Community Impact

The New Voices Fellowship program is an immersive experience in arts administration for aspiring arts administrators of color. This program is intended to address the underrepresentation of arts administrators of color in the Greater Hartford region. 

Ten New Voices Fellows are actively working in the field of arts administration, learning about a range of professional activities at arts and culture institutions during this 12-week Fellowship program. 
 

New Voices

Are you interested in becoming an arts ambassador for the Greater Hartford Arts Council? Your contribution will further our mission and vision. Volunteer Opportunities include Arts Events, Arts Research, and Advocacy. Click the link below to begin filling out the Volunteer form.

Volunteer

Granting Programs

The Greater Hartford Arts Council gives priority to programming and projects that are connected to our mission to promote an equitable arts ecosystem in Greater Hartford and our vision to see Greater Hartford as a thriving multi-cultural destination anchored by a diverse and innovative arts sector. This includes programming and projects that: 

  • Connect to the Arts Council’s values of Community, Equity, Advocacy, Leadership, Creativity and Accessibility

  • Provide arts experiences and resources to the Arts Council’s 34-town region

  • Include collaboration between organizations, as well as collaborations between organizations and local artists

  • Center eliminating barriers, representation of marginalized voices, and inclusion

Our Service Area

We serve 34 towns across the Greater Hartford capital region.

Grant Portal

Apply for funding

Community Programs

Our portfolio of community programs and events range from a day full of free music-making to bringing thousands of people to downtown Hartford every summer for a series of festivals that showcase our region’s many cultures and backgrounds. For over 20 years, we connected countless teens with summer apprenticeships at some of the area’s top cultural institutions. In 2021, we started focusing more on the resiliency of the creative sector with programs like Catalyst Amplified.

  • Make Music Hartford

    Make Music Hartford is a part of the international Make Music Day movement which brings free, community-wide, outdoor musical celebrations to hundreds of cities worldwide! Every year, the celebration is held on June 21, the summer solstice, in more than 1,000 communities around the world.

  • Summer in the City

    Summer in the CIty is a celebration of art, music and culture in the Capital City created by the Greater Hartford Arts Council in partnership with the City of Hartford with support from Raytheon Technologies. With hundreds of events taking place all summer long throughout our region, there’s always something to do.

  • Catalyst Amplified

    In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Catalyst Amplified builds a network of organizational resiliency that inspires transformation, connection and collaboration so there is a deeper, sustainable sharing across the entire arts sector.

  • Press Play

    Press Play is the Arts Council’s virtual lunchtime performance series. Since 2020, we’ve worked with Travelers to bring audiences some of the capital region’s top talent straight to your computer screens. Pause your workday and press play.

  • Arts & Economical Prosperity 6 (AEP6)

    Join us in studying and learning about how the non-profit arts industry generates over $166 billion in annual economic activity and supports over 4.6 million jobs. Click here to help us save the arts in Connecticut.

  • Arts Network

    A direct result of the closing of the creative sector in March 2020, our regular Arts Network calls were born out of a need from artists and arts organizations to connect. The Arts Network calls are made up of arts leaders from local small-midsize organizations. These calls, held on Zoom, aim to provide the sector with a platform to discuss, experiment and collaborate in the new reality created by the pandemic. The calls have now formalized and continue to bring dozens of arts leaders together each month. Sign up here to join the conversation.