Introducing Opportunity Grants! Opportunity Grants provide funding support to Arizona artists, teaching artists, and arts administrators as they take advantage of specific, unique opportunities that have the potential to significantly impact their professional growth. These grants support and empower arts sector workers at critical stages in their creative lives as they work to advance their career and continue to innovate in their work.

With three unique application tracks, the Opportunity Grant is designed to meet the unique professional development needs and goals of artists, teaching artists, and arts administrators.



Opportunity Grant for Artists

Proposed opportunities may be self-generated or by invitation and must have potential for significant impact in one of these three categories:

  • Introduce Your Work to New Audiences: An opportunity to present your work in a significant way that will expose your work to new audiences or raise your artistic profile.
  • Develop New Skills: An opportunity to develop new artistic skills though participation in activities such as conferences, artist residencies, workshops, fellowships, master classes, or apprenticeships.
  • Develop Your Artistic Entrepreneurship: An opportunity to engage in entrepreneurial activities directly related to the advancement of your work. Such activities may include production of marketing materials, website development, payment of professional fees (lawyers, accountants, etc.), and any practice-related capital expenses (equipment, materials, short-term rental, etc.)




Opportunity Grant for Teaching Artists

Proposed opportunities may be self-generated or by invitation and must have potential for significant impact in one or more of these two categories:

  • Develop New Skills: An opportunity to develop new skills by participating in activities like conferences, workshops, institutes, fellowships, master classes, trainings, or apprenticeships. New skills could be technical or pedagogical.

  • Introduce Your Work to New Audiences: An opportunity to present your work in a significant way that will expose your work to new audiences or raise your profile as a teaching artist, such as: presenting at a conference or engaging in an out-of-state teaching artist residency.




Opportunity Grant for Arts Administrators

Proposed opportunities may be self-generated or by invitation and must have potential for significant impact in development of new skills and/or broadening your network.

Eligible opportunities may include participation in activities like workshops, master classes, trainings, conferences, institutes, etc., which develop new administrative skills; consultations with experts in fields related to your area of desired learning or development; formal or informal mentorship; other professional development opportunities that introduce you to new people and resources that can help advance your work.


For more information, visit https://azarts.gov/grant/opportunity-grant/.