Last week Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in his state of the city speech said he was going to fund three arts-related programs that would have a combined budget of $1 million. The programs are intended to do the following: 1-provide direct grants to individual artists; 2-help expand the city’s fledgling artist-in-residence program; and 3-establish an artist resource desk at City Hall, to help local artists.
To help support local artists $400,000 in direct artist grants will be available to artists living in Boston. According to The Boston Globe, the Walsh administration has yet to work out the details, but the funds will be unrestricted and likely available to individual artists.
You can read more about this in The Boston Globe’s January 20th article, City’s new trio of arts programs will share $1 million.
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These grants are not sanctioned for independent direct housing or studio space.
The grants are devised as a compliment to your existing studio space.
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