The City of Chula Vista is excited to support local performing and visual arts through the Create Chula Vista Arts Grant.
Donor Name: City of Chula Vista
State: California
City: Chula Vista
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
Create Chula Vista is their new brand for cultural arts programs. They are looking for arts projects that provide enriching and accessible cultural opportunities for the City’s residents and visitors. Chula Vista individual artists, arts organizations, and small businesses are encouraged to apply.
It is strongly recommended that grant projects are collaborative, promote cultural equity and inclusion, and address community aspirations
What the grant may be used for:
- Funding to artists for performances, exhibitions, or other creative events that are free to attend and open to the public.
- Materials for a creative event (e.g., supplies, paint, paper, marketing materials, costumes) that is free and open to the public.
- Art, music, theatre, and/or dance projects in schools.
Qualifying artistic disciplines:
- Dance: This discipline includes a full range of dance artistry and represents a multiplicity of forms, styles, techniques, and histories including ballet, modern, avant-garde, jazz, tap, hip hop, and other contemporary forms.
- Design Arts: This field encompasses many disciplines including, but not limited to, architecture, communications and graphic design, fashion design, historic preservation, industrial and product design, interior design, landscape architecture, planning, universal design, rural design, and urban design.
- Media Arts: For the development, production and distribution of films, animation, digital arts, video, and audio art, including experimental and narrative works, as well as electronic manipulation, and broadcast. This discipline would also include screen-based and print projects presented via film, television, radio, audio, video, the Internet, interactive and mobile technologies, video game consoles, transmedia storytelling, and satellite as well as media related printed books, catalogues, and journals.
- Museums and Exhibitions: Broad range of activity that interprets visual material through exhibitions, residencies, publications, commissions, public art works, curation, conservation, documentation, services to the field, and public programs.
- Music: Musical performance and composition including orchestral music, opera, jazz, hip hop, pop, rock, choral, electronic, and other contemporary music forms.
- Photography: The use of the photographic medium as the primary vehicle of artistic expression resulting in works produced for, but not limited to, archival, resource documentation, or exhibition purposes. Photographic work produced for commercial, advertising, industrial, scientific purposes or for inclusion in a non-art publication are ineligible for funding.
- Theater: All forms of theater including professional, regional companies and schools, experimental, street, puppets, mime/children’s ensembles, musicals, comedy, and storytelling.
- Traditional and Folk Arts: The traditional, authentic, artistic activities and expressive customs indigenous or rooted to any group that shares the same ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation, or geographic region. Genres of artistic activity include, but are not limited to, music, dance, crafts, and oral expression.
- Visual Arts: All forms of visual arts including sculpture, painting, installation art, drawing, printmaking, crafts, and artistic books.
- Interdisciplinary: This category is for projects that incorporate one or more arts disciplines or for projects that combine non-performing and visual arts disciplines with performing and visual arts disciplines (e.g., live art with open mic poetry, storytelling with media arts). The Interdisciplinary category also includes performance art and non-traditional formats and processes that transcend distinct art disciplines. In an interdisciplinary project, each art discipline interdependently contributes an essential element, which, without one arts discipline or the other, may otherwise be incomplete.
Funding Information
- Up to $10,000 per project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individual artists who reside in Chula Vista.
- Tax-exempt, non-profit organizations located in the City of Chula Vista. NOTE: Organizations not located in Chula Vista may be eligible if the arts project is held in Chula Vista.
- Educational institutions located in the City of Chula Vista.
- Religious organizations located in the City of Chula Vista. NOTE: Religious organizations not located in Chula Vista may be eligible if the arts project is held in Chula Vista.
- Performance groups, visual arts groups or other cultural arts-related groups and organizations affiliated with Chula Vista educational institutions (e.g., choirs, bands, etc.).
- City of Chula Vista departments, boards, and commissions.
- For-profit businesses located in the City of Chula Vista. Businesses must be a legally operating business located in a commercial or industrial space and independently owned and operated with the principal office located within the City of Chula Vista city limits.
For more information, visit City of Chula Vista.
