Additional Demographic Data Required by This Year's Individual Artist Grant Application
Thank you for beginning your application to this year's Individual Artist Grant. In order to gain a more thorough understanding of the context and needs of the artists we serve, as well as satisfy the wide-ranging curiosity of relevant funders and taxpayers, we ask that you complete the following Demographic Addendum in addition to the basic Applicant Information on the previous page. This information will not be used to evaluate your application. Well, maybe some of it will be.
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Please list the names and Designated Community Areas of all hot dog joints you and/or collaborators and contracted artists expect to patronize during the grant period.
If you grew up in Chicago (where “Chicago” is defined as the City Of Chicago), please list the name of your high school. (Names of your grade school and/or middle school are welcome but not required.)
Which of the following applies to your upbringing?
Oldest Child
Middle Child
Youngest Child
Only Child
An experience not captured by the options list above [please describe, 12 characters maximum]
Please select the overall category that best describes how your upbringing and/or sibling order impacted your collaboration skills:
Eager Beaver
Solo Homo
Straight and Great
Sloppy Seconds
The Finisher
Is this your first time applying for this grant? If so, why??
Please list any grants you have received in the past, noting if they were government, corporate, private, or pussy. (Note: if left blank, good luck.)
Do you have a trust fund? (Note: if yes, consider discontinuing this application at this time.)
Have you experienced trauma?
Yes
No
Unsure
Our organization cares about artists’ health. For resources on understanding and navigating mental health, we encourage you to utilize Google, TikTok, and, as a backup, Instagram.
If yes, which of the following best describes the nature of your trauma? Please select all that apply.
Physical
Emotional
Mental
Spiritual
Social
Financial
Technological
Ancestral
Maximal
Millennial
Magical
Lyrical
Neoliberal
Typical
Suboptimal
Oatmeal
Remote/Trauma-from-Home
Pescatarian
Lactose-Intolerant and/or Other Digestive/Gaseous
Have you ever donated an organ? If yes, what was your motivation?
Who are you voting for for mayor? Aha ha, just kidding…unless…?
Please take a moment to channel your inner child and/or inner angsty teenager. Imagine the timbre of their laughter, the posture of their shoulders, their facial expression as you tell them about the project described in this grant application. Are they making eye contact? Turning toward or away? Sitting, standing, or lying down? Are their knees rotating inward, or outward? Are they biting their nails, playing with their hair, picking at their bacne, or something else? If they have a resting [slur/cussword]face, does it change when you say their name? When they finish this conversation, who will they speak to next? And which, out of all of these considerations, matters most?
(Note: we realize some applicants may be too proximal to their youth for this prompt to have been relevant. If that is the case for you, please answer the question imagining your future middle-age self, where “middle age” is defined as starting at 35.)
This year, applicants are encouraged to spend grant funding on hospitality and collective care, including not only masks and COVID-19 rapid tests, but also snacks. Please list the snacks you plan to purchase with grant funding, providing specificity where appropriate (e.g. "Doritos - Cool Ranch" rather than simply "Doritos"). There will also be an option to notate the quantity and cost of snack choices as a line item in your budget. (Note: our organization is currently seeking consultants to improve the diversity and extent of our internal as well as public-facing snack offerings. If you feel you are qualified and open to providing such consultation, outside the scope of this application and with additional payment provided, please make a note of that below, including a quick 200-character pitch of the kind of snack that best exemplifies your consultation capacities.)
Our application portal tracker indicates you began this application…[checks watch] this morning. First, please know that our organization empathizes with both procrastination and impulsive decision-making. In fact, we relate deeply, and would love to know more about your experience in this realm. Please share a bit about the series of events in the 24-72 hours leading up to the point at which you began your application.
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Thank you for completing the demographic addendum. Please attach a summary of of your answers in a document in .docx or .xlsx format using a size 10 or 11 sans serif font, then continue on to the next page to complete the Project Information section.