The Folk and Traditional Arts Project Grant is dedicated to celebrating, documenting, and preserving Colorado’s cultural heritage through folk and traditional arts. It aims to enhance community well being, encompassing belonging, cultural identity, economic vitality, and sense of place. This initiative includes two funding opportunities:

Funding for the creation, presentation, or teaching of folk and traditional arts.
And or funding for documenting folk or traditional arts and cultural heritage through the creation of community archiving, oral histories, or photojournalism, video or other creative and or documentary works.
Funding Amount: $3,000

The Colorado Creative Industries Folk and Traditional Arts Grant may be used to fully fund a project. Matching funds are not required. To learn more, review the Colorado Creative Industries Folk and Traditional Arts Grant Program Guidelines, (Google Doc)

Apply through the Colorado Creative Industries Grant portal(opens in new window)

Folk and Traditional Arts Definition:

As defined by the National Endowment for the Arts, the folk and traditional arts are rooted in and reflective of the cultural life of a community. Community members may share a common ethnic heritage, cultural mores, language, religion, occupation, or geographic region. These vital and constantly reinvigorated artistic traditions are shaped by values and standards of excellence that are passed from generation to generation, most often within family and community, through demonstration, conversation, and practice.
Documentary works and or visuals from the creative project must be made available for submission to the online digital Archives, a joint collaboration between Colorado State Archives and History Colorado.

Online information session: Feb. 27, 2025 from 12-1 p.m. Register for the online information session via Zoom(opens in new window).