FY25 Project Grant for Organizations Grantees
The Nevada Arts Council awards the following organizations with Project Grant for Organizations for Fiscal Year 2025.
| Organization Name | Project Description | Location | Grant Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Public Fit Theatre Company | APF Staged Reading Series: A series of four, free staged readings held in collaboration with the Clark County Library on Flamingo Road in Las Vegas. | Las Vegas | $4,200 |
| Black Mountain Institute (BMI); Board of Regents, NSHE obo University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Breakout Writers Series (2024-25): Three events, which include a public reading, Q&A, and reception with an emerging writer who demonstrates exceptional potential in their respective genre. | Las Vegas | $5,600 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Mason Valley Inc. | Public Youth Art Gallery | Yerington | $2,450 |
| City Of Carson City | Carson City Murals and Music Festival: A three-day festival featuring local, national and international mural artists, concerts, and interactive events. | Carson City | $5,600 |
| City of Henderson | Kaumakaiwa with Kulaiwi – Native Lands Celebration 2024: A tribute to traditional Hawaiian culture through immersive live music, storytelling, activities, and dance. | Henderson | $5,600 |
| Cultural Arts Foundation of Douglas County | Wind Down Wednesdays: This event will happen monthly on a Wednesday evening. It will offer music and art of a variety of genres, for free to the community, and local food trucks will be available. | Minden | $4,200 |
| Dam Short Film Society | 2025 Dam Short Film Festival: Its mission is to seek out original, unusual, and entertaining short films from around the world; make them available to the general public; and honor and appreciate the filmmaker and their dedication to this art form. | Boulder City | $3,500 |
| Double Scoop Inc. | Supporting Nevada Arts With Independent Journalism: This project consists of 35 timely, relevant pieces of media on Nevada art—including exhibition reviews, artist profiles, Q+As, and art news features—to be produced by Double Scoop, published on Double Scoop, and, in some cases, further distributed via other media outlets in collaboration. | Reno | $6,300 |
| Elemental Dance Company | Pseudo Serenity: Charity show for a nonprofit that gives free mental health counseling to athletes. | Las Vegas | $4,200 |
| Elko Arts Foundation | 2024 Elko Mural Festival: The Elko Arts Foundation is continuing to beautify the Elko community with the 2024 Elko Mural Festival, covering blank space with colorful murals sharing Elko’s deep history and local heritage. | Elko | $3,500 |
| Goldwell Open Air Museum and Artist Residency | Goldwell Open Air Museum 40th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion: A desert ghost town homecoming for our artists and friends. | Las Vegas | $5,600 |
| High Desert Harmony Chorus (Sweet Adelines International) | 2024 High Desert Holidays Performance: HDH produces a fun, family friendly holiday performance with seasonal, secular, and non-secular/popular music selections spanning multiple cultures and including collaborations with local school choruses, quartets, other performance groups, and the HDH Holiday Guest Chorus. | Reno | $5,600 |
| IndigenousAF (aka IAF Inc.) | Recipientes: A solo art exhibition by Luis Varela-Rico featuring metalwork inspired by the culture, creativity, and technology surrounding immigrant manual labor. | Las Vegas | $6,300 |
| Kizuna Japanese Society | The 8th Kizuna Japanese Spring Festival: The Kizuna Japanese Spring Festival is the ultimate opportunity to bring the Las Vegas community together by celebrating the spring time in Japanese way | Henderson | $5,600 |
| Las Vegas Natural History Museum | Harmony In Diversity: The Harmony in Diversity project will enhance the family friendly cultural arts offerings within the Downtown Las Vegas Cultural Corridor by providing 6,300 people access to cultural arts-focused artwork, performances, and experiences presented by Nevada artists and community arts organizations during Cultural Arts Day on April 19, 2025, and an April-May 2025 Community Art Exhibition at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, 900 Las Vegas Blvd. N, Las Vegas, NV 89101. | Las Vegas | $6,300 |
| Latino Arte and Culture | Fiesta on Wells: A celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. | Reno | $4,900 |
| Main Street Gardnerville | “Stop and Smell the Flowers” Asphalt Art Street Mural Project | Gardnerville | $4,000 |
| Mile High Jazz Band Association Inc. | Jazz Performance in Nevada’s Capital City: Project includes monthly big-band performances, quarterly jazz and poetry events, and a 10-day music festival. | Carson City | $4,200 |
| Nevada Artists’ Co-op Gallery | Emerging Artists Mentor Program: It aims to discover and mentor five new and emerging artists in our community. | Reno | $3,200 |
| Nevada Dance Company (Pinkerton Dance Company) | The Nutcracker Ballet: A magical tale of a young girl’s dream on a Christmas Eve long ago. | Minden | $3,500 |
| Nevada Gay Men’s Chorus | NGMC’s 15th Annual Holiday Concert Spectacular in December 2024 and 15th Annual Season Finale Spring Concert in June 2025: Both performances are currently being developed and titled. | Sparks | $4,900 |
| Nevada Humanities Inc. | Nevada Humanities Exhibition Series – Two Visual Art Exhibitions: Nevada Humanities is requesting funding to support two visual art exhibitions and accompanying public programs in the 2024 Nevada Humanities Exhibition Series at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery in Las Vegas: 1) Sharon K. Schafer: Artist and Naturalist, An Explorer’s View of Nevada, Oct. 3 – Nov. 26, 2024; and 2) Birthed From the Soil: A Photo Affair by Iyana Esters, Dec. 4, 2024-Jan. 29, 2025 | Reno | $6,300 |
