Deadline: 14-Feb-21
The Sammamish Arts Commission is seeking applications for its Arts Grant Program to provide funding for organizations, individuals, and youth to deliver exemplary projects in arts education, dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literary arts, media arts, musical theater, multidisciplinary works, theater, visual arts, and all other forms of art or artwork for the citizens of Sammamish.
Organizations and individuals funded by the Arts Grant must demonstrate high quality arts programming and deliver a positive impact to the community while supporting projects that celebrate Sammamish’s creative and cultural heritage, invite mutual respect for differing beliefs and values, and enrich humanity.
This grant program provides available funding through four categories:
- Neighbourhood & Community Focus
- Projects that support art programs, events and services that promote arts, participation and build community.
- City Artist Focus
- Projects that demonstrate high artistic quality, innovation, creativity in programming and artist selection and demonstrated ability by the artist that directly serve the community.
- Educational Focus
- Projects that support art programs, events and services that include direct community educational projects.
- Cultural Focus
- Projects that support art programs, events and services that include Sammamish’s diverse culture and values, including capacity to support the City’s underserved communities.
Grant Amount
- Sammamish Arts Commission has a total allocation of $10,000 for grant funding to be dispersed to qualified applicants in all categories.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for an Arts grant, the applicant must:
- Neighbourhood & Community Focus:
- Program, event or service must serve Sammamish residents and take place within City limits. Perform services within a twelve-month period. Organizations, individuals or youth can apply.
- City Artist Focus:
- Artist’s project, program and service must serve Sammamish residents Perform services within a twelve-month period. Individuals or youth can apply.
- Educational Focus:
- Program, event or service must serve Sammamish residents and take place within City limits. Perform services within a twelve-month period. Organizations, individuals or youth can apply.
- Cultural Focus:
- Program, event or service must serve Sammamish residents and take place within City limits. Perform services within a twelve-month period. Organizations, individuals or youth can apply.
Arts Commission Vision and Guiding principles
- Mission Statement
- Integrating art and culture to create a sense of place, civic identity and unique character.
- Artistic excellence
- They strive for artistic excellence by showcasing high caliber local, regional and national artistic programming that reflects the city’s vision.
- Accessibility
- They engage deeply and widely with all segments of city, striving to reach all members of the community and create an avenue for artists to bring their creativity to the public.
- Collaboration
- They are committed to creating alliances and partnerships within and outside Sammamish to promote artistic excellence and accessibility. They work collaboratively with various state, regional and local agencies to enhance the effectiveness of the arts commission.
- Community Design
- They focus each one’s efforts to nurture and build creative capital’ locally, including taking necessary risks, to realize the impacts of the arts in fostering a vibrant social economy.
- Diversity
- They value diversity in artistic expressions and strive to promote arts as a universal language that binds people from different backgrounds and breathes life into the communities.
For more information, visit https://www.sammamish.us/government/commissions-boards/arts-commission/grants/