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Cultural Trust Funds a Wyoming Arts Rainbow
The Wyoming State Parks & Cultural Resources website has posted information on Cultural Trust Fund (WCTF) applications, currently available to download.
The deadline for completed applications is May 1, 2010; a postmark deadline. Hand-delivery date deadline is April 30. Draft proposals may be submitted no later than April 16. Projects applying for funds must be “projects/events/activities that commence by July 1, 2010.” Recipients must also complete a final report, due 60 days after project completion.
I clicked through the site to find out what kinds of projects are currently being funded with grant monies. It’s a wonderful grouping:
“Learn by Using Museums,” a program developed by UW Art Museum Director and Chief Curator Susan Moldenhauer, covers the importance of museum-supported 
education. Specifically, the Museum has created a Master Teacher program that helps students understand their place in history–and history itself—through art projects. Arts curriculum are enhanced through teachers and venues wanting to collaborate. Art is used to enrich all curriculum: math, history, language…any topic that does NOT include art can be enriched through art.
You can watch a short video on the project here.
Another project, the Paul Smith Children’s Village at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens has opened. It includes a Secret Garden Wall and Puppet Theater. Laramie County School District #1 will benefit from future programs as well.
The Washakie Museum & Cultural Center, located in Worland, Wyoming, is not yet 
completed, but its schematics are complete and the facility should be opening very soon. WCTF grants are helping fund interior museum equipment. The museum’s director, Cheryl Reichelt, is happy to schedule tours of the almost-finished building.
To learn more about the Wyoming State Parks and Cultural grants program, contact Renee Bovee by phoning 307.777.6312. Good luck!
A Wyoming Arts Council (WAC) release has announced that applications are available for the new “Art Works for Wyoming” grant program. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is providing this one-time opportunity, and is able to offer the program as a result of its recently secured federal stimulus funding package. Any and all Wyoming arts organizations may apply, which, of course, includes Jackson arts entities. Grants are available to all qualifying arts venues.
WAC manager Rita Bascom says, “We are fortunate to live in a time when the arts are recognized for the impact they have on our economy. The fact that the NEA was included in our nation’s Stimulus Funding Plan is a credit to all of the artists, arts businesses, and nonprofit arts organizations who make their living through the arts, or hire artists to paint, dance, act, write, sculpt, design, etc. – not just at this point in time, but throughout our nation’s history.”
Throughout world history.
The program offers up to $25,000 in grants monies for projects meeting one of the following two criteria:
Salary support, full or partial, for one or more positions that are critical to an organization’s artistic mission and that are in jeopardy or have been eliminated as a result of the current economic collapse.
Fees for previously engaged artists and/or contractual personnel to maintain or expand the period during which such persons would be engaged.
Applications are due at the WAC by May 15, 2009. Applications will be forwarded to the Western States Arts Federation on June 1. June 3-5, applications will be considered and winning grants will be notified by mail on July 1. NO PAPER APPLICATIONS will be accepted.
For full application information on this program, log on to WAC’s online granting site here.
“We are excited to be a part of this national effort to save arts jobs. And we encourage all qualified Wyoming organizations to apply for funding,” Bascom said.