GVIAS What If Grants Now Open!
Calling artists, innovators, and goofballs! Arts grants are now open! And the largest grant level closes April 8!
Make What If blossom with your creativity and ingenuity!
Teaching a workshop and need materials?
Inventing ways to represent raw data?
Making an X-rated solarpunk self-serve puppet theatre from scrap lumber?
Awesome!
Grants are here to help partially support your bonkers ideas and bold vision.
We’re looking for interactive art projects! Bonus points for ones that make use of upcycled and natural materials, projects that make elegant clever use of resources, pack down small, and are woven from a shit ton of whimsy 
Light on materials, heavy on creativity
Reuse parts from last year’s art to make something fresh or refurbished and rock out with another great addition to What If!
Apply now!
Deadlines are:
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 – Grants up to $5000
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 – Grants up to $2000 (Last Day for Primo Placement)
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 – Grants up to $1000
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 – Grants up to $500 (Note: Placement is not guaranteed if arts grant application submitted after the June 30 deadline!)
