Arts Everywhere has a sweeping mission to bolster arts innovation, and funding is a big part of it. Among the financial support the UNC-Chapel Hill initiative provides is the Student Arts Innovation Grant, an annual award of $1,000 for select undergraduate and graduate students at Carolina.
Each year, students submit proposals for arts-related projects, which they agree to complete within a year of being chosen. The resulting works are meant to infuse Carolina’s campus with creativity and allow the grant winners to shape that space in a meaningful way.
“At their core, the arts are what make us human,” said Kathryn Wagner, associate director of Arts Everywhere. “We believe that the students behind these SAI grant projects have the artistic power to affect what our community looks like, moving society forward into a more just, emphatic and innovative future, whilst contributing to the larger landscape of art at UNC in lasting and meaningful ways.”