If the Dallas Cultural Plan 2018 taught us anything, it was to engage the communities, neighborhoods, and residents of Dallas through meaningful artistic and cultural experiences. It taught us to look at our city and see where gaps and inequities of cultural access and experience exist. To continue to activate and encourage the intentional creative, artistic, and cultural impact on the residents of Dallas, ArtsActivate calls for arts and cultural projects by our Dallas arts and culture non-profit organizations, social service organizations, individual artists, and artist collectives to engage with communities, old and new, to provide a more equitable, diverse, and supportive arts ecosystem for the City of Dallas.
ArtsActivate 2025-2026
ArtsActivate 2026 Round 1 is currently open and will close on Monday, July 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Please use the buttons below to access the 2026 ArtsActivate portals.
NON-PROFIT 2026 APPLICATION PORTAL ACCESS – artsact2026-np
2026 Round 1
Information Sessions*
*Spanish language interpreters are available for all information and/or orientation sessions with 48-hour notice. Please contact OAC at OACFundingPrograms@dallas.gov if you would like to use this option.
In-Person Information Session: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | South Dallas Cultural Center (3400 S Fitzhugh Ave., Dallas, TX 75210)
In-Person Information Session: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Bath House Cultural Center (521 E Lawther Dr, Dallas, TX 75218)
BILINGUAL In-Person Information Session: Thursday, June 26, 2025 | 5:30 – 6:30 pm | Dallas West Branch Library (2332 Singleton Blvd. Dallas TX 75212)
Virtual Information Session:
Virtual Information Session: Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Join HERE
Virtual Information Session: Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 5:00 – 6:00 PM | Join HERE
If funded, all recipients will need to attend one of the contract orientations below:
Mandatory Contract Orientation Option 1: Monday, August 11, 2025 | 5:00pm-6:30pm
Mandatory Contract Orientation Option 2: Friday, September 12, 2025 | 12:00pm-1:30pm
Open Office Hours
Join us to ask questions about your ArtsActivate application before the submission deadline! These informal sessions will be held on Zoom for your convenience.
Virtual Open Office Hours: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 | 12:00pm-1:00pm | Join HERE
BILINGUAL Virtual Office Hours Wednesday, June 25, 2025 | 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm | Join HERE
Virtual Open Office Hours: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 | 11:00 am -12:00 pm | Join HERE
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ArtsActivate 2026:
- Is a project-based cultural funding program
- Combines and replaces all previous project-based funding programs
- Is open for proposals from non-profit arts/cultural organizations, social services organizations, individual artists, artist collectives and other eligible non-profit organizations
- ArtsActivate 2026 will open for three rounds of applications during the 2024-25 fiscal year (October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026). Individual Artists and Group A eligible applicants may apply in any and all rounds and can get funded twice. Group B, C, & D and applicants who are in COP can apply in all rounds but only be funded once.
- Applicants who are currently funded in the Cultural Organizations Program (COP) for FY 2023-24 or 2024-25 may apply if they receive less than $100,000 through COP or through operating and maintenance support and that the proposed project is not currently a part of the organization’s current COP scope of services
Download – ArtsActivate 2026 Guidelines
Download – ArtsActivate 2026 Guidelines ESPANOL
Plan Your Application:
Utilize the PDF’s below to preview and plan your application. *Please note, the PDF’s are for planning purposes only, all applications will need to be submitted through the application portal above.
Download Dallas Cultural Plan 2018 Summary
View Dallas Cultural Plan Priorities & Strategies
(All strategies that apply to the ArtsActivate 2020 application process are highlighted in yellow)
View Dallas Cultural Plan Typology Map
(note: the map does not guarantee that a location within the typologies falls in Dallas city limits since some of the census block groups straddle the city limit lines, please double check all locations to confirm they are within Dallas city limits)
Round 1
Application Period:
June 4 – July 7, 2025
Notification Date:
August 8, 2025
Earliest Project Start Date:
October 6, 2025
Round 2
Application Period:
September 10 – October 14, 2025
Notification Date:
December 5, 2025
Earliest Project Start Date:
January 13, 2026
Round 3
Application Period:
January 7 – February 9, 2026
Notification Date:
April 3, 2026
Earliest Project Start Date:
May 4, 2026
ArtsActivate 2025
ROUNDS 1, 2 & 3
Through the web portal, you can access previously submitted ArtsActivate 2025 applications. If you are recommended for funding, applicants will also use these web portals to submit a revised budget and final report.
Guidelines & Resources
Review the complete ArtsActivate 2025 Guidelines
ArtsActivate 2024
ROUNDS 1, 2 & 3
Through the web portal, you can access previously submitted ArtsActivate 2024 applications. If you are recommended for funding, applicants will also use these web portals to submit a revised budget and final report.
Guidelines & Resources
Review the complete ArtsActivate 2024 Guidelines
ArtsActivate 2023
ROUNDS 1, 2 & 3
Through the web portal, you can access previously submitted ArtsActivate 2023 applications. If you are recommended for funding, applicants will also use these web portals to submit a revised budget and final report.
Guidelines & Resources
Review the complete ArtsActivate 2023 Guidelines
ArtsActivate 2022
ROUNDS 1, 2 & 3
Through the web portal, you can access previously submitted ArtsActivate 2022 applications. If you are recommended for funding, applicants will also use these web portals to submit a revised budget and final report.
Guidelines & Resources
Review the complete ArtsActivate 2022 Guidelines
ArtsActivate 2021
Web Portal
Through the web portal, you can apply when the application period is open. It will also give you access to previously submitted ArtsActivate 2021 applications. If you are recommended for funding, applicants will also use the web portal to submit a revised budget and final report.
Guidelines & Resources
Review the complete ArtsActivate 2021Guidelines
Funding Recipientsoca-media.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/…/ArtsAct-2021-Project-Summaries-Organizations-funded.pdf
Individual Artists / Non-Profit Organizations
ArtsActivate 2020
Web Portal
Applicants recommended for funding through ArtsActivate 2020 during the 2019-20 fiscal year (October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020), will find links to the ArtsActivate 2020 portals here. These links will stay live through the following year for postponed projects due to COVID-19.
The ArtsActivate 2020 web-portal will give applicants access to previously submitted applications, along with subsequent steps of the funding process such as revised budget and final report submissions.
Funding Recipients
Round 1 – Individual Artists / Non-profit Organizations
Round 2 – Individual Artists / Non-profit Organizations
Round 3 – Individual Artists / Non-profit Organizations
