Assembly for the Arts, the nonprofit founded last year to speak for the arts community, has announced that the county has made $3.3 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds available to for-profit creative businesses and workers in the creative/arts sector who lost income due to the pandemic. The amount was split between Assembly for the Arts and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture to distribute.
Applications are funding are open now. Individual artists can get up to $2,500 and businesses can get up to $45,000, depending on their annual revenue. Artists must live I Cuyahoga County and businesses must be headquartered in the county.
Assembly for the Arts will also hold a series of information sessions on the process. Go to assemblycle.org/arpa/ for more information and to apply.