The Living Cultures Grant seeks to sustain and strengthen traditional arts in the state of California with $5,000 grants to individual artists/culture bearers and $12,500 grants to California-based nonprofits and Tribal Nations, as well as other organizations and community groups who work with fiscal sponsors.
Donor Name: Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/03/2023
Size of the Grant:
- For individuals: $5,000
- For organizations: $12,500
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Through this grant program, Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) supports nurturing cultural continuity, sustaining cultural practices, and engaging their own communities and others through public programs. Projects involving any genre of traditional arts—including but not limited to dance, music, foodways, material arts, and oral traditions—are welcome.
They will fund
Pathways to Nurture, Sustain, and Engage Participation in the Traditional Arts.
ACTA invites proposals that will:
- nurture cultural continuity through the learning and practice of traditional arts; and/or
- sustain cultural practices with needed purchases and services; and/or
- engage your communities and others through public programs
Grant Period
The grant period is 12 months between September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024.
Who Can Apply?
The grants are open to individuals, organizations, community groups, and Tribal Nations who practice traditional arts.
- Traditional arts are those art forms that are transmitted and engaged as part of the cultural life of a group of people whose members share a common heritage, language, religion, occupation, or region. These expressions are deeply rooted in and reflective of a community’s shared standards of beauty, values, or life experiences. Traditional arts are often passed on from one generation to the next, or from one community member to another, and express a collective wisdom, rather than only a unique personal aesthetic.
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS can apply to support their practice.
- Applicants must be:
- Based in California
- Be artists /culture bearers rooted in a tradition who have been practicing at least 5 years.
- 18 years old or older
- Able to receive California taxable income (Individual artists do not apply with a fiscal sponsor.)
ORGANIZATIONS/COMMUNITY GROUPS/TRIBAL NATIONS can apply to support activities.
- Eligible organizations must have:
- An annual budget under $500,000
- Non-profit 501c3 status based in California
- Community groups without non-profit status may apply with a California-based 501c3 fiscal sponsor
- Tribal Nations cultural programs/departments based in California with federal status (Note: budget requirement applies to department, and not nation as a whole).
- Tribal Nations cultural programs/departments based in California without federal status may apply with a California-based 501c3 fiscal sponsor (Note: budget requirement applies to department, and not nation as a whole).
Further Eligibility
- You may apply to the Living Cultures program both as an individual and with your organization for different projects.
- If you receive grants from the California Arts Council (CAC), William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and/or the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, you may apply to the Living Cultures program for an entirely different project than the one already funded.
For more information, visit Living Cultures Grant.
