DEPARTMENT: Department for Culture and Creative Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Debbie Racca-Sittre
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
SUBJECT:
FY 2016 and FY2017 stART Place Grant Awards
SUMMARY:
An ordinance allocating $61,000.00 in Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) funds and authorizing the execution of eight contracts for FY2016 and six contracts for FY2017 subject to grant receipt and acceptance of funding from TCA.
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 starting with 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. Funding for stART comes from a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA). All programs adhere to a competitive process that established by an application, reviewed and scored by an independent panel of regional and local art experts, members of the San Antonio Arts Commission-Arts Funding Committee, and DCCD staff.
The stART Place program provides one time 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 infu...
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