Herberger Institute grants

Design and Arts Corps seeks proposals for student projects that engage in a collaboration with a community partner within or outside of ASU in the spring of 2025. Collaborative projects can be new partnership efforts or can build upon an already existing partnership project.  These grants are to expand, elevate, and amplify your creative projects and can support technology, equipment and space rentals, supplies, fees for collaborators, etc.  These grants do not support travel or professional development fees (please look at the USG and GPSA grants for these purposes).

The application deadline for Spring 2025 awards is October 18th. Please note you must be enrolled during the semester for which you are applying and utilizing the grant. Your enrollment is also verified before the grant is disbursed.

Applications are reviewed once a year, in late fall, by the grant committee. Awardees will be contacted by email if they have been awarded a grant and then given guidelines for the next steps in the process. Funding will disburse at the beginning of the spring semester for which each grant is offered. Awardees will be required to document their creative process and project through the process as well as submit a final project reflection and final account of all expenditures.

For this grant application you will need the following:

1. Complete this application in full 
2. Within the application, upload one document (PDF format with filename convention LastName_ProjectName.pdf)) that includes the following:
   • Statement of purpose for your proposed project:
     • For the CCG: Statement of purpose for your proposed project including title, brief description, who this project will impact, how you will know impact has been made, and how the scope of the project is above and beyond the requirements for your degree.
     • For the DAC: Statement of purpose for your proposed project including title, brief description, who this project will impact, how you will know impact has been made, and how the scope of the project is above and beyond the requirements for your degree.
   • Detailed budget overview for how you intend to use the proposed grant funding. A draft budget sheet can be accessed using this link, it will automatically copy into whatever google drive you are currently logged into. 
   • Creative resume or CV (We highly recommend you work with Creative Career Services on your resume components).

Please note the naming conventions for the file upload are LastName_ProjectName.

Proposals will be evaluated based on the clarity of purpose and overall proposal, potential impact of project, and quality of application materials. Grant recipients will be notified by the conclusion of the semester prior to their funding start. Proposals will be evaluated by the grant council. Faculty sponsoring a proposal may not evaluate submitted applications.

Want to boost your application? We highly suggest you utilize ASU Career Services as well as Academic Support Network for resume and proposal review.

Looking for other scholarship and grant information? Check out scholarship and grant opportunities here.

Questions? 

For Creative Constellations Grants, contact Wendi Maroney at wmaroney@asu.edu.                   For Design and Arts Corps Grants, contact Xanthia Walker at xwalker@asu.edu. 

The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts awards student enrichment grants to support the professional development of its students, increase the visibility of its design and arts programs and reward excellence in student research and creative practice. The enrichment grants provide support for travel:

• To undergraduate and graduate students attending international, national and regional conferences where they have been competitively selected to exhibit, perform, present a paper, or give a workshop.
• To undergraduate and graduate students invited to perform or exhibit at prestigious regional, national or international venues.
• For research connected to a graduate student's final project for their degree.

Even though these can all be useful experiences, the following are beyond the scope of the Herberger Institute Student Enrichment Grant program and are not eligible for an award. These areas will not be considered for funding:

• Study at festivals or workshops nationally or abroad.
• Attendance at normal disciplinary conferences where the student has not been selected to participate. Please check USG and GPSA professional development funding.
• Travel for enrichment purposes only.
• These grants do not support performances or exhibitions themselves (i.e. support for costume, lighting, sound or set design or materials). Please see the Creative Constellation Grants for grant support for performances, projects, and exhibitions.

Application requirements:

• Completed application form reflecting School Endorsement
• Completed narrative
• Letter of invitation (if applicable) or indication that you are awaiting notification for an opportunity

Deadline for applications:

Applications open the 1st of the deadline month. (Example: April 25, 2022 deadline, applications open April 1, 2022.)

Please note that all applications must receive an endorsement from your school. Check with your school’s deadlines for internal review.

Questions about your school’s process, please contact:

School of Art: ASU School of Art soaadmin@asu.edu 

School of Arts, Media and Engineering: Chelsea Phillips

School of Music, Dance and Theatre: Michelle Pyde

The Design School: Thanh Ngoc Huynh

The Sidney Poitier New American Film School: Nicholas Seidel