• Eligible faculty include:
  • Tenured, tenure-track and RC faculty for whom creative activities are included as one of their job responsibilities and/or are required for consideration for promotion.
• Non-Eligible faculty include:
  • Emeritus faculty, retirees, staff, students, temporary faculty, individuals whose contracts will not be renewed the following year, those who have notified UA of their intent to resign in the current or subsequent academic year are ineligible, or individuals who receive a cash advance or payment for the work that substantially allows them to complete it.

Arts Advancement grants are available to eligible faculty who have a formal and accepted contract, invoice, or invitation dated November 1, of the previous year or thereafter from an established artistic venue (including but not limited to a museum, center, gallery, orchestra, production company, and/or a festival to which a work has been accepted) that evidences some form of peer review appropriate to the discipline.

•  All works must be complete or have been produced, exhibited, performed, or the equivalent at the time of application.

• The work must be created solely by the UA faculty member or with the UA faculty member having a significant role in the production/creation/curation. Collaborators (e.g., graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, other faculty, and/or other artists) are permitted. Considering the complex and often collaborative nature of artistic production, in their grant application faculty should identify clearly their role and its importance for the work.

• The project should be performed, exhibited, or the equivalent at a venue that has a significant regional, national, or international standing.

• Speculative costs or fees accrued in anticipation of a work’s acceptance somewhere are not covered.

• Framing, shipping, traveling to perform or to curate or to install, technical costs (including but not limited to mastering, editing, or recording) can be covered.  Material costs are a lower priority but will be considered.

• The grant can apply to one specific part of a project rather than to the whole project, but projects can only receive one grant.

Grant funds will be paid directly to the faculty member as reimbursement. Grant recipients may not be an agent or employee of the work’s publisher or producer.

The faculty member should acknowledge grant support in the preface, introduction or acknowledgement of the work if possible with the following: “Support for this creative work was provided by The University of Alabama Office of Academic Affairs.”

The creator must agree to provide one reprint, copy, recording, or catalogue, if available, to the UA Office of Academic Affairs at no cost to the creator or to UA.

The application for the grant opens in October each year.