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THE QUEENS ARTS FUND WILL AWARD
OVER $590,000 TO LOCAL ARTISTS AND ARTS ORGANIZATIONS, AFTER A 17% INCREASE IN
FUNDING FROM THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS OVER LAST YEAR
The Queens Council on the Arts’ Queens Arts Fund
grant program supports community arts programs and new work by individual
artists in Queens.
Deadline to apply for all three Queens Arts Fund grants is October 29, 2019. For more information, please visit https://www.
QUEENS, NY – Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) is pleased
to announce that the Queens Arts Fund (QAF) will distribute $590,260 in grants
to individual artists and nonprofit organizations – this is following a record
year where QCA supported the largest number of grantees to date. In 2019, QCA awarded $527,600
in grants to 104 individual artists and 84 organizations for the creation of
arts and cultural programming for the borough of Queens.
Applications
for 2019 QAF grants may be submitted online until Tuesday, October 29, 2019.
The
increase in available funds for local artists and arts organizations is due in
large part to additional support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
(DCLA), whose funding for QCA’s artist grant program increased by 17%
over last year’s total, and 3.5 times the amount provided in FY17. This
increase, which has allowed QCA to provide larger grants to more artists, is
thanks to continued support from the Mayor and City Council. Support for local
artists and creators is a key recommendation in the CreateNYC cultural plan.
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