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.

Upcoming Opportunities

Community Arts Grants

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 provides a variety of funding opportunities that enable artists, arts and culture organizations, schools, and neighborhood groups to carry out high quality public arts programming for all residents.

Our annual Community Arts Grants program, which is an allocation from the city’s general fund, strengthens the community’s access to arts and culture programming. We provide support in this program in two distinct ways:

The General Support program provides 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.

The Project Support program supports guest artist fees/expenses, production fees, and marketing expenses for in-person, socially-distanced, and/or virtual projects that engage Phoenix residents, including but not limited to, arts workshops, pop-up performances, and collaborations with artists.

Key Dates

February 16: Guidelines and application preview are published on our grants page
February 23: Applications open via MARGO, the grants online portal
February 24, March 2, March 23: Grant webinars (English and Spanish; Register here)
February 25 - March 29: Virtual one-on-one application consultations with staff
April 4 at 5:00 p.m.: Deadline to apply (Extended from March 30)
April 5 - 12: Staff review for eligibility
April 13 - May 13: Individual review of applications
May 16 - May 26: Virtual review panels
June 14 at 4:00 p.m.: Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission vote on allocations
July 1: Phoenix City Council approval of FY23-23 budget

FY23 Community Arts Grants Virtual Panels Schedule

Project Support – Arts Instruction	Monday, May 16 - 9:15am-12:00pm
Project Support – Exhibitions/Performances	Tuesday, May 17 - 9:15am-12:00pm
Spanish Ad-Hoc – Proyectos y Apoyo General	Tuesday, May 17 - 9:15am-12:00pm
Project Support – Festivals	Thursday, May 19 - 9:15am-12:00pm
General Support – Level IV (A)	Friday, May 20 - 9:15am-12:00pm
General Support – Level IV (B)	Friday, May 20 - 1:15pm-4:00pm
General Support – Level III (A)	Monday, May 23 - 9:15am-12:00pm
General Support – Level III (B)	Tuesday, May 24 - 9:15am-12:00pm
General Support – Level II (A)	Wednesday, May 25 - 9:15am-12:00pm
General Support – Level II (B)	Thursday, May 26 - 9:15am-12:00pm
General Support – Level I	Friday, May 27 - 9:15am-12:30pm

‭(Hidden)‬ Grant Program Updates

Nonprofit Arts and Culture Stabilization Grants

As part of the ARPA funding, Nonprofit Arts and Culture Stabilization Grants will help Phoenix’s arts and culture organizations of all sizes manage their operations, personnel, and programming as they welcome back audiences, guests, and patrons to their services to demonstrate intent, commitment, and strategies to sustain well beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nonprofit Arts and Culture Stabilization Grants will provide one-time emergency recovery grants to Phoenix-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations.

Organizations that applied for and were recommended a FY22 Community Arts Grant from the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture are immediately eligible to apply for relief funding and will receive a simple, supplemental application to complete. Nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that did not apply or were not recommended for a FY22 Community Arts Grant may be considered for recovery funding on a case-by-case basis. The deadline to apply was Friday, July 30, 2021, at 11:59 p.m.

Nonprofit Arts and Culture Stabilization Grants Guidelines

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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.

Grant Programs & Applicant Resources

General Support Program Project Support Program Student Worker Program Common Applicant Questions Grant Orientation WorkshopsBecome a Review Panelist

Grantee Resources

MARGO Grants Portal Manage Your Grant Award Grants ResourcesDirectory of Phoenix Arts and Culture Organizations

Grants Program Contacts

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

Schedule an appointment:

calendly.com/sarah-leon-moreno/grants

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

Schedule an appointment:

calendly.com/anel-arriola

‭(Hidden)‬ 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 Program

The annual Community Arts Grants Program invests in nonprofit arts and culture organizations 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.

‭(Hidden)‬ Grantees in Action

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‭(Hidden)‬ Organizational Support

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.

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