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 2021, the City has awarded 29 organizations and individual artists operational support that has totaled more than $2.8 million.
The City offers 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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Applications for 2022 Funding are online. Submission deadline for all CFC grant funding is June 4, 2021.
All applicants are strongly encouraged to meet with Division of Arts and Cultural Services staff to review application requirements and answer any questions regarding the application or process. The staff is available through May 28, 2021 to review the organization’s grant. Organizations with questions regarding eligibility should request a determination prior to submitting an application. Please email
Bernadette Bradshaw with questions or to set up a meeting.
2022 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.
2022 Cultural Funding Application
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Submission deadline is 5:00 p.m. Friday, June 4, 2021.
Organizations chosen for funding for 2021 include...
Organization
|
Amount
|
American Guild of Organists
|
$470
|
A.R.I.S.E.
|
$1933
|
Arts Partners, Inc.
|
$21,138
|
Ballet Wichita
|
$13,987
|
Chamber Music at the Barn
|
$19,066
|
Emerald City Chorus - Sweet Adelines
|
$1234
|
Exploration Place
|
$64,354
|
Fisch Bowl, Inc.
|
$1,854
|
Friends of the Great Plains Nature Center
|
$11,969
|
Mark Arts
|
$38,556
|
Music Theatre for Young People
|
$11,098
|
Music Theatre of Wichita
|
$60,314
|
Opera Kansas
|
$5,550
|
Orpheum Performing Arts Centre, LTD
|
$6,000
|
Tallgrass Film Association
|
$16,828
|
The Kansas African American Museum
|
$10,284
|
Ulrich Museum
|
$40,000
|
Wichita Chamber Chorale
|
$2,957
|
Wichita Public Library Foundation
|
$9,124
|
Wichita Symphony Society
|
$51,679 |
2022 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.
2022 Developing Arts Grant Application
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Submission deadline is 5:00 p.m. Friday, June 4, 2021.
No organizations were selected for funding for 2021
2022 Artist Access Grants Program
The Artist Access Grants provide professional development support for individual artists.
2022 Artist Access Grant Application
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Submission deadline is 5:00 p.m. Friday, June 4, 2021.
Individuals chosen for funding for 2021 include...
Individual
|
Amount
|
| Don Praseuth |
$850
|
Hazel Stabler
|
$1000
|
Brent William
|
$1000
|
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 |
| Arts Council |
$7,051
|
| Kansas Aviation Museum |
$35,530
|
| Mid-America All-Indian Museum |
$217,932
|
| Museum of World Treasures |
$24,576
|
| Wichita Art Museum |
$1,892,432
|
| Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum |
$173,009
|
Total Cultural Institution Funding 2021
|
$2,350,530 |
