To apply for a grant, this page allows you to download the Criteria and Instructions as PDF files to read with Adobe's Acrobat Reader software. If you do not already have the Acrobat Reader on your computer, you can obtain a free copy from the Adobe website.

Applying for a Grant from Grand Junction, Colorado's Arts and Cultural Events/Projects/Programs Reinvestment and Recovery Program 

For information about the Commission's goals, objectives, guidelines, and criteria for grants, click on the Criteria for Award of Grants link below.  Only non-profit organizations are eligible -- not individuals, not businesses.

For information about Arts Education grants for schools, scroll down this page.

The Commission on Arts and Culture invites proposals from organizations at the beginning of each year to support local arts and cultural events, projects, and programs. Any non-profit organization or governmental/educational agency may apply.  Grants for organizations for 2010 have been decided (see list at the bottom of this page). 

For the year 2011 grant cycle, the deadline for receipt of applications will be Friday, February 11, 2011, and no applications will be accepted until after January 1, 2011.  Late applications will not be accepted.

The Commission is particularly interested in how each project or cultural event impacts jobs in the creative industry.  This is Grand Junction's own "reinvestment and recovery program" for the local non-profit arts and cultural community and local working artists of all types - performing, visual, literary, and historical/heritage.

This grant program, as with most grant programs, is a mini-stimulus program which helps provide employment, sales, or performance opportunities for working artists and those who work for cultural non-profits by supporting a broad range of community cultural events, exhibits, presentations, and projects. It is important to remember that the arts are an industry, and that the business of art, in all its many forms, is an essential economic element of our community.

Applicants may submit their application by mail or e-mail or hand deliver it to the Commission's office in the Parks office in Lincoln Park (faxes not allowed except for the Certificate of Good Standing). Please follow the instructions and read the guidelines and criteria carefully.

Submitting a grant application
To apply for a grant, click on the three links below and download all three documents.  Save and fill out the grant application form (a Word document) and follow the guidelines, instructions, and checklist carefully.

Criteria for Award of Grants   (contents: two-page Criteria, Goals, Objectives, & Conflict of Interest Statement)

Instructions for Grant Applications (contents: two-page Instructions)

Arts Commission Grant Application (contents: two-page Application)

      You may send questions through the Contact Us web page.


For K-12 Schools - Applying for a Commission Arts Education Grant
The Commission on Arts and Culture will assist local schools in providing high quality, professional, targeted arts education, and will again this year offer grant funding to help sponsor one-time VISITING ARTIST programs in any schools in Grand Junction or within School District #51 (schools outside Grand Junction are strongly encouraged to partner with one or more Grand Junction schools).

The Visiting Artist project/workshop/residency may be in any artistic discipline - visual or performing arts of all types - and must be taught by a well-qualified and professionally recognized artist with a statewide or national reputation. The hope is to bring in a major-name artist/musician/theater or dance troupe to do in depth arts education for students.

The Visiting Artist arts education grant program is a separate program from the Commission's annual grants to non-profit arts organizations. Schools can only apply for a Visiting Artist project as described in the guidelines, through either grant program. The Visiting Artist grants may not be used for any existing or on-going artist-in-residence programs at area schools.

The deadline to apply for a Visiting Artist Arts Education grant is 5pm, Friday, March 12, 2010.

To apply for a grant, click on the links below and download the two documents. Save, fill out, and submit the grant application form (a Word document ) as specified in the instructions.

Arts Education Grant Guidelines and Instructions  (contents: two-page Goals, Criteria, Instructions)

Arts Education Grant Application  (contents: one-page application form)

      You may send questions through the Contact Us web page.


Final Report for grants received
All organizations and schools receiving grants from the Commission must provide a final report after their project is completed.  Download, save (by clicking on the link below), and fill out the final report form (a Word document), and mail, e-mail, or fax it to the Arts Commission within 60 days of the completion of the arts or cultural project or event for which your organization received funding.  Failure to complete this report makes an organization ineligible for any future Arts Commission grant funding.

Final Report  (contents: one-page form)


Commission Grants Approved for Year 2010 will support the following cultural events and arts projects:

Grand Junction Downtown Partnership Art & Jazz Festival $4,000
Grand Junction Symphony Children's Concert $4,000
KAFM Community Radio "Arts & Entertainment Calendar" $4,000
Museum of Western Colorado Two Rivers Chautauqua Festival $3,000
Rocky Mountain PBS KRMJ-TV "Western Bounty" arts segments $3,000
Artspace Spring and Fall Open Studios Tours $2,000
Grand Junction Centennial Band concert music purchases $2,000
High Desert Opera New Year's Eve Gala "The Sound of Music" $2,000
Legends of the Grand Valley Sister Mary Balbino Sculpture $2,000
Mesa County Public Libraries Culture Fest $2,000
Riverside Education Center After School Art Classes $2,000
Western Colorado Writers Center Poetry in the Streets Projects * $1,900
Grand Valley Art Students League Start-up * $1,700
Aspen Dance Connection Grand Junction Dance Showcase $1,500
Super Rad Art Jam $1,500
Western Colorado Center for the Arts Artability Art Education ** $1,500
Western Colorado Watercolor Society National Juried Exhibit $1,500
Bookcliff Harmony Barbershop Chorus Youth in Harmony Project $1,200
Messiah Choral Society "Messiah" Concert $1,000
Western Colorado Chorale South American Choral Music Concert $1,000
Pastel Society of Colorado International Juried Exhibit * $500
Total Support $43,300

* New/first time events or projects
** Second year events or projects