Funding Opportunities

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• ARTE-accesible Grant

  Provides funding to support access to the arts for all abilities through program and services, planning and training, and artist engagement.

• Artist Fellowship Program

  Provides competitive Artistic Excellence grants as an opportunity for artists to pursue new work and achieve specific creative and career goals.

• Arts Learning - HOT Approach Implementation Grants

  Providing greater access to and professional development in the Higher Order Thinking Approach.

• Arts Learning Presentation Grants

  Encourages arts engagement, arts integration, arts exploration and discovery experiences for learners of all ages

• Arts Project Grant Program

  The Connecticut Office of the Arts will no longer be offering the Arts Project Grant Program.

• Arts Workforce Initiative Sponsorships - Now Accepting Applications

  Provides funding to support art projects organized by urban creatives.

• Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund (CAEF)

  Provides grants to arts organizations that have raised $15,000 or more in total donor contributions for two consecutive fiscal years.

• Elizabeth Mahaffey Fellowship Award - Now Accepting Applications

  Supports arts administrators in Connecticut as they pursue professional development opportunities that will advance their careers in arts administration.

• If your COA-funded project or event happens during Coronavirus time

  If you have a COA grant to support a program or event taking place during this time of increased concern, be aware that COA will allow you to postpone and reschedule, and will if necessary extend the grant project period. Be sure to contact your program manager via email to alert them to the change.

• Regional Initiative Grant Program (REGI)

  Using small arts-based projects to engage in a specific community matter, reflect on personal experience(s) and/or bring neighborhoods together.

• Supporting Arts Grant Program

  Provides unrestricted funding to help support Connecticut’s arts organizations and municipal arts departments as they pursue their mission.