Community Cultural Arts Grants Criteria and Overview

Overview

The Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission's Community Cultural Arts Grant Program is designed to build cultural equity in the arts by providing support for arts-based projects that reflect the changing communities through innovative, culturally rooted, and/or participatory projects with the goal of bringing the community together to celebrate cultural and ethnic diversity.

Key Objectives

• Enhance understanding of and respect for diverse cultural traditions, heritages, and forms of expression
• Nurture, celebrate, and support authentic traditional cultural presentations and creative modern expression of culture from/by/of populations not typically included in the majority of arts presentation
• Increase access to and inclusivity in experiences of culturally rooted arts and creative opportunities for communities with less representation
• Connect individuals from diverse cultures, ages, and economic means to strengthen communities through the arts
• Invest in communities with artists or organizations centered on building capacity for economic growth within historically underinvested communities
• Activate innovation, non-traditional presentation, and/or participatory experiences reflecting changing communities

Eligibility

• Open to 501(c)3 non-profit organizations
• Mission must represent, promote and develop arts programming derived from culturally and ethnically specific communities

Deadlines

• August 14, 2026
• November 6, 2026
• February 5, 2027