Grants of as much as $5k from the Arts Center
Heads up: the Arts Center of the Capital Region has started the process for its next round of community arts grants -- individual grants can include as much as $5,000 in funding. During the last round the Arts Center distributed a total of almost $90k.
There are three types of grants. From the blurbage:
Community Arts Grants fund nonprofit organizations that produce high-quality arts and culture programming in the community.
Arts Education Grants fund cultural organizations or teaching artists to support programs that integrate the arts into non-arts curriculum in K-12 public school classrooms.
Individual Artist Commissions provide funds to individual artists to create new works that engage their local community.
Applicants must show up at an information seminar -- there are a bunch of them over the next month-and-a-half. Check the schedule at the link above.
Five grand can go a long way in the right (creative) hands. Maybe those hands are yours.
The deadline for applying is October 5.
Yep, the Arts Center does advertise on AOA.
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Wanted to take a class in writing.
THEY WOULD NOT GIVE ME A DIME!
... said mg on Aug 1, 2012 at 12:56 AM | link
Hi MG-
Typically our grants are for community-based arts programming. I assume you applied for an SOS grant, which we no longer offer. They were very competitive and unfortunately many great artists didn't get funding.
If you're still interested in writing classes, I would encourage you to get in touch with Jill Rafferty-Weinisch at 273-0552 x233. We have a new writing needs-based scholarship program.
... said Lauren Hittinger on Aug 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM | link