Metro Arts Thrive Project Grants provide funding for artist-led, community-based art projects in Davidson County. Successful proposals align with Metro Arts’ mission by promoting cultural equity, actively engaging residents throughout the project, and impacting neighborhoods or communities.
Donor Name: Metro Arts
State: Tennessee
County: Davidson County (TN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/26/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Metro Arts Thrive grants connect artists and/or organizations with the community to create investments, cultural connections, and transformations. Thrive empowers artists and organizations to strengthen and cultivate communities in Davidson County. Thrive supports artist-led, community-based art projects that include collaboration between artists, community residents, community partners, and organizations. This opportunity is open to individual artists, artist collectives or teams, and nonprofit organizations. All proposed projects or programming must take place in Davidson County.
Successful projects will align with Metro Arts’ mission and Thrive goals and objectives by:
- Impacting neighborhoods or communities
- Actively engaging residents through community input in project planning, decisionmaking and artmaking
- Exhibiting and promoting cultural equity in project design, process, and content
Funding Information
Thrive project proposals may request up to $15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Individual artists, artist teams or collectives, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for Thrive grants. Artists are defined as practitioners in a specific artist genre, including but not limited to dance, film and media arts, craft, literary arts, music, performance art, multidisciplinary work, theater, or visual arts. To qualify for a Thrive grant, a proposal must identify a lead artist and/or project lead and meet the criteria for one of the following eligibility groups:
- Individual Artist
- Artist must be 18 years of age or older.
- Artist must live or primarily work in Davidson County.
- Individual artists must apply with a fiscal sponsor.
- Artist Collectives
- Artist Collectives are art organizations or artist teams that do not hold non-profit 501(c)(3) status.
- Artist Collectives must be based in and conduct the majority of their programming Nashville/Davidson County.
- Artist Collectives must apply with a fiscal sponsor (details below).
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Organizations must be chartered in the state of Tennessee and tax-exempt under the IRS Code Section 501(c)(3).
- Must be active and in good standing with the Tennessee Secretary of State’s Business Services Division and Office of Charitable Solicitations, indicating the agency is currently duly registered to solicit public funds in Tennessee.
- Organizations must have a business address located in Davidson County and operate the majority of its programming in Nashville.
For more information, visit Metro Arts.
