Arts & Culture

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• Creative Aging

  Engaging older adults in sequential arts activities with trained Connecticut teaching artists.

• Air Collaborative

  Cross-sector community workshops for creatives and business-minded individuals.

• The Bridge Builder Initiative

  Arts Community Impact Coordinators working to identify various affiliation circles and creative networks that are not being served at a high level and strategize innovative ways to support them.

• Cultural Districts

  Review standards and criteria for determining a Cultural District, which is a specific area of a town or city that has a number of cultural facilities, activities and/or assets.

• Data Maps of COA Awarded Grants

  See the distribution of grants awarded by the Office of the Arts across Connecticut.

• Institutional Grants Map

  CT Office of the Arts Institutional Grants Map

• Strategic Partnership Grants

  Invests COA resources in specific, values driven initiatives to accomplish priority goals defined in its strategic plan.

• Regional Initiative Grant Program (REGI) CLOSED

  The Connecticut Office of the Arts is no longer offering the Regional Initiative Grant Program.

• Emerging Creative Award

  This award highlights a breakthrough creative leader who is starting to blossom as an impactful and innovative contributor to the Connecticut art scene.

• Arts Learning

  Advancing arts education and experiences through professional development and funding support.

• Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund (CAEF)

  CAEF grants provide general operating support that arts organizations may use toward program­ming, administrative or operational costs, capital projects, equipment, or to build their own endowments. CAEF is currently closed.

• Arts Learning Presentation Grants CLOSED

  Arts Presentation Grants are not being offered at this time.

• Connecticut Artists Relief Grants

  The CT Artists Relief grant program is closed.

• General Operating Support for Theaters and Performing Groups

  The GOS for Theaters & Performing Groups program is closed and was only offered as a two-year relief and recovery program.

• COVID Relief Fund for the Arts

  The COVID Relief Fund for the Arts grant program is closed.