Applications for Grants Open! Also Seeking Residents to Serve as Grant Review Advisory Panelists.

Performing Arts Partnership Grant, Individual Artists Support Grant and Creative Neighborhoods Grant applications are now open! Apply online and learn more about eligibility, criteria and application deadlines, below. Email artsinfo@vbgov.com if you have any questions.

To ensure an equitable review process of these grant applications, the Cultural Affairs Department seeks Virginia Beach residents with a passion for the arts to serve as volunteer grant review advisory panelists. You can apply online if you are interested in serving as a panelist. Scroll down on this page to view panelist qualifications and responsibilities.

Grants to Individual Artists

The Virginia Beach Individual Artists Support Grants are designed to support Virginia Beach artists by offering resources to enhance their artistic practice, achieve professional growth, build their portfolios, and engage with the community to contribute to the cultural vibrancy of Virginia Beach.

The deadline to apply for the Individual Artist Support Grant is 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.

Grants for Neighborhood Art Programs

The Creative Neighborhoods Grant Program is designed to empower and inspire communities by providing financial support for neighborhood-based art projects. This pilot program aims to foster a sense of pride, unity, and creativity within neighborhoods and districts by funding projects that beautify public spaces, celebrate local culture, and engage residents in the artistic process.

The Creative Neighborhoods Grants support arts organizations, civic/neighborhood associations, individual artists, groups of artists, non-arts nonprofits, and community-based organizations and businesses with project expenses associated with presenting multigenerational, free gatherings with arts components or short-term art projects in communities. 

These activities should bring the community together, enhance the neighborhood, and reflect its unique character.

The deadline to apply for a Creative Neighborhoods Grant is 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025.

Performing Arts Partnership Grant


The Performing Arts Partnership Grant supports performing arts nonprofits in delivering high-quality projects that engage the Virginia Beach community through a partnership with the Cultural Affairs Department. This grant fosters artistic excellence, collaboration, and community outreach, with an emphasis on creating meaningful cultural experiences in Virginia Beach. This grant aims to strengthen and expand Virginia Beach’s performing arts sector by supporting projects that foster collaboration between performing arts nonprofits and the Cultural Affairs Department.

Grant applications are accepted year-round until funds are exhausted.

Project Grants

​​The Arts & Humanities Commission exists to assist the growth of worthwhile programs in the arts and humanities in the City of Virginia Beach. Toward this end, the Commission provides financial assistance to organizations (in the form of project grants) for activities serving the residents of Virginia Beach. Applicants may apply for only one project grant in any grant period.

Leadership and Organizational Development Grant

The Virginia Beach Arts & Humanities Commission's Leadership and Organizational Development (LOD) Grant program supports arts and humanities leaders (professional administrators, key volunteers and board members) in acquiring skills and practical tools that hone their ability to lead, develop and sustain the overall health and vitality of arts and humanities organizations.