Grassroots Arts Program
Due to state Budget cuts, the 2011 Grassroots Arts Program will be administered directly by the Georgia Council for the Arts. When the updated program specifics, policies and application procedures are known, we will make them available here.
The Grassroots Arts Program (GAP), provides an opportunity for every county in the state to be served with state arts dollars through a decentralized decision-making process involving local citizens. Supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) which is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and through appropriations by the Georgia General Assembly, GAP is administered by Arts Clayton, the GCA-designated agency. The program goals are:
- To provide every county some arts funding; especially small, traditionally under-served, isolated communities.
- To decentralize decision making about how the money is to be spent.
- To encourage multi-county programming.
- To build partnerships between arts and non-arts agencies to address broad community needs with arts programs.
- To diversify and expand arts audiences.