MOCA Tucson Announces 2023
Night Bloom: Grants for Artists Program

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Tucson announces the opening of the 2023 Night Bloom: Grants for Artists program. Organized by MOCA Tucson in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Night Bloom: Grants for Artists program funds collaboratively-focused visual arts projects by individual artists and artist groups within Tucson and the broader Sonoran Desert region. Grant awards in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $7,500 will support efforts to create experimental and community-embedded opportunities for artistic exchange that engage with the region’s unique contexts and possibilities. 

The 2023 Night Bloom: Grants for Artists program is open to all self-identifying visual artists and artist groups based in Pima County. The program seeks to support the greater Tucson area’s arts ecosystem through funds for publicly-accessible projects that include a strong visual arts focus to engage, activate, and share with their audience(s).

Applications will be accepted March 6, 2023 through April 20, 2023 at 11:59 pm MST. All eligible applications to the Night Bloom: Grants from Artists program will be reviewed by a panel of three independent arts and culture professionals that reflect a diversity of expertise, experience, and geographic location(s), with one panelist from Tucson, the Southwest region, and another from across the nation. 

Night Bloom grant funds will be distributed to award recipients in June 2023 for projects occurring before June 2024. All grant materials are available in English and Spanish and applications can be completed in either language. Grant guidelines and the online application can be found on MOCA Tucson’s website: https://moca-tucson.org/2023-nightbloom-grants-for-artists/. 

Previous recipients of the Night Bloom: Grants for Artists project awards include: Black Arts Network: Alanna Airitam, Elizabeth Burden, Elizabeth Denneau; BorderLens SW; Chinese Chorizo Project: Feng-Feng Yeh; Chava Shapiro; Everybody; Expanded Landscape: Nazafarin Lotfi and Saretta Morgan; Inner Freq: PUES MAG; SNAG (School for New Art Geographies); Word of Mouth Print Space at the Blacklidge Community Collective (BCC).