Professional Development Microgrants are available for Long Beach artists who are seeking assistance with funding for professional development opportunities, such as a workshop or a conference.
Donor Name: Arts Council for Long Beach
State: California
City: Long Beach
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000
Details:
The Arts Council for Long Beach offers funding for professional development opportunities and Long Beach-based projects. Project Microgrants are available for local projects that are free, open to the public and benefit Long Beach residents.
Professional Development Grants are for individual arts professionals and individuals representing a Long Beach arts organization to participate in a workshop, seminar, class or training geared towards enhancing the professional skills of the applicant on behalf of their sponsoring organization OR for enhancing the marketing/business/professional skills of an individual artist. Applicants can apply for support to attend a workshop announced through Arts Council for Long Beach or present the Arts Council with an unaffiliated workshop/professional development opportunity as part of the grant application.
What Arts Council for Long Beach Funds
- Publicly accessible arts and cultural presentations in any art form by organizations and/or artists within the City of Long Beach
- A single event or series of events or project in any artistic discipline or cultural tradition
- Arts and cultural festivals
- Arts education programs
- Traditional folk arts presentations, hands-on demonstrations or events or traditional arts preservation programs
- Public art that will benefit the residents of Long Beach
- Work that promotes the Long Beach arts and cultural sector
- For Professional Development applications the Arts Council may fund up to half of the conference fees. For conferences taking place outside of Long Beach the Arts Council may fund up to $500.
- Equipment and tools for art making purposes (e.g., technology, costumes or tools of the trade) may be funded.
Funding Information
Applicants may request a maximum of $1,000.00.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project venue must be located in the City of Long Beach
- Project must be mostly planned out and will take place with or without the Arts Council’s funding
- Event must be open to the public
- Projects must not have happened before the date of submission
- Project must benefit the Long Beach arts and cultural sector.
Who is NOT Eligible to Apply
- Current Arts Council for Long Beach staff or members of the Board of Directors or immediate family members
- Applicants with incomplete grant contracts funded by Arts Council for Long Beach in previous years
- Applicants who have received one or more microgrant within the current fiscal year totaling $1000
- Applicants may not be recipients of a 2019–2020 Operating Grant II through the Arts Council for Long Beach.
For more information, visit ACLB.