Houston Arts Alliance: Festival Grant

The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is dedicated to enhancing the city's artistic landscape through its Festival Grant program, which provides up to $10,000 to support arts festivals and cultural events. This initiative promotes Houston's cultural diversity and creative identity, ensuring that the arts community thrives. Funded by the City of Houston via the Hotel Occupancy Tax, these grants are awarded to projects that celebrate the city’s rich artistic heritage and community engagement.

Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is to implement the City of Houston’s vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA’s work is conducted through contracts with the City of Houston, overseen by the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. HAA also executes privately funded special projects to meet the needs of the arts community, such as disaster preparation, research on the state of the arts in Houston, and temporary public art projects that energize neighborhoods.
In short, HAA helps artists and nonprofits be bold, productive, and strong.
The Festival grant program provides support of up to $10,000 to fund arts festivals or arts components of cultural festivals to celebrate Houston's diversity and promote the city's creative identity as a unique art and culture destination. Festival grants are funded by the City of Houston via the Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) and are awarded based on cash-in-hand.