Grants

Opens May 6, 2025. Artists are given a performance opportunity on the Seattle Center campus, allowing them to connect with new audiences, display their talents and advance their careers. Visitors to campus and the surrounding neighborhood benefit from surprising and delightful pop-up performances throughout the year in music, dance, theater, demonstrations, and multi-disciplinary work. Closes June 17, 2025.

Opens Sep. 16, 2025. Arts in Parks supports grassroots organizations, community-based groups, and individual artists seeking to activate Seattle parks through arts and culture in underserved and economically constrained areas of the city. Closes Oct. 28, 2025.

Opens May 20, 2025. The Centering Art & Racial Equity grant awards three consecutive years of funding to Seattle arts and culture, heritage, and arts service organizations with a minimum three-year history of providing accessible programming for Seattle residents and visitors. Closes Aug. 5, 2025.

CityArtist provides grants for Seattle-based individual artists/curators to research, develop, and present ideas or ventures. The disciplines rotate every program cycle.

Opens April 22, 2025 to proposed activations that generate career opportunities for the local creative workforce and contribute to the well-being of Seattle’s downtown community with community-driven projects, events, performances, and more. Closes June 3 2025.

Applications for the Langston Hughes Performing Institute Facility Grant are currently on pause. Please follow us on social or sign up for email updates.

smART Ventures provides support ranging from $500 to $1,500, proving that small investments can have big impacts. smART Ventures is flexible, inclusive, simple, and encourages innovation by individuals, organizations, and communities that may not qualify for other funding programs.

The Youth Arts grant supports two years of equitable access to arts and cultural learning opportunities for Seattle's middle and high school-aged youth. Individual artists, artists, arts and cultural organizations, youth-service agencies, and degree-granting institutions are eligible to apply.

Awarding grants to Seattle arts, heritage, cultural, and arts service organizations with facility projects that create greater access for those who have been (and are) inequitably excluded from owning, managing and leasing property.

ARTS investments in cultural organizations, art groups, and individual artists make our community more vibrant. The grant programs include funding opportunities, initiatives and training for organizations, individual artists, youth arts programs, neighborhood and community groups. These grants make meaningful impacts in our communities by expanding access to arts and culture for residents and visitors throughout our city. The office is committed to removing barriers to participation and involving diverse cultures and underserved audiences and artists through all our funding programs.