Long Island Grants for the Arts
In 2025, Huntington Arts Council, with funds provided by the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, awarded a total of $418,000 in Artist Fellowship, General Operating Support and BI-Monthly Community Micro Grants, providing direct support to artists and arts organizations across Nassau and Suffolk counties.
Learn more about the LI Grants for the Arts 2025 Artist Fellows and GOS awardees, click here.
A complete list of the 2025 Micro Grant awardees and current 2026 Artist Fellows and GOS grantees, can be found by clicking this link.
Huntington Arts Council continues to be the official New York State regrant site for Nassau and Suffolk counties. We are excited to announce our return to the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) program in 2026. The SCR grant program supports a vibrant range of professional, educational, and community-based arts and cultural projects. Funding is distributed through four key initiatives: the Community Arts Grant, Arts Education Grants, New Works Artist Grant and Bi-Monthly Community Micro Grant.
SCR Grants ARE:
Community Arts grants provide funding for arts & cultural projects and activities that enable Nassau and Suffolk communities to experience and engage with the performing, literary, media, and visual arts.
Arts Education grants are designed to support arts education projects that bring teaching artists into dedicated learning spaces for students of all ages.Â
Funds support arts education programs for closed groups of learners.
The New Works Artist Grant supports individual artists by funding locally driven, artist-initiated projects and celebrating the vital role artists play in our communities. This opportunity provides resources for artists to develop a new body of work while fostering meaningful connections with the public through community engagement.
This bi-monthly funding opportunity continues to support arts and cultural programming led by individual artists and non-profit organizations, with a focus on projects that create a clear and meaningful public impact. Every other month, funding is awarded to two Individual Artists and two Non-Profit Organizations making an impact through the arts. All proposed programs must be open to the public.
Contact the Grants Team for more information about the LI Grants for the Arts Program.
Patty Eljaiek, LI Grants for the Arts Coordinator at peljaiek@huntingtonarts.org.
Cassandra Mattheews, LI Grants for the Arts Assistant at cmatthews@huntingtonarts.org
Long Island Grants for the Arts, State and Community Regrant program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
