Public Arts Grants support arts and cultural projects that promote an increase in arts activity and promise to enhance the cultural climate in the neighborhoods and communities where they live and operate.
Donor Name: Auburn Public Theater
State: New York
County: Cayuga County (NY), Ontario County (NY), Seneca County (NY), Wayne County (NY), Yates County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/14/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Additionally, Public Arts Grants support the role the arts play in engaging learning groups of all ages through in-depth, age and skills appropriate artistic learning opportunities.
The Auburn Public Theater Regrants program makes arts support available to geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse segments of 5-county service area. They provide funding to nonprofit community arts organizations, and individual artists within Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne, Ontario and Yates counties that are not currently funded directly by NYSCA.
Public Arts grants may support all forms of multidisciplinary projects including but not limited to: theater, dance, music, film, video, literary arts, visual arts and folk arts. All funded projects in this category must be community-based and open to the general public. Additionally, Public Arts grants may support ARTS EDUCATION, including In School, After School and Community-Based Learning for all age groups.
The applicant of record for any Arts Education program must be an individual teaching artist, collective, or a nonprofit cultural organization. Artists from outside the county may use a local nonprofit conduit in the project county to apply as fiscal sponsor. Funding decisions are based on the criteria and funding priorities as they are outlined in these application materials. Schools may NOT apply directly for Public Arts grant funding.
Funding Priorities
- Activities of local arts organizations
- New, emerging, and grass-roots organizations, particularly those that serve diverse and underserved individuals
- Projects that reflect the cultural traditions or contemporary creative expressions of a particular ethnic group
- Applicants that provide a detailed marketing plan to reach/promote their project to underserved communities
Low Priority Projects
- Projects that do not utilize or pay professional artists
- Applicants who have not confirmed the artists to be utilized in the project
- Projects that do not benefit underserved communities
- Projects that contain minimal or poor marketing plans to reach underserved audiences
- Previously funded projects that do not exhibit further growth, artistic expansion, community support, and/or community need o Projects that duplicate already existing and successful projects/services
Funding Information
Grants range from $500 to $5000.
Project Requirements
- Project must occur in the same county as the applying artist, fiscal sponsor, or organization’s legal residence.
- Projects must be completed during the funding cycle.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant organization, fiscal sponsor, or partner organization must be a governmental or quasi-governmental entity, a tribal organization or a New York State non-profit incorporated organization, or have a 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt status.
- Applicant organization, fiscal sponsor, or partner organization must produce or present arts and cultural programming serving residents of Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne, Yates, or Ontario counties.
- Applicant organization, fiscal sponsor, or partner organization must have a board of directors or a governing body that meets to determine and review policy.
- Applicant organization, fiscal sponsor, or partner organization must conduct all activities in a way that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. Individual artists may apply directly under this program by (1) enlisting an eligible non-profit organization as a “fiscal sponsor” or (2) partnering with an eligible organization that shares its goals for the community.
- Lead applicants must be at least 18 years of age at the time of the submission and may not be enrolled in full time degree program.
- Applicant organization or artist or fiscal sponsor must be legally located (i.e., not a seasonal resident or local branch of an organization registered elsewhere) in the county where the activity will take place. If working with a partner organization, both application organization/artist and partner organization must be based in the county where the proposed activity is taking place.
- Minimum of (3) sequential, skill based learning sessions incorporating one or more art forms (if the project is an arts education based program)
- In-depth, age and skills appropriate learning opportunities.
- Hands-on, participatory creation and/or learning, which may culminate into exhibitions, productions or demonstrations.
- Funds should primarily be directed toward artist fees, but may include scholarship support, administrative support and cost of materials.
- Stated learning goals, methodologies and outcomes.
- Applicants focused on arts education must have a means of programmatic evaluation.
For more information, visit Auburn Public Theater.
