The City of Dubuque Arts & Culture Special Projects Grant program provides funds to cultivate unique and innovative creative arts and cultural experiences that serve the residents of Dubuque.
Donor Name: City of Dubuque
State: Iowa
City: Dubuque
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/25/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
This program is intended to increase the Dubuque community’s access to a wide range of diverse arts and culture experiences that cultivate creativity, learning, and participation in Dubuque’s arts and culture landscape.
Funding Information
- Minimum Request: $1,000
- Maximum Request: $8,000.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026.
Eligible Expenses
Eligible expenses are those dedicated specifically to the project and can include:
- Artist or Contractor Fees
- Licensing or Subscription Fees
- Supplies and Materials
- Space and Equipment Rental
- Domestic Travel
- Marketing and Publicity
- Equipment purchases under $500
- Employee or volunteer costs essential to meeting project outcome.
Eligible Activities
- Projects should create unique and innovative arts and cultural experiences or arts and cultural learning opportunities that stand out from the applicant’s previous offerings in significant ways. Applicants may apply for support of an annual event or series only if they can demonstrate how the event or series is unique to the eligible funding period and worthy of support. Project content must change from year to year
- Proposed public activities requesting grant funding must be conducted within Dubuque city limits; eligible expenses may be paid to vendors based outside of Dubuque
- Projects may include the creation, performance, exhibition, publication, or presentation of arts and cultural experiences or arts and cultural learning opportunities related to:
- Cultural and Historic Resources
- Folk and Traditional Arts
- Theater, Performing Arts
- Spoken Word
- Literature
- Dance
- Music
- Film
- Visual Art: 2D or 3D, Digital, New Media, Installation Art, Murals or Public Art, Performance Art
- Other Arts and Cultural Learning Opportunities.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Applicant is a Dubuque-based organization who operate as a nonprofit, tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of IRS Organizations
- Applicant is a Dubuque-based group with their own specific mission, governing structure and budget, operating under the incorporated status of a Dubuque-based fiscal agent
- Applicant serves residents of the city of Dubuque and programming occurs within the city of Dubuque limits
- Applicant will have a clean record of compliance and be in good standing with the City of Dubuque’s Arts and Culture Grant program(s)
- Only 1 application per eligible applicant will be accepted; an applicant can be identified as a partnering entity within another application, but that application cannot be for the same project.
For more information, visit City of Dubuque.
