The Arts in Parks Grant supports new and established projects that promote arts and cultural participation, celebrate diversity, and build community while connecting with audiences from historically unserved and/or underserved communities that represent Seattle’s diversity.
Donor Name: Office of Arts & Culture Seattle
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/28/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This program supports organizations, community groups, grassroots collectives, and individual artists seeking to activate Seattle parks through arts and culture in underserved and economically constrained areas of the city.
Arts, cultural activities, and parks are essential parts of a vibrant, healthy, and inclusive community. In partnership with PARKS, OAC seeks to collaborate with artists and community groups to create a city where all artists and communities have the freedom, agency, and platform to share and amplify their stories, art, cultures, and experiences, regardless of race, class, gender, age, ability, education, country of birth, religion, and sexual orientation.
Funding Information
Applicants can apply for the following levels of funding:
- $2,000
- $4,000
- $6,000
- $8,000.
Eligible Projects
- Your project centers arts and culture-based activities.
- Your project will be free and open to the public.
- You will have event insurance for the project.
- Your project will adhere to Seattle Park and Recreation’s mission statement (to provide welcoming and safe opportunities to play, learn, contemplate, build community, and promote responsible stewardship of the land).
- Your project will take place in an eligible City of Seattle park between May 1 and Oct. 30, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to apply for this grant if you meet the following criteria:
- You are an individual, organization, or community group that regularly presents arts and cultural-based programming in Seattle.
- You reside in King County or unincorporated King County within Washington State.
- Organizations and individual artists representing Seattle’s diverse communities are encouraged to apply.
- You have a Federal Tax ID number (Social Security Number, ITIN, or Employer Identification Number).
- Groups applying are not required to be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nor are they required to use a fiscal sponsor or fiscal agent.
For more information, visit OAC.
