CITY OF LAWTON
and
LAWTON ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL

2012 - 2013
CO-SPONSPORSHIP GRANT

APPLICATION CLOSED

FY 2013-2014

application dates announced 2013 Spring

FY 2012-2013 Grant Recipients to Be Announced, July 2012

See links to right for example brochure and grant application from FY 2012-2013

PAST 2011-2012

COSPONSORSHIP GRANT AWARDEES

July, 2012, the City of Lawton received the Oklahoma Arts Council’s Local Government Challenge Grant. The National Endowment for the Arts is also a sponsor of this program. This “community chest” funds the Co-Sponsorship Grant Program, which is managed by the Lawton Arts & Humanities Council.

Through federal as well as state appropriations with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oklahoma Arts Council funds arts events and arts education programs throughout the state. Projects funded by the Oklahoma Arts Council generate matching funds; create public/private partnerships that in turn impact Oklahoma’s economy throughout the state’s rural and urban communities. This was evidenced in the 2010 study that revealed that the Nonprofit Arts & Cultural industry generated $314.8 million in local economic activity in Oklahoma.

The FY2011-2012 Co-Sponsorship Grant recipients were:

Barkingwater Productions, Inc. “Lawton Fort Sill Cowboy Story”

Blue Moon Productions, Inc. “The Old Cookie Shop”

Friends of the Library, “Golden Girls & Guys 8th Anniversary Celebration”

Institute of the Great Plains, “Proto-Judy (Mammoth) Exhibit Revisions Following
Carbon Dating”

Lawton Community Theatre, “The Duck Variations”

Lawton Heritage Association, “Living History Through Lawton’s Mattie Beal Home IV”

Lawton Philharmonic Society, “Commissioned Symphonic Composition on Native American Themes for Concert Performance”

Lawton Pro Musica, “Holiday Concert”

For more information about the Co-Sponsorship Grant Program, please contact the City of Lawton’s Arts & Humanities Division at 580-581-3470/3471. For information regarding the Oklahoma Arts Council’s Local Government Challenge Grant and other opportunities, contact Joel Gavin, Director of Marketing and Communications, 405-521-2037 or email at joel.gavin@arts.ok.gov