GetSmART! Grant Writing for the Multihyphenated Creative

Increase your ability to win over grants and other funders by pivoting your message.

This workshop is catered toward creatives who use a wide variety of mediums, technology and genres as part of their art practices and disciplines. Get the best tips to better connect your diverse practice with what grant funders are looking for.

Fellow multihyphenate Deep South creative Simone Cottrell will guide a two-hour Zoom workshop on the changing landscape of grant reviews, how to edit your proposal, and maximize funding potential to support all aspects of your creative work. If you have recently applied for a grant and were denied, please bring one big question you may have about your proposal for us to work through together. This workshop is ideal for creatives who were frustrated by feedback from grant applications.

Simone Cottrell (The Deep South) is a multihyphenate creative and owner of Rachhana Creative Consulting, LLC. Her durational protest performance art Where is Justice? enters its fourth year of exploration in 2025. Cottrell’s contracted projects have included the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Jonathan Gonzalez’s Perejil, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s Creating Connections. Other 2024 projects include Arts for Everybody - Phillips County and TheatreSquared’s Cambodian Rock Band. Cottrell is the recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Fellowship Award - Community Engagement, Sipp Culture’s Rural Creative Award, Artists 3 60 Grant, Interchange Grant and Innovation Grant. Currently, she is the principal artist for ខ្លែងឯក - Singing Kites, a project commissioned by the City of Bentonville and inspired by a centuries-old, Cambodian tradition.

This workshop is sponsored by the Arkansas Arts Council. For more information, please email [email protected].

Host or Publisher Arkansas Arts Council