The City of Fort Myers has announced the Arts & Culture Grant to recognize the importance of the arts to the cultural, educational, and economic well-being of its diverse population.
Donor Name: City of Fort Myers
State: Florida
City: Fort Myers
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/31/2022
Grant Size: $2,500
Details:
Through grant making and other activities and services, the City of Fort Myers strives to:
- Develop stable, well-managed arts & culture organizations and institutions, through fair distribution of funds
- Encourage artistic quality and program innovation, including “seed money” for organizations and projects
- Develop new audiences and challenge existing audiences
- Promote lifelong arts and cultural education
- Promote multicultural inclusion in all aspects of the City’s cultural life
- Stimulate increased private support for the arts & culture
- Promote economic development and tourism in the City of Fort Myers
- Promote and encourage art and culture in all communities and neighborhoods of the City
- Create a nurturing environment in which artists can flourish
Funding Information
The maximum funding for each arts and culture grant is $2,500 for individual artists.
Eligibility Criteria
- Artist must live or work within corporate limits of the City of Fort Myers or create/perform work that will make a meaningful contribution to the arts and culture of the City of Fort Myers.
- Artist must produce interpretive and creative work in artistic disciplines, such as: dance, literature, music, theater, visual arts, performance art, including choreographers, composers, playwrights, poets, writers, and video artists.
- Be actively engaged in the pursuit of creating and producing works of art.
- If the artist has received a City of Fort Myers Arts & Culture Grant at any time in the past then a Post Grant
- Final Report must have been submitted for that Grant. *Grant recipients who have not completed a Post Grant
- Final Report for any grant received are not eligible to apply for funding at any time in the future.
For more information, visit City of Fort Myers.
