Amherst Cultural Council

The Amherst Cultural Council allocates state Arts Lottery funds, but it is directed to support and nurture arts activities in the community by seeking private or other public funds and initiatives.

Contact

Julianne Applegate - Chair
[email protected]
413-259-3002

Address
4 Boltwood Avenue
Amherst, MA 01002-2302

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Application Information

FY26 Allocation

$56,100

FY26 Local Priorities

Information not provided

FY26 Local Guidelines

Information not provided

How Grant Recipients Are Paid

Direct Grants

FY26 Funding List

Name	Project Title	Amount
Amherst Art Alliance, Inc.	Art for Community II	$250
Amherst Autoharp Workshop	Support for Amherst Autoharp Workshop	$800
Amherst Business Improvement District, Inc.	Showcase Stage at Block Party	$2,000
Amherst Cinema Arts Center, Inc.	Juneteenth and $5 Family Films	$1,250
Amherst Community Band	Building Community through Music	$2,000
Amherst Community Television, Inc.	Celebrating Arts in Amherst at Amherst Media	$250
Amherst Community Theater	Theatre Access Tickets for Amherst Community Show- Wizard of Oz	$1,050
Amherst Historical Society	Amherst Was Never Silent: 250 Years of Speaking Out	$2,000
Arcadia Players, Inc.	Arcadia Players 36th season	$300
Black Business Association of Amherst Area, Inc.	Amherst Juneteenth Jubilee	$5,000
Bowman, Judith	"Clark House Cuts-Up"	$250
Center for Human Development, Incorporated	All In End-of-Year Recital	$500
Cepeda, Brendaliz	Cultural Connections: Exploring Puerto Rican Heritage Through Bomba	$1,500
Collaborative for Educational Services, Inc.	Two Musical Amherst Kindergarten Readiness event	$500
Collider Music & Food Inc.	Secret Planet Music Series	$250
Comeau, Robert	Cemeteries of Amherst	$270
Congo, Deanna	Magic for Seniors	$250
Druyan, Ron	Tiny Tutti	$500
Elkus, Eli	Musical Storytelling & Folk Songs by Eli Elkus at Amherst Farmers' Market	$602
Escamilla, Marshall	Following the Dino Tracks: Live Science Events Across Western Mass	$1,500
Ferreira, Temistocles	I Am Super!	$1,900
Ferry, Chris	Emerging Filmmakers of Western Massachusetts	$675
Friedman, Andrew D.	Juggling at the Amherst Farmers Market	$250
Friends of the Mount Holyoke Range, Inc.	Summit House Sunset Concert Series	$600
Ghost Ensemble, Inc.	Deep Listening in Community: Workshop Series	$500
Hampshire Young People's Chorus, Inc.	Hampshire YPC Spring Concert	$250
Hilltown Youth Performing Arts Program, Inc.	Hilltown Youth Recovery Theatre presents The Spiderwick Chronicles	$250
Holmes, Mary Ann	Together In Motion - Rocking Through the Decades - An Evening of Music & Dance!	$250
Inglese, Judith	Ceramic mural, "The Song of Earth Has Many Different Chords", public installation	$500
Interlink Foundation Inc.	Storytime in the Garden	$1,500
Keezing, Jonathan A.	Plant A Seed!	$550
Leader, Rachel	KlezCummington	$250
Local Access to Valley Arts	On the Boards '26	$200
Maichack, Mary Jo D.	Memoir Writing Workshop: Making a Present of Your Past	$487
Manselle, Jafar	West African Drumming Workshop - Come Out to Play	$300
Martinez, Deliabridget	Salsa con Tacos Latin Dance	$1,700
Massachusetts Center for the Book, Inc.	Amherst Literary Walk	$750
Narluga Arts	Busking on the Common	$1,000
Novi Cantori of Greater Springfield, Inc.	Novi Cantori Spring Concert	$250
Odenong Powwow	6th Annual Odenong Powwow	$7,000
Pasley, Becca	Bicycle Noise Creation Machine	$500
Piti Theatre Company, Inc.	Story Wizards	$750
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation, Inc.	Wednesday Folk Traditions 2026	$375
Regional Tibetan Association of Massachusetts	Fostering Language and Culture Preservation	$1,000
Restless Books, Inc.	Amherst Immigrant Writing Workshops (Fiction, Nonfiction, and Translation)	$2,000
Ross, Sheldon	Ragtime Five Brass Quintet Concert	$325
Ryan, Elizabeth	Adventure into Amherst	$250
Silverthorne Theater Company, Inc.	Summer 2026 Season	$750
Starlight's Youth Theatre, Inc.	Little Mermaid, Jr	$500
Summit Academy	Mindfulness Garden Mural Project	$300
Survival Centers, Inc.	Tunes@Noon	$1,200
The Amherst Ballet Theatre Company,Inc.	Costume Restoration Exhibition & Community Lending Closet	$1,000
The Brick House Community Resource Center, Inc.	Liberation Playback Theatre 2026 Training Series	$300
The Center Dance School	A 21st Century Nutcracker	$500
The Country Dance and Song Society, Inc.	Downtown Amherst Contra Dance Series	$2,000
The Downtown Amherst Foundation, Inc.	Amherst Regional Public Schools @ The Drake	$1,500
The Jones Library, Inc.	Jones Library and UMass Indian Classical Arts Society Performance Showcase	$250
The Nolumbeka Project, Inc.	A Celebration of Native American Art, Music, and Cultures	$585
The Queercore Collaborative	QueerCore Collaborative Presents Live at the Drake	$2,000
Town of Amherst Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	Amherst Global Village Festival	$1,500