Today Governor Baker released a budget for FY21 that proposes an investment of $16.3M for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Mass Cultural Council, representing a 9.455% funding reduction from FY20.
$475K from the National Endowment for the Art's CARES Act allocation will be awarded to 74 CYD programs statewide.
To date, in FY22 LCCs have awarded 6,472 grants to everything from murals to lectures, festivals, and performances.
The arts and culture are essential to our health and our economy. This was the consensus at the conclusion of an online Town Hall Forum with Congressman Jim McGovern, presented by Mass Cultural Council and the Worcester Cultural Coalition.
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Because the MA House and Senate each endorsed its own version of the bill, a Conference Committee was appointed to reconcile the two bills and develop a final conference report.
Let’s take action to dismantle systemic racism and the legacy of white privilege.
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!
Under this plan we will work to advance the creative and cultural sector to other sectors
We're investing $100,000 this year to preserve and continue vital ethnic and cultural art forms in a range of media.
A few takeaways on preserving digital multimedia
There are a world of paper folders out there
Funding to help festival programmers meet the needs of producing, promoting, and developing audiences.
94 awards were made in the program's 15th grant round
Mass Cultural Council's Racial Equity Work
Local Cultural Councils Share How They've Gone After Municipal Monies
Urge the Conferees to retain the highest possible funding recommendation for arts & culture
Grants to support publicly available cultural activities taking place across the state
Our three-year plan outlines internal and external steps we will take to support and encourage an anti-racist cultural sector in the Commonwealth.
This marks the seventh consecutive year the Baker-Polito Administration has invested at this level.
