Photo: The utility box adjacent Belmont Town Hall at Concord and Pleasant streets by Liz LaManche sponsored by a grant from the Belmont Cultural Council

Resident artist and artistic groups with an idea in mind will be happy to hear the Belmont Cultural Council Grant Application Process opened on Friday, Sept. 1.

The Belmont Cultural Council 2024 grant application process, which will run through Oct. 17, focuses largely on supporting Belmont programs that have enriched the Belmont community with music, fine arts, interpretive science, humanitarian initiatives, and applicants sponsored by a Belmont organization.

Applications and information about the Local Cultural Council Program are available online here.

Information about the Belmont Cultural Council, its priorities and guidelines, past grantees, and more can be found here.

The Belmont Cultural Council is part of the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s network of 329 Local Cultural Councils (LCCs) 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.