Culture Chat
Mass Cultural Council now supports 51 state-designated Cultural Districts from the Berkshires to Bristol County.
Culture Chat
Including several measures to build a stronger foundation for public investment, strategic planning, robust policy, and economic growth
Culture Chat
Culture Chat
Today we are celebrating a new budget. This is the Commonwealth’s investment, through the Mass Cultural Council, in innovation, inclusion, public service, global citizenship, and the arts. We are over the moon with joy that our elected leaders saw fit to substantially increase the financial resources available for this work by $2 million to a total of $18 million.
Culture Chat
Culture Chat
Next up in the FY24 budget process is House budget debate in April
The National Endowment for the Arts remains a vital and stable source of support for the cultural ecosystem here in Massachusetts despite the partisan battles in Washington, D.C.
Info Session
99 Fall/Winter Festivals Awarded Grants Totaling $148,500
The Agency is Seeking $28M for Arts & Culture
Online Meeting
Online Meeting
An overwhelming, bipartisan majority of state legislators voted to override a veto of a budget increase to the Mass Cultural Council for the new fiscal year. The overrides set the agency’s FY19 state appropriation at $16 million, ensuring increased investment in nonprofit cultural organizations, communities, artists, school and youth programs statewide.
Online Meeting
27 UP Designated Organizations awarded $3,000 Innovation Fund grants.
An initiative to allow communities to create state-sponsored cultural districts to stimulate new arts and cultural activity and attract creative businesses
