About MADE

MADE is a granting & project incubator program that draws upon the inspiration and power of the EAP network to propose and execute projects that address immediate solutions. MADE supports projects that are wide-ranging: from new social models to practices around life/work balance, from new ventures into systems theory to innovative ways of building smarter communities. At its core, MADE is an actionable, flexible forum that drives exploration, prototyping, and knowledge sharing.

Application & More Info

WE WANT TO FUND YOUR IDEA! Emerging Arts Professionals (EAP) invites you to PLAY, EXPERIMENT, PROTOTYPE with the practice of arts administration by submitting a proposal to MADE.

Selected grant proposals receive up to $1,000 plus EAP Networked support to execute the proposed idea.  A project could take many forms, but we want you to think about what could be done by this network, for this network. Challenge us, excite us, and take us somewhere new.

Download the MADE Application Flyer

 Applications for MADE 2018 have closed

The 2019 round will open in late 2018.

Download the 2018 flyer to get a sense of application guidelines.

Learn about our MADE Awardees!

EAP is committed to creating space for new ideas to be tested and to grow, most importantly we understand that creating space often means providing financial and administrative support to these projects.

MADE Incubator Projects

#ProjectAIM

Created by Jay-Marie Hill, a Black, Queer Artist & Organizer eager to share the tools of the Movement with the masses, #ProjectAIMformed in early 2017 hoping to fill a void left gaping by social media and other emerging technologies. With funding support from Emerging Arts Professional’s MADE Grant to cover supplies, registration subsidization, catering and facilitation fees, a learning container was created for well-meaning onlookers to practice what it meant to be not just “Allies” to social movements, but “Allies in Motion”. Read more at emergemag.org/getting-allies-in-motion.

#DignityInProcess

EAP is a network of Bay Area arts workers and administrators focused on equity, sustainability, and creativity in the arts field. As one of our values, we are interested in integrating arts practices back into the labor and administration of the arts. As such, we are partnering with artist/activist ChE to beta test #DignityInProcess: a pilot for Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Practice (AILP) and an opportunity for the healing tradition of the ring shout to engage a wide audience, while directly collaborating with current justice movements and providing an arts-based cultural equity framework for Bay Area arts administrators. Through this lens, EAP and ChE will host workshops in AILP, present Art Actions in Black-owned and African Diasporic businesses, gather Wisdom Councils, and integrate AILP into EAP’s core programs.

Past MADE Awardees & Projects

EAP/SFBA is committed to creating space for new ideas to be tested and to grow, most importantly we understand that creating space often means providing financial and administrative support to these projects.

MODERN DAY MINDFULNESS – A WORKSHOP

Modern day Mindfulness at Work will offer members in the Emerging Arts Professionals network as series of workshop-style classes that explore, deepen and surface mindfulness tools and regenerative practices directly connected to livelihood practices, balance, nourishment and thriving.

WHAT’S FOR DINNER? BRINGING RACIAL EQUITY TO THE TABLE

What’s for Dinner? Bringing Racial Equity to the Table for Emerging Arts Administrators empowers support staff to step out of the shadows of leadership and vocalize the need for arts organizations to embody a racial equity framework into their operations, governance, and programmatic work.

ART BUZZ GAME NIGHT – PUBLIC EVENT

ArtBuzz is a creative game and workshop that involves toasting a beverage (or other incentive) to common buzzwords while watching a mashup of the year’s top arts conferences and other influential resources (e.g. TED Talks).