UPCOMING COMMUNITY
VirtualARC: Grant Writing with Kirsten Michelle Schnittker
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UPCOMING COMMUNITY
VirtualARC: Grant Writing with Kirsten Michelle Schnittker
Join Kirsten Michelle Schnittker on December 03 at 6 PM ET to learn about Grant Writing. Artist Resource Collective is an artist-designed and artist-led program powered by YoungArts that equips artists with essential financial tools and knowledge. Free and open to all artists and industry professionals
There is more than one way to articulate your vision through words. Shake loose your fears and reimagine your approach to grant writing in this practical webinar designed for artists and creatives. Learn about the basics of grant applications, including:
- How to look for funding opportunities
- How to prepare
- Pitfalls to avoid
- Working with a grant writer
We’ll discuss the role of curiosity and consent in selecting opportunities; and together, uncover ways that grant writing can be more supportive to your practice. Whether you’re new to grant writing or seeking to refine your skills, this session will provide strategies to make the process of grant writing more aligned with your artistic work, strengthening your applications and increasing funding success.
Kirsten Michelle Schnittker is a dance artist and arts administrator who seeks ways to synthesize seemingly disparate practices into coherent foundations for play and learning. Kirsten currently serves as Director of Artist Services at The Field, where for the last 5 years they have supported individual artists, collectives, and organizations of all disciplines in fundraising, grant writing, fiscal sponsorship, and the business of being an artist. Kirsten has an extensive background in arts organizing and fundraising. They have worked for Danspace Project, The Feldenkrais Foundation, and as a freelance arts administrator, grant writer, and fundraising consultant for a variety of NYC-based artists and collectives, including a canary torsi and Creating New Futures. Recently, Kirsten performed in Joan Jonas’ iconic Mirror Piece I & II at The Getty and is engaged in creating dances, classes, and working groups around their improvisation performance practice called clearing, which studies communal negotiations of individual narratives.