Deadline: 13-Sep-21
The San Marcos Arts Commission is pleased to announce the 2022 Arts and Cultural Grants to promote or enhance the arts in San Marcos.
The Arts and Cultural Grants Program will be separated into two distinct grants, each supported by different City funds. Each event application can only receive funding from one grant or the other.
- Arts and Cultural Tourism Grant: This grant is funded by Hotel Occupancy Tax. State law sets the rules on how this money may be spent; HOT funds must be used to directly enhance and promote tourism and the hotel and convention industry in San Marcos. Ten percent of the grant request must be used for paid advertising outside of San Marcos City Limits. Grant recipients must provide paid advertising receipts in their final reports.
- Community Arts Grant: This grant, supported by City’s General Fund, is available for projects that have artistic and cultural value but may not attract overnight visitors. Examples include youth summer camps and virtual events. Diversity Funding is also available for programs that serve historically underrepresented groups or cultures in the community or that celebrate a diverse ethnic and cultural heritage of the community and beyond.
Eligible Projects
To be eligible, projects must:
- Promote the arts. This may include instrumental and vocal music, dance, drama, folk art, creative writing, architecture, design and allied fields, painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and craft arts, motion pictures, radio, television, tape and sound recording, and other arts related to the presentation, execution, and exhibition of these major art forms
- Be within the City limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) of San Marcos
- Be completed within 12 months of receipt of grant award
- Be held in-person if receiving Hotel Occupancy Tax funds
Eligibility Criteria
Only non-profit organizations and individual artists are eligible for this program. Beginning next year, the City will no longer consider requests from for-profit companies sponsored by non-profit organizations.
- Non-profit, tax-exempt organization registered with the Internal Revenue Service. Applicants’ names must appear on an IRS letter of determination.
- Individual artist projects.
- Applicants must have fulfilled all requirements of any previously funded projects, including final reports.
- Applicants may not receive funding from any other city board or commission who distributes Hotel Occupancy Tax funds.
For more information, visit http://sanmarcostx.gov/1404/Arts-Grant