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 Fiscal Year 2021 funding cycle will be posted shortly.
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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.
Submission deadline for Fiscal Year 2021 will be posted soon, along with application details. Please check back.
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
|
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.
Submission deadline for Fiscal Year 2021 will be posted soon, along with application details. Please check back.
Organizations chosen for funding for 2019 include...
Organization
|
Amount
|
| Griot's Storytelling Institute |
$2,152
|
2021 Artist Access Grants Program
The Artist Access Grants provide professional development support for individual artists.
Submission deadline for Fiscal Year 2021 will be posted soon, along with application details. Please check back.
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
|
