Grant Opportunities
Arts Build Communities
Locally administered grants for arts projects focusing on community priorities.
Arts Education Community Impact
Support for high-impact arts education initiatives that build sustainable, community-driven systems to address opportunities and gaps in arts education.
Arts Education Project Support
Support for projects providing high-quality, hands-on arts education experiences that help stimulate learning, prosperity, health, and well-being for Tennesseans.
Arts for All
Support for arts projects that focus on increasing participation in the arts for all Tennesseans.
Arts Project Support
Support for arts projects and activities across all disciplines that focus on community vitality and engagement in urban counties.
Creative Placemaking
Funding to help build stronger communities through the arts for positive economic and community outcomes.
Individual Artist Fellowship
Recognition and acknowledgement of outstanding professional Tennessee artists who, through their work add to the cultural vitality of the state.
Major Cultural Institutions
Support to well-established arts organizations headquartered & chartered in Tennessee, with a history of significant year-round arts programming.
Partnership Support
Support for qualified arts organizations headquartered & chartered in Tennessee.
Rural Arts Facilities Fund
Funding for rural communities to help build, renovate, or expand arts and cultural facilities resulting in positive economic and community outcomes.
Rural Arts Project Support
Support for arts projects and activities across all disciplines that focus on community vitality and engagement in rural counties.
Small Rural Partnership Support
Support for qualified arts organizations chartered in one of Tennessee's Rural Counties.
Small Urban Partnership Support
Support for qualified arts organizations chartered in one of Tennessee's Urban Counties.
Special Opportunities – Arts Forward
Support for arts organizations and local governments to strengthen operations, expand community engagement in the arts, and commemorate America 250 through special projects. Support for individuals and orgs attending the 2026 South & Appalachian Creative Placemaking Summit OR the 2026 Nashville ARTISTS THR!VE Summit.
Student Ticket Subsidy
Reimbursement funding for artist fees, tickets, and transportation for Tennessee K-12 public schools for arts field trips and in-school arts projects.
Targeted Arts Development Initiative
Support for arts projects in underserved, rural communities with special focus on Distressed counties and At-Risk counties.
Tennessee Arts & Rural Health Initiative
Support for arts programs that increase health and wellness outcomes involving patients, their families, and staff in rural TN hospitals
Tennessee Nonprofit Arts & Culture Recovery Fund – Round 2
Round 2 of federal support to address documented pandemic-related economic harm to TN arts nonprofits that have a track record of federal grants administration in the TN Arts Commission online grants system. This is the second and final opportunity to apply for this federal pandemic relief funding.
Protected: Tennessee Nonprofit Arts & Culture Recovery Fund Grant
Federal support to address documented pandemic-related economic harm to TN arts nonprofits that have a track record of federal grants administration in the TN Arts Commission online grants system.
