2024 Micrograntees
2024 Intercultural Microgrant Program
About the Program
With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, Kentucky Waterways Alliance, Fund for the Arts, the Monument Workshop at UK, the Josh May Memorial Fund, and individual donors, the 2024 Microgrant Program invests in a series of seed grants (awards from $250-2000) to support short-term projects that foster dialogue, connection, or collaboration among Kentuckians from disparate backgrounds, identities, or experiences.
2024 Intercultural Microgrant Funds & Recipients
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Josh May Memorial Fund Microgrant
In memory of RUX Co-Founder Josh May, this grant fund supports diverse Kentuckians to collaborate on a musical project.
Kentucky Foundation for Women Microgrants
In partnership with the Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW), this fund supports small, women-led projects that use arts, culture, or creativity to bridge geographic, racial, and economic divides in Kentucky or reduce political polarization.
Civic Health Microgrants
This fund supports projects that bring community members together across different ideologies or backgrounds to work together or solve a local challenge.
Artist-led projects that generate Economic Impact in Eastern Kentucky
This fund invests in projects that engage Eastern Kentucky artists with individuals or organizations from the Kentucky RUX Network to collaborate across distance, difference, or sector on projects that celebrate and connect Kentucky's people and places and promote economic impact.
Kentucky Waterways Alliance Microgrants
In partnership with the Kentucky Waterways Alliance (KWA), this fund seeks to invest in projects that clean up, improve access to, or offer education about Kentucky’s waterways.
The Monument Workshop at UK Microgrants
In partnership with The Monument Workshop at UK, this fund seeks community-driven work designed to improve the monument landscape in Kentucky.
Thank you, partners & funders!
Artists Respond: Community, Culture, and Commonality in the Commonwealth
About Artists Respond
In partnership with the Creative Change Coalition, Artists Respond: Community, Culture, and Commonality in the Commonwealth will offer grants for up to ten artists and/or teams to develop creative work that addresses rural-urban connection, interdependence, or solidarity in Kentucky. We aim for this work to uplift the power of arts and culture to address problems and combat a national narrative that too often centers on division and divide, especially in election years.
2024 Artists Respond Recipients
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