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 Mini-Grant
Support for small-scale projects providing high-quality, hands-on arts education experiences that help stimulate learning, prosperity, health, and well-being for Tennesseans.
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 Aging Tennessee IV
Provides one-time non-matching funds for senior centers with a 501c3 nonprofit status and governmental entities to support sequential arts learning for seniors aged 60+ in rural communities and urban counties with “art deserts” to offer arts programming for older adults living with social isolation, reduced access to trained artists, and in geographically challenged areas.
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 nonprofit organizations and local governments to strengthen operations and expand community engagement in the arts; or for organizations and individuals to attend the 2026 Grantmakers in the Arts conference.
Student Ticket Subsidy
Reimbursement funding for Tennessee K–12 public schools to cover artist fees, tickets, and transportation 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
