Arts are important in communities of any size. This week, there are several new opportunities in arts funding. Through Our Town, the National Endowment for the Arts will provide a limited number of grants, ranging from $25,000 to $250,000, for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core. Our Town will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, are looking to increase their livability, and specifically are seeking to:
- Improve their quality of life.
- Encourage creative activity.
- Create community identity and a sense of place.
- Revitalize local economies.
Deadline: March 1, 2011 to file a statement of interest
Challenge America Fast-Track from National Endowment for the Arts
The Challenge America Fast-Track category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations -- those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. (Most cities and towns in Northwest Oklahoma could claim geography and probably economics.) The involvement of professionally trained, experienced artists and arts professionals is essential.
Fast-Track grants are available only for:
- An arts event or events that will feature one or more guest artists.
- The unified promotion of community-wide arts activities and resources to enhance cultural tourism or activities in cultural districts.
- The development of professionally directed public art projects. This project type is for visual arts projects only (such as murals, sculptures, or environmental art) that are developed through community engagement. Evidence of community involvement in the planning, design, or fabrication of the work must be apparent.
- Design activities for new or existing cultural facilities or civic spaces. Projects may include the preliminary planning or design process for new cultural facilities or spaces, as well as the engagement of professional design services such as streetscapes, wayfinding signage, or landscape architecture.
Deadline: May 26, 2011.
Start date: January 1, 2012
More Info: National Endowment for the Arts "Challenge America Fast-Track"
Grants to Artists from Creative Capital
Creative Capital makes grants directly to artists, so you may want to pass this info along. Applications for film/video and visual arts grants will be taken during February 2011.
Deadline: March 1, 2011
More Info: Creative Capital
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