Grants

Community Arts Access Grant 2012 

The Freeport Art Museum is honored to have been awarded $3165 through the Illinois Arts Council’s Community Arts Access regranting program.  After the Museums adds a cash match to the award, the total amount available for grants will equal $3600.  These funds are designated to support artists and not-for-profit arts organizations in Stephenson, Jo Daviess, Carroll, Ogle and Lee counties.  All eligible grant proposals are reviewed by a peer panel comprised of representatives from each of the five counties. 

Community Arts Access grants are available for visual, musical, performing, literary and inter-disciplinary arts projects that provide community-based programming.  Projects should employ artists from the northwest Illinois area.  Projects or programs must make an effort to serve diverse and underserved audiences.  Applicants are encouraged to seek funding from a variety of sources.  Eligible projects are those taking place between January 1, 2012 and August 31, 2012.
                           
For assistance with completing a grant application, please contact the Freeport Art Museum and ask for Director Jennifer Kirker Priest.  Assistance is available to all who need it.

Previous recipients include One Book, One Freeport to provide free books to the community, Amboy Central Elementary for supplies to an After School Arts Program, and Galena-Jo Daviess Historical Society to hire an artist for original illustrations in a Guide Book.