FY2022 Community Arts Grant Awards Announced

This year, the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County will award $500,000 to 43 organizations through the Community Arts Grant (CAG) program. These grants are critical to the local arts community because they provide general operating income that helps to support the day-to-day overhead of these organizations. Unlike most grants, which are project-based, this program promotes organizational sustainability by funding basic costs such as rent, staffing, and utilities.

Providing this support to our arts community is especially important now, as we recover from the pandemic. The arts are an important economic driver in Anne Arundel County, and these grant recipients have a significant impact on the local economy. Collectively, their budgets total $16.5 million, and together they support 2,137 full and part-time jobs.

For 23 years the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County (ACAAC) has supported arts organizations in Anne Arundel County through grantmaking. In addition to Community Arts Grants, the ACAAC also offers Mini Grant, Strategic Grant, Cultural Resource Grant, and Arts in Education Grant programs.

Fiscal Year 2022 Community Arts Grant recipients include:

• All Children’s Chorus of Annapolis | $6,550
• Annapolis Arts District | $7,500
• Annapolis Film Festival, Inc. | $26,250
• Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc. | $19,000
• Annapolis Opera Company | $27,000
• Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre | $9,000
• Annapolis Symphony Orchestra | $30,000
• Anne Arundel Community Concert Association | $2,800
• Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation | $5,550
• Arundel Vocal Arts Society | $1,250
• Ballet Theatre of Maryland  | $23,000
• Banneker-Douglass Museum Foundation | $14,600
• Bay Winds Band | $1,000
• Captain Avery Museum | $10,000
• Chesapeake Arts Center | $64,000
• Chesapeake Children’s Museum | $3,000
• Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra | $12,400
• Children’s Theatre of Annapolis | $2,500
• Classic Theatre of Maryland | $21,000
• Compass Rose Theater | $10,000
• Creating Communities | $12,400
• Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble | $4,200
• Future History Now | $5,500
• Galesville Community Center | $2,500
• Hammond Harwood House | $4,800
• Historic Annapolis | $14,000
• Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation | $2,500
• Live Arts Maryland | $26,000
• London Town Foundation | $14,000
• Londontowne Symphony Orchestra | $5,100
• Maryland Concert Series | $3,300
• Maryland Federation of Art | $16,000
• Maryland Hall | $50,000
• MC3 | $3,000
• National Ballet Institute for the Arts | $1,800
• Performing Arts Center for African Cultures | $5,500
• SoCo Arts Lab | $2,500
• South County Concert Association | $4,900
• The AngelWing Project | $4,500
• The Creative and Performing Arts of South County | $4,350
• The Mitchell Gallery | $7,500
• The Talent Machine Company | $2,500
• World Artists Experiences | $6,700