Senate Committee on Ways & Means embraces Mass Cultural Council’s FY24 funding request
A historic day for arts & culture
Next up in the FY24 budget process is House budget debate in April
Urge your state legislators to support this supplemental appropriation
This represents an 11% increase to Mass Cultural Council’s current operating budget
Mass Cultural Council has been tasked with the enormous and amazing direction to equitably invest almost $100M in state dollars into the cultural sector this fiscal year!
Agency poised to make record-high investments into the Commonwealth's cultural sector throughout FY23
This year the Agency is tasked with investing a historic amount of state and federal funds into the cultural sector — nearly $100M!
Senator Ed Kennedy has filed Amendment #135 to increase Mass Cultural Council’s account to $27.4M
Rep. Dylan Fernandes has sponsored Amendment #1081 to increase the Agency’s appropriation to $27.4M.
The latest on the FY23 state budget process and the Agency's COVID recovery efforts.
Charting a path for Massachusetts to match the state’s record-high investment made in 1988
FY23 H. 2 budget represents Baker-Polito Administration’s highest investment in Mass Cultural Council
FY22 spending plan adopted by governing Council
Legislators are starting the process of determining how to invest these federal funds.
Governor Baker now has 10 days to review and act on the budget.
Mass Cultural Council is seeking to secure $20M for the cultural sector in FY22.
Senate approves Mass Cultural Council’s $20M spending request
This represents the highest level of funding proposed for the Agency, and by extension, the cultural sector, by the state in decades.
We've compiled funding maps in partnership with the National Association of State Arts Agencies and MASSCreative to demonstrate the breadth of public investments made to support the arts, humanities, and sciences in Massachusetts.
