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ABOUT FEES

• Hour/Session equals 45 to 60 minutes depending on the length of a classroom period

• One week equals a total of five days at four hours/sessions per day

• Single Full Performance equals 90-120 minutes

To create the budget for your project, talk to the artist first about your ideas for the project and collaborate on the project objectives to design the actual number of activities. Then use the chart to calculate costs for the artist fees.

Fees are sometimes negotiable depending on the number of artists involved and the design of the project.

Be sure to talk to the artist about other necessary expenses such as travel/per diem (these are not included in the fees listed in the charts but may be eligible for grant support); or supplies, staging needs, etc., which are not eligible for grant support, before submitting your application. Discuss these fees with the artist before submitting your application. See the Commission's Guide to Grants: Organizations and Schools to determine the amount of funding you can request.

Arts Learning Project  and Project applicants should consult the Guide to Grants for Schools and Organizations Funding/Eligibility scale to calculate artist fees.

• Arts Learning Projects include artist residencies in schools or after-school settings, professional development workshops for educators, partnerships with arts organizations, and arts curriculum development projects, and generally offer a mix of services in addition to planning meetings, and conversations and evaluations part way through the residency. Commission Arts Learning Project Grant awards will only be matched at the $50 per hour rate.
   

• Project applicants can design arts events, including multi-day residencies by artists to work with a variety of community groups and present their work in public performances, readings and exhibitions.

For all artist residencies, in schools, after-school or community settings, sponsors should plan on no more than four artist services per day. A service consists generally of one 45-60 minute activity with a fixed group of participants. Performances, readings and exhibitions are often longer and require more preparation, setup and teardown time, so artists should be scheduled for less than four services on a travel, performance, public reading or exhibition day.

Services may include:

• Workshops - sessions of one class length, either working with a core group of students (no larger than one class size), a teacher/staff inservice, or a community group;

• Lecture-Demonstrations - generally 45-60 minutes in length, in which an artist or artist ensemble provides examples and explanation of their artform to a group of people as either a formally staged, or a less structured activity in a small space, often interactive; and

• School or Public Performances - for performing artists/companies, a fully staged performance with all company members and often involving residency participants, to present the artform to the site and usually the public. Applicants are highly encouraged to incorporate a performance, reading or exhibition into their project to showcase the guest artist and artform in its full form.