Community Arts Grants

APPLICATION DEADLINE DECEMBER 1, 2023 AT 4PM

Community Arts Grants provide support to community-based organizations, groups, collectives or artists in Wyoming and Allegany counties for arts and cultural projects in their communities. Grants can fund exhibitions, performances, concerts, festivals, demonstrations and workshops, screenings, readings, and more!

To be eligible to apply for a Community Arts grant or to be a sponsor for an artist or artist group, applicants must be non-profit organizations based in Allegany or Wyoming County, New York. Community Arts Grants funded activity must take place within the same county as the applicant’s address. For sponsored individual artists or artist groups, the lead applicant applying to any category must be a current New York State resident and must be resident in the county where their proposed project will take place.

Refer to the Community Arts Grants Application Guidelines document, below, for more information and for detailed application instructions.

Community Arts Grants are made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program (SCR), a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Founded in 1977, the SCR program was developed by NYSCA to ensure that cultural funding reaches every part of the state. These grants have since become one of NYSCA’s most effective means of making arts support available to geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse segments of the state’s population. Through SCR regrant funding, SCR sites such as the Arts Council for Wyoming County provide project support to a wide range of professional, vocational and educational arts and culture in their respective communities including the creation of new work by individual artists. Grants can prioritize program quality over quantity of viewers/participants.

Maximum total funding: $5,000

Applicants may submit up to three requests in any combination of Community Arts Grants categories (Community Arts, Individual Artist, and/or Arts Education) totaling no more than $5,000.

Contact grants@artswyco.org or (585) 237-3517 extension 102

Community Arts 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 the Arts Council for Wyoming County.