For over a decade, the City of Wichita has granted funding to local arts organizations to recognize, preserve and celebrate Wichita's rich arts and cultural heritage - a heritage that has a tremendous impact on all residents' quality of life. For 2020, the City has awarded 39 organizations and individual artists' operational support that has totaled more than $3.2 million.
The City offered three different grant opportunities that are awarded through a competitive process:
Cultural Funding Grants,
Developing Arts Grants and
Artist Access Grants.
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2021 Cultural Funding Application
Cultural Funding Grants provide operational support for qualifying 501(c)(3) non-profit arts and cultural organizations that significantly serve Wichita citizens.
2021 Cultural Funding Application
Submission deadline is 5:00 p.m. Monday, March 9, 2020.
Organizations chosen for funding for 2020 include...
Organization
|
Amount
|
American Guild of Organists
|
$542
|
Ballet Wichita
|
$14,917
|
Chamber Music at the Barn
|
$15,433
|
Fisch Bowl, Inc.
|
$1,891
|
Friends of Great Plains Nature Center
|
$5,564
|
Griot's Storytelling Institute
|
$624
|
Music Theatre for Young People
|
$8,373
|
Opera Kansas
|
$3,647
|
Regina Klenjoski Dance Company
|
$9,496
|
Tallgrass Film Association
|
$31,760
|
Wichita Chamber Chorale
|
$3,614
|
Arts Partners, Inc.
|
$17,967
|
A.R.I.S.E. Ensemble
|
$1,740
|
The Kansas African American Museum
|
$11,108
|
Wichita Public Library Foundation
|
$18,984
|
Exploration Place
|
$60,535
|
Music Theatre of Wichita
|
$59,275
|
Ulrich Museum
|
$26,759
|
Wichita Grand Opera
|
$19,957
|
Wichita Symphony Society
|
$57,260
|
Mark Arts
|
$34,377 |
Harvester Arts
|
$4,085 |
Emerald City Chorus - Sweet Adelines
|
$1,566 |
Laughing Feet
|
$3,716 |
Orpheum Performing Arts Centre, Ltd.
|
$12,150 |
2021 Developing Arts Application
The Developing Arts Grant Program (DAG) provides technical assistance for capacity building to arts and cultural organizations with annual
operational budgets under $50,000.
2021 Developing Arts Grant Application
Submission deadline is 5:00 p.m. Monday, March 9, 2020.
Organizations chosen for funding for 2020 include...
Organization
|
Amount
|
Wichita Jazz Festival
|
$5,000
|
2021 Artist Access Grants Program
The Artist Access Grants provide professional development support for individual artists.
2021 Artist Access Grant Application
Submission deadline is 5:00 p.m. Monday, March 9, 2020.
Individuals
chosen for funding for 2020 include...
Individual
|
Amount
|
Daniel Gegen
|
$1000 |
| Christopher Gulick |
$1000
|
Alec Lang
|
$1000
|
Carter Tholl
|
$1000
|
Tina Thomas
|
$1000 |
Bruce Van Osdel
|
$700
|
Trish Van Osdel
|
$700 |
Cultural Institutions
"Cultural Institutions" are arts and cultural organizations which have operations and activities in a facility that is owned and/or operated by the City of Wichita. The organization's audited annual revenues must be in excess of $50,000 for at least two preceding years. Cultural Institutions are funded by entering into a three-year Operational Partnership Agreements. For more information about The Cultural Institution (CI) Grants Program, please refer to pages 13-14 of the City of Wichita Cultural Plan Addendum.
Organizations which qualify as "Cultural Institutions" include the following and will be funded at the following levels:
| Organization |
Amount |
| Mid-America All-Indian Center |
$206,761
|
| Wichita Art Museum |
$1,895,179
|
| Wichita Historical Museum |
$173,260
|
| Kansas Aviation Museum |
$35,582
|
| Museum of World Treasures |
$24,612
|
Total Cultural Institution Funding 2020
|
$2,335,394
|
