Thriving Cultures Grants Descriptions
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA | $50,000
To support hands-on cultural arts immersion training for Latino teens built on role modeling and mentorship.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York, NY | $200,000 (24 months)
For work with artists and community partners through implementing Arts East River Waterfront, a suite of programs designed to engage artists and residents in activating and encouraging community use of new public spaces focusing on Piers 42 and 35.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
MAPP International Productions, Inc.
New York, NY | $120,000
To support the organization’s leadership transition and staff restructuring and to fund two projects, Lars Jan's 'Holoscenes' and Ralph Lemon's 'Scaffold Room.' Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Community Innovators Lab
Cambridge, MA | $200,000 (24 months)
To support a two-year pilot program to explore how aesthetic practice and urban planning disciplines can collaborate to more effectively address the complexities of urban environments.
Category: Community Engaged Design
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc.
North Adams, MA | $30,000
To test how MassMoCA's financial training and resources can support a cluster of artist-run enterprises to anchor a major development project tied to the organization.
Category: Artists & Economic Development
Mattress Factory
Pittsburgh, PA | $70,000 (24 months)
To support The Factory 14s program, providing teens with the opportunity and resources to work with professional artists to create individual and group art installations that support the development of conceptual thinking and life skills.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
McColl Center for Art + Innovation
Charlotte, NC | $50,000
To develop and implement evaluation instruments for McColl's Environmental Artists in Residence program, provide relevant metrics to the environmental art field and support the Center's goal of a sustainable, replicable program model.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
Brooklyn, NY | $45,000
To support the Soul of Brooklyn, an initiative to connect local business owners with multidisciplinary artists and arts organizations, and curate a sustainable events series that supports local economies and increases access to the arts in Brooklyn.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
National Association of Latino Arts & Culture
San Antonio, TX | $450,000 (36 months)
To support grantmaking to Latino artists and arts organizations, as well as its leadership development programs and national convention.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Neighborhood Story Project
New Orleans, LA | $120,000 (36 months)
To create an equitable economic model for the publishing of ethnographic stories of art, music, ritual, and activism in New Orleans. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Strong Local Economies Program.
Category: Artists & Economic Development