The International Cultural Partnerships (ICP) Grants Program – formerly the International Cultural Exchange (ICE) program – offers grants to Miami-Dade County-based professional cultural organizations to support meaningful artistic exchange, partnerships or collaborations with artists, arts professionals and/or organizations abroad.
Donor Name: Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
State: Florida
County: Miami-Dade County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The program aims to elevate Miami-Dade County’s image abroad and support the efforts of Miami-Dade’s professional artists and cultural organizations to improve their work by engaging in meaningful arts and cultural activities with artists, arts professionals (such as curators, historians, designers) and/or arts organizations abroad.
The program supports the efforts of organizations aiming to showcase their work internationally by engaging in reciprocal relationships with another city, country or region through collaborative projects that demonstrate artistic excellence and advance the organization’s programming goals.
The program’s objectives are the following:
- Support the efforts of Miami-Dade’s professional artists and cultural organizations to engage in international cultural partnerships activities, linking them to a global network
- Provide opportunities for intercultural and artistic collaborations, highlighting the partnerships of ideas, themes, stories and studies
- Elevate Miami-Dade County’s image abroad.
Funding Information
- up to $20,000: one matching dollar to one grant request dollar
- between $20,001 & $30,000: one and a half matching dollars to one grant request dollar
- between $30,001 & $40,000: two matching dollars to one grant request dollar.
Grant Period
October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects include:
- New works developed among partner cultural organizations to be presented or exhibited for the public in the participating countries. Projects which present the highest quality of professional Miami-Dade County and professional international artists will be the most competitive. The work must be presented in Miami-Dade and abroad. Adaptations of existing repertory are acceptable; however, in these cases the applicant must demonstrate that the adaptation was developed in collaboration with their international partner and highlight the elements of the piece(s) that distinguish it as newly created work.
- Residency programs that foster cultural partnerships for Miami-Dade County professional artists and/or arts professionals to work abroad and professional foreign artists and/or arts professionals (such as curators, historians, designers) to work in Miami-Dade County. Residency programs must be held in Miami-Dade and abroad. Residencies funded through the ICP Grant Program must include a public component(s) in both countries designed to showcase the work of its resident artist(s).
- New works developed among partner organizations may include outreach programs, workshops, open rehearsals, and masterclasses as a component of the proposed project. Projects in which outreach programs, workshops, etc. make up the entirety of the proposed project are not eligible for funding consideration.
- Departments within local colleges and universities that specifically engage in the creation, exhibition or presentation of professional arts or cultural programs that are available to the public are eligible to apply, provided the primary focus of the proposed program demonstrates that:
- the artistic/cultural collaborators in the program are professional artists; and
- the public at-large is the direct beneficiary and target audience of the program.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply, an organization must:
- be legally incorporated as a STATE OF FLORIDA NOT-FOR-PROFIT ARTS OR CULTURAL ORGANIZATION, with a designated tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code; Proof of incorporation and IRS tax-exempt designation is required at the time of application;
- be an organization whose mission, primary purpose and function, as defined by the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of the organization, is the creation, performance, exhibition, and/or presentation of the arts or cultural programs;
- have a minimum one-year track record of year-round cultural programming and presentation;
- have its primary office in Miami-Dade County; and
- not be a municipality or governmental entity.
For more information, visit MDCDCA.
