Description: Provides project support for individual artists to create visual, performance, or literary works of art aimed at helping their communities heal from the impact of COVID-19.
Eligibility: Any professional artist or teaching artist who is eighteen years or older, a U.S. citizen, a legal resident of West Virginia, and has submitted all final reports related to previous grants received.
Funding Level: Up to $7500
ARP Individual Artist Project Support
ARP Individual Artist Final Report
Description: Provides up to six months of operating expenses (as defined by the National Endowment for the Arts) to organizations that have suffered revenue losses due to coronavirus (COVID-19) related closings and cancellations. Funding may be used for rent, mortgage, salaries or wages, and utility bills
Eligibility:Any 501(c)(3) WV not-for-profit organization. Preference will be given to organizations that do not received operating support through the Arts Partners grant program. (Arts Partners should see additional information under “Who May Apply” in the application.)
Funding Level: Up to six months of operating support
ARP Operating Support for Arts Organizations Grant Application
ARP Operating Support Final Report
Description: Provides support for curriculum-based, hands-on projects that involve K-12 students and teachers in the arts during daily instruction or outside of regular school hours.
Eligibility:West Virginia schools and nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations in good standing with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Funding Level: Up to 50 percent of eligible costs
FY22 AIE School-Based and Out-of-School-Time Projects guidelines and application
Description: Provides support to present performing, literary, and visual artists to students in grades K-12.
Eligibility: West Virginia schools, nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations, both touring and presenting, as well individual artists and artist collectives in good standing with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Funding Level: Up to 50 percent of eligible costs
FY22 AIE Arts Exposure Projects guidelines and application
Arts in Education Final Report
Arts in Education Touring Final Report Final Report
Description: Provides support for schools, nonprofit community arts organizations and other nonprofit sponsors that do not present a season of events for the presentation of West Virginia artists in arts education projects.
Eligibility: West Virginia schools and nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations in good standing with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Funding Level: Up to 100 percent of eligible costs, not to exceed $1,000
FY22 Mini-Grant Application
Mini Grant Final Report
Description: Provides general operating support for long-standing, stable arts organizations to further the general purpose or work of an organization rather than for a specific purpose or project.
Eligibility: Qualifying organizations with annual operating budgets of at least $100,000
Funding Level: From $10,000 to $100,000
Arts Partners Guidelines and Pre-Application
FY23 Arts Partners Application
FY23 Arts Partners Abbreviated Application
Arts Partners Final Report
Description: A special designation for communities that have realized the benefits of cooperation among arts and humanities groups, business leaders and jurisdictional agencies.
Eligibility: West Virginia communities that demonstrate collaborations between arts, humanities and heritage tourism groups, business leaders and governing bodies.
Certified Arts Community guidelines and application
Description: provides support for projects that present artists in performances, workshops, and other projects with a specific arts focus.
Eligibility:Any individual, 501(c)3 organization, municipal or county government agency who wishes to provide arts experiences in the community. Individuals must be at least 18 years of age and a legal resident of West Virginia for at least one year.
Funding Level: Up to 100% of eligible costs, not to exceed $1,000
FY22 Community Arts Mini Grant Application
Mini Grant Final Report
Description: : Provides support for projects in all disciplines that offer arts programming to the public. Sub-categories include presenting artists, performing arts, visual arts, media arts, and folk/traditional arts..
Eligibility:West Virginia schools and nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations in good standing with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Funding Level: Up to 50 percent of eligible costs
FY23 CAPS Guidelines and Application
CAPS Individual Project Final Report
Description: : Provides support for long-range planning, staffing support and community cultural assessments in West Virginia communities.
Eligibility:West Virginia schools and nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations in good standing with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Funding Level: Up to 50 percent of eligible costs
FY23 CAPS Organizational Development Guidelines and Application
CAPS Organizational Development Final Report
Final Report Form - CARES Project Support
Final Report Form - CARES Operating Support for Arts Organizations
Description: Provides support for creative aging projects that employ a West Virginia teaching artist for programming to teach a new skill in the arts to a consistent group of adults age 55+ and has a culminating public event at the conclusion of the project.
