Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture (POAC) has awarded phICA two grants totaling $10,000 for the 2022 fiscal year. Our first ever funding by POAC, we received a Project Support Grant for our Trajectory Print Project which will be completed by December 31, 2021.
“The Project Support program promotes and encourages the breadth of arts and cultural programming in our community by supporting projects both large and small throughout the City of Phoenix,” according to POAC. Funds will used to complete this project which includes prints produced in 2021 by Brent Bond, Santo Press, Scottsdale, of images made by 12 artists living and working in Maricopa County, Arizona. The artists for the project were selected by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based curator, art and architecture professor, author, and art critic Marisa Flórido Cesar in Fall 2020.
The second grant is The Phoenix City Council approved using federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding as a part of non-profit arts and culture stabilization due to the effect of COVID19 on the Nation’s cultural infrastructure. phICA will utilize these funds to continue our recent 2021 Virtual Exhibitions and Emerging Curator initiatives, and to jump start our _onRadar reposting social media project from 2019.