Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

Students

Make your work-in-progress a reality with student-specific funding opportunities. 

Applications for 2024/25 Grants are now open.  

Term due dates are as follows:
Fall: October 6, 2024
Winter: January 26, 2025
Spring: April 20, 2025

Please email Daniel Burmester with any questions regarding the funds or application process.

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For information on Arts Integration Grants for students and faculty, visit this page>.

Here are examples of projects supported by our funding opportunities in the 2023/24 academic year:

Munchiez  
Sascha Agenor created a short film shot using a combination of techniques to build landscapes of Black and queer aesthetics that explore the main characters' complicated relationship with food and their body.

Returning Home: Musical Explorations of Femininity, Nature and the Self
A music-making and performance tour where students Sylvie Benson and Raegan Padula combined their forms of musical expression to realize a sound as a duo while performing for audiences across the Pacific Northwest.

Natural Patterns in Mixed Metals: Exploring the Patterning Techniques of Mokume Gane
Theodore Castellani explored how to create and use this wood grain metal technique in his jewelry making.

Si la isla quiere
CeCe King created a bilingual, creative documentary on Robinson Crusoe Island exploring what it means to live with nature. The film aims to inspire hope in humanity's ability to reshape our relationship to the natural world.

Spring Awakening 
Dartmouth's student-run contemporary theater group, Displaced Theatre Company, mounted a production of this folk-rock musical based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 play of the same name.

Robert Dance '77

The Robert Dance ’77 Initiative Fund

The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth students to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues on campus other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. Individual students and student organizations are eligible to apply.

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Theater Department

The Davin Polk Fund for the Arts

Students and student groups are invited to apply for support of student theater projects to be funded by the Davin Polk Fund for the Arts. This fund was established to support projects such as independent theater productions, theatrical works in development, semi-staged events, professional performance attendance, etc.

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Funding Opportunities Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund supports student-initiated projects in musical theater to be presented on campus, with a priority given to original work. Although projects need not be curricular to be considered, senior projects that bring together work in drama and music are particularly appropriate. In the absence of proposals featuring original music, lyrics and/or text by students, productions that are to be directed, choreographed and designed by students can also be considered.

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Class of 1961

The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund

Students are invited to apply for support of student enterprises in the arts. This award is funded by members of the Class of 1961 in order to enable talented Dartmouth students to undertake special projects in the arts. Particular interest will be given to those projects that “stand-alone” — that is, projects that are not undertaken as senior fellowships or honors projects, or are affiliated with student organizations. The fund is available to sponsor student-initiated projects in the performing and visual arts. Application is open to single or group projects.

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