Application deadline: 5 p.m. Pacific / 6 p.m. Mountain on February 21, 2025.
Who can apply? Individual artists in all disciplines, or arts and culture groups and organizations.
Objectives:
Fund individual or group projects that provide opportunities for community engagement with arts and culture.
Respond to unique local issues.
Support the artistic development of artists or the programming development of arts and culture organizations.
Involve more artists in local arts projects and arts decision making.
Raise awareness of artists as belonging to the Basin and being interpreters of Basin culture.
Funding is available for: Any local artistic or cultural project benefiting Basin artists and communities. Local arts councils make recommendations to CKCA about which projects to support based on the strength and quality of the applications.
Application deadline: 5 p.m. Pacific / 6 p.m. Mountain on March 7, 2025.
Who can apply? Registered non-profit arts and culture organizations and venues.
Objectives:
Support the development and preservation of arts and culture venues, and support the capital needs of arts and culture organizations.
Funding is available for: The capital needs of arts and culture organizations and venues, including purchasing items and undertaking projects like: equipment; computers; software; instruments; risers; presentation cabinets or fixtures; renovating, initiating or building facilities; acoustical improvements.
Application deadline: 5 p.m. Pacific / 6 p.m. Mountain on March 7, 2025.
Who can apply? Arts and culture groups or organizations.
Objectives:
Help groups provide quality mentoring opportunities to artists with an advanced level of training in their field. Participants in mentoring and master class programs should have specialized training in the skill being taught and are committed to devoting more time to the skill when financially possible. Specialized training is not necessarily obtained within an academic institution, and we recognize the transmission of artistic practices from knowledge keepers with lived experience.
Funding is available for: Projects that provide artistic or cultural mentoring or master classes to Basin artists, provided by instructors or mentors who are recognized professionals in their fields.
Application deadline: 5 p.m. Pacific / 6 p.m. Mountain on March 7, 2025.
Who can apply? Individual artists or artist groups and collectives.
Objectives:
Create large-scale arts and culture projects that facilitate new opportunities for Basin residents to engage in creative processes or the enjoyment of art.
Create large-scale, artist-led arts and culture projects, in which artists demonstrate leadership throughout the project’s artistic activities, audience engagement and project management processes.
Funding is available for: Projects to create artistic works, bodies of work, arts and culture performances, events or projects on a major scale.
Application deadline: 5 p.m. Pacific / 6 p.m. Mountain on March 7, 2025.
Who can apply? Registered non-profit arts and culture organizations.
Funding is available for:
Projects that support non-profit organizations with multi-component arts and culture projects that support audience development, arts community development or increased capacity within the presenting organization. Activities may include:
Presenting the work of a Basin artist or artists to the community. Grants support the coordination, programming and promotion of juried or curated exhibitions or performances. Projects may include a touring component, workshops or artist talks.
The creation of new works, curatorial projects or collaborative arts and culture projects.
Note: If you’re interested in undertaking organizational development projects and workshops that will improve arts and culture organizations’ structure, evolution and capacity to serve communities, look into Columbia Basin Trust’s Non-profit Advisors Program.
Watch the following video to learn more about this grant.
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