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The Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) requests applications from qualified artists and District nonprofit art galleries or organizations for its Fiscal Year 2025 Art Bank Program. Award amounts vary but eligible individual applicants may be awarded up to $15,000 and nonprofit art galleries or organizational applicants may be awarded up to $20,000.

Submission Deadline: 9 pm ET, Tuesday, May 28, 2024

The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) is soliciting applications from qualified individual artists or organizations for its Fiscal Year 2025 Public Art Building Communities Grant Program (PABC). Multiple awards may be made under this Request for Applications (RFA). Award amounts vary.

Submission Deadline: 9 pm ET, Monday, July 22, 2024

This competitive grant program provides support for the development and public presentation of visual art exhibitions by District resident curators. The program does this through grant support and use of CAH’s exhibition spaces. Exhibition space is both within the building lobby 200 I (Eye) Street Galleries and on CAH's virtual platform. Submissions will open May 6th and will close July 1st at 9pm EST.

CAH is actively recruiting for panelists to review our grants programs beginning in May and throughout the summer. Panelists are integral to the grantmaking process, providing a critical review, comments, and scores of all applications to a particular grant program. Panelists are provided with applications 3 to 4 weeks in advance of the panel review, and then convene for a one-day virtual review panel. Panelists are compensated for their time with a $250 gift card.

Our next Full Commission regular meeting will begin at 5:30 ET on Monday, May 20. Members of the public are invited to observe the meeting live online on CAH’s YouTube channel.

Members of the public may request three minutes to speak during the public comment period held at this meeting. Requests must be submitted by no later than Noon ET on Thursday, May 16. Written comments may also be submitted by no later than Noon ET on Thursday, May 16, as an alternative or in addition to spoken comments. Public comments, both spoken and written, will be included in the public record of the meeting.

This meeting is governed by the Open Meetings Act. Please address any questions or complaints arising under this meeting to the Office of Open Government at opengovoffice@dc.gov.

The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities along with its Lead Government and Community Partners will launched the DC Area Music Census on April 10 2024.

The Census will capture key information about the DC area music economy to assist the District and area community make more informed, data-driven decisions to support the music ecosystem.

The Census is open to all music industry ecosytem members who live and work in the following counties and cities: Washington D.C, Montgomery, Prince Georges, Anne Arundel, Howard, Frederick, Charles, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudon, Prince William, Arlington City, Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax City, Manassa and Manassas Park.

Visit the DC Music Census website if you're interested in becoming a community partner or you just want to be notified when the census goes live. And if you have any questions please email CAHEvents@dc.gov.

"Life in DC" is an art exhibition featuring various past and present scenes around Washington D.C. with a special focus on SW and SE areas. The show will consist of original oils and watercolor paintings of the city.

The art exhibition will be open from May 3 to June 24 at Foundry Gallery, with an opening reception this Saturday, May 4, from 4 to 6 pm.

Death by Narwhals, one of our FY24 grantees, is participating in a show celebrating the artistic voices of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders from the DMV and Baltimore, at Strathmore.

The opening reception is on May 14 and is free, but they do expect demand to exceed their capacity for this opening.

Join the Mayor's Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs for a night of music, networking with local small business owners and community, DC government officials, and raffle prizes from Luna Hall, Spot of Tea, Rasa, and Chocolate Chocolate to start off May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! 🫵🏽

Candid’s live and on-demand trainings, webinars, and other resources are designed to improve your fundraising, overall sustainability, grantmaking, and transparency.

Check out just some of these free trainings they're providing the month of May, which are all from 2 to 3:30 pm ET:

• Introduction to individual giving
• Planning, measuring, and sharing your program’s impact
• Race, gender, and inequity in nonprofit consulting

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The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities online database showcases our Art Bank Collection, a collection of moveable artworks loaned to other District government agencies for display in public offices, as well as our Public Art Collection of installations of large-scale artworks in public sites/places throughout the District of Columbia.

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