Join genARTS Silicon Valley for a night of art career development, performances, and networking!
The Demystifying Grant Writing Workshop will teach artists how to write a competitive proposal, focusing on grant-writing best practices, and how and where to search for funding opportunities, and will also provide resources to access post-event.
Michelle Wallace will be leading this workshop. Michelle Wallace is a grant writer for arts and arts organizations. She has written successful MAP, NEFA, NEA, San Francisco Grants For the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, SVCreates, Arizona Humanities For All grants, among others. When she writes grants, Michelle draws heavily from her experience as an arts journalist.
Michelle has published short fiction, CNF and journalism in publications such as Alpinist Magazine, Vice, The Rumpus and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. She has an MFA and has won several grants and fellowships for her creative writing.
Schedule of events:
This event is the third session in our How To Art series where we will host panels, workshops, performances, and networking sessions for emerging and established artists in San Jose and the greater Santa Clara County. genARTS aims to create a space where artists can immediately put theory into practice and receive personalized guidance from experts in the field. This is a free event.
This series is supported by the City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs’ take pART grant. Thank you to SVCREATES for partnerin with us on this session.
Please use this form to register and reserve your seat. We can’t wait to see you there!
About genARTS
genARTS Silicon Valley is a volunteer-run organization fiscally sponsored by SVCREATES that serves emerging arts and cultural leaders and bridges communication between emerging, midcareer, and established leaders through our programs and events. Focused locally on San Jose and Silicon Valley as a whole, we still maintain important statewide connections across California and keep an eye on the national conversations in the arts and culture sector, specifically through our connection to American for the Arts as a registered Local Emerging Leaders Network. genARTS Silicon Valley’s mission is to empower creative individuals and emerging arts leaders.
Please consider donating to genARTS to help us continue providing programs such as these at https://www.genartssv.org/donate. Thank you for your support!
