USC faculty and students working with community partners are invited to submit project proposals to the Arts in Action grants program annually. Through these grants, Arts in Action activates community-based projects that address social issues, bring people together, facilitate dialogue, and create spaces to imagine and design future change.

Our mission “to plant seeds for positive social change” is a call to action. Join us by doing the following:

Review the Arts in Action Preliminary Proposal Guidelines and Criteria HERE.

Thank you for your interest. Our submission period is now closed.

We seek work that fosters trust with the local community, creatively brings issues to public awareness, and proposes arts-driven solutions to strengthen Los Angeles communities and serve the public good.

Spark your creativity and use art as an agent of change for the society you want to live in! Arts in Action’s Mobilize! program offers awards of up to $500 for USC students looking to channel their creativity and art into activism. Facilitate a songwriting workshop, create protest art, present a spoken-word event, or organize a community mural­. Encourage health and wellness, promote housing justice, address systemic racism, or support gender equality. These outlets and ideas are only the beginning. How will you use your passion to help change the world?

To read the guidelines, click HERE.  To submit a proposal, click HERE.

For your proposal to be considered, apply by 11 p.m. Sunday, October 27.

We offer two deadlines for applying to Mobilize! each year— one in October and another in March. Mobilize! is open to all USC students.

Calling all students!

Apply to USC Arts & Climate Collective (ACC) for a chance to receive $1,000 for an arts or media project about sustainability, climate, and/or environmental justice!

To read the guidelines, click HERE.  To submit a proposal, click HERE.

Applications are open now until September 26!