Rubys Grant
To support Paradise Portals, a multimedia performance and installation that uses movement, livestream video, and green screen technology to create portals between performers bodies and environments that hold significance for them, exploring both the visibility and removal of people, history, and the body from the spaces we occupy.
The Rubys Artist Grants provide direct funding of up to $15,000 to Baltimore-area artists to support innovative projects with significant impact. Grants are offered in four broad discipline categories—Performing Arts, Media Arts, Visual Arts, Literary Arts—for the creation of new artwork. Applications in each discipline category are accepted once per year.
launched in 2013 by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, the Rubys support artists in Baltimore City and Baltimore County working in performing, media, visual, and literary arts. In this cycle, grants will provide $270,000 to 16 new projects across the four disciplines, as well as the second annual alumni grant and microgrants. This year’s projects exemplify the program’s values of experimentation, risk taking, and creative innovation.