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Exposure to, and participation in, the arts teaches essential life skills. Access to arts and culture, especially during key developmental ages, has the power to shape character and influence upward mobility later in life.
This program provides cash awards to three artists from Erie County. The Fellowship, which includes cash awards ranging between $2,000-$5,500, helps individual artists sustain or enhance their creative process and advance their career in the arts.
Learn more hereThe Creative Sector Flex Fund provides $5,000 in flexible use funding for arts organizations located in Erie, Crawford, Warren, Venango, Mercer, and Lawrence Counties.
Learn More HereThe Views Festival is an inaugural two-week festival hosted in Erie, Pennsylvania that showcases and celebrates urban arts and lifestyles.
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Our four programmatic pillars
Capacity Building
We serve as a capacity builder of the individuals and organizations that comprise the creative and cultural sector.
Arts in Lifelong Learning
We advocate for and fund opportunities for arts in lifelong learning.
Preserving Diverse Cultures
We preserve and promote the diverse cultures that represent our communities.
Erie Arts & Culture is committed to improving the lives of our region's residents. We do this by leveraging the power of culture and creativity to address the vital needs and interests of Erie and Northwestern Pennsylvania. We support broad accessibility to engage with the cultural sector educationally, socially, and economically - during all life stages.
Cultural Service Partners
Impact
Exposure to, and participation in, the arts teaches essential life skills. Access to arts and culture, especially during key developmental ages, has the power to shape character and influence upward mobility later in life.
Arts and cultural experiences have broad appeal, drawing attendees and participants representing a diversity of race, geography, age, and socioeconomic class.
The industries of the twenty-first century depend on a generation of innovation through creativity.
Meet the Community
Erie Arts & Culture is proud to present this week's Friday Feature! Christina Wolfe (@wolf_e25). A very talented visual artist, Christina has found a way to express her innermost thoughts and feelings through various mediums. Striving to be as genuine as possible, she's always had a special knack for coloring "outside the lines". I had the opportunity to learn more about this artist. She's also going to be apart of the Views Festival!
Erie Arts & Culture is proud to present this week's Friday Feature! Ileecia Moffatt (@Artbyleecia) is back to give us an update on her latest works, what's currently inspiring her, and how it feels to be in a creative world that's changing more and more every day. She's also going to be apart of the Views Festival!
Anne O'Dell, newly appointed Executive Director, to build on the organization's momentum in serving Erie and Northwestern Pennsylvania, and be a catalyst for strengthening bonds with the community's organizations and artists, supporting the vitality of the region's diverse communities, and increasing sustainable support for the region's vibrant future.
Erie Arts and Culture is partnering with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to help creative entrepreneurs and their businesses. The Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (CEAP) matches eligible creative entrepreneurs with free local small business consulting services and financial resources up to $2,000.