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Your Tradition, Your Story: Living Traditions Grant Accepting Applications
November 10, 2025
Applications are now open for the Living Traditions: Folk Art and Beyond Grant! This grant program celebrates and invests in the cultural practices and creative expressions that connect communities across the Creative West region.
Living traditions are cultural practices rooted in community life—passed down through generations, adapted over time and continually reimagined to meet the needs of the present. They encompass a wide range of expressions, including folk and traditional arts, craft, music, dance, foodways, oral traditions, storytelling, spiritual practices and the everyday creative expressions that embody identity, belonging and resilience.
This grant supports projects that honor, share and transmit these traditions in ways that strengthen community bonds, foster intergenerational connection and expand access to cultural expression.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until June 30, 2026 or until all available funds have been awarded. Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate the living traditions that inspire and sustain your community.
Learn More and Start Your Application
Have questions or just want to learn more about the program? Join us for one of our upcoming office hours sessions!
Thursday, November 13 from 3–4 p.m. MST
Monday, November 17 from 1–2 p.m. MST
Thursday, November 20 from 3–4 p.m. MST
He ʻōnaehana hoʻouna palapala noi pūnaewele ʻo CaFÉ e hoʻoikaika ana e hoʻolako i nā manawa hana no nā mea āpau ma o ka hāʻawi ʻana i nā hui noʻeau i kahi kahua hoʻouna kūpono a me nā mea hana kiʻi i kahi ala maʻalahi e noi ai.
ʻO GO Smart kahi polokalamu hoʻokele hāʻawi kūpono e hāʻawi ana i nā palapala noi mua a ma hope o ka noi, ka loiloi panel, a me ka hōʻike ʻikepili no nā mea hāʻawi.
ʻO ka Public Art Archive (PAA) he waihona manuahi, hiki ke huli, a e ulu mau ana i ka ʻikepili pūnaewele o nā hana noʻeau lehulehu i hoʻopau ʻia ma ka US a ma waho, me kahi hui o nā kumuwaiwai a me nā mea hana i kūkulu ʻia no ka mālama ʻana i nā hōʻiliʻili kiʻi lehulehu.
Hāʻawi ʻo ZAPP i nā luna hoʻomalu noʻeau a me nā ʻahaʻaina me kahi hui o nā mea hana e hōʻiliʻili ai i nā noi kikohoʻe a me nā jury, mālama i nā uku hale hale, a kamaʻilio pū me nā mea noi āpau i loko o kahi kahua kikohoʻe maʻalahi. Hiki i nā mea pena ke hoʻohana i nā haneli o nā hōʻikeʻike ma ka ʻāina ma o kahi pūnaewele kikowaena.