The 2024/5 Newark Artist Accelerator (NAA) is a project grant for Newark-based, multidisciplinary visual artists. This year’s fund is made possible by the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program.
Project-based grants are awarded in the amounts of $2,500, $5,000, and $7,500. Projects are artist-led and include collaborative ventures, pop-up exhibitions, events, and interventions of an ephemeral nature that are radically accessible to the public.
Applications are assessed by the proposal’s originality, impact, and feasibility. A jury of local and national arts professionals selects projects.
The application portal is now open. It will close on Friday, November 29, at 11:59 pm. An information session about the Newark Artist Accelerator fund was held on Wednesday, November 13. Watch the session here.
About The Newark Artist Accelerator:
Beginning in 2021, in response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on artists, their families, and their communities, the NAA Fund was initially established to provide emergency relief to artists in New Jersey.
The NAA Fund continues to provide immediate need, merit-based funding to artists’ projects and collaborations annually and is committed to sustaining this grant program through ongoing funding from local foundations and donors.
The Newark Artist Accelerator Fund is powered by Project for Empty Space.
Check out some of the 2023 NAA projects:
Angela Pilgrim with Fruishun Press Studio | Newark Youth Printmaking & Research Scholarship
CAZORLA + SALEME | Magical Encounters Season 2: The Grand Mural
HYCIDE: The Black & White Book. Image by Jamel Shabazz.
Melisa Gerecci in collaboration with Antoinette Ellis-Williams, Monifa Kincaid, Aurora Diaz, and Sophie Ziner | Cook Book / Look Book Calendar Project
Obscura Darkroom NJ | Through Healing Eyes: Recovery and Photography
RORSHACH and Friends | all you need//is love
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program aims to support vibrant, under-the-radar artistic activity by partnering with leading cultural institutions in communities across the country. The program allows the Foundation to reach the sizable population of informal, non-incorporated artist collectives and to support their alternative gathering spaces, publications, websites, events and other projects.