2025 ACAC Grantees

The ACAC Grants Committee is a Local Cultural Council (LCC) of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. ACAC’s LCC supports public programs that promote access, education, diversity and excellence in the arts, humanities and interpretative sciences. The Council is committed to funding a diverse cross-section of activities supporting a broad variety of art forms, including ongoing work of individual artists, projects serving specific local populations, and the work of local cultural organizations.
The Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture has awarded 23 grants totaling nearly $22,000 to a wide variety of musicians, artists, poets, performers and other creatives who help fuel Arlington’s vibrant arts and culture scene.
The 23 winning projects were selected from among more than 60 competitive applications by the Commission for Arts and Culture Grants Committee. The projects, all of which are scheduled to take place this year, include music and dance performances, film festivals, story-telling, visual arts, poetry, and a community barn dance.
Several of the funded projects connect with the 250th anniversary this April of the start of the American Revolution, including the creation of 30 banners by Arlington students (grades 3 through 12) that will be displayed along Massachusetts Avenue.

RECIPIENTS AND UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Arlington Center for the Arts, Inc.
Perspectives on the Semiquincentennial: A Year-long Series of Exhibits at ACA
Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture
Arlington Timeline
Arlington Housing Authority
Free Arts Programming for Arlington Housing Authority Tenants
Arlington Jazz Festival, Inc.
Open Jazz Jam Session Series
Arlington Public Schools Visual Arts Department
Arlington 250 Revolution Youth Banners Project
Belmont World Film, Inc.
Belmont World Film's 22nd Family Festival
Bloom, Jacob
Arlington Community Barn Dance
Cantilena, Inc.
Maternal Figures: Reflections on Mothering and Being Mothered
Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum, Inc.
Creation of Indigenous Beadwork Inspired by Cyrus Dallin's Paul Revere Statue
Daniel, Don
The Just A Minute Festival
Dreeben, Jill
With Each Breath: Concert for Flute and Piano
Ingram, Jennifer
Food for Thought
Kalliope Reed Quintet
Música de México y Memorias
Olga's List Inc
The Stories in Flight (human migration stories)
Philharmonic Society of Arlington, Inc.
Philharmonic Society of Arlington Pops Concert and Strawberry Festival
Sanchez, Laura
Experience Flamenco in Arlington
Sharing A New Song Inc
Bajo el Mismo Cielo (Under the Same Sky): Sharing A New Song in Concert with New Inca Son
Singh, Parmit Kumar
Global Voices in Verse: Celebrating Global Poets
The Boston New Music Initiative, Inc.
BNMI’s 15th Anniversary Guerilla Concerts
The Concord Chorus, Inc.
Concord250 Concord Chorus Concert Season
Tincknell, Roger L.
From Ireland to America
Town of Arlington
Passages: Visual Journaling for those Affected by Addiction
True Story, Inc.
Living in Arlington - Voices Across Class Differences
The ACAC Grants Committee is part of a network of Local Cultural Councils (LCC) serving all 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth. The LCC Program is the largest grassroots cultural funding network in the nation, supporting thousands of community-based projects in the arts, sciences and humanities every year. The state legislature provides an annual appropriation to the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, which then allocates funds to each community. model community arts, humanities and science projects funded by the LCCs across the state.
The ACAC Grants Committee will seek applications again in Fall 2025. Information and forms will be available online (www.massculturalcouncil.org) and at the ACAC Grants Committee website.