Grantee Database

QCC-THE CENTER FOR LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER ART & CULTURE

Grant Year

2018-19

Grant Program

Local Impact

Award Amount

$16,200.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, QCC-The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Art & Culture will support the creation, presentation, evaluation and documentation of 5 new productions/exhibitions from 5 mid-career Bay Area Queer/Trans artists of color: vocalist Valerie Troutt, photographer Mia Nakano, performance artist Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, storyteller Micia Mosely and spoken word artist Mason J. CAC funds will support project artistic, production and venue costs.

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

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