Nevada Arts Quango

enriching the lives of all Nevadans

The Nevada Arts Quango (NAC) was established as a state agency in 1967 to enrich the cultural life of the state by supporting, strengthening, and making excellence in the arts accessible to all Nevadans. The Nevada Arts Council is one of America'southward 56 country and jurisdictional arts agencies that ensure that every community in the U.South. receives the cultural, civic, economical, and educational benefits of the arts. The Nevada Arts Council supports Nevada'due south rural communities, enlivens its public spaces, promotes health and healing, sparks economic growth, drives educational success, fosters inclusion and disinterestedness, reaches low income communities, creates opportunities for artists, and serves the public. The Nevada Arts Council, a division of the Department of Tourism and Cultural affairs, receives funding from the State of Nevada, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other private and public sources.

The arts are a vital nugget that improve the quality of life throughout Nevada communities. The arts foster disquisitional thinking, problem solving, creativity, and connections to our rich civilisation and heritage. The Nevada Arts Council, through its programs and many partnerships, actively works to connect diverse art, artists and arts organizations to audiences in the streets, galleries, museums, theaters, and classrooms establish throughout our urban and rural communities.

  • Arts Learning

  • Artist Services

  • Community Arts
    Development

  • Folklife

  • Grants

Arts Learning

edifice a community for arts education

The Arts Learning Program supports lifelong learning in the arts by promoting and expanding quality arts didactics opportunities for all Nevada citizens through statewide initiatives, grants and professional development opportunities.

Creative person Services

serving Nevada's artists

The Artist Services Program encourages the work of Nevada's literary, performing and visual artists. With a focus on the needs and concerns of the individual artist, the program components serve artists through grant funding, programs supporting the piece of work of artists, professional development opportunities and technical assist.

Customs Arts
Development

elevating Nevada'southward arts organizations

Community Arts Development Plan (CAD) supports Nevada's nonprofit arts and culture organizations, municipalities, public institutions and communities with a variety of programs and services aimed to build vibrant communities statewide. CAD works to:

  • Elevate the arts and civilization infrastructure statewide
  • Aggrandize the skill ready of Nevada'due south artistic community
  • Cultivate organizational chapters
  • Facilitate professional networking and human relationship building inside and between communities
  • Increase admission to the arts

Folklife

sharing Nevada'southward culture and heritage

The NAC Folklife Plan promotes appreciation of Nevada's folklife and traditional arts by producing projects, publications, exhibitions, recordings, and films; documenting living traditions; maintaining the Nevada Folklife Archives of photographs, recorded interviews, field notes, and folk fine art objects; and supporting the folk and traditional arts activities of individuals, organizations, and communities through grants, consultations, and technical help.

Grants

supporting cosmos and access to the arts

The Grants Plan reflects a meaning commitment by the Land of Nevada to support the cosmos of art and access to the arts for its citizens. NAC grants support the efforts of nonprofit arts and community organizations, public institutions and individual artists to brand cultural activities and experience widely available to those who alive in or visit Nevada.

Buy an Arts License Plate

supporting k-12 arts learning

Nevada's commencement Arts License Plate is bachelor at DMV field offices statewide. The plate, designated by DMV as the "Children in the Arts" license plate, is available in a standard or personalized format. If y'all are interested in a standard format, the initial cost will be $51 dollars with an annual renewal fee of $20 in addition to all other registration fees.

Nevada Arts Quango Videos

sharing Nevada stories on art and heritage

Erica Vital-Lazare: Beingness acknowledged by a community

A Twenty-four hour period at 18 Mile Ranch

Dutch Oven Cooking: Basque Breadstuff with Jess Lopategui

Recent News

FY23 Operating Support Grant Console to exist held May 4-5, 2022

On May iv and 5, 2022 a grant review panel will exist held for the Financial Year 2023 (FY23) Operating Support Grant. The panelists will discuss and score 19 applications for the FY23 Operating Back up Grant. Each applicant requested between $5,000 and $25,000 for a total request of $160,000. Operating Support Grants strengthen Nevada's arts infrastructure by supporting general operations of non-profit arts organizations throughout the state. The almost competitive applicants offer ongoing […]

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Nevada Arts Council hires 2 specialists to strengthen arts and creativity in Nevada

CARSON CITY, Nevada — The Nevada Arts Quango has hired Erica Colina as a Community Arts Development specialist and Sapira Cheuk as an Artist Services specialist.

Colina will assistance nonprofit arts organizations and municipalities with plan development, grant offerings, and support functions to strengthen Nevada communities through the arts. She is based out of the Carson City office.

Hill graduated with a main's degree in anthropology from San […]

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