Applicati

The application process for the 2025 cycle will open at noon on Monday, January 27, 2025, and close at noon on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, and involves completing an online application followed by a multi-level review process.

To begin, you will need to register with the software SurveyMonkey Apply (this is different from SurveyMonkey) if you are a first-time user or using an unregistered email for the first time. Your email will need verification and you will need to respond to an email from the software SurveyMonkey Apply in order to submit the application. Please be sure your email server will allow emails from noreply@mail.smapply.io and from @surveymonkey.com in order to complete all necessary steps.

The first page of the application will determine your eligibility. Please read the eligibility requirements on this website before starting the application process.

If you are deemed eligible, you will proceed to the application. You may save your work and return to your application at a later date. Please be sure to bookmark the SurveyMonkey Apply website for an easy return to your application.

You will then be asked to provide information about your project and your organization.

You will be asked to enter your project within one of five categories:

  1. NEW WORKS, COMMISSIONS, UNIQUE PRESENTATIONS

  2. GENERAL PROGRAM & OPERATING SUPPORT

  3. COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE/ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

  4. CAPACITY BUILDING

  5. CULTURAL EQUITY/NEW INITIATIVES (Non-performance)

Recognizing that a post-COVID-19 world continues to impact performance, rehearsal, education, and exhibition spaces, as well as audiences in 2024, grants within the five primary categories may also support:

a. Virtual programming.

b. Programs presented in unusual spaces.

c. Programs reaching isolated audiences and those with limited internet access.

d. New works and projects that may only get to the workshop/reading stage for now, but are held until a future date.

Applications (referenced above) must demonstrate realistic strategies to reach and measure broad and underserved audiences.

You'll be asked to share your proposal, address its merit and significance, your audience, and the proposed metrics to measure success. Make your best case for support, but please be succinct and respectful of the panelists' time.

The process allows for uploading collateral support materials. You may also provide links to supporting material online. You may save your work and return to the application through this same URL.

Please provide materials to showcase your best work. For example, if you are a dance company, please submit video/audio files or links. If your work is musical, please submit audio files or links. For a theatrical piece, please submit a script or outline, if one is available.

Once the application is complete and submitted, and the application period closed (noon, Tuesday, February 18, 2025), the entire packet will first be reviewed by the five-member MFA Advisory Review Panel. The panelists will make and prioritize their selections. Those recommendations will be reviewed by the three-member MFA Executive Committee, which makes final decisions on the applications approved and the grant amounts.

Grants will be announced in late spring and funded in early summer.