ARPA Arts & Culture Internship Program
This ARPA grants program has concluded.
Mayor Steven T. Noble is pleased to announce the awardees of the City of Kingston’s ARPA Arts & Culture Internship Grants are the following organizations:
Andrew Moore Photography
De Chiara Projects/ArtPort Kingston
Midtown Arts District (MAD)
Bailey Pottery Equipment
Center for Creative Education
Place Corps
TMI Project
Wholesale in a Box Company
“We are pleased to announce the grantees for the ARPA Arts & Culture Internship Grant Program, which will provide job training in creative fields for young people in our community,” said Mayor Noble. “Arts & Culture is a crucial sector for local employment, and we’re happy to be able to provide paid internships to support both young creatives and our vital creative industry here in Kingston.”
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Mayor Steve Noble is pleased to announce the launch of the City of Kingston’s ARPA Arts & Culture Internship Grant Program, which is made possible with funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act. This program is intended to respond to the negative economic impacts of the COVID-19 public health emergency by focusing on youth arts and culture workforce development.
Per the City of Kingston’s Economic Recovery Plan, the Arts & Culture Internship Grant Program will use ARPA funding to aid the creative economy by encouraging young people to develop an interest in, and the skills needed, to participate in the arts industry. The program will support both nonprofit and for-profit arts and culture organizations that experienced losses due to the pandemic.
The creative industries – which include advertising, architecture, arts and crafts, fine arts, design, fashion, film/video, photography, music, performing arts, publishing, computer games, and TV/radio – are the lifeblood of the creative economy. The creative economy has no standard definition but can be thought of as the sum of all the parts of the creative industries, including trade, labor, and production.
Eligible institutions may apply for cash assistance to hire high school students or recent graduates to intern at their business or organization for one semester: Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, or Summer 2024. Interns shall be a high school, undergraduate, or graduate student or individual who graduated from high school, college, or graduate school in 2023 or 2024.
To be eligible for an award, an entity must:
- Be a nonprofit or for-profit business contributing to the creative economy based in the City of Kingston limits
- Have been operating in the City of Kingston prior to October 1, 2021
Please review the full guidelines before applying.
Relevant Documents:
Additional APRA funding opportunities available to arts and culture businesses and institutions include ARPA Small Business Grants, ARPA Community Events Grants, and ARPA Nonprofit Services Grants (coming soon).
