Leave a creative impact on your community when you give.

The arts are a human right that everyone in our community should have the privilege of accessing. With your support, Lincoln Arts can foster positive, inclusive arts opportunities and experiences for all —but we need you to make that happen.

When you give back to Lincoln Arts, you leave an impact on the arts community. Because, when you give back, you help create a community that encourages artistic development and expression.

So, now is the time for us to come together—arts organizations like ours and members of the community like you—so that we can ensure the following inclusive arts opportunities for all.

• LAC upstArt Program connects under-resourced groups with enriching, accessible arts opportunities by way of school programs, community-wide arts projects, public arts initiatives, and more.
• LAC upstArt Grants Program is here to provide the arts and service organizations of our community with funding to support self-made arts programs and outreach projects for under-resourced populations.
• LAC Emerging Artist Program provides professional development opportunities for new artists to show at the Lincoln Arts Festival.
• Lincoln Arts Festival brings together artists, arts organizations, and art enthusiasts in an inclusive, accessible venue to create its annual premiere event. Diverse works of art, innovative demonstrations and hands-on arts activities bring a refreshing sense of community to this exciting downtown location.
• Mayor’s Arts Awards honors and celebrates all—individual creators and organizations—that provide accessible arts opportunities and work toward a more inclusive arts community.

We cannot do it without you, because, together, we change lives.

Your investment makes an impact:

• $1,000 funds one project grant for arts outreach to an underserved audience.
• $500 provides professional development scholarship for one new visual artist to show at the Lincoln Arts Festival.
• $250 provides 5 hours of teaching artist’s time in residency at social service organization in Lincoln.
• $100 provides over 2 hours of teaching artist’s time in residency at a Title 1 school in Lincoln.
• $50 provides materials and teaching artist cost for one student in a 10-week upstArt workshop.
• $25 provides materials and teaching artist cost for one student in a 4-week upstArt summer series program.