The WeHo Artist Grant aims to nurture and support the long-term development of an artist’s ideas by providing funds that increase the capacity for artists to realize work, advance the conditions of creation, and navigate the complexities of both making art and making a career. By directly providing funds to individual artists, the City hopes to keep artists in West Hollywood, attract new artists to the City, and contribute to the quality of our economic and social well-being. The grant may be used in any capacity to fulfill the proposed project within the calendar year.

  
WeHo Artists are required to present a 3-to-5-minute film that describes or summarizes the project, how the project contributed to the quality of life in West Hollywood, and how the grant affected their ability to complete the project as well as make a public presentation in November 2026 at City Hall.

  
WeHo Artist Grant Application Timeline

* August 2025: Peer Review Panel reviews applications
* September 2025: Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission consider approval of funding recommendations
* September 2025: Grant recipient notifications, administration of grant award contracts, and mandatory orientation
* January 2026: Earliest award of grant funds

Artist Grant Application 2026

The City of West Hollywood is pleased to offer the Transgender, Gender Diverse, Intersex Arts Grant (TGI+), a category initiated by the City Council in 2013 intended to support and enhance the presentation of artworks in West Hollywood by artists, artist collectives or groups, and non-profit organizations that have demonstrated a significant commitment to and involvement with the transgender, non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming community. Individual artists, artist collectives or groups, and non-profit organizations with a history of supporting transgender, gender diverse, and/or intersex artists are all welcome to apply.

  

Transgender, Gender Diverse, Intersex  Arts Grant 2026

The City of West Hollywood is pleased to offer the WeHo Community Arts Grant intended to support non-profit arts organizations, individual artists, or artist collectives, with a history of supporting LGBQ, BIPOC and/or female artists and audiences. Proposed programs can include art centered presentations or participatory programs (workshops) which enhance the community.

Proposed projects may take place in June but will not be included as part of the WeHo Pride Festival and should be considered as separate from both the WeHo Pride Weekend as well as the WeHo Pride Arts Festival.

$6,000 - Maximum award per grantee per year

Community Arts Grant

The pilot Filmmakers Grant intended to support film artists with the finishing elements of their project.

Funds may be used for the following: Picture/Sound editing, Additional photography, Post Sound, Color grading, DCP, Music/composing/music rights, VFX.

The purpose for the grant is to support filmmakers with funding for finishing film project, (film must be, at minimum, in rough cut stage with a description of remaining work needed to complete AND must submit the expected date of completion (completion must be within 2026).

  
Between 1-4 awards will be given in 2026.

  

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