St. Petersburg Arts Alliance’s Funding Futures Awards Program Enters its Fifth Year
Performing Arts
Published 3/2/21
These students are often faced with financial need that prevent many of them from pursuing an artistic field. St. Pete Arts Alliance’s Funding Futures Student Award Program is dedicated to helping students nurture their creative interests and develop their expressive talent by providing funding to eligible students and connecting them to local after school arts programs or summer arts camps.Last season, the Arts Alliance funded summer and fall virtual and live art camps to eleven students at organizations such as American Stage, Academy of Ballet Arts, the Y Dance Academy, private instruction and the St. Petersburg City Theater! They also funded two arts micro-camps for Nomad Art Bus. Funding Futures is designed to identify and encourage talented at-risk emerging artists, ages 10-17 in Pinellas County seeking St. Petersburg programs in the categories of dance, music, jazz, voice, theater, digital arts, photography, cinematic arts or visual arts. The program …
