The Greater Augusta Arts Council is pleased to announce that applications for Recovery Grants for Arts Non-Profits are now available and being accepted for Richmond County, Columbia County and Aiken County at www.augustaarts.com/recovery-grant-to-arts-nonprofits.  A separate grant will become available for Project Grants to Individual Artists on April 1^st.  The Arts Council was recently awarded National Endowment for the Arts funds from the American Rescue Plan to support the nonprofit arts sector in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, with an additional effort to support projects in rural counties of the CSRA. These funds will help restore our local community’s cultural infrastructure, benefitting arts workers, artists, and audiences within the CSRA..

For Recovery Grant to Art Nonprofits, the maximum award will vary depending on the number of eligible applicants. We do not anticipate grant allocations larger than $15,000 per organization. The intent is to support organizations’ operating expenses.  Applications became available online on March 1, 2022. The final deadline to submit an application is April 20, 2022 at 3:00 pm. Grant awardees will be announced on June 1, 2022. 

For Project Grants to Individual Artists, the maximum award will be $3,000, and the grants are open to Individual Artists of a variety of disciplines in the CSRA. The focus is to support publicly shared arts projects in the following GA/SC Counties: Richmond, Columbia, Burke, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes, Aiken, Edgefield and McCormick. Applications for the project grants will be available on April 1, 2022. The final deadline to submit is May 20, 2022 at 3:00 pm. Announcement of artists project awards will be on June 20, 2022. 

Additional deadlines and resources for both grants are available online at www.augustaarts.com/our-grants.

The NEA’s significant investment in local arts agencies, including The Greater Augusta Arts Council, is a key element in helping the arts and culture sector recover and reopen, while ensuring that that American Rescue Plan funding is distributed equitably. The Greater Augusta Arts Council has hired Denise Tucker as the project administrator to ensure compliance with Federal Guidelines and ensure a deep reach into all the counties listed in the grant. Grant applications will be reviewed by impartial Review Panels.  

For more information about the grants contact Denise Tucker or Pax Bobrow at 706-826-4702 or email [email protected].