Metro Arts’ Thrive grant connects artists and/or organizations with the community to create investments, cultural connections, and transformations.
Donor Name: Metro Nashville Arts Commission
State: Tennessee
County: Davidson County (TN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
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 and community partners and organizations. This category is open to individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and art collectives or teams. Individual artists, artist collectives, or community organization(s) with lead artists or artist teams may apply for Thrive project funding.
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, decision-making and art making
- 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. To receive a Thrive grant, applicants must meet the criteria for one of the following eligibility groups:
- Individual Artist
- 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.
- 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, neighborhood groups, or artist teams that do not hold nonprofit 501c3 status.
- Artist Collectives must have a lead artist identified to lead the project.
- Artist Collectives must be located in Nashville/Davidson County.
- Artist Collectives must apply with a fiscal sponsor.
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Organizations must have a business address located in Davidson County and operate most of its programs in Nashville.
- Organizations must have a lead artist identified to lead the project.
- Organizations must submit their IRS Letter of Determination with an effective date of exemption of July 1, 2024, or earlier.
For more information, visit Metro Nashville Arts Commission.
