Arts Alive 2022 Grant Opportunity
Applications for the 2022 cycle of Arts Alive are now closed.
The deadline was Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 11:59PM
The Arts Alive grant category is one of ArtsWestchester’s most effective means of supporting arts activity for Westchester and Rockland County’s geographically, economically and ethnically diverse population. This funding opportunity helps to ensure that residents throughout Westchester and Rockland have access to the arts in their communities, particularly in areas where access is limited. Funds are available to support projects happening between January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022.
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Arts Alive 2022 Grant Categories
ARTS ALIVE PROJECT GRANT Constitutes the largest component of the Arts Alive funding category. These grants support community-based arts and cultural projects developed by cultural groups and organizations, individual artists and collectives. Other types of nonprofit organizations that offer arts activities as part of their on-going operations may also apply. Supported projects must be fully open to the public. Artists and Unincorporated arts organizations may apply for project grants in tandem with a fiscal agent organization.
If you are applying via fiscal agent or with a community partner, click here to download a sample letter of agreement.
Project Grant Award Amounts: $1,000 to $5,000
ARTS ALIVE ARTIST GRANT supports the creation and presentation of new work by professional artists. An essential element of this funding is the inclusion of community engagement component. The project must engage a segment of the community through a public program, such as an exhibition or performance that is open to the public and/or the inclusion of community involvement in the development and creative process of the artists’ project.
Artist Grant Award: $1,000 – $2,500
ARTS ALIVE ARTS EDUCATION GRANT supports lifelong learning in the arts. Funded activities may take place in classrooms, after-school programs or community sites including agencies serving people with disabilities, day-care and senior centers.
Arts-In-Education Grant Award: $1,000 to $2,500
Arts Alive Grant Resources
A complete list of 2021 Arts Alive recipients is available here.
FINAL REPORTS FOR 2021 are due no later than 30 days after the completion of your project, or December 31, 2021, whichever comes first. Final report forms must be completed online via Submittable.
A complete list of the 2021-22 Arts Alive Recovery NY Regrant recipients is available here.
Arts Alive Grants are made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by ArtsWestchester.
