The City of Seattle is seeking applications for the 2023 Youth Arts grant to support individual artists, arts organizations, and social service agencies in providing middle and high school-aged young people with arts and cultural learning opportunities.
Donor Name: City of Seattle
State: Washington
City: Seattle
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/30/2023
Size of the Grant: $12,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The Youth Arts grant is a 2-year grant that supports equitable access to arts and cultural learning opportunities for Seattle’s middle and high school-aged youth. Programs occur outside of school hours and are led by experienced artists and teaching artists working in communities across Seattle to increase arts and cultural opportunities for young people from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Data shows that the greatest disparities between young people who have access to arts education and those who don’t are based on race, socioeconomics, home language, and disabilities. As with all the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture’s Creative Youth Programs, the Youth Arts grant prioritizes programs serving young people within the above demographic groups.
Funding Information
- Recipients will receive a total of $12,000 distributed over two (2) years of Youth Arts funding support for programs in 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.
- Recipients will only receive funding after the program has started. Once an invoice is submitted, recipients will receive the funds in 6-8 weeks
Project Period
Projects must take place between September 2023 – August 2024 and September 2024 – August 2025.
Funds can be used for:
- Artist fees
- Youth stipends
- Marketing and promotional fees
- Project management and personnel costs
- Supplies
- Space
- Online/Web related items
- Equipment rentals
- Program-related costs
- Additional expenses may be allowed with approval by the grant project manager
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include individual artists, teaching artists, arts and cultural organizations, youth-service agencies, and degree-granting institutions.
- Programs must be available to middle and high school-aged young people and take place within Seattle city limits.
- All artists and teaching artists hired by arts and cultural organizations, youth service agencies, and degree-granting institutions must have at least one (1) year of experience working with the project age group and arts and cultural forms.
- Projects must reflect the Youth Arts grant priorities and demographics as described above.
For more information, visit Youth Arts Program.
