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Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release
January 4, 2017
Media Contact:
Betsy Arnett, Public Information Officer
barnett@leesburgva.gov 703-771-2734
Local Arts Organizations Invited to Submit Grant Applications
to the Town of Leesburg
Grant application deadline is Wednesday, February 15, 2017.
Leesburg, VA (January 4, 2017) – The Leesburg Public Art Commission invites local arts
organizations to submit requests for funding. Request letters must be received by February 15,
2017. Funded arts activities must take place in the Town of Leesburg during Fiscal Year 2018
(July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018).
The Town of Leesburg will apply for $5,000 of state funding from the Virginia Commission for
the Arts’ Local Government Challenge Grant Program, and match it with $5,000 of local funds.
The total amount of $10,000 will be distributed to independent arts organizations to support
arts activities within the Town. In FY 2017, the Town gave $4,000 to Bluemont Concerts, $4,835
to the Friends of Leesburg Public Arts, and $1,165 to VSArts of Loudoun County.
Interested arts organizations should submit an online application via the Town website at
www.leesburgva.gov/artsgrant, outlining the amount requested, the arts activity that the
funding will support and the audience(s) that will be served, along with a description of the arts
organization. Applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, February 15, 2017,
to be considered.
Applicants must be organizations whose primary purpose is the arts (p roduction, presentation
or support of dance, literary arts, media arts, music, theater, or visual or related arts), that are
incorporated in Virginia, and have their headquarters and home seasons, or activities
equivalent to a home season, in the state. Funding cannot be provided for payment to
performers for specific performances.
The Commission on Public Art will review the funding requests at their March 2017 meeting
and then make a recommendation on the distribution of the funding to the Leesburg Tow n
Council at their March 28, 2017, Council Meeting. The Town Council will make the final
determination, dependent on receipt of the matching state funds. The deadline for the Town
to apply for the Local Government Challenge Grant is April 3, 2017. Funding will be provided to
selected arts organizations after July 1, 2017.
For more information about the Virginia Commission for the Arts’ Local Government Challenge
Grant program, please visit www.arts.virginia.gov/grants_local.html.
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