Grantee Database
Ventura County Arts Council
Grant Year
2024-25
Grant Program
State-Local Partnership
Award Amount
$140,979.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, the Ventura County Arts Council will further advance a burgeoning partnership with our county government, a relationship that recently provided several re-granting opportunities. We will maintain our programmatic focus on DEI and on grant giving. We’ll assist smaller arts non-profits and community arts organizations and individual artists with capacity building and help them to expand their practices. In partnership with the newly created County Arts & Culture Manager, we will increase VCAC’s operating capital and programmatic reach, continuing to prioritize areas of the county that represent the lowest quartiles on the California Healthy Places Index.
Organization Summary
VCAC runs several programs and looks for opportunities to offer grants to smaller arts organizations and individual artists. We prioritize partnering with arts organizations and artists serving marginalized and underrepresented people and working in the communities where they reside. Our Arts & Youth Justice program brings arts instruction to youth at the court school in the Juvenile Justice Center. We teach fine art, poetry and podcasting. The Atrium Gallery is a public art program. We curate three floors in the Government Center in collaboration with the county Arts & Culture Manager, focusing on exhibitions that highlight artwork by people outside of the mainstream along with several juried shows open to the public that offer cash prizes. We established a county Poet Laureate and Youth Poet Laureate program.
Organization
Ventura County Arts Council
Address
646 County Square Drive
Suite #154
Ventura
93003
County
Ventura
Region
Central Coast
Website
Congressional District
California's 26th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 38
State Senate District
District 19
