CultureWorks, Inc.

The Arts and Culture Calendar serves as a primary source of cultural information and opportunities for activities throughout the region; it also promotes access to the arts across the region, as it identifies free events which mitigates the barrier of cost; the calendar serves as the source for weekly emails communicating top picks and discount offers for cultural experiences across the region.

artoberVA is a free marketing avenue elevating awareness and participation in our region's abundant arts and culture community by (historically) highlighting more than 1,500 events from every genre, by numerous organizations and artists through the creation of a common brand and unifying message for organizations and artists to use during the month. artoberVA also provides an opportunity to reach a broader audience, while still retaining the greatest individual strengths of each artist/organization. Another key component of artoberVA is our collaboration with the Better Housing Coalition to provide arts activities in under-served neighborhoods across the region.

CultureWorks administers the Arts and Cultural Funding Consortium, which, through funding from the City of Richmond and the counties of Hanover and Henrico, historically provides over $400,000 annually in critical operating support to 13 large and small non-profit arts and culture organizations. Many of the organizations supported through the Consortium have outreach programs through the local school systems to provide arts and culture experiences for K-12 students as well as other outreach programs in underrepresented communities.

CultureWorks offers professional development opportunities to increase capacity and infrastructure for artists and small to mid-size organizations with topics such as grant writing and application assistance, resource development and collaborations.

CultureWorks partnered with the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities to design a phased workplan in alignment with our strategic goal to foster Cultural Equity across our region. The workplan enables CultureWorks to identify and advance both our organizational (internal) and community-wide priorities regarding cultural equity and we are now executing on that workplan to integrate Cultural Equity into all our programming, including those listed above.