DEPARTMENT: Department for Culture and Creative Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Felix N. Padron
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
FY 2015 stART Place Grant Awards
SUMMARY:
This ordinance allocates $32,000.00 in Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) funds and authorizing contracts with Anna de Luna, Jim Mendiola, Elijiah Rios, Universal Style School, and Fabiola Ochoa Torralba for operating expenses.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
For over twenty five years, the Department for Culture and Creative Development (DCCD) has managed and implemented the City's arts funding process. The goal of the process is to invest in arts and cultural programs that deliver excellence, innovation and engage audiences in the unique experience of San Antonio. On May 8, 2014 City Council authorized Ordinance No. 2014-05-08-0323, approving and adopting revisions to the Arts Funding Guidelines to be effective for the Fiscal Year 2015 funding cycle.
The revised Arts Funding Guidelines designed five distinctive programs that support a wide range of arts and cultural organizations, individual artists, artist collectives and neighborhood groups to collectively animate the economic vitality of the arts for our diverse community. A new program, stART Place was created as part of this effort. All programs will adhere to a competitive process that established by an application, reviewed and scored by an independent panel of regional and local art experts, as well as staff and Cultural Arts Board (CAB) members.
The stART Place program provides one year grants to arts organizations, neighborhood associations, and local artists/artists collectives to support creative projects that provide meaningful community enrichment and transformation. The goal of stART Place is to create vibrant and energetic neighborhoods infused with culture and to showcase San Antonio as a center for creative activity.
In December 2014 staff announced the stART Place applic...
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