Eligibility: West Virginia nonprofit 501(c)(3) arts organizations, local governments, and individual artists.
Funding Level: Up to $5,000
FY22 CALL Grant Application and Instructions
CALL Final Report Form
Description: Provides support for the acquisition, construction and renovation of arts venues, accessibility improvements and capital purchases of durable equipment.
Eligibility: West Virginia schools and nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations in good standing with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Funding Level: Up to 50 percent of eligible costs for requests of between $2,500 and $500,000
Letter of Intent Requirements
FY23 CFCR Guidelines and application
Final Report Form
Description: Provides emergency support for the acquisition, construction and renovation of arts venues, accessibility improvements and capital purchases of durable equipment.
Eligibility: West Virginia schools and nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations in good standing with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Funding Level: Up to 50 percent of eligible costs for requests of between $2,000 and $10,000
Fast Track ADA and Emergency Grant Guidelines and Application
Final Report Form
Description: Provides support for individual artists to improve their skills through skills-building activities, structured courses, workshops, trainings, or internship programs; or create folk art projects, including acquisition of specialized equipment or contracted services to complete a project.
Eligibility: Any artist, artisan, or craftsperson who is 18 years old, a U.S. Citizen, a legal resident of West Virginia, and has submitted all final reports for previous WVCA/WVDACH arts grants
Funding level: Up to $5,000
Folk Art Project Support for Artists Application and Guidelines
Folk Art Individual Artists Final Report Form
Description: Provides project support to organizations providing workshops and training to West Virginians in folk arts.
Eligibility: West Virginia 501(c)(3) organizations, local governments, and schools
Funding Level: Up to $5,000
Folk Art Organizations Providing Folk Art Opportunities
Folk Art Organizations Final Report Form
Description: Provides support for individual artists to grow their online and in-person audiences through website development, advertisement, and marketing services or consulting.
Eligibility: Any professional artist or teaching artist who is 18 years old, a U.S. Citizen, a legal resident of West Virginia, and has submitted all final reports for previous WVCA/WVDACH arts grants
Funding level:Up to $7,500
Marketing Support for Individual Artists Application and Guidelines
Marketing Support for Individual Artists Final Report
Description: Provides support for arts organizations to grow their online and in-person audiences through website development, advertisement, marketing services or consulting, or contracted or part-time marketing positions within the organization (except those funded under the ARP Operating Support for Arts Organizations grant).
Eligibility:Any 501(c)(3) West Virginia not-for-profit organization with an arts-related mission
Funding Level:Up to $7,500
Marketing Support for Arts Organizations Application and Guidelines
Marketing Support for Arts Organizations Final Report
Description: Provides support for professional and emerging artists to expand or improve their work or share their expertise.
Eligibility: At least 18 years of age and a legal resident of West Virginia for at least one year.
Funding level: Up to 75 percent of eligible costs for the first year, not to exceed $2,500; Up to 50 percent of eligible costs for subsequent years, not to exceed $2,500
FY2022 Professional Development for Artists guidelines and application
Professional Development for Individual Artist Final Report
Description: Provides support for art organizations that meet the needs of underserved artists by offering programs that help them expand or improve their work.
Eligibility: West Virginia nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations in good standing with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Funding Level: Up to 50 percent of eligible costs, not to exceed $5,000
FY2022 Professional Development for Artists -Organization guidelines and application
Professional Development for Arts Organizations Final Report
Description: To provide up to $5,000 in support for public art projects in rural areas that engage local youth in the planning and/or implementation of the project.
Eligibility: Schools - 501(c)(3) WV youth or arts organizations - Local governments
Funding Level: Up to $5,000
FY2022 Rural Youth Engagement Through Public Art Application and Guidelines
FY2022 Rural Youth Engagement Through Public Art Final Report
Description: Provides travel support to artists, arts administrators and arts educators for conferences, workshops, seminars, and showcases outside of West Virginia.
Eligibility: Artists who are at least 18 years of age and a legal resident of West Virginia for at least one year and West Virginia nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations in good standing with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Funding Level: up to 75 percent of eligible costs, not to exceed $500
Training and Travel
Accessibility Definitions and Resources
ADA Transition Plan
W-9: Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification