Folk and Traditional Arts Project Grant
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Folk and Traditional Arts Project Grant supports Colorado artists, collectives, and community organizations in creating, sharing, teaching, and documenting traditions to preserve cultural heritage.
Funder: Colorado Creative Industries
Due Dates (Anticipated): April 2027 (Online application deadline)
Funding Amounts: One-time $3,000 award; matching funds are not required
Summary: Supports Colorado community projects that create, present, teach, or document folk and traditional arts and cultural heritage.
Key Information: Projects must involve the community whose traditions are presented and include a publicly accessible component.
Description
Colorado Creative Industries (CCI), a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, administers this grant to celebrate, document, and preserve Colorado’s cultural heritage. It supports both the creation, presentation, and teaching of folk and traditional arts and documentation through community archives, oral histories, photojournalism, video, and other creative or documentary works.
The program seeks to strengthen community well-being, belonging, cultural identity, economic vitality, and sense of place. Folk and traditional arts reflect a community’s cultural life and transmit knowledge, values, and artistic practices across generations through demonstration, conversation, and practice. Funding priority favors projects led or produced by members of the community whose traditions are presented or documented, with emphasis on meaningful community benefit and reaching underserved populations.