| Nevada Shakespeare Festival | Nevada Shakespeare Festival’s Adaptation of Taming of the Shrew: This full-scale professional production will be produced in partnership with the City of Las Vegas and presented free to public audiences. | Las Vegas | $5,600 |
| Nevada State Prison Preservation Society | “Far Beyond the Walls” Art Exhibition: The aim of this project is to foster a dialog around contemporary challenges to the policies and practices of incarceration in the U.S., while engaging the history and legacy of policies and individuals incarcerated in this 161-year-old prison. | Carson City | $4,900 |
| New Dance Foundation for the Arts Inc. | 26th Annual Las Vegas Dance in the Desert Festival: Three fully produced modern dance concerts and two master classes with professional dance companies from across the country produced at the Summerlin Library Performing Arts Center (SLPAC). | Las Vegas | $4,200 |
| Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association | 38th Annual Bowers Bluegrass Festival: This three-day festival presents nationally and locally known Bluegrass, Old Time and Folk music artists, as well as camping, jamming, food and craft vendors, children’s activities and discounted room rates at nearby lodging facilities. | Reno | $4,900 |
| Om Namo | Moving Forward Together (MFT) Powwow: MFT celebrates Indigenous cultures, traditions, and art forms, while fostering unity, healing, and community education. | Fallon | $6,300 |
| Poor Richards Players Inc | Poor Richard’s Playwrights: A play-writing initiative to support and cultivate new, original, feature-length works of theatre from a diverse assortment of local writers. | Henderson | $3,500 |
| Red Mountain Music Company | Red Mountain Music Company Productions: Concerts titled “Counting Blessings” and “Soaring” will be performed by the Red Mountain Choir and young singers from local schools, and a solo concert called “Star Struck” will be performed by qualified soloists in the community (produced by Just Barely Entertainment and sponsored by RMMC). | Boulder City | $3,500 |
| Renew Music | Bertha Raffetto Commission Collaboration: A musical setting of “The Ballad of Katie Hoskins” as part of a musical panorama of the unique lived experiences of authentic Nevadans, both past and present. | Reno | $4,200 |
| Reno Punk Rock Flea Market | Supporting the All-Ages and Inclusive Neutral Ground Concert Series: Supporting the Neutral Ground concert series (which features new artists, often playing for the first time in front of a live audience) as a free event for all attendees. | Reno | $4,900 |
| School of the Arts; Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno | Reno Jazz Festival (2025): The three-day festival provides a forum for more 2,500 students, musicians and community members to perform for professional musicians and music educators, peers and audiences, and to interact with jazz masters through experiential clinics, workshops and concerts. | Reno | $5,600 |
| Sierra Women’s Ensemble Inc. dba Bella Voce | Bella Voce Concert Season: This grant is to help fund the Treble Voice Turnout event with Washoe County High School treble choirs, hire musicians to accompany concert music, and to pay for the commission of a new work. | Reno | $2,400 |
| The Asylum (Eat More Art Vegas) | FREE TO READ: A devised theatre piece reflecting on democracy and the First Amendment that will tour to venues in southern Nevada in the fall of 2024.. | Las Vegas | $5,600 |
| The Comstock Foundation for History and Culture | Breaking Ground: An immersive exhibit, by documentary artist Valery Lyman, will feature documentary photographs and phonographs of American industrial history projected directly onto the raw industrial surfaces and machinery at the Comstock Foundation’s Donovan Mill in Silver City, Nevada. | Silver City | $5,600 |
| The Lilley Museum; Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno | Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy: A profound art exhibition about Executive Order 9066, incarceration camps, and its lasting effects on third generation Japanese-Americans. | Reno | $5,600 |
| Trails & Vistas | Trails & Vistas: Building Community through the Arts within Nature: Trails & Vistas, a bi-state nonprofit organization, provides our signature family friendly community Art Hikes, a family friendly World Concert, and The Dreaming Tree Field Trip events for youth along a nature trail infused with visual and performing arts such as live performances from musicians, dancers, poets, storytellers and visual artist installations, including presentations from culture bearers of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. | Truckee, California | $4,228 |
| Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation | The Liberal Arts division of TMCC will host it third annual celebration of the Arts event, ArtFest ‘25–TMCCreates / TMCCrearte on April 14-17, with a particular focus on the Hispanic student community and the artists who reflect these many diverse identities, through which, it will honor its creative faculty and students along with many talented Hispanic writers, visual artists, and performers and celebrate their contributions to the Arts together as a college community. | Reno | $5,600 |
| Virtual Arts | New Play Festival: Nevada Edition: The New Play Festival will take place entirely on Zoom over the course of one to two weekends in late February/early March of 2025, and feature six to eight playwrights with diverse voices from Nevada. | Henderson | $4,200 |
| Women in Film Nevada (formerly known as Nevada Women’s Film Collective) | Nevada Women’s Film Festival. NWFFest is an annual film festival that screens local, national and international films, by or about women, and hosts engaging events which are relevant to women and all genders from all over the world. | Las Vegas | $4,900 |