Red Bull Arts has announced the expansion of its microgrants program to include 20 cities including New Orleans. Applications for the $1000 grants will be accepted beginning today, July 22.

Awarded on a rolling monthly basis throughout the remainder of 2020, the Red Bull Arts microgrants were expanded to meet “the urgent need for financial aid for artists and communities critically impacted by the crises facing the country,” says a press release. Other cities included in the expansion are Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Hudson, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Providence, San Antonio and St. Louis.

Launched in Detroit, the Microgrants Program features a selection committee of local arts professionals and activists from each city. The names of those involved in New Orleans have yet to be announced.

Red Bull Arts is “a national, experimental, and non-commercial arts program dedicated to creating new opportunities for artists and fostering public engagement in the arts” which was founded in 2013. Currently housed in physical spaces in New York and Detroit, the program has the expressed aim of contributing “to ongoing dialogue around contemporary issues and thought.”

The program’s debut travelling exhibition, Akeem Smith: No Gyal Can Test, was postponed due to the ongoing pandemic, and will now be introduced at Red Bull Arts New York in the fall before heading out on a national tour. It will be Smith’s first presentation as a solo artist and creative director.

For more information, including the application and guidelines, click here.