2019 Funding Opportunities
2019 Arts Alive Grant Applications are now closed, please check back for updates on future grant cycles
Westchester County application deadline was September 26, 2018
Rockland County application deadline was October 2, 2018
Arts Alive in the News:
The Patch.com, January 28, 2019
$105K Awarded in Arts Grants Throughout Westchester, Rockland
River Journal News Online.com, Jan. 25, 2019
ArtsWestchester Awards 60 “Arts Alive” Grants Totaling $105,000
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.
Arts Alive Project Grants are made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program (DEC) – a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature – and administered by ArtsWestchester.
There are three distinct Arts Alive funding opportunities, click here for guidelines.
Click here to view your submitted application via the Submittable grant portal.
Arts Alive Grant Resources
If you have been awarded an Arts Alive grant, please use or adapt this sample letter to send thanks to the New York State Senate and Assembly members for their support of the arts.
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: $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
Pre-Application Workshops
We encourage you to attend one of the pre-application workshops to see if this funding opportunity is right for you. For more information please email [email protected].
2019 Grant Recipients
The 2019 grantees from both Westchester and Rockland counties were recognized in a celebration held at ArtsWestchester on Friday, January 25. Please click on the images below to view FLICKR albums.
A complete list of 2019 Arts Alive Grant Recipients can be found here.
FINAL REPORTS for 2018 awards are now available and due no later than 30 days after the completion of your funded project. Consideration for future funding depends upon completion of this report. For instructions on how to complete your report, click here.
