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Category: Wyoming Arts News
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Arts Cheyenne Awarded Grant from National Endowment for the Arts for Local Public Art Development
The National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) today announced that Arts Cheyenne will receive a $100,000 grant to support the organization and help develop a community-based kinetic public art project. The NEA award to Arts Cheyenne was part of a competitive grant application process to distribute American Rescue Plan funds to arts and culture organizations across the country. Arts Cheyenne was among five other Wyoming-based grant recipients.
Arts Cheyenne will use the funds to support a new kinetic public art project called Wind, Water, and Light, a three-year initiative to bring movable, interactive, wind and environmental-based art to Cheyenne and Laramie County. The project will sponsor up to six temporary kinetic art installations this summer in the West Edge section of downtown Cheyenne.
“We’re thrilled to receive this award to support the organization and public art development in Cheyenne,” said Mike Morris, Arts Cheyenne Board President. “These NEA/ARPA funds are designed to improve community arts & culture infrastructure. The grant support will help us launch this kinetic public art project to help make Cheyenne and Laramie County a center for wind-based art,” he added.
The first year of the Wind, Water, and Light project initiates a public art loan program in the community so that public art creators can temporarily install and increase local awareness of kinetic art. In future years, the Wind, Water, and Light project will sponsor permanent kinetic art installations in Cheyenne and Laramie County locations.
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Wyoming Arts Council Accepting Nominations for 2020 Governor’s Arts Awards
The Wyoming Arts Council is accepting nominations for the 2020 Governor’s Arts Awards.
Established in 1982, the Governor’s Arts Awards recognize excellence in the arts and outstanding service to the arts in Wyoming. These awards were first made possible by an endowment from the Union Pacific Foundation in honor of Mrs. John U. Loomis, a lifelong patron of the arts. Over the years, individuals and organizations from more than 25 Wyoming communities and statewide organizations have been honored for their dedication to the arts in Wyoming.
Full nomination criteria can be found here. For questions please contact Brittany at brittany.perez@wyo.gov or 307-214-2701.
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Arts Cheyenne Receives CARES Act Funding
The Wyoming Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, has distributed COVID-19 support grants to 45 arts organizations across Wyoming. Arts Cheyenne was one of the recipients of this CARES Act support. Other Cheyenne organizations receiving CARES Act funding included Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, Cheyenne Little Theatre Players Inc., Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, Reformation Dance Company, and the Wyoming Music Educators Association.
The purpose of the CARES Act funding for arts organizations is to preserve jobs and stabilize organizations. Funds are distributed as a one-time grant to provide administrative and operational support to arts organizations that have suffered substantial financial or personnel losses as a result of COVID-19.
Recipients of these funds may be asked by the Wyoming Arts Council, the Wyoming Humanities Council or the Wyoming Arts Alliance to participate in conversations and data collection about how COVID-19 is impacting cultural organizations in Wyoming. The Wyoming Arts Council is committed to providing ongoing support to arts organizations and individual artists across the state as disruptions from COVID-19 continue.