Community Arts
Matching Grant

The purpose of the MASB Community Arts Matching Grant is to focus on building a beautiful Baltimore by strengthening the vitality and sustainability of arts projects in communities across the city. MASB offers matching grant funds for artists to activate or expand community engagement with a public art project that will continue to stimulate interest in art in the City of Baltimore and to encourage an appreciation for contemporary art that is openly accessible to all. The MASB Community Arts Matching Grant supports independent artists and small organizations with an artist led project by providing matching funds up to $10,000 per project.

The MASB Community Arts Matching Grant supports any of the following permanent or temporary public art forms:

• Stand-alone sculptures and structures

• Mosaics, murals, wall-mounted sculpture, site furnishing, lighting and projections

The MASB Community Arts Matching Grant is open to artist led public art projects seeking additional funds. This matching grant is open to Baltimore City neighborhood and community-based organizations partnering with artists or artist teams. The requirements are:

• The project must be an original work

• The project must be in Baltimore City

• Access to the piece must be free and open to the public

• Applicants must provide evidence of existing secured funds

• Permission to install the work in its proposed location must be secured and evidence of the same presented with the application.

The MASB Community Arts Matching Grant submission period is currently closed. The next cycle is set to begin in January 2021. More information and submissions are available at the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.