{"id":139450,"date":"2026-02-01T07:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139450\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T07:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:09:32","slug":"city-of-st-petersburg-offers-grants-of-5000-to-fund-the-work-of-local-artists-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139450\/","title":{"rendered":"City of St. Petersburg offers grants of $5,000 to fund the work of local artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Artists in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/entertainment\/places\/sunshine-city-mosaic-st-pete-paintings-images\/67-6dc1202a-1870-4723-8264-59a4339c6490\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:St. Pete;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">St. Pete<\/a> will be able to apply for a $5,000 grant, which will be awarded to 15 local artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This week, the City of St. Petersburg announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/residents\/grants___loans\/individual_artist_grant.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Individual Artist Grants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Individual Artist Grants<\/a>, designed to support practicing and professional artists across all mediums and artistic disciplines, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Applications for grants will be accepted until Friday, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m., officials added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The grant will provide non-project-related funding to grantees. The award period will be from March 1 to Sept. 30 2026, and expenditures of the grant should happen during this timeframe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To be eligible for the grant, you must be 18 years of age and also must be a working, practicing and professional artist, meaning that you must have been &#8220;creating work consistently within at least the past 12 months,&#8221; the city said. In addition, you must live or work in St. Pete and continue doing so after the grant award period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Grants like this don&#8217;t just fund art, they nurture community, creativity, and hope,&#8221; Jenipher Chandley said. Chandley is a St. Pete artist and past grant recipient. &#8220;Grants like this truly make it possible for meaningful work to happen and for creative voices to keep growing. I hope my words help inspire continued support for programs that nurture artists and the cultural life of our city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city offered a definition for this grant, saying that &#8220;artist&#8221; is &#8220;an individual who has created a recognized body of original work over a sustained period, pursues this work as a means of livelihood or in conjunction with other employment, and demonstrates a commitment to creative expression, cultural enrichment, or public engagement that contributes to the cultural life of the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more information on the grant opportunity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/residents\/grants___loans\/individual_artist_grant.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:you can visit the city&#039;s website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">you can visit the city&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artists in St. Pete will be able to apply for a $5,000 grant, which will be awarded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4150,14045,67883,67882,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-139450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-city-of-st-petersburg","9":"tag-local-artists","10":"tag-professional-artist","11":"tag-professional-artists","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}