Grants & Funding


For Arts & Organizations

The Stanly County Arts Council (SCAC) receives a Grassroots Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council each year. Twenty percent (20%) of this grant goes to support the key operations of the SCAC, and the remaining 80% goes directly back into the community via Subgrants to support arts programs.
 
To see if your project qualifies to receive a Grassroots Subgrant, click here for a copy of the Grassroots Grant Guidelines. We not only want to insure that all Grassroots Grant funding is handled appropriately, but also that the programs receiving such funding are available and accessible to everyone. Please review our Non-Discrimination Policy, as well as our Conflict of Interest Policy.
 
For existing Subgrantees or new Subgrantees that are ready to begin the grant application process, please review the appropriate links listed on this page. If you have any grant questions, please email us at or call 704-982-8118 (leave a message).

For Individuals & Artists

The Artist Support Grant (ASG) was created to provide direct support to individual artists during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. ​The ASG is replacing the former grant referred to as: Regional Artist Project Grant (RAPG). The Artist Support Grant program is managed through a partnership with the Arts Council of Moore County to serve artists in Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly, and Union counties. Funding is provided by the North Carolina Arts Council and participating arts councils.

Artists at any stage of their careers, emerging or established, are eligible to apply for grants in all disciplines, such as visual art and craft, traditional art forms, music composition, film/video, literature and playwriting, choreography and dance. Types of fundable projects include the creation of new work, purchase of equipment and materials, and professional development workshops. Grant awards generally range from $500 to $2,500, and are intended to fund projects that begin no earlier than January 1, 2023, and conclude by December 31, 2023.  Grant funds must be utilized by June 30, 2023.

Click here to download the ASG Grant Guidelines. Click here to download an ASG Sample Application.

The deadline for applications is Friday, October 14, 2022.  Must be received by 5:00 pm.

North Carolina CARES for Arts Grants

The North Carolina General Assembly designated $9.4 million federal CARES Act funds for arts councils and arts organizations to mitigate business disruptions caused by COVID-19. The North Carolina Arts Council distributed these funds on a per-capita basis to all North Carolina counties with a population of less than one million people. In many counties, including Stanly County, the local arts councils received the funds and then sub-granted a portion of the county allotment to eligible recipients. Stanly County Arts Council sub-granted sixty-five percent of the funds.

Arts and Cultural organizations and individual artists were eligible to apply for a North Carolina CARES for Arts grant to offset business disruption and/or expenses incurred due to COVID-19 between March 1, 2020, and December 30, 2020. The following expenses were considered:

  • Paid salaries and benefits (including contractors)
  • On-going operating expenses
  • Costs associated with canceling programs and creating virtual programs
  • COVID-related safety and cleaning measures

Applicants provided documentation (receipts, bill/invoices, monthly financial statements, and payroll ledgers) as evidence for expenses. Revenue losses were not considered for mitigation in this grant program. North Carolina CARES for Arts funding did not reimburse expenses already paid for by other federal relief funds such as PPP loans, direct grants from the NEA, and stimulus grants issued by the North Carolina Arts Council.

The following local organizations received grants through the CARES for the ARTS funding:
Stanly Arts Guild, Stanly County Chorale, Stanly County Concert Association, Stanly County Concert Band, Stanly County Historical Society, The Talent Company, The Uwharrie Players, Uwharrie Youth Arts, and the Stanly County Arts Council

Grassroots Grant Recipients

2021-2022*

Stanly Arts Guild – operational funds for the Gallery

Stanly County Concert Association – operational funds to prepare for upcoming season of professional musical artists

Stanly County Concert Band – Fall concert and  Spring Concert

Stanly County Partnership for Children – free theatre experience for preschool aged children and their families

Stanly County Schools – Performing Artists for the Cultural Education Program.  Multi-cultural Artist included Mike Wiley’s “Jackie Robinson, ” performed for all 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. 

Stanly County Senior Center – Senior Spirit Day @ EE Waddell Center, Albemarle

Uwharrie Players – operational funds for their 2021-2022 season

*Guidelines in 2020 & 2021 were revised to allow for operational support for arts organizations to assist with financial needs during the Covid pandemic, since much programming could not be safely implemented.

Past recipients

Pfeiffer University – Community Book Read and Virtual Author Talk of The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejoy Villavicencio

Stanly County Chorale – support for the Christmas and Spring community concerts

The Talent Company – support for their youth driven theatre productions

Uwharrie Youth Arts – support for the performance of the City Youth Ballet’s The Nutcracker

Artist Support Grant Recipients

2022

Jennifer Brogdon – Writer’s Workshop

2021

Austin Coats – Sound equipment and Studio Recording Time in pursuit of musical career

Christian Payne – Camera for live streaming performances and actor workshops

2020

Annette Lowder – artist residency in Shigaraki, Japan

2019

Lorraine Turi – purchase a Canon 5d Mark IV camera to experiment with video in her current project Last Seen.  Last Seen is a collection of photographs that have been taken at the last place a species was seen in the wild before going extinct. 

2018

Susan Lackey – attend a mentoring style studio experience with master artist, Carrie Burns Brown,  Kanuga Watermedia Workshops in Hendersonville, NC

Rodney Rock – purchase Nikon D500 camera to further his artistry in photography

2017

Caroline Stephenson – attend the Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University

2016

Mark Stephenson – attend the Portrait Society of America Annual Conference 2016 in Washington, D.C.

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