THE LOUISIANA DIVISION OF
THE ARTS ANNOUNCES
ANNUAL ARTS FUNDING WORKSHOPS
BATON ROUGE, La. - $1.2 million in grants will soon be available to Louisiana's arts community, and workshops to assist grant seekers in the application process are scheduled for February and March.
The “How to Navigate the Application Roadmap” workshops will be led by the Louisiana Division of the Arts, which oversees and distributes state and federal grant funding. The workshops and grant applications are open to visual artists, craftsmen, musicians, creative writers, designers, theater and dance professionals in addition to nonprofit/governmental entities whose mission is to provide arts programming to the public. Grants are also available for the development of arts education programs in schools.
"The workshops will walk applicants through new grants programs and the application process step-by-step," Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu said. The Division of the Arts is a unit in the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, which is overseen by Landrieu's office.
"There will be opportunities to meet with Division of the Arts staff one-on-one and network with other arts community members seeking grants," Landrieu said.
All workshops and sessions are free. Guidelines and application forms are available on the Division of the Arts website at www.crt.state.la.us/arts. For more information, contact the Louisiana Division of the Arts, P. O. Box 44247, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-4247, or call (225) 342-8180.
LOUISIANA DIVISION OF THE ARTS WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
LAKE CHARLES
March 6, 2006
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Central School Arts & Humanities Center, 809 Kirby Street, Room 108
The Louisiana Division of the Arts, an agency in the Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism and headed by the Lt. Governor’s office, was created in 1977 to support established and emerging non-profit arts institutions, to assist individual artists and to stimulate public participation in the arts in Louisiana. The Division is advised in its efforts by the Louisiana State Arts Council, a volunteer body appointed by the governor. The Division receives funding from the Louisiana Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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