The Berkeley Arts Recovery Grants for Artists & Cultural Practitioners is a program led by the City of Berkeley’s Civic Arts Program and is made possible by federal funding resulting from the American Rescue Plan Act.
Donor Name: Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
State: California
City: Berkeley
Type of the Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/04/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
The Berkeley Arts Recovery Grants for Artists & Cultural Practitioners is in response to the economic disruptions resulting from or exacerbated by the COVID-19 public health emergency and is intended to help mitigate the ensuing financial needs of individuals that have resulted from the pandemic—a federally recognized “qualified disaster.” The arts and culture sector remains hard hit, effectively disrupting artists and arts workers’ ability to earn income. Individuals are the backbone of arts and culture—exhibitions and performances, educational arts programming, community-anchoring cultural enterprises, and services by nonprofit arts organizations—and they need financial help to remain in their communities and contribute to making them meaningful and vibrant.
This grant program is for artists and cultural practitioners residing in Berkeley who need financial help as a result of this federally recognized qualified disaster. Funds are unrestricted and can be used in any way that alleviates financial hardship.
Distribution of the Berkeley Arts Recovery Grants for Artists & Cultural Practitioners is through a partnership between the City of Berkeley’s Civic Arts Program and the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI). CCI, a trusted intermediary focused on the economic security of people in the arts, is administering this grant program.
Funding Information
- The Berkeley Arts Recovery Grants for Artists & Cultural Practitioners makes available $275,000 in the form of grants up to $10,000 to help the City’s artists and cultural practitioners.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a current, full-time resident of the City of Berkeley;
- Must be an artist and/or cultural practitioner. Eligible applicants will make their primary income* in the arts and culture sector; this may include roles as fine artists, including literary, visual, and performing artists; musicians; teaching artists; culture bearers; art-making enterprises such as jewelry makers; artist members of collective-based or cooperative creative social enterprises; and specialized artist workers (e.g., lighting or sound designers, fabricators); and
- Cannot have a conflict of interest (family or financial relationships) with the boards, staff, and directors of CCI or the City of Berkeley’s Civic Arts Program and Civic Arts Commission.
For more information, visit Berkeley Arts Recovery Grants for Artists & Cultural Practitioners.
