The Community Arts program aims to ensure vibrant work is created, celebrating new voices and providing opportunities for artists and audiences, inclusive of the Bay Area’s diverse communities and cultures, to thrive. It focuses on supporting the creation of work by Bay Area artists and enhancing access to the arts for Bay Area communities, with a particular emphasis on celebrating the region's rich diversity by funding emerging artists and small to mid-sized arts and culture organizations that engage their communities with meaning and purpose.
This year, the Community Arts program plans to award approximately $1 million in grants through a quarterly open application process to individual artists and nonprofit arts and culture organizations located in the Bay Area. The grants, available in amounts of $5,000, $10,000, and $15,000, aim to offer general operating support, regardless of the specific project proposed by grant applicants. This approach is designed to provide grantees the most flexibility in responding to the unique needs of their projects and organizations.