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Contact The NJ State Council
on the Arts
Mailing Address:
NJ State Council on the Arts
P.O. Box 306
Trenton, NJ 08625-0306
Office Address:
225 West State Street, 4th Floor
Trenton, NJ 08608
Tel: (609) 292-6130
NJ Relay: 711
Email: Feedback@sos.nj.gov
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Grant Opportunities In Community Arts
Community Arts Program
The Community Arts Program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts seeks to make the arts an integral part of community life, grow the arts from the grassroots, and extend the benefits of the arts to residents in all corners of the state. This program area includes a battery of funding vehicles, initiatives, and collaborative strategies to support local arts development, folk and traditional arts, community cultural planning, participation building, and connecting the arts to the civic agenda, with special emphasis on improving access to the arts for underserved audiences and communities.
Folk and Traditional Arts Program
Diversity is one of New Jersey's most significant and valuable characteristics. The state's many geographic and demographic settings are interwoven with ethnic, cultural and occupational networks, creating a dynamic array of communities. In them, folk and traditional arts are valued ways of expressing identity and strengthening group ties. To support this cultural richness, as well as the broader public appreciation and understanding of it, the Council has established a multi-faceted Folk Arts Program.
New Jersey Heritage Fellowship
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts will award up to ten New Jersey Heritage Fellowships to exemplary folk and traditional artists. These Fellowships, which come with an award of $20,000 each, recognize lifetime achievement, artistic excellence, and contributions to our state's living traditional arts heritage.
Early Nomination Deadline: January 9, 2025 | 12:00 PM ET
Nomination Deadline: February 6, 2025 | 12:00 PM ET
New Jersey Heritage Fellowship Nomination Form
NJ Heritage Fellowship Rules and Instructions (English)
NJ Heritage Fellowship Rules and Instructions (Spanish)
Online and In-person information sessions are available November 2024 - January 2025. See Rules and Instructions for dates. Sessions are free, but registration is required.
Folk & Traditional Arts Project Grants
The Folk & Traditional Arts Project (FTAP) grant program provides emerging to mid-career folk and traditional artists access to opportunities that significantly advance skills in their art form. For this grant opportunity, emerging to mid-career artists are individuals with more than five years of experience in their art forms.
Applicants may request up to $10,000 to cover the costs of a structured learning opportunity in their art form. Proposed projects must demonstrate measurable outcomes that the applicant intends to achieve, which furthers their work in their folk and traditional art form.
The proposed project outcome must support artmaking skills in folk/traditional art forms that are passed on between two or more artists in an ongoing, structured relationship (i.e. mentor/apprentice, small group learning, and/or directed research).
Applications are now closed. For more information, be sure to sign up for the Council’s newsletter.
Folk and Traditional Arts Infrastructure
Folk and traditional arts development in New Jersey has been guided by a Folk Arts Infrastructure Plan created with input from folk cultural specialists, folk artists and practitioners, and diverse communities throughout the state. Core to implementation of that plan is the development of a network of regional folklife centers in the state that conduct fieldwork research in their regions and produce and present programs to preserve and highlight the great diversity of folk arts traditions practiced in New Jersey.
The Council is proud to support and work closely with our State’s five Folklife Centers:
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