Program Development
In 2020, we reimagined the Creators of Culture program by beginning with Discovery Sessions and a Program Design Meeting with 16 community members to glean insights about types of “creators of culture” to support in our region. The purpose of the program development process was to have CultureSource invest significant time on the front end of the process to determine who, in characteristics, should get funding, and then on the back end, make it very easy for that select group of people who identify with the profiles to apply for unrestricted funding, having their applications assessed using objective eligibility criteria.

2020 Types of Applications
Artists doing work made for others to experience that contains elements of social commentary and that is found in the brilliance of the margins or outside of dominant narratives of arts and culture. Artists in this category must also have not received a single award or grant of $3,000 or more in the past five years. Priority consideration will be given to artists meeting the criteria above who also work as a multi-generational mentor/mentee team. One member of the team must be age 55 or older, and the other be between the ages of 18 and 25.

Venues presenting arts and culture for others to experience. Prior to COVID-19 becoming a pandemic on March 11, 2020, these non-residential spaces must have been presenting work of creative or cultural expression on a regular basis (averaging at least two days per week year-round) and must have had a yearly budget of less than $100,000.

• Patricia Beard
• Asia Blaney
• Leith Campbell
• Halima Cassells
• DaTrice Clark
• Raymond Elwart Jr
• Bruce Harper
• Megan Heeres
• Gabriel Herrera-Duran
• LaShaun Kotaran
• Leo Margolis
• Lindsay McCaw
• Ulysses Newkirk
• Andre Reed
• Denise Rohde
• Frannie Shepherd-Bates
• Alexander Smith
• Levi Stroud
• Jacob Ward
• Audra Wist
• John Wood