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CultureWorks is pleased to announce the 2010 Interim Cycle Grantees
Yellow House in partnership with Theatre in Battery Park will use a grant of $4,000 for its outdoor Shakespeare productions that will take place in August in Battery Park and will engage residents of that community.
Art On Wheels will use $3,000 to provide art experiences to elderly persons whose structured group residences provide limited access to art.
New Virginia Review will use $3,000 to develop and launch a web-based literary journal of work by middle-schoolers.
“We are so pleased that we can provide financial incentives for innovation,” says Charles Piper, chair of the CultureWorks Grants Committee. “Our focus is on there being new ways of producing arts and culture and new ways for reaching audiences.”
The Committee is composed of representatives of large and small arts and culture organizations, as well as persons representing corporate, foundation, education, and other communities.
“This grant will enable us to share the vitality-producing qualities of art with persons who currently have limited access,” says Art On Wheels executive director Andrea Olson.
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The CultureWorks Grants Program consists of three funding processes: Microscopic Grants, Open Grants, and Consortium Grants.
CultureWorks Microscopic Grants
CultureWorks Microscopic Grants are determined by the CultureWorks administration on an ad hoc and spontaneous basis. Microscopic Grants ($25-$250) enable 501c3 organizations to take advantage of unexpected opportunities to strengthen their capacity. For example, CultureWorks provided Microscopic Grants to pay the registration fees for nine arts and culture organizations to attend the 2009 workshop entitled, “Surviving the Economic Perfect Storm” – a learning session that provided information and action steps to equip nonprofit organizations to be sustainable during difficult financial circumstances.
CultureWorks Grants Program
CultureWorks has developed a program to raise funds and make grants to strengthen arts and culture in the Richmond region. Eligibility and application guidelines for the CultureWorks Grants Program are expected to be in place on this site by Fall 2010.
(Note: The ArtsFund, a corporate-funded grants program that was coordinated by the Arts Council of Richmond, was discontinued in 2009.)
CultureWorks Consortium Grants
The Arts and Cultural Funding Consortium was established in 1996 with the purpose of sustaining critical general operating funds for existing programs and services provided by the founding member arts and cultural organizations, and encouraging the development of new and emerging arts and cultural organizations.
The Arts and Cultural Funding Consortium strives to maximize the collective resources of the arts and cultural community, to maintain stability and to encourage the advancement of arts and culture in the Richmond region.
The Consortium Founding Members are:
CultureWorks
Barksdale Theatre
Black History Museum and Cultural Center
Children's Museum of Richmond
Elegba Folklore Society
Edgar Allan Poe Museum
New Virginia Review
Richmond Ballet
Richmond Jazz Society
Richmond Symphony
Theatre IV
Valentine Richmond History Center
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Opera
Visual Arts Center of Richmond
The Arts and Cultural Funding Consortium receives municipal funds from the City of Richmond and the counties of Hanover and Henrico.
For more information on the CultureWorks Grants Program, please contact John Bryan, President, CultureWorks (804) 340-5284 or john@richmondcultureworks.org.