What costs related to documentation & archiving does this fund support?

Creating a record is particularly important for socially engaged projects, which tend to center ephemeral events or exchanges. While this work is often meant to be experienced directly, documentation is useful to practitioners in pursuing opportunities for funding or partnership. This cycle of Field Funds is designed to support practitioners to document their practices and/or tend to the archives of their work. This is an opportunity to enhance the documentation of ongoing work or invest in the preservation of existing documentation. This is not an opportunity to create new work, exhibit, or publish documentation. This is not an opportunity to fund new projects, exhibitions, publications, or other presentations of documentation.

This cycle can support expenses for practitioners to:

Create documentation:

• Commission photo, video, or audio documentation of a project.
• Commission written documentation or reflection on a project.
• Commission image descriptions, audio description, captioning, or other accessibility work for documentation.

Tend to archiving:

• Create or contribute to an inventory system of files or materials.
• Digitize analog media or documents.
• Pay for web hosting, inventory management, database subscriptions, or storage.
• Pay other administrative costs for accessing and maintaining archival materials.

When should my proposed activities take place?

Selected applicants will receive funds within 10 days of the application due date. All proposed expenses should be spent within six months of receiving funds. Please see the schedule section for the dates for this cycle.

What kind of proposals are not eligible?

Proposals from nonprofit organizations or commercial businesses, proposals for events or projects that are not initiated and led by artists, proposals to support the creation of studio work or presentations, and proposals for activities that take place after more than six months after the application deadline.

Could requested support go toward a larger project or event that is already planned?

Yes, proposals should describe how these funds would support documenting an existing or planned project and/or the organization and maintenance of existing archival materials.