About the Program

The purpose of the Local Arts Agency Program is to assist in the development of local arts agencies, and to strengthen and stabilize their statewide network to further local and statewide cultural goals and objectives.

A local arts agency (LAA) is defined as an umbrella agency that serves its county or counties arts and cultural constituencies. One or more county commissions must officially recognize an entity as the local arts agency, commission, alliance or division of a county or city government. This includes county arts councils established pursuant to section 265.32, Florida Statutes.

This program is designed to provide general support for activities conducted by a local arts agency such as:

• Cultural assessment and planning
• Services to arts and cultural organizations, individual artists, and the diverse communities the local arts agency represents
• Promotion of arts and cultural events or opportunities
• Collaborations that benefit the community at large and provide greater quality and access to arts and cultural programs and opportunities
• Programs, projects, or initiatives such as arts in education, lifelong learning, art in public places, marketing and community outreach

Resources

• Florida Local Arts Agency Listing contains a listing of agencies which currently provide services to their local areas.  Not all LAAs on this list receive funding through this program.
• Florida Association of Local Arts Agencies state service organization
• Americans for the Arts national service organization

View example grant applications.