39 Santa Barbara nonprofits announced as 2023 cultural arts grant award recipients
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.– Santa Barbara County announced the winners of the 2023 cultural arts grant award.
The county will distribute funds from the city, county, and Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation across 39 nonprofit organizations ranging from the revived Milpas St. Cinco de Mayo festival, Santa Barbara Black Cultural House to a traveling Toyota van offering classical music concerts and instruments to schools.
“Local arts and culture organizations put so much time and love into helping local communities to express themselves where they live. This is important and relevant work that the creative sector is uniquely able to perform, and the City of Santa Barbara and County of Santa Barbara recognize arts and culture investment as community investment.”
- Office of Arts & Culture Executive Director Sarah York Rubin
The full list of grant award recipients can be found below.
Community Arts Grant Recipients:
- A to Z Cooking School
- Hillside House, INC
- Artist Jana Brody
- Lum Zine
- Mission Poetry Series
- Santa Barbara Art Works
- Performing and Visual Art Camp
- SB Black Culture House
- Trust for Historic Preservation
- Santa Barbara Art Association Student Art Fund
Community Events & Festivals Grant Recipients:
- Cinco de Mayo Festival
- Elings Park Foundation
- Healing Justice Santa Barbara
- Kinetic Cake Experience
- Lobero Theatre Foundation
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee of SB
- Pacific Pride Foundation
- SB Culinary Experience
- SB Museum of Art
- SB Revels
- SBCC Dance Collective
- UCSB Arts & Lectures
Organizational Development Grant Recipients:
- American Dance and Music
- Flamenco Arts Festival
- Center Stage Theater
- Ensemble Theatre Company
- Everybody Dance Now!
- Explore Ecology
- NewGrit SB Arts Collaborative
- SB Gay Men's Chorus
- SB Museum of Natural History
Arts Making Impact Grant Recipients:
- Arts Mentorship Program Blue Sky Center
- Goleta Education Foundation SBCAN: Artist Jessica Altstatt
- Orcutt Children's Arts Foundation SB Dance Institute
- SB Gay Men's Chorus Santa Maria Philharmonic Society
- Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden Foundation
