Danish Arts Foundation announces Craft and Design Projects

 Deadline Date: September 19, 2024

 Donor Name: Danish Arts Foundation

 Grant Size: Not Available

https://www.kunst.dk/english/funding-programmes/craft-and-design-projects-in-denmark-and-abroad

The Danish Arts Foundation is pleased to announce its Craft and Design Projects in Denmark and abroad.

Purpose 

• The purpose of the fund is to promote artistic quality within craft and design in Denmark and the artistic quality within Danish craft and design abroad through grants for projects.

Eligible Projects

• The main criteria for all awards from the Danish Arts Foundation are the project’s artistic quality and the artistic talent in relation to the project applied for. The Committee for Craft and Design Project Funding processes the applications based on the following criteria, which are included in a total evaluation of the project’s artistic quality:
  • Professionalism: The project develops and challenges practices, ideas, traditions and materials.
  • Coherence: The project has a thoroughly thought-through connection between ideas and the methods and/or effects chosen.
  • Significance: The project shows reflections in terms of how the project creates significance in relevant contexts.
• The Committee funds projects of high artistic quality throughout the entire craft and design field and is aware that craft and design is a broad practise. The Committee looks for projects that demonstrate aesthetic potential and a keen understanding of the craft, its materials and sensuousness, as well as projects centered on specific design solutions to specific problems or projects of a more intangible nature.

Who can apply?

• The Committee for Craft and Design Project Funding funds artists, designers, curators, authors, promoters, museums, galleries and others with an interest in developing and promoting craft and design in Denmark and Danish craft and design abroad in the form of projects.
• Examples of projects that the committee may fund include:
  • Exhibitions and dissemination projects that involve works by contemporary artists and designers in Denmark and/or abroad.
  • Residencies.
  • Production of works.
  • Projects that show aesthetic potential and a thorough understanding of a craft, materials and sensuousness, as well as projects that are centred on concrete design solutions to specific problems or projects that are more immaterial or critical in nature.
  • Presentations and all types of dissemination (verbal, written, visual, digital and printed) of the works of contemporary Danish artists and designers to a relevant audience, this includes travel funding and residencies in connection with specific exhibitions and tasks.
  • Funding for establishing a business and international cooperation on the production of new types of Danish craft and design products that contribute to demonstrating the special identity and profile of the craft or design.
  • Editorial content production for different media: reviews, articles, dissemination of academic research projects etc.

For more information, visit Danish Arts Foundation.