Applications Due May 23 For Scottsdale's Community Arts Grant Program

Scottsdale Arts is accepting applications for its Community Arts Grant Program, which provides funding to Scottsdale and Valley nonprofit arts and cultural organizations for projects that serve the Scottsdale community. The grants are funded by the City of Scottsdale.

Applicants may submit grant requests for activities that will take place between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019. The deadline is Wednesday, May 23, 2018, at 11:59 p.m. An all-volunteer committee of arts, community and business leaders will review the applications and make recommendations for funding to the Scottsdale Arts board of trustees.

Scottsdale Arts has transitioned its grant application process online to Award Alley. An information session for grant applicants will be held on Wednesday, April 11, at 8:30 a.m. in the Scottsdale Arts conference room, 7373 E. Scottsdale Mall, 2nd Floor. To attend, RSVP by Monday, April 9, at 3 p.m., to Community Arts Grant Administrator Brittany Arnold at 480-874-4610 or BrittanyA@ScottsdaleArts.org. Additional information and guidelines are available online at www.ScottsdaleArts.org/about/community-arts-grant-program.

SCOTTSDALE ARTS
Through its dynamic partnership with the City of Scottsdale, the nonprofit Scottsdale Arts (formerly known as Scottsdale Cultural Council) creates diverse, inspired arts experiences and educational and outreach opportunities for the community, while fostering the active engagement of individuals, businesses, education and government with the arts. Since its founding in 1987, Scottsdale Arts has grown into a regionally and nationally significant, multi-disciplinary arts organization offering an exceptional variety of programs through three acclaimed operating divisions - Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) and Scottsdale Public Art - serving more than 400,000 participants annually