Applications are invited for Flash Grants, the Baker-Nord Center’s new funding mechanism to support greater participation in and connection with Baker-Nord Center’s fall themed programming and the 2025 Cleveland Humanities Festival.
These grants are designed to encourage curiosity, innovation, experimentation, collaboration and engagement.
Funding projects may be featured in Baker-Nord Center materials and on the Baker-Nord Center website.
FLASH GRANTS FOR FALL 2024
The Baker-Nord Center’s fall programming explores the related concepts of appropriation and representation. Debates about the appropriation of food traditions, fashion, spiritual ceremonies and artifacts, language and writing by dominant groups permeate public discourse and have long been an area of humanistic inquiry. Similarly, institutional ways of representing and remembering individuals, communities and significant events often reveal hidden fault lines. How does the unequal expression of power shape the terrain of how we understand these subjects? Invited guests and the CWRU community will explore this twinned theme with a focus on opportunities for fruitful engagement.
Please explore the fall program HERE.
Graduate and Undergraduate students are welcome to apply for up to $500 for projects that relate to the fall theme of “appropriation and representation.” This could include but is not limited to:
-beginning new research (or creative inquiry) or advancing current work that involves the concepts of the appropriation and representation in some way. Monies can be used for travel, books and materials.
-community and/or campus based projects (e.g. engaging peers about themes of appropriation and representation that involve a discussion and meal, enhanced learning opportunity, and/or experiences outside the classroom)
All projects should conclude by February 28, 2025.
Eligibility:
Grants are available to graduate students the arts and humanities within the College of Arts and Sciences and undergraduate students who have declared a major in the humanities.
Application Deadline:
Rolling through February 15, 2025
To Apply:
Please send a 500 word narrative proposal along with a detailed budget to bakernord@case.edu. Proposal should include clear objective(s), a project timeline, and the names and departments of all collaborators.
FLASH GRANTS FOR 2024 CLEVELAND HUMANITIES FESTIVAL: APPETITE
he theme for the 2025 Cleveland Humanities Festival is APPETITE. Feast. Famine, Ambition. Desire. Craving. Appetite is both a bodily state and an emotive force. As we celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the CHF, we will explore the multifaceted ways that humanistic inquiry has engaged this theme. What do we hunger for in our personal and civic lives? How does longing shape the human psyche? How have artists and makers explored the role of appetite in creative production? What metaphors of appetite resonate across diverse time periods and cultural milieus? How will AI and new technologies impact our collective appetite for knowledge? These questions and more will be addressed by Cleveland area arts, cultural and educational organizations through a series of public events in the spring of 2025.
Graduate and Undergraduate students are welcome to apply for up to $500 for projects that advance research or explore the theme of appetite. This could include but is not limited to:
-beginning new research (or creative inquiry) or advancing current work that involves the concept of appetite in some way. Monies can be used for travel, books and materials.
-community and/or campus based projects (e.g. engaging peers about themes of appetite that involve a discussion and meal, enhanced learning opportunity, and/or experiences outside the classroom)
All projects should conclude by April 30, 2025.
Eligibility:
Grants are available to graduate students the arts and humanities within the College of Arts and Sciences and undergraduate students who have declared a major in the humanities.
Application Deadline:
Rolling through March 31, 2025
To Apply:
Please send a 500 word narrative proposal along with a detailed budget to bakernord@case.edu. Proposal should include clear objective(s), a project timeline, and the names and departments of all collaborators.
Policies and Expectations:
Within one month of the completion of the project, recipients are required to submit the online FINAL REPORT. Some aspects of the final report may be used in future BNC’s external communication materials.