Community Aesthetics & Praxis micro-grants – Collaboratory for Black Poiesis

The Community Aesthetics & Praxis (CAP) Micro-Grant Fellowship is a new initiative envisioned by the Collaboratory for Black Poiesis (CBP).

These grants provide small, rapid-access research funds to support postgraduate (Master- and PhD-level) student fieldwork, capstone projects, and research-creation that foreground creative-humanistic inquiry grounded in Black Studies, Global Indigenous Studies, class-conscious and migrant-centred scholarship, technoscientific and technocultural inquiry, anti-colonial methods, and other community-oriented praxis.

The grants are designed especially for Black, Indigenous, migrant, and racialised students working meaningfully and materially around these fields and frameworks, regardless of their disciplinary unit. CAP Micro-Grants will support practical, often underfunded research needs that are essential to ethical and community-engaged work and socially-engaged aesthetic and research practice.

Grants are typically issued up to three times per semester, in amounts ranging from $250-$500, which may be used for supplementing research and research-creation expenses such as transcription, translation, community honoraria, archival access, local travel, and creative or documentary materials.

Important dates:

• Priority consideration for applications received by March 20, 2026

• Results announced by April 15, 2026

Questions? Contact: blackpoiesis@utoronto.ca with the subject line: CAP Micro-Grant.

This initiative is proudly co-sponsored by the Black Research Network.