Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration (ARIA)

Applicants must complete/upload information in four areas: 

• Statement of Plans and Related Questions 
• List of Recent Work (NOT a CV)
• Work Samples
• Feasibility Plan, including budget, budget justification, and timeline of work. 

There are an additional three items that applicants should complete as appropriate:

• Acknowledgment of Application for Course Release Form
• Contextualizing Collaborators
• Letters of Commitment 

• You may click Save (as draft) at the bottom of the page at any time (and often) and return at a later date to complete your application.
• Save your work after each entry. The form does NOT auto-save.
• Complete all the *required fields. If a *required field is left blank, the system will not show a Submit button and your application will stay in draft.
• The form provides a “preview” option before you submit your application.
• When you are ready to submit, click Submit Application button in the upper right corner of your screen.
• You will receive a confirmation email if your application has been successfully submitted
• Clear your browser cache if you experience unexpected behavior while using the InfoReady Review site. InfoReady Review runs best on the latest supported versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers. It does not run optimally on Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer. The site should be accessed via a desktop or laptop computer. It is not compatible with mobile devices or tablets. Both Windows and Mac operating systems are compatible.

You must first log in by hovering over the Log In button in the top right hand corner of your screen. Log in using your uniqename and Kerberos password (click the blue University of Michigan Weblogin button). OR If you want someone else to submit the application on your behalf, you – as the applicant you will need to log in and assign a proxy.

1. At this time, the system does not recognize @med.umich.edu log in credentials. Please use your @umich.edu log in credentials.
2. Once you are logged in, click on your name in the upper right hand top of the page. Below your “User Profile,” you can “Designate a Proxy.” Please use the proxy’s @umich.edu account.
3. To Apply: Click on Apply in the right hand menu.

A faculty member may apply as PI on one grant application and also participate as a collaborator on a second grant application.

Yes

The primary investigator (PI) and CoPI(s) for all projects must be U-M faculty with a research appointment (tenured, tenure track, research, or clinical professors), though research teams can include collaborators from across and beyond U-M. All PI-eligible faculty from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses are eligible to apply. Interdisciplinary research teams are especially encouraged to apply. For more information about primary investigator (PI) eligible see https://orsp.umich.edu/principal-investigator-pi.

PIs with active ARIA projects are not eligible to re-apply, and PIs with applications pending for other Arts Initiative granting programs (Arts in Curriculum, AIPS, etc.) are not eligible to apply to an ARIA deadline.​

Please contact [email protected] with questions.

Non U-M researchers cannot be the PI or Co-PI, but they may be collaborators on a research team or project.

No. Faculty can propose projects of any length up to 24 months.

In general, post-doctoral fellows are not eligible to serve as primary investigators. The one exception is if a post-doctoral fellow also holds the title of “Assistant Professor” during their fellowship and has a guaranteed tenure-track position waiting at the University of Michigan upon the completion of their fellowship.

No. All applications should adhere to the stated guidelines regarding page length, image submission, and video length.

Yes, please use the budget template (found on the ARIA website) to think through categories of cost for your project and build out as much detail as you are able to do. We highly recommend that faculty work with their unit’s research administrators or finance team to finalize budget details.

Letters of commitment should state the partners’ commitment to the project, including but not limited to the commitment they are making in terms of personnel, funding, time, space, etc.

Yes, faculty salary and/or course releases are eligible, but must be explained in the budget explanation. Approval of course releases must be provided via signed letter from Chair and/or Dean as appropriate. Please use this form for course release approval and upload to your application (if applicable). We highly recommend that faculty work with their unit’s research administrators or finance team to finalize budget details in advance of application submission.

Tuition support is not an eligible budget expense for this program.

• Travel to present at conferences
• Computer/hardware/software for routine use
• Office equipment, telephone installations, photocopy machines
• Equipment maintenance costs
• Tuition support
• Requests for small amounts more appropriately handled at the unit level
• Projects that are primarily instructional
• Funds covering reduced external awards
• Retroactive funding, costs overruns, or disallowance on other sponsored projects
• Faculty recruitment and start-up packages
• Page or reprint costs of articles in professional journals
• Funds may not be used for entertainment expenses, or for memberships in professional organizations.

If your application is best served by submitting work samples in multiple media (images and sound, video and writing), you may submit in two modalities. You must, however, keep what you are requesting within the suggested time frames for reviewers. An example would be that if you need to submit both images and sound, instead of 20 images and 15 minutes of sound, you might submit 10 images and 7.5 minutes of sound.