With support from the CAC, QCC will promote the artistic and economic development of the SF Bay Area’s LGBTQ2S+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit) arts community by: 1) publishing 12 monthly newsletters; 2) providing fiscal sponsorship and grant writing services to 12 emerging LGBTQ2S+ arts groups and individual artists; 3) and conducting 8-12 capacity-building workshops. Additionally, funding will support an active assessment of the current Fiscally Sponsored Project program in order to increase its effectiveness, capacity, and reach, with a focus on extending QCC’s ability to support QTBIPOC (queer and transgender black, indigenous, and people of color) artists and arts organizations throughout California.
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.

