Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Arts Awards

Funded by the Division of the Arts, the 2023 Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Arts Award supports undergraduate students working across disciplines to create work and/or to conduct scholarly research. Five awards of $1,000 are available.

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW–Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinions enrich the university community. The Division of the Arts welcomes and encourages applications from as diverse a group of eligible campus arts community members as possible.

Eligibility
Full-time undergraduate students enrolled in creative arts academic programs at UW–Madison during the spring semester of the award year, and their collaborators.

DEADLINE: Monday, November 7, 2022 by 3:00 p.m. CDT

General Instructions
Please read the application instructions carefully before submitting your materials.
You must provide all requested information and supporting materials as detailed in the award call. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

You may include work samples (images, videos, recordings, writing samples, etc.) to support the case for funding the proposed project. Selected samples of earlier work are optional. Send no more than six separate files.

Required Materials
Applications must include the items detailed in the following checklist. All items are required unless otherwise noted:
Submitted as a single PDF
1. Brief synopsis of the proposed project (up to 150 words)
2. Project narrative no longer than five double-spaced pages that addresses:

• Significance of the proposed project, including potential impact of the award on the applicant’s career;
• Project timeline including expected completion date;
• How the awarded funds will be utilized, and justification of why the funds are needed at this time;
• Whether funding has been received or requested from other sources for this same project.

3. Detailed budget
4. Faculty letter of support
5. 150-word professional biography written in third person including the following information:

• Affiliation with UW–Madison, program of study, and when the applicant began their program of study
• Additional educational background—university and degree(s)
• Main areas of arts practice or research
• Previous and current organizations where applicant has worked
• Key recognition, research, and service

6. An updated curriculum vitae or resume
7. Relevant supporting materials (images, videos, recordings, or writing samples) that provide insight into the student’s vision for the performance or exhibition. Selected samples of earlier work are optional.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS
1. Submit application/nomination files using this link:
https://uwmadison.app.box.com/f/77dc5844abcc4263a3d5d344cba0687f

• Application/nomination file and letters must be submitted as one PDF.
• Supplemental material can be submitted in additional files.
• FILES MUST BE LABELED ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING FORMAT: Applicant Name, Award, Number in Series (Example: “MariaLopez.UndergradInterdisciplinary.1of3” “MariaLopez.UndergradInterdisciplinary.2of3”“MariaLopez.UndergradInterdisciplinary.3of3”)

2. Email Rachel Niles (reniles@wisc.edu) with the name of the award for which you have applied and the number of files you have submitted. Rachel will then confirm that we have received your complete submission.

Selection Process
The Creative Arts Awards Selection Committee consists of 5-7 faculty and staff members, including past award recipients representing the various arts. Applicants should keep in mind that committee members may not have discipline-specific knowledge of their field and write their proposals to address readers who are “expert generalists” in the arts.

Award applicants will receive notification of the outcome of the 2023 Creative Arts Awards competition by Monday December 19, 2022. Recipients will be honored at the annual awards ceremony May 9, 2023.

Post-Award
Award recipients are expected to:

• Inform the Division of the Arts of any events related to their funded work and/or of the completion of their projects by emailing Rachel Niles, Division of the Arts Administrative and HR Specialist, reniles@wisc.edu.
• Credit the Division of the Arts in any public presentation of their funded work, including displaying the division logo. The Division of the Arts will send specific guidelines and logo files to recipients after award decisions are announced.
• Submit tangible documentation of completed work within six months of project completion.
• Submit a report on the use of the funds and the impact of the award on or before August 15, 2024. Recipients of the Creative Arts Award and the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts must submit a report on or before August 15, 2024, and August 15, 2025.
• For endowed awards, compose a letter of gratitude to the award donors, which the Division will convey to them.
• Use award funds within five years of allocation. After five years, unused funds will no longer be available to the awardee.

Sample Proposals
Past successful award applications are available upon request.

Questions?
Please contact Rachel Niles with any questions about application/nomination procedures.

Email: reniles@wisc.edu Phone: 608-890-2718

For more information and to see the list of previous award recipients please visit the Creative Arts Awards website: go.wisc.edu/artsawards.