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
Next up in the FY24 budget process is House budget debate in April
Culture Chat
Culture Chat
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.
99 Fall/Winter Festivals Awarded Grants Totaling $148,500
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.
Info Session
An initiative to allow communities to create state-sponsored cultural districts to stimulate new arts and cultural activity and attract creative businesses
Grants to encourage the development and success of the districts and to foster local cultural preservation
$5.7M in funding available for public projects such as field trips, library events, lectures, festivals, exhibits, and dance performances
The public-private partnership between Mass Cultural Council and EdVestors continues to be a vehicle for systems change
Agency poised to make record-high investments into the Commonwealth's cultural sector throughout FY23
329 Local Cultural Councils to support public programs in every community in Massachusetts.
Mass Cultural Council’s “CultureRx”: Evaluation of a Social Prescription Pilot is an exciting new report that explores intersections of arts, culture, and health.
