For 12 years, 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 2019, the City has awarded 29 organizations and individual artists' operational support that has totaled more than $3.3 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.
Applications for the 2020 funding cycle can be found on this page or contact Bernadette Bradshaw at (316) 303-8663 or
BBradshaw@wichita.gov.
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2020 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.
2020 Cultural Funding Application
Submission deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019, by 5:00 pm
Organizations chosen for funding for 2019 include...
Organization
|
Amount
|
American Guild of Organists
|
$566
|
Ballet Wichita
|
$14,668
|
Chamber Music at the Barn
|
$18,499
|
Fisch Bowl, Inc.
|
$1,702
|
Friends of Great Plains Nature Center
|
$6,646
|
Griot's Storytelling Institute
|
$3,770
|
Music Theatre for Young People
|
$8,373
|
Opera Kansas
|
$4,466
|
Regina Klenjoski Dance Company
|
$4,880
|
Tallgrass Film Association
|
$35,758
|
Wichita Chamber Chorale
|
$3,573
|
Arts Partners, Inc.
|
$22,760
|
A.R.I.S.E. Ensemble
|
$1,284
|
The Kansas African American Museum
|
$16,439
|
Wichita Public Library Foundation
|
$28,546
|
Exploration Place
|
$65,369
|
Music Theatre of Wichita
|
$69,564
|
Ulrich Museum
|
$27,206
|
Wichita Grand Opera
|
$19,726
|
Wichita Symphony Society
|
$63,705
|
2020 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.
2020 Developing Arts Application
Submission deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019, by 5:00 pm
Organizations chosen for funding for 2019 include...
Organization
|
Amount
|
| Griot's Storytelling Institute |
$2,152
|
2020 Artist Access Grants Program
The Artist Access Grants provide professional development support for individual artists.
2020 Artist Access Grants Application
Submission deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019, by 5:00 pm
Organizations chosen for funding for 2019 include...
Individual
|
Amount
|
| Christopher Gulick |
$967
|
Angela Evans
|
$967
|
William Flynn
|
$967
|
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. Organizations which qualify as "Cultural Institutions" include the following and will be funded at the following levels:
| Organization |
Amount |
Arts Council
|
$6,779
|
| Mid-America All-Indian Center |
$189,915
|
| Wichita Art Museum |
$1,819,398
|
| Wichita Historical Museum |
$166,332
|
| Kansas Aviation Museum |
$34,159
|
| Museum of World Treasures |
$23,628
|
Total Cultural Institution Funding 2019
|
$2,240,211
|
