Public Art for Spatial Justice aims to support public artmaking that helps us see, feel, experience and imagine spatial justice now, while we are still on this journey towards realizing more just futures for our public spaces and public culture. Public Art for Spatial Justice grants range from $15,000-$30,000, for up to two-year grant period beginning March 2025 through February 2027.
Lead applicant may a be…
- Massachusetts-based Artist(s). Individual artist applicants must be 18+ years old.
- Artistic collaborations may be a group of artists informally working together for this particular project, or an artist collective that regularly works together on projects.
Community-based organization in Massachusetts, working in collaboration with a particular artist(s)
Recognizing the intersectionality of identities, we acknowledge that artists may also identify as cultural practitioners, activists, and community-rooted collaborators, and may be self/community-taught, institutionally trained, or a combination of both. All are welcome to apply.
Proposed public art projects must:
- Be located in Massachusetts.
- Engage the public realm and/or be available to the general public to happen upon.
- Cultivate expressions of and/or embodiments of spatial justice through public artmaking. Projects of all artistic disciplines –visual, performative, rooted in ritual, etc.– are eligible.
Not eligible
- Lead applicants based outside of Massachusetts.
- Proposed projects based outside of Massachusetts.
- Current PASJ grantee (lead applicant) who has not completed their respective grantee report.
- Past PASJ Grantees are not eligible to apply to PASJ again for a full calendar year from completing their grantee report (e.g., If you submit a PASJ grantee report on June 1, 2023 that is approved, you are not eligible to submit a new application for PASJ till June 1, 2024 or after).
DEADLINE: Monday, December 2
