Wisconsin Arts Board Programs

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Use the PDF form, above, to identify yourself or someone else as a potential Wisconsin Arts Board panel advisor.

For Individuals

Artist Fellowship Awards
Artist Fellowship Awards provide unrestricted funds to recognize the significant contributions of outstanding, professionally active Wisconsin artists.
Annual deadline: September 15th *

Artist and Community Collaborations Grant
In order to encourage more collaborative projects between artists and their communities, funds are available for artists to develop special projects in collaboration with a community-based organization partner.
Annual deadline: October 15th *

FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Arts Challenge Initiative - Minority Program
ACI encourages nonprofit minority arts organizations to leverage income from private sources. This program provides state funds to minority arts organizations that meet or exceed their total eligible income generated during the previous year.
Annual Deadline: August 1 *

Creation and Presentation Grants
Creation and Presentation grants provide artistic program and operational support to established nonprofit arts organizations whose primary mission is to create or present ongoing arts programming that makes a significant local, regional, or statewide impact on the cultural life of Wisconsin, and that furthers the Arts Board’s community development and arts education goals.
Annual Deadline: February 20 *

Creative Communities Grants
The Creative Communities grants program encourages arts education and community arts development in Wisconsin. It provides support for projects that further the Arts Board’s goals in the following three areas: Arts Education; Folk and Traditional Arts; and Local Arts.
Annual Deadline: March 15 *

Cultural Facilities Assistance Program
The purpose of the Wisconsin Arts Board’s Cultural Facilities Assistance Program is to help Wisconsin’s new performing arts presenters to meet the needs of their communities. Specifically the program will help new presenters to: learn more about the field of presenting the performing arts; increase access to the resources needed to present their work effectively; strengthen organizational capacity, staff, and boards; conduct community assessments; and present one artist from beyond the local community in a performance.
Annual Deadline: mid-April

Wisconsin Regranting Program
The Wisconsin Arts Board’s Regranting Program provides funds to local arts agencies and their partner community foundations around the state. These groups then regrant the funds for arts-related projects in their own communities. Click here for a list of the Arts Board’s current Regranting Program partner organizations.

* Deadlines falling on a weekend or holiday are moved to the next business day.

Updated: August 14, 2008