Grantee Database
QCC-THE CENTER FOR LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER ART & CULTURE
Grant Year
2017-18
Grant Program
Artists in Communities
Award Amount
$17,100.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Queer Cultural Center (QCC) and Lead Artist Celeste Chan, a queer woman of color, will conduct the QTPOC (Queer & Trans People of Color) FREE School, a nine-month multi-disciplinary workshop for LGBTQ people of color. Our aim is to build community, foster artistry, and promote the history and visibility of QTPOC. Awarded funds will pay for lead artist, project staff time, guest artists, artistic supplies, and venues.
Organization Summary
Since 1998, QCC has curated and produced 26 month-long National Queer Arts Festivals that have featured over 2500 LGBTQ2S+ artists in 1150+ different arts events. QCC’s arts services comprise artistic program planning, fiscal sponsorship, free/low-cost grant-proposal and report writing, marketing strategies, capacity-building workshops, and free/low-cost strategic/development planning services to emerging queer and trans arts organizations with a focus on organizations led by BIPOC, trans and gender non-conforming people, and lesbians, who are all marginalized in LGBTQ2S+ arts funding. To date, our arts services program has enabled over 46+ Bay Area LGBTQ2S+ arts organizations to raise over $8,600,000. QCC’s arts services support the next generation of emerging Queer and Trans artists to acquire the skills to develop, finance, and stage work addressing LGBTQ2S+ Civil rights and social justice issues.
Organization
Queer Cultural Center
Address
934 Brannan St
San Francisco
94103-4906
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 295-2474
Congressional District
California's 12th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
