Hi Julie,
It is all still muddy, unfortunately. As the guidelines from the US Treasury department only came to the states and local governments early this month there isn’t at this point an application. The projects highlighted during the webinar
all in play because of networking and meetings the local arts administrators set up with city and state decision-makers. The best advice we can provide at the moment is to reach out to city or county managers, state legislators or governors to set up meetings
and talk through ideas.
Feel free to reach out to our experts Jay Dick, Senior Director of State and Local Government Affairs (jay@artsusa.org) or Nina Ozlu Tunceli, & Executive Director for the Arts Action Fund (ntunceli@artsusa.org)
for any other questions.
Patricia Walsh
Public Art and Civic Design Senior Program Manager
202.371.2830 x2024
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I am sorry to say that even after yesterday’s presentation it is still VERY unclear to me how municipalities and/or organizations go about requesting access to these funds…..
Is there an application process??
The presentations yesterday were great and inspiring but none of them really spoke to HOW they got access to the funds, they talked about how they used them but not how they got access.
Any insights would be most welcome!
Thank you,
Julie
Julie Barry
Senior Planner, Arts & Culture
City of Salem | Department of Planning & Community Development
98 Washington St., 2nd Floor | Salem, MA 01970
978-619-5685 ext. 42506 |
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Hi PAN Listserv, Sending along so you can access the webinar which was recorded, and please consider adding to the ARP State and Local Block Grant Tracker linked below!
Dear Arts Leaders,
Yesterday, Americans for the Arts and the Arts Action Fund hosted a 90-minute
webinar on how arts organizations can advocate to state and local governments to have some of the $350 billion in American Rescue Plan (ARP) Block Grants directed to them be designated for the arts.
The block grants are part of the larger $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. The webinar featured six arts leaders at the local and state levels from across the country, who detailed how they are specifically working to designate block grant funds at the state,
city, and county levels to be used to support the creative sector. The panel also included an expert speaker from
ICMA, the International City/County Management Association, who spoke about the process from the local government perspective. The recorded video of the webinar, along with a variety of resources, is available on both the Americans for the Arts
ArtU website and
ArtsActionFund.org
website.
Additionally, at the conclusion of the webinar,
we were pleased to announce the debut of the
ARP State and Local Block Grant Tracker, which allows arts organizations, state and local governments and others to enter information about how they are hoping to use ARP funds for the arts sector. The tracker asks for basic information such as location,
dollar amount, brief program description, proposed audience/beneficiary, along with where the project is in the approval process (idea, formal proposal, approved, money received).
We encourage you to fill out this
tracker if you have such a project. It is our hope to not only use the
data (which is public) to demonstrate how the arts have been used to help our economy rebuild, but to also identify those projects that
were designed to specifically and primarily serve populations that have been or are systemically underrepresented and underserved.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Jay
Jay H. Dick
Senior Director of State and Local Government Affairs
Americans for the Arts
1000 Vermont Ave., NW 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
202-712-2076
@JayAFTA
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