Central Appalachia Living Traditions (CALT) Experiences grants fund public-facing projects and events in Appalachian counties of Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia that bring community members together around traditional arts and cultural knowledge.
Donor Name: Mid Atlantic Arts
State: Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/10/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Funded projects will encourage broad public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of living traditions and/or grow and disseminate artistic skill and cultural knowledge within the community.
CALT Experiences Goals
- Encourage broad public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of living traditions.
- Grow and share artistic skills and cultural knowledge within communities.
- Diversify and expand the types of folk arts activities available throughout the region.
Funding Information
$1,000 – $10,000.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026.
Eligible Projects
Eligible project activities may include, but are not limited to:
- Hands-on learning experiences
- Workshops where traditional art forms are taught or demonstrated to the public or a group of peer practitioners
- Public art projects
- Exhibitions of folk and traditional art
- Performance projects or series
- Film/video creation and/or screening
- Podcasts and radio broadcasts
- Archival collections or fieldwork with a significant public-facing component, such as community meetings, presentations, or accessible digital archives.
Eligibility Criteria
To receive a CALT Experiences grant, you must be:
- An individual traditional artist/practitioner OR
- A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, unit of state or local government, or federally recognized Tribal government
- Units of state or local government must provide a document on official letterhead to confirm your status as a government entity.
- Fiscal sponsorship is not allowed for this program.
- Located in a county designated by the Appalachian Regional Commission in Ohio, Virginia, or West Virginia. Eligible counties include:
- Ohio: Adams, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Carroll, Clermont, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mahoning, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Vinton, and Washington
- Virginia: Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Botetourt, Buchanan, Carroll, Craig, Dickenson, Floyd, Giles, Grayson, Henry, Highland, Lee, Montgomery, Patrick, Pulaski, Rockbridge, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise, and Wythe, as well as the independent cities of Bristol, Buena Vista, Covington, Galax, Lexington, Martinsville, Norton, and Radford
- West Virginia: Barbour, Berkeley, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, Marshall, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Mineral, Mingo, Monongalia, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Ohio, Pendleton, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Preston, Putnam, Raleigh, Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, Wood, and Wyoming
- In good standing with Mid Atlantic Arts, with no overdue or outstanding required reports and/or grant documents.
For more information, visit Mid Atlantic Arts.
