Thriving Cultures Grants Descriptions
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI | $80,000
To support the provision of access to high quality art instruction, exhibition experiences and mentoring support to talented but underserved teens.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Self Help Graphics & Arts, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA | $25,000
To support programming and operations between as the organization celebrates its 40th Anniversary and implements its current strategic plan.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Skid Row Housing Trust
Los Angeles, CA | $50,000
To support Skid Row 2050 to engage vulnerable and often excluded residents to create a community-driven neighborhood plan that prioritizes people and place-making.
Category: Community Engaged Design
Springboard for the Arts
Saint Paul, MN | $750,000 (36 months)
To expand existing pilot artist-led community development projects in Minnesota to create project sustainability, and tools and resources to inspire other communities to value and work with their own artists.
Category: Artists & Economic Development
STREB Inc.
Brooklyn, NY | $75,000
Support for STREB Lab For Action Mechanics (SLAM), an open-access venue that models a new kind of artist-driven community organization.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Studio Museum in Harlem
New York, NY | $50,000
Continued support for Expanding the Walls : Making Connections between Photography, History and Community, an eight-month residency for New York City teens.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Sundance Institute
Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 (24 months)
Support for the Native American and Indigenous Program to assist Native film artists, and to provide community programming for Native audiences.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
The Loft Literary Center
Minneapolis, MN | $225,000 (36 months)
To support spoken word artists of color through self-designed, community-based immersion fellowships, and performance opportunities.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
The Theater Offensive
Boston, MA | $75,000
Support for Boston neighborhood programming, which creates work about diverse LGBT experiences, and empowers neighbors to collectively build community equity, health and safety.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA | $250,000 (24 months)
To document growth of arts-based creative clusters in two to four cities through construction of a social-justice based index of social wellbeing and new approaches for measuring social displacement and neighborhood change.
Category: Artists & Economic Development