Arts and Culture

Arts and Culture
The Kingdom is committed to enhancing cultural vibrancy, access and diversity to promote regional prosperity and build communities. The Kingdom seeks to build the capacity of the arts sector as a whole, improve access to arts learning and promote artistic and cultural diversity. 

Capacity Building for the Sector
The Kingdom developed its signature program that addresses the Spiritual, Academic, Financial, Economic Development and Technology aspects for our Youth that we call SAFETY. Through our SAFETY Program we will support small arts organizations to increase their management capacity and resiliency to lead to a more stable and productive arts sector. Several new organizations will be selected that will begin a four­-year program with annual funding as well as coaching and other networking and learning experiences. The Kingdom will also support a smaller group of nonprofits working to increase the collection and usage of data to help funders’ and nonprofits’ decision-­making that impact the cultural vitality of the region.

Improving Access to Arts Learning
The Kingdom will fund nonprofits that are able to bring the highest performing arts programs to the most underserved students, both in and out of school. These programs will be able to provide programing to over 300 schools and public after school programs to provide consistent, effective and engaging arts programing. The Kingdom will also support a number of organizations working with at risk youth, those either in the juvenile detention center, or have been court involved. With many of these youths not attending traditional schools, this program focuses on connecting youth to teaching artists and programs that are infused with social/emotion learning and workforce development.

Production Support that Strengthens Artistic and Cultural Diversity   

The Kingdom funds projects that showcase diverse talents, reach underserved communities, and offers affordable and accessible programming to residents not typically found in audiences. In 2015, with the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, there is a particular focus on productions that showcase the talents of people with disabilities and/or accessible programs to people with disabilities.