Ask A Grantwriter
w/ Vin Seaman
Thursday, Feb 13, 2025
4 - 4:30 PM PT
Instagram Live (@diamondwavearts)
About the Event
Curious about grants but can’t make our upcoming workshops? 😟
Then this live Q & A session about artist grants is for you! 🤩
Grants expert and Diamond Wave director Vin Seaman will be answering all your questions about grants and sharing valuable insights into creative funding 👀 💸
Join us on @diamondwavearts on Instagram Live on Thursday, February 13 from 4 to 4:30 PM where we will respond to all your questions!
Already have those burning questions ready? Great! Send them in to us using this form and we’ll review them during our session as well as responding to live questions.
Ready for deeper grants knowledge ? Join us for our upcoming two-part grant workshop series
Artist Grants 101: Unlock the secrets to funding your creative practice in this engaging in-person workshop led by interdisciplinary artist and Diamond Wave Director Vin Seaman!
Grantwriting for Artists: This interactive workshop provides participants with helpful tools and structures to create compelling grant applications, from start to finish.
About the Artist
Vin, a white, nonbinary person, stands in front of a light gray background. They have light brown hair and a short beard and are wearing a mesh olive drab shirt, a long quartz pendant necklace and a large grey and black scarf around their shoulders. They stare without expression at the camera.
Vin Seaman (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and the Director of Diamond Wave. Their work exploring queer identity has also been presented at The Stud, Brava, CounterPulse, YBCA, Frameline, the Tank NYC, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATTELITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stockholm’s Stolt Scenkonst, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts.
They have been active in the Bay Area arts ecosystem since 2004 and have previously held positions at the San Francisco Foundation and Queer Cultural Center, and have consulted with a myriad of local and national organizations including the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, the Luggage Store Gallery and Dance/USA. They have been featured on Shondaland and Vice, were an inaugural APAP Leadership Fellow, and received the 2017 Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Award, the 2019 Theatre Bay Area Legacy Award, and a 2022 CALI Catalyst award.