Grant Opportunities
Arts Access
Support for arts projects that focus on increasing access to underserved and underrepresented people.
Arts Access Mini-Grant
Support for new applicants for arts projects which focus on increasing access to underserved and underrepresented people.
Arts Build Communities
Locally administered grants for arts projects focusing on community priorities.
Arts Education Community Learning
Support for projects that demonstrate creative and innovative arts learning programming in community settings.
Arts Education Mini-Grant
Funding for arts integration projects to improve instruction and increase student outcomes through arts integration.
Arts Education Teacher Training
Support for providing intensive professional development in arts education.
Arts Pathways for Youth Success (Formerly Funds for At-Risk Youth/FAY)
Support for arts learning programs preparing underserved and underrepresented youth for success.
Arts Project Support
Support for arts projects and activities across all disciplines that focus on community vitality and engagement in urban counties.
Arts360
Support for whole-school arts integration programs to improve instruction and increase student outcomes through arts integration.
Creative Aging Tennessee II
One-time non-matching funds for nonprofit arts, senior service or community organizations, and governmental entities to support sequential arts learning for seniors aged 60+ with the aim of reducing social isolation and loneliness and increasing creativity and artistic techniques. All projects must be implemented by teaching artists on the new TN Creative Aging Teaching Roster.
Creative Placemaking
Funding to help build stronger communities through the arts for positive economic and community outcomes.
Creative Placemaking: 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.
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 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 – COVID-19 Arts Resilience Grant
Support for nonprofit organizations and local governments to support creative responses to COVID-19 through the arts.
Special Opportunities: Arts & Economic Prosperity 6
Non-matching funds to support participation in the study of the economic impact of the nonprofit arts and culture industry.
Student Ticket Subsidy
Support for artist fees, tickets, and transportation for Tennessee public schools carrying out arts field trips and in-school artist residencies.
Targeted Arts Development Initiative
Support for arts projects in underserved, rural communities with special focus on Distressed counties and At-Risk counties.
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.
