Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR) and Creative Optimism-Uplifting Promises (CO-UP) Grants (2027-28) RFP

Description: Supply creative arts resources to neighborhood host/partner organizations in each Council District by providing direct and intimate access to contemporary teaching-artists; Sponsor the implementation of participatory multi- session residencies by a spectrum of the City’s most qualified teaching-artists; Provide host organizations offering little or no arts programming with opportunities to test or develop new services, and envision the integration of either an artist-employee, a new branch of programs into its core service, or a new collaboration with a local arts-organization; and To position arts and creative activities in organizations with little or no arts programming that wish to build opportunities to test or develop new services, and envision the integration of either an artist-employee or a new branch of programs into its core services.