
2025 Grant Recipients
2025 marked a milestone year for the MVCC. A record 36 applications were awarded funding, with $60,052 distributed to support projects and events taking place across Martha’s Vineyard in 2025 and 2026.
The MVCC is made up of municipally-appointed volunteers from all six Island towns who work to bring resources into the community and expand access to quality cultural programming. Supported projects aim to serve