The 2023 IWTDACFY Creativity Grant!
Are you an artist? A goofball? A creative person? A boring person with a dream? Would $3,000 help you kickstart your own creative endeavor?
10 years ago I went on Shark Tank and pitched my stick figure cat drawing company to a panel of made-for-TV millionaires and billionaires. Since then, I’ve drawn over 20,000 stick figure cats for customers all around the world. While I’ve dipped in and out of retirement, I’ve been fortunate that cat drawings continue to sell.
I’ve been able to fund a whole bunch o’ my own creative projects with the money I’ve made from drawing stick figure cats. How lucky, eh? Now I’d like to pay it forward. I committed to drawing one cat per day in 2022, and using the proceeds ($3,000) to fund one of YOUR creative projects. The drawings sold out quickly – this grant is now funded – and I’ll be drawing and posting them through the end of the year.
Fill out the questionnaire below. Or share it with the weirdos in your universe. Applications will be accepted through October 31st. The $3,000 grant will be awarded in December, 2022. There’s no special criteria to speak of – this money will be used to fund a project that puts something new and wonderful into the universe. I can’t wait to hear your ideas!
I’ll be working with a handful of creative people that I love and trust to select our grant recipient near the end of the year – and I’ll make sure the judges represent a broad cross-section of race, gender, and sensibility. But ultimately, I’m hoping to award this grant to someone with a creative idea that will add a drop of absurdity and joy in a corner where people least expect it.
No project is too strange, too weird, or even too normal. Thanks for reading, submitting, and sharing!
Steve