ARTReach
Funding for community arts projects for non-profit organizations and schools
What’s your arts “dream”?
ARTReach funding can help your group produce a one-time arts event such as a concert, festival, or workshop, or help to launch or expand ongoing programs such as a dance troupe or readers’ theatre. It also can be used for in-school instructive performances or artist’s residencies, or school-related arts projects that happen off the school campus or outside the school day. How would you like to use the arts to benefit our community?
What is ARTReach & who can apply?
The Arts Council of Macon County's ARTReach Program offers funding, planning, and marketing assistance to Macon County non-profit organizations and schools producing arts programs. Our Board of Directors considers ARTReach proposals on artistic merit, level of community involvement, outreach to under-served populations, applicant’s financial responsibility/need, and applicant’s ability to carry out the project successfully.
Arts organizations, schools, and any Macon County non-profit group producing an arts program for the community are eligible. ARTReach does not award funds to individual artists. (Ask us about NC Arts Council grants for individual artists.)
About the awards and how to apply.
Awards typically range from $500 to $5,000, cannot be used for staff positions, deficit funding, or capital expenditures, and are paid on receipt of the final report unless other arrangements are made.
The Arts Council makes ARTReach awards year-round on a funds-available basis.
Apply ideally three months before starting your promotion. Download our small ARTReach application packet using the button below; it contains the info on this page and the description what we’d like to know about your ideas in the 1-2 page application letter.
The Arts Council defines “arts” as dance, literature/writing, music, theater, storytelling and the visual/graphic arts. If you have any questions, please call! We’re here for the arts in our community and look forward to hearing your ideas!
“Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.”
— Pete Seeger
Remembering Maude
Maude Bivins, a charter and sustaining member of the Arts Council of Macon County, recognized the arts as a positive force in people’s lives and in the life of our community. She died in 2019, leaving the Arts Council a generous bequest which was used to establish an endowment to benefit our organization. Thus, Maude’s spirit of giving lives on in this ARTReach program and in all our Council’s future endeavors.