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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Over 100 arts and civilization organizations and projects successful Fresno person been awarded astir $9.5 cardinal arsenic portion of the Expanded Access to Arts and Culture grant.
Officials accidental the grants, which totaled $9,461,420.90, were the first-ever disbursement of Expanded Access to Arts and Culture grants funded by Measure P, the income taxation inaugural approved by voters successful 2018.
The measurement sets speech 12% of collected funds to enactment taste arts successful Fresno for 30 years.
Officials with the metropolis accidental the Fresno Arts Council received 137 applications, with a full petition for backing of $15,584,431. On July 15, the Parks, Recreation, and Arts Commission (PRAC) recommended that 98 applicants person assistance backing totaling $8,615,456.05.
On Aug. 19, officials accidental PRAC reviewed and approved a question to little the applicant people threshold from 3.5 to 3.0 crossed each 4 assistance categories, yet voting to urge 112 applicants for awards totaling $9,461,420.90.
“In our archetypal year, we learned a batch astir Fresno’s arts ecosystem. We are enthusiastically looking guardant to observing and participating successful the galore astonishing projects that were funded done this process,” said Fresno Arts Council Executive Director, Lilia Gonzáles Chávez.
To presumption a implicit database of assistance recipients, click here.
Officials accidental the assistance play is retroactive to July 1, 2024, done June 30, 2025. The Art Council volition merchandise Requests for Proposals for 2025-26 grants successful Fall 2024. For questions, email the Executive Director, Lilia Gonzáles Chávez, astatine lilia@fresnoartscouncil.org or interaction Fresno Arts Council Monday done Friday betwixt 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. astatine 559-237-9734.
