Arts Access Project Grant

MAY 2025 UPDATE: We have made the difficult decision to place multiple grants on hiatus for this year. This includes the Performing Arts (theatre & dance and music), Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction), and Visual Arts Fellowships. As stewards of public funds, we want to ensure that we are maximizing the reach and impact of the funding we receive. The other Fellowships (Native Arts, Pattie Layser Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing and Journalism Fellowship) and Writing Awards (the Neltje Blanchan and the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Awards) will continue as usual through the generosity of private funds.

Our other grant categories (Arts Access Project Grant, Professional Development/Career Advancement Grant, and the Creative Aging Project Grant) will not open for applications until we know the full extent of available funding.

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This grant is available to organizations for arts project funding designed to increase access to the arts for under-served communities (individuals with a disability, older adults, veterans, economically disadvantaged individuals, rural communities, English as a second language speakers, individuals with multifaceted identities & cultural backgrounds, folk and traditional arts and artists) through comprehensive and collaborative community engagement.

2025/2026 Grant Timeline

This grant is currently on pause.

Guidelines

• Organizations (501(c)(3) non-profit or a government agency) are eligible to receive up to $1000 in this grant category.
• An organization is eligible to receive up to $1000 in this grant category. Individual artists cannot apply for this grant.
• Organizations that did not receive a Community Support Grant are eligible to receive up to two Arts Council grants in the other grant programs for different programs/events, depending on criteria for each specific grant.
• The application will open on May 16 for programs taking place July 1, 2024- June 30, 2025.
• Grants will be available until funds are expended.
• All grants in this category are reviewed and approved directly by Wyoming Arts Council staff.
• All applications must be submitted a minimum of six weeks prior to the beginning of the project in which funds are being requested (the “Proposal Start Date” entered in your application).
• No cash match is required, and In-kind contributions will be reported on the final report.

Please click below for narrative questions and evaluation criteria: Arts Access Project Grant Questions and Evaluation Criteria. Arts Access Project Grant Questions and Evaluation Criteria

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ACCESSING YOUR GRANT APPLICATION OR FINAL REPORT

To apply for a new grant, make revisions to an existing grant that has been returned to you, or access a final report, you must click on the “apply here” link below. For a new grant application or to access your final report for projects taking place from 7/1/21 to the current fiscal year:

APPLY HERE!

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