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For more
information
Call Karen
Turni Bazile at 278-4280 or 874-0980
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 29, 2008
CONTACT:
Suzanne
Parsons Stymiest @ 985-898-5243
ARTS GRANTS AVAILABLE TO ARTISTS
AND ORGANIZATIONS
IN ST. BERNARD AND ST. TAMMANY
PARISHES
New grant programs and assistance
to applicants offered
The new round of Decentralized Arts
Fund (DAF) Grants will soon be available to Louisiana's arts
community. Workshops to assist grant seekers in the application
process will be led by the St. Tammany Commission on Cultural
Affairs, which oversees and redistributes state grant funds through
the DAF grant program for St. Tammany and St. Bernard Parishes.
Grants are open to arts
organizations, visual artists, craftsmen, musicians, creative
writers, designers, theater and dance professionals, and
nonprofit/governmental entities whose mission is to provide arts
programming to the public. Grants available include Project
Assistance, Organizational Support, and new this year, grants for
innovative art programs within K-12 schools and for individual
artists with an innovative project for bringing the arts to his or
her community.
Application forms and guidelines will be distributed at the
workshops, and are now available to download from the St. Tammany
Parish Government website at
www.stpgov.org/arts.
Applications will be due by 4:00 p.m. Monday, June 23, 2008.
The workshops will walk applicants
through new grants programs and the application process
step-by-step. There will be opportunities to meet with staff and
network with other arts community members seeking grants. Applicants
who attend a workshop will also have the opportunity to meet
one-on-one with the Community Development Coordinator prior to the
application deadline, and anyone who seeks a grant will have the
option to submit a draft of their application for review.
Workshops will be held on the
following dates and locations: Wednesday, April 30 at 6:00 p.m. at
the Parish Council Chambers, 21490 Koop Drive, Mandeville;
Wednesday, May 7 at 10 a.m. at the
Business Center Trailer K-2, 8201 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette;
and Thursday, May 8 at 11:30 a.m. at the Slidell Art League Gallery,
1827 Front Street, (upstairs in the train depot building),
Slidell, LA. All workshops and sessions are free.
The Commission on Cultural Affairs
has adopted a new system to permanently archive required
organizational information that does not change from year to year.
Organizations that plan to apply for a grant may submit these
documents prior to the application deadline and need not attach them
to the grant application or to any future applications.
Organizations may submit the following documents by June 13, 2008:
Certificate of Incorporation from the Secretary of State’s office,
IRS letter determining nonprofit tax exemption under Section 501(c)
of the Federal Tax Code or a Non-profit letter from the Louisiana
Secretary of State’s office if the organization does not have
tax-exempt status, and Articles of Incorporation. Governmental
subdivisions (public schools, parish libraries, municipal
governments, state universities, etc.) are not required to submit
proof of nonprofit status.
The workshops will provide
information regarding grants available from the Louisiana Division
of the Arts as administered by the Commission on Cultural Affairs
(formerly known as the St. Tammany Arts Commission), St. Tammany
Parish Government. The Louisiana Division of the Arts is a division
of the Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture,
Recreation and Tourism, Office of the Lt. Governor, State of
Louisiana.
Specific
questions about the workshops may be directed to the St. Tammany
Commission on Cultural Affairs at (985) 898-5243.
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