Art grant applications available for local organizations

The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival will offer grants to local arts organizations.

The festival’s committee annually awards grants to local nonprofit organizations in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties for community art projects. Grant recipients also can display their works and programs to thousands of visitors at the annual downtown Pensacola festival.

Applications for 2018 grants, available at

www.ggaf.org/grants, are accepted through Dec. 11. 2017 grant fund recipients include First City Arts Alliance, Friends of West Florida Public Library, Manna Food Bank Inc., Pensacola Bay Concert Band, Pensacola Museum of Art, Santa Rosa Arts and Culture Foundation, Vision of Hope and WUWF Public Media.

The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival is a three-day juried art show that brings more than 200 of the nation's top artists and thousands of visitors to Pensacola each November.

This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Art grant applications available for local organizations