Confluencenter Announces Three New Calls for Funding
Confluencenter's Fronteridades: Nurturing Collaborative Intersection in the U.S.-Mexico Border, a seven-year project funded by the Mellon Foundation, is preparing for its final chapter and inviting U of A graduate students and Southern Arizona community members to apply for two grant initiatives: In This Frontera Moment and Confluencias: Voices and Visions of the Arizona-Sonora Border.
In This Frontera Moment
The Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry is now accepting proposals for the Fronteridades Graduate Microgrant: In This Frontera Moment.
Are you a currently enrolled University of Arizona graduate student? This $2,000 microgrant supports interdisciplinary projects that respond to the rapidly evolving realities shaping life in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. We welcome proposals that document, analyze, or creatively engage the urgent impacts of shifting immigration and border conditions.
Grounded in Fronteridades: Nurturing Collaborative Intersections in the U.S.–Mexico Border, this program centers lived experience, amplifies underrepresented voices, and fosters collaboration across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
The deadline to submit proposals is March 27, 2026, at 11:59 PM Mountain Time
Confluencias: Voices and Visions of the Arizona–Sonora Border
The Confluencenter invites community-based practitioners, artists, and creatives to apply for Confluencias, a new Fronteridades grant opportunity supporting art and education-based projects along the Arizona–Sonora border region (I-19 Corridor, Nogales–Tucson, Douglas–Agua Prieta, and tribal members from the Tohono O’odham Nation and Pascua Yaqui Tribe).
We seek projects that explore the shifting political, social, cultural, and personal landscapes of the moment while uplifting the stories and voices of border communities. Creative formats may include storytelling, visual arts, digital media, workshops, and more. The award amount is $2,000.
The deadline to submit proposals is March 27, 2026, at 11:59 PM Mountain Time
Confluencias: Voces y Visiones de la frontera Sonora-Arizona
El Confluencenter invita a individuos y grupos comunitarios, artistas y creativxs a postular a Confluencias, una nueva oportunidad de financiamiento bajo Fronteridades que apoya proyectos artísticos y educativos en la región fronteriza Arizona–Sonora — desde Ambos Nogales hasta Tucson, Douglas–Agua Prieta y las Naciones Tribales, incluyendo la Nación Tohono O’odham y la Tribu Pascua Yaqui.
Buscamos proyectos que exploren los diversos panoramas políticos, sociales, culturales y personales de este momento, y que eleven las voces y narrativas de las comunidades fronterizas. El apoyo económico es de $2,000 dólares o su equivalente en pesos al momento de ser depositado.
La fecha límite para aplicar a la convocatoria es el 27 de marzo de 2026, a las 11:59 PM Hora de Sonora
Pulse aquí para más información y cómo aplicar.
Creative Reuse of the Fronteridades: Nurturing Collaborative Intersections in the U.S.-Mexico Border
The Confluencenter invites Southern Arizona creatives and scholars to submit proposals for projects and/or scholarships that creatively analyze, contextualize, reinterpret, or build upon the primary source materials, stories, and public programming featured across the Fronteridades website. Deliverables could include articles, essays, art pieces, poems, performances, podcasts, digital media, or video series that challenge reductive or dominant portrayals of the borderlands and instead highlight collaboration, creativity, care, and community knowledge.
The award amount is $4,000.
The deadline to submit proposals is April 3, 2026, at 11:59 PM Mountain Time