As part of its ARPA framework of support for Creative Businesses, the City of Sacramento’s Office of Arts & Culture (OAC) has launched the 2024-25 Creative Venues Grant.
Donor Name: City of Sacramento
State: California
City: Sacramento
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/28/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The objective of this grant program is to preserve and nurture the cultural life of the community by supporting these independent cultural spaces, and it is consistent with the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) objectives of providing aid to impacted industries and supporting economic recovery.
Grants were made to for-profit, independent venues (e.g. music venues, art galleries, and bookstores) that regularly support, present, and/or cultivate Sacramento-based talent in selected Sacramento neighborhoods. Because fewer eligible applicants applied than had been projected, a second round of venue support is being released to support a wider range of for-profit venues without geographic restrictions within the City of Sacramento.
Categories of Venue Funding by Venue Type
- $10,000 Venue Recovery Grants: Available to independent bookstores and art galleries
- $20,000 Venue Recovery Grants: ONLY available to live music, performance, and comedy
Project Period
Anticipated grant term 12 months.
Geographic Areas of Support
Venue Recovery Grants will be open to venues in all Sacramento City districts.
Applicant Eligibility
Eligible applicants include:
- Live Music, Performance & Comedy Venues: Applicants must:
- Be for-profit businesses, which may be corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, or sole proprietorships.
- Program original, live music, comedy, and/or similar performing arts as a primary driver of their business; factors to consider for eligibility are spaces that:
- Show evidence of fair pay to artists and do not have artists play for free or solely for tips.
- Utilize one or more of the following: sound engineers, bookers, promoters, stage
- managers, security personnel, box office personnel.
- Show evidence of paid ticket or cover charge to attend most performances.
- Promote public performances through advertising and listings in printed and/or electronic publications, websites, email blasts, and/or through social media.
- Program local artists as part of their ongoing offerings.
- Have been fully operational for at least one year prior to application and are currently open.
- Be in the City of Sacramento.
- Independent Bookstores (Programming Live Events): Applicants must:
- Be for-profit businesses, which may be corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, or sole proprietorships.
- Support local artists, writers, and independent presses through onsite author readings, convenings, book club meetings, performances, and other public, community events.
- Promote onsite public events through advertising and listings in printed and/or electronic publications, websites, email blasts, and/or through social media.
- Have been fully operational for at least eight months prior to application and are currently open.
- Be in the City of Sacramento.
- Independent Art Galleries (Programming Live Events): Applicants must:
- Be fine art or craft galleries and visual art spaces that are for-profit businesses, which may be corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, or sole proprietorships.
- Have as their primary purpose the support of local artists and craftspeople through promotion, exhibition, and sale of work. Galleries devoted primarily to the work of one artist only are ineligible to apply.
- Program onsite public events such as gallery openings, workshops, art classes, artist talks, and other events that are directly related to the mission of the gallery.
- Promote public events through advertising and listings in printed and/or electronic publications, websites, email blasts, and/or through social media.
- Have been fully operational for at least eight months prior to application and are currently open.
- Be in the City of Sacramento.
For more information, visit City of Sacramento.
