BOMH 2025 Professional Development Grant

BOMH 2025 Professional Development Grant
NEXT DEADLINE:  February 15, 2025

The Best of Missouri Hands offers an up to $500 Annual Professional Development Grant. The grant is awarded to one person each year and is available to both General and Juried Members. The purpose of the grant is to promote continuing education by providing additional resources to advance the study of a member’s chosen artistic medium(s).

The grant will be awarded by early March of each year and announced at the Annual Membership Meeting in the spring of each year.

If you interested in applying for the grant, you should be thinking about what you would like to do with it.  Is there a workshop you want to take in your medium?  Do you want to travel abroad to learn about a technique native to that country?  Do you need to purchase a new piece of equipment that will help you advance your skills and opportunities?  How about taking classes in marketing and branding your art?

There are many options open to you. What have you wanted to do with your art that has been out of your reach – something that will open doors for you or allow you to become more marketable?

The application will ask you to explain in detail what the grant would pay for, how your art would be advanced through the use of the grant, what BOMH activities you have participated in, and how you plan to give back to BOMH after if you are successful in your application.  Applications will then be reviewed by the Professional Development Grant committee.

The grant funds will be paid to the winner when the grant is awarded.

To apply for the grant, download the application, complete and email it back to admin@bestofmissourihands.org  Note: This .pdf application is “fillable”.  Just enter your answers in the blue areas, save the form for your files, then email the entire file to the address above. All applications MUST be submitted via email, applications submitted via US Mail will not be considered.
Download & complete:    2025-BOMH-Prof-Devel-Grant-Form-Fillable-Form