This page is a helpful resource for viewing previous Regional Regranting Partner grantees, their projects, and the innovative ways they have publicly presented their work outside traditional settings.

Please note the following considerations:

1. Think about location and venue in the beginning or your process. The space should be integral to the idea of framing to each applicant. 
2. Presentations cannot take place in your studio or commercial gallery. 
3. All presentations must be free and open to the public. The primary activity of the project must be free of barriers for artists and community members to participate or attend. 

Below are examples which reflect the wide range of possibilities previous grantees have used as presentation locations and venues for their projects:

1. Work displayed in a library, public park, city archive, neighborhood open-air installation, community center, neighborhood garden, public school, playground, university campus. 
2. Restaurant, storefront window display, poster campaign, billboard creation, corner store pop-up, grocery store, barber shop, public bench or shade area installation, living room gallery, front yard display, rooftop business installation.  
3. Interactive treasure hunt, storytelling event, plant walks, walking tours, riverwalk/boardwalk, mobile van. 
4. Public lecture, community panel discussion, free film screening, public workshop, school demonstration, school curriculum integration. 
5. Block party, outdoor theater performance, participation in a public festival, magazine or book publication release event, open dance concert. 
6. Seed exchange, zine swap and library, mobile makerspace, poetry slam, cooking classes, print exchange, public art therapy sessions, public mural collaboration. 
7. Virtual screening, live public forum, digital initiative, live stream of events or lecture, digital network building platform.

Applicants are only allowed one project proposal per cycle. 

You must choose between applying for the $10,000 or $5,000 grant tier in your application. 

Grant awardees must wait two years before submitting during new grant proposal cycles.  

Paper applications can be made available upon request at the Tinworks Art site or sent through the mail to those without internet or wifi access.

Applications can be translated upon request.

• Assistance from a translator to fill out the application will also be possible upon request.
• If you need assistance to complete your application, please contact us at apply@beyondthemountainsfund.org or call (406) 551-2024 and leave a message with how to contact you.

ARTISTIC IMPACT

1. Concept and presentation demonstrate artistic strength and merit, and alignment with Tinworks’ mission to connect artists and audiences through inclusive art experiences in non-traditional spaces, designed to welcome everyone. 
2. Program focuses on supporting independent and experimental artists and underrepresented voices, and prioritizes Indigenous, emerging, mid-career, and established artists exploring new directions and public outlets.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND IMPACT

1. Potential to expand the visibility and reach of the artist's work to new audiences. 
2. Increase accessibility to or involvement with the work to the general public. 

FEASIBILITY, CAPABILITY, CAPACITY 

1. Project is clearly outlined, including a timeline, benchmarks and goals, community impact, feasibility of completion within one year, budget, and a plan for documentation and accessible public presentation.  

PROJECTS THAT ARE OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO FUND DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE PROJECT OR PROPOSALS THAT DO NOT FIT WITHIN TRADITIONAL MUSEUM OR GALLERY SYSTEMS.

These classifications are loose and based more on exhibition opportunities and support already made available to the artist than it is on any age criteria.

Yes — you must also be a resident of Montana to apply.

No, but this need must be identified and placed on your timeline of goals and factoring into your budget.

Any relevant visual materials that are representative of your proposed project or offer additional information on your ability to realize the proposed project. 

This may include: image or video files, web links, digital renderings and sketches or your project idea, past work which may give insight to your new project proposal, relevant past work of artists who you will be working with or plans for a site-specific project contextualized within the site. 

Beyond the Mountains Fund is intended for artists to take new creative risks with their work, push the scope and scale, explore collaborative projects, and engage with the community and public realm in inventive and meaningful ways which increase accessibility and visibility. If you are already involved in a project that meets these criteria, consider applying for funding which explores your work in a new community-focused avenue or a significant next step in its evolution. In your application, be clear about how a Beyond the Mountains grant could help you grow your ongoing practice or project in some way. This grant is intended to launch experimental and expansive work that would only happen with the award and take place outside traditional settings. 

You may partner with a nonprofit organization to implement or present your public presentation, but they may not participate in creating the project. However, nonprofits are wonderful for consultation in implementing and partnering to present your project. Grant funding may not be given to any nonprofit organization.

1. Material supplies or equipment relevant to your project proposal 
2. Payment for labor or skilled work 
3. Rental of event venue or workspace 
4. Permits, costs, and fees associated with public presentation 
5. Promotional costs 
6. Travel related to the project 
7. Documentation of the project 

If you have a proposed expense not listed here, please contact apply@beyondthemountainsfund.org 

• Renting a commercial gallery
• Any sustaining, ongoing, existing, or completed project (an existing residency, an ongoing installation, performance series, an exhibition already scheduled, etc.)
• However, presenting this project in a new way which broadens the audience and is free, accessible, open to the public, and falls outside of the traditional gallery or museum setting would be allowed. 
• Funds will not be awarded to proposals whose sole or primary purpose is to purchase equipment, rent studio space, meet travel expenses, or pay professional services. However, these line items may be part of your larger project vision and proposed budget as long as they are specifically necessary to the development of your project.

At this time, our application is set up to consider applicants who select one tier or the other. You may only apply for one grant, and will only be considered for the tier you select unless the jury unanimously felt a submission should be considered in the tier other than that which the artist self-selected.

For future applications we may consider changing this process, and we appreciate applicants' patience and understanding as this regranting program is new and subject to adapt.

Yes, we require a W-9 tax form, as well as personal information including your social security number to award payments. Awardees will be sent a 1099 tax form. 

Yes, this should be reflected in your budget and project timeline. 

This committee is comprised of local, regional, and state-wide artists, curators, and arts organizational leaders. This jury is anonymous. No staff or board members from Tinworks Art are part of the jury process.

The jury will look at the applications submitted and chose based on feasibility of project, well thought-out presentation, artistic merit, and community and artist engagement and impact of the projects submitted. 

Other than the proposal requirements of being an artist living and working in Montana, the project taking place in Montana, and the presentation being free and accessible to the public, no other instructions have been given.

• The jury has not been directed to select artists per Montana geographic region nor visual arts medium. 
• Every year the jury will change and that group will award grantees based on that year’s pool of submissions.

Project mid-point check-in can be timed on a per project basis since some public presentations may occur before the full 1-year grant timeline. 

The remaining 50% of funding will be dispersed after such mid-point evaluation has been completed and grantees are still considered to be on track or have outlined a new course to complete their project and are in good standing with Tinworks Art. 

No, however, grantees may be invited to participate in exhibitions or artists-in-residence programs after a period of 1 year post receiving a grant.

No, by nature of this venue being part of Tinworks Art, public presentations would not be possible at this location.

Tinworks is deeply grateful and excited to have been invited by The Andy Warhol Foundation to participate in their Regional Regranting Program. This is our first year participating, and we appreciate your patience as we learn and implement this grant process.  

Tinworks is the facilitator of this grant. We want grantees to use us as a resource with the knowledge and experience of working within the art field in our region. Tinworks may help put you in touch with venues as well as brainstorming ideas or solutions and troubleshooting hiccups.  

Monthly informal meetings with each of the grantees will take place virtually to check in about project progress and navigation of benchmarks and goals. Interim project report evaluations will take place at the midpoint of grant timelines and before final disbursal of funds are made.  

1. Tinworks Community Outreach & Education Director and Grant Program Manager Angela Yonke will organize these meetings. 

While we communicate with the jury about the grant process, we have no influence over their selections.