About Arbitrary Art Grants

2003 Arbitrary Art Grant
for Digital Graffiti

2002 Arbitrary Art Grant
for Creative Writing

2001 Arbitrary Art Grant for Film

2000 Arbitrary Art Grant for Music

Founded in 2000 by Artists For a Work Free America and Vital 5 Productions, The Arbitrary Art Grants were designed to fortify the arts community, and to reinforce the ideology that all people are artists and catalysts for creating large-scale group performances. The grants stand as a testament that $500.00 can inspire a community to participate and create art without judgment or competition.

We believe that no institution or individual holds the capacity to objectively judge who should, and who should not recieve money to create art. We are all painters and writers, musicians and performers, and that through social conditioning we have been stripped of our natural desire to create and perform, and programmed to believe that art is for the gifted and privileged. If indeed all people are artists, and that the inherent nature of art is subjective; the current institutions dispursing public art grants are negative and isolating to the general art populus.

The Arbitrary Art Grants are a democratic example of the distribution of financial resources in an encouraging and supportive manner.

For the 2009 Arbitrary Art Grants, see Current Events.

2003 Arbitrary Art Grant for Digital Graffiti
Awarded on October 11, 2003

2002 Arbitrary Art Grant for Creative Writing
Awarded on June 22, 2002

2001 Arbitrary Art Grant for Film
Awarded on June 2, 2001

2000 Arbitrary Art Grant for Music
Awarded on June 23, 2000