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Greater DC Governments/Granting Organizations/Awards
Alexandria Commission for the Arts
Runs a grants program, artist trainings, publishes a newsletter, coordinates special programs (such as the innovative Arts & Juvenile Justice program, matching arts organizations with court-involved youth).
http://www.alexandriacommissionforthearts.orgArlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Offers support to individual artists and groups in the form of: grants, access to scene and costume shops, rehearsal and performance space. Maintains five theaters, a public art gallery, and group studios; publishes a monthly e-newsletter.
http://www.arlingtonarts.orgArts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County
Grants, artist workshops, advocacy, newletter, volunteer opportunities. The County has also recently completed their first comprehensive cultural plan.
http://www.creativemoco.comThe Cintas Foundation, Inc.
Fellowships of $10,000 to artists of Cuban citizenship or direct descent (having a Cuban parent or grandparent) who do not live in Cuba. Supports writers, as well as architects, composers, and visual artists.
http://www.cintasfoundation.orgCity of Rockville, Cultural Arts Division
Grants program, also runs the Glenview Mansion Art Center, with theater, performance, and gallery space, and occasional readings, and cosponsors the annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival.
http://www.rockvillemd.gov/recreation/index.htmlDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Grants, advocacy, quarterly newsletter. Hosts annual visual arts exhibit. Also hosts annual writing competition, the Larry Neal Writers' Awards, with cash prizes.
http://dcarts.dc.govDelaware Division of the Arts
Grants, slide registry for visual artists, exhibition space, workshops, and bi-monthly newsletter. Hosts the Delaware Arts Summit every other year.
http://www.artsdel.orgHumanities Council of Washington
Grants, speakers bureau, urban scholars program, newsletter. Resources for scholars and public intellectuals, writers and filmmakers, historians and philosophers, youth and seniors. Also hosts salons, a resource center, and teacher trainings.
http://www.wdchumanities.orgLibrary of Virginia Literary Awards
Annual awards for books by a Virginia author or with a Virginia-related theme. A Virginia author is defined as a native-born Virgininan, an author living in Virginia, or an author whose permanent home address is Virginia who resides elsewhere. Each year's awards honor books written in the previous calendar year in fiction, nonfiction, or poetry.
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/awards/entries.htmMaryland Humanities Council
Grants, speakers bureau, reading/discussion programs, newsletter.
http://www.mdhc.org/Maryland State Arts Council
Grants, advocacy, cultural planning, cultural diversity arts registry, newsletter. Also hosts a state-wide Writers in the Schools Program through its Arts in Education grant program.
http://www.msac.orgMid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
Founded in 1979. Grants, advocacy, artist and critic exchanges, newsletter. Covers the following states: Delaware, DC, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia. West Virginia, and (strangely, since it's not in the Mid-Atlantic) the US Virgin Islands.
http://www.midatlanticarts.orgNational Endowment for the Arts
Founded in 1965. Despite cutbacks in their grants to individuals, who, as Congress so readily knows, have such risky independent thoughts, the NEA still offers individual artist grants of $20,000 to writers across the country. Poets and translators are eligible in alternate years. Program grants to arts organizations cover all US states, territories, and military bases. Special initiatives for rural and inner-city arts groups.
http://www.arts.govNational Endowment for the Humanities
Founded in 1965. Grants and awards in several humanities categories given annually to cultural institutions (museums, archives, libraries, colleges, public TV, radio stations) and individual scholars. Also publishes an e-newsletter and bi-monthly magazine.
http://www.neh.govPrince George's Arts Council
Grants, public art. Supports cultural programs, nature and historical programs, and programs for children and families. Hosts an Artist Registry, Playwrighting Competition for Young Audiences, monthly e-newsletter.
http://www.pgparks.com/things/arts.htmlReginald S. Tickner Writing Fellowship
One year fellowship to serve as Writer-in-Residence at the Gilman School, a private secondary boys school in Baltimore. Writer is expected to interact with and mentor students.
http://www.gilman.eduThe Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Provides grants and free technical assistance to local arts agencies (but not individuals) partnered with health organizations to establish or enhance existing arts and healing programs. Programs may range from artist residencies, exhibits, concerts and bed-side crafts activities in hospitals to artists working with visiting nurses, hospice and nursing homes.
http://www.thesah.org/template/index.cfmVirginia Commission for the Arts
Founded in 1968. Grants, advocacy, training. State-wide Writers in the Schools program. Hosts annual Arts Advocacy Day in Richmond, and an annual conference.
http://www.arts.state.va.usVirginia Foundation for the Humanities
Grants, teacher institute. Also hosts the Institute for Violence and Survival, the Center for Media and Culture, Motheread/Fatheread, the state-wide radio program "With Good Reason," and the Virginia Folklife Program.
http://www.virginia.edu/vfhWest Virginia Commission on the Arts
Founded in 1967. Grants, technical assistance, artist roster, calendar of events and exhibits. Also publishes an on-line listing of writers groups, and has published a literary map of WV featuring 138 authors.
http://www.wvculture.org/arts
Also of Interest:
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
DC-based organization spotlights notable arts activities supported by individual states, and lists contact information for government grants not listed above.
http://www.nasaa-arts.org