Urge your state Senator to co-sponsor Chair Mark’s Amendment #171 to increase this appropriation
$3,000 grants for UP Designated Organizations to plan and implement new, innovative solutions to accessibility challenges within their organization.
Programs and resources that benefit cultural districts
A growing network of organizations that fully embrace accessibility systems and ideals, part of the Universal Participation Initiative.
The House budget includes for $26 million for Mass Cultural Council, Senate budget to be released in May
How the Agency is employing Open Door Arts' Arts & Culture Accessibility Self-Assessment
Through our Community Initiative, Mass Cultural Council works to support all 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth. Over the last two years, our Cultural Compact pilot program supported a new and innovative approach to elevating arts and culture in communities.
There are now 58 state-designated cultural districts across the Commonwealth
Rep. Dylan Fernandes has sponsored Amendment #1081 to increase the Agency’s appropriation to $27.4M.
Reflecting on the first statewide social prescription arts & culture initiative in the United States
Senate approves Mass Cultural Council’s $20M spending request
Open Door Arts' new platform to help organizations improve accessibility and deepen engagement with the disability community
Backed by a statewide grassroots advocacy campaign led by MASSCreative, Senators voted overwhelmingly to back amendments to boost funding for the arts, humanities, and sciences to $18 million for FY20 and assure Mass Cultural Council’s community-based partnerships and services continue.
Culture and community are intertwined, with each feeding into the other; neither can thrive in any meaningful way without individuals and institutions seeing and acknowledging the value of all those who make up our communities.
Shining a light on the vital work of Local Cultural Councils in our cities and towns
Application instructions for Grants for Creative Individuals
This represents a 0.58% increase to Mass Cultural Council’s current operating budget
Mass Cultural Council has released a case statement on the benefits of arts and cultural funding to the state’s economy, communities, and the education of our young people – and what long-term reinvestment in Mass Cultural Council's work can accomplish.
Read the testimony delivered on July 15, 2020 to the Massachusetts Senate
Findings from the Massachusetts Arts & Culture Access Survey 2022
