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 2023
ArtsActivate 2023 Round 2 will open for applications on September 26! Please see the Guidelines and the Info Session slides below for additional information on applying for this project-based funding program.
Round 2
Information Sessions
The Round 2 Info Sessions will be posted shortly.
If you would like to see the info session material from Round 1 please go to the following links:
Video- ArtsActivate 2023 Round 1 Information Session in English
Slides – ArtsActivate 2023 Round 1 Information Session in Spanish.
Slides – ArtsActivate 2023 Round 1 Information Session in English.
Open Office Hours (Virtual)
Drop in Office Hours will be held on in the weeks of October 10 and October 17. Join us to ask questions about your ArtsActivate application before the submission deadline! These informal sessions will be held on Zoom for your convenience.
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ArtsActivate 2023:
- 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 2023 will open for three rounds of applications during the 2022-23 fiscal year (October 1, 2022 – September 30, 2023). 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 2021-22 or 2022-23 may apply if they receive less than $150,000 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 2023 Guidelines
Download – ArtsActivate 2022 Info Session Slides (PDF). Please note that the slides are from previous rounds and some details may change.
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:
July 5 – August 1, 2022
Earliest Project Start Date:
October 1, 2022
Round 2
Application Period:
September 26 – October 24, 2022
Earliest Project Start Date:
January 1, 2023
Round 3
Application Period:
January 3 – January 30, 2023
Earliest Project Start Date:
April 1, 2023
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 2 – Individual Artists / Non-profit Organizations
Round 3 – Individual Artists / Non-profit Organizations