• $5,000* grant for advancing art work or leadership. This can include new creative work, documentation of new or existing work, registration and submission fees to art fairs, festivals, conferences, and trainings, creating social media sites to promote Fellow’s work or organization, etc.
• $1,250* to participate in  training and to offset costs including transportation, missed or rescheduled work, childcare, etc.
• Professional development through training sessions with community experts. Training topics will be developed based on the participants’ needs but will likely include grant writing, budgeting, marketing, community engagement techniques, selling your work, etc.

• While all Sonoma County residents are encouraged to apply regardless of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex,  gender identity, religious creed, age, and any other protected basis, and there will be no preferences that are not available to all applicants, applicant artists, artisans, and/or arts and culture workers should ideally have a lived experience or an understanding or appreciation of the lived experiences of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities, or be interested in acquiring such an understanding or appreciation.
• Applicants are ideally emerging to mid-career creatives and are in the process of launching or expanding a professional career in arts or culture work.
• Applicants must be a full-time resident of Sonoma County, age 18 or older. Non-United States citizens are welcome to apply with work authorization in the United States.  

See the Guidelines document (attached under “How to Apply”) for more detailed definitions for each of the above items, as well as for who will not quality to participate in this program. 

Applications will be evaluated by a diverse panel of arts and culture workers (both local and non-local). Panelists will review and evaluate all application materials based on the following:

• The purpose and quality of the creative work or leadership to date
• The strength of the proposed activities and use of funding
• The potential impact on the applicant’s creative career advancement and their community. 

Read the guidelines in the Application Packet, which also lists all of the application questions along with instructions on answering them. Applicants will need to have or create an account in Submittable (creativesonoma.submittable.com/submit), our online application portal. Once the application opens, it will appear on Submittable. Applicants may utilize either the English or Spanish application. 

• Arts and Cultural Equity Grant Program APPLICATION PACKET – coming soon! 
• El Programa de Becas para las Artes y la Equidad Cultural PAQUETE DE APLICACIÓN – ¡disponible pronto!