Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Grants

Funding opportunities for small arts organizations and creative entrepreneurs!

To the left, the exterior of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s front entrance. To the right, the exterior of the museum’s Cantilever Gallery. In the foreground are bushes, flowers, and a pathway to the Museum’s front entrance.

Pennsylvania Partner in the Arts

Attention: nonprofit organizations operating in Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Somerset and Westmoreland Counties
As of September 1, 2022, Community Partnerships RC&D is temporarily operating as the point of contact for current and potential grantees of the PPA Entry to Program Stream and Program Stream tracks.

Current grantees located in the aforementioned counties will receive any information regarding grant status, final reporting requirements, and the availability of future application guidelines via Community Partnerships RC&D.

Specific questions regarding current Entry to Program Stream and Program Stream grants or eligibility for future funding may be directed to Kiernan Schalk at Community Partnerships RC&D. General questions regarding the PPA program may be directed to Amanda Lovell at the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Attention: creative entrepreneurs located in Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Somerset, and Westmoreland Counties
As of September 1, 2022, funding through PA Council on the Arts’ Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator (CEA) Program is temporarily unavailable in the aforementioned counties. Questions regarding the CEA Program and the timeline for future funding availability may be directed to Amanda Lovell at the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

This project was supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding Partnership. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by The Westmoreland Museum of American Art.