Artist Space Grants

The development of affordable living and working spaces for artists plays a powerful role in the production of their work. These spaces provide a stable foundation from which artists may vigorously pursue their work and shape the communities they inhabit.

Through direct engagement and influence, the presence of culturally rich activity contributes to the overall health and vitality of communities at a variety of scales. Exemplary artist spaces support the unique and diverse practices of  individual artists; generate creative enterprises in local economies; and play significant roles in long term community development and revitalization efforts.

Through a funding collaboration of MetLife Foundation and the Ford Foundation, LINC, in partnership with MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has developed Space for Change—a program of awards, research, and learning that includes two funding opportunities. The MetLife Foundation Innovative Space Awards (ISA) and the Ford Foundation Space for Change Planning and Pre-development Grants.

Through multiple award cycles, the establishment of shared knowledge and leveraged information, and research, the Space for Change program seeks to establish a lasting framework for the development of sustainable models for generating accessible artist space in communities across the United States.