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.

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.

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

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.  

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. 

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 

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. 

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

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.

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 dispersal of funds are made.  

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

We are in communication with the jury in dispersal or this grant but do not have influence over their selections.