Visiting faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and individuals without UCLA appointments are not eligible to serve as the PI, although they may serve as co-investigators or team members.
- Although preference will be given to proposals from faculty not previously funded through this program, prior recipients of funding through the Chancellor’s Arts Initiative may apply for a new project, provided they do not have an active award through the program.
- PIs or co-PIs currently funded by other ORCA seed funding mechanisms (e.g., Transdisciplinary Research Acceleration Grants or Racial and and Social Justice seed grants) may not apply for the same project but may apply for funding for a different project.
