​​Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Grants Program

The City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture believes that investing in arts and culture builds community and enhances the quality of life for residents. The Office of Arts and Culture provides a variety of funding opportunities that enables artists, arts and culture organizations, schools, and neighborhood groups to carry out high quality public arts programming for all residents.
 

 Grant Program Updates

FY21 Community Arts Grants  

Nearly $1 million in Community Investments and Engagement and Project Support Grants were approved by City Council in August. The next cycle of funding will open in early 2021.

Arts and Culture Coronavirus Relief Program

The Phoenix City Council approved using $2.6 million in federal Coronavirus Relief Funding to help artists, along with nonprofit arts and culture organizations, hurting financially because of the global health emergency.

The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture administered a program that offered:

  • grants to individual artists support working artists, teaching artists, and other artist-based contract workers that have experienced canceled events and residencies or terminated contracts because of the COVID-19 pandemic; and
  • emergency relief grants to arts and cultural nonprofits that lost earned and contributed revenue because of Coronavirus.

The City of Phoenix was also awarded $250,000 in regranting CARES Act funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Office of Arts and Culture made 13 awards of between $12,500 and $25,000 to Phoenix-based arts and culture nonprofit organizations, with budgets under $1 million to fill, rehire, or maintain a part-time or full-time position from being cut due to the Coronavirus crisis. 

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​Arts and Culture Coronavirus Relief Program for Artists and Arts Professionals

The Office of Arts and Culture announces the second round for the Phoenix Arts and Culture Coronavirus Relief Program for Artists and Arts Professionals. This grant program will help support arts professionals, working artists, teaching artists, and other artist-based contract workers who have experienced job loss, indefinitely postponed, canceled events and residencies, or terminated contracts because of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic crisis. The deadline to apply was Friday, September 18, 2020 at 11:59 p.m.

La Oficina de Artes y Cultura anunció una segunda ronda del Programa de Ayuda por Coronavirus de Artes y Cultura de Phoenix para Artistas y Profesionales de las Artes. Este programa de subvenciones servirá para apoyar a profesionales de las artes, artistas que trabajan, artistas docentes y otros trabajadores cuyos contratos están basados en las artes a los que perdieron trabajo, les pospusieron indefinidamente o cancelaron, eventos, residencias o les rescindieron contratos debido a la crisis pandémica mundial por el coronavirus (COVID-19). La fecha límite para presentar la solicitud es 18 de septiembre, 2020 a las 11:59 p.m.

Phoenix Arts Job Preservation Program

The City of Phoenix was awarded $250,000 in regranting CARES Act funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Office of Arts and Culture will make 10 to 15 awards of between $10,000 and $25,000 to Phoenix-based arts and culture nonprofit organizations, with budgets under $1 million to fill, rehire, or maintain a part-time or full-time position from being cut due to the Coronavirus crisis. ​The deadline to apply was Friday, September 18, 2020 at 11:59 p.m.

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 Grantees in Action

 

 

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 Grants Program Contacts

​Sarah León Moreno, Grants and Community Engagement Director, 602-262-6164, sarah.leon@phoenix.gov

Anel E. Arriola, Grants and Community Engagement Manager, 602-534-5084, anel.arriola@phoenix.gov

 Event Endorsement Program

​The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture provides program endorsement to expand support of arts and cultural services beyond limited funding capacity of the Community Arts Grants Program. The endorsement enables responsiveness to opportunities that present outside of the Grants Program timetable. It also Supports grassroots, emerging and diverse arts opportunities that do not meet Grants Program eligibility requirements and category limitations.

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 ‭(Hidden)‬ Community Arts Grants Virtual Review Panels

The annual Community Arts Grants Program invests in nonprofit arts and culture orgnizaitons to strengthen the community's access to cultural programming.

​​Review Panels
(select review panel to view agenda)
​Date and Time
Project Grants: ​Cultural Festivals
​May 19, 2020  | 9:00 am – 1​2:30 pm
​Project Grants:Youth Arts Engagement 
​May 20, 2020 | 9:00 am  - 1:00 pm
Project Grants: ​Artist Exposure
​May 21, 2020 | 9:00 am - 11:30 am
​CIEG III
​May 26, 2020 | 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
​CIEG II
​​May 27, 2020 | 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
​CIEG I​
​May 28, 2020 | 9:00am - 2:00 pm

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​The annual Community Arts Grants Program invests in nonprofit arts and culture orgnizaitons to strengthen the community's access to cultural programming. 

Community Investments and Engagement Grants (CIEG)​​​ ​​

Strengthen the community with core operating support to arts and cultural organizations of all sizes that have a primary mission to create, produce, or provide arts and cultural programming to enhance the quality of lives for Phoenix residents.*

Project Support Grants

Encourage the community to participate in a variety of arts and cultural programming in Phoenix by supporting projects, including culturally based and ethnic-specific festivals, arts learning and youth engagement activities, and supporting and celebrating individual artists.​​

​Applications open: February 14, 2020

Deadline to apply: April 1, 2020​, at 11:59 p.m. 

*The Rental Support Program is now housed under the CIEG program. If you are eligible to receive Phoenix Stages support, you'll apply to the CIEG application of your organization's budget size. Contact sarah.leon@phoenix.gov if you have any questions. ​


 

Instructions to register as a City of Phoenix Vendor. Here's a video ​on the registration process. 

 Closed Grant Opportunities

​Community Arts Grants Program

Community Investments and Engagement GrantProject Support Grant

 

NEA Funded Grants Program

Neighborhood Arts Grant Job Preservation Grant

 

Coronavirus Relief Grants

Organization Support Individual Artist Support

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The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture will provide one-time emergency relief grants up to arts and cultural nonprofits. Organizations that completed a FY21 community arts grant application and are recommended for support would be immediately eligible to apply for emergency relief funding and receive a simple, supplemental application to complete. Nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that did not apply for a FY21 community arts grant can be considered for emergency relief funding on a case-by-case basis. The application period closed on Friday, June 5, 2020.

​View the Guidelines

Project Grants

Who can apply:
  • Arts or cultural organizations with or without non-profit status, based in the City of Phoenix
  • Those not applying for an A+CCESS I or II​​​ grant​
Youth Arts Engagement 
Who can apply:
  • Youth-Led (under 19 yrs old) arts and culture groups, councils, or clubs
  • Based in the City of Phoenix
Artist Exposure
 ​Who can apply:
  • Non-profit organizations
  • Based in the City of Phoenix
Neighbo​rhood Arts
​​Who can apply:
  • A least one Neighborhood Organization Partner and one Arts Partner

Community Investment and Engagement Grants (CIEG)


 

CIEG  I
​​Who can apply:
  • Non-profit arts or cultural organizations 
  • Operating budget of at least $2,500,000
CIEG II
Who can apply:
  • Non-profit arts or cultural organizations 
  • Operating budget between $250,000 and $2,499,999
CIEG III
Who can apply:
  • Non-profit arts or cultural organizations 
  • Operating budget between $25,000 and $249,999​​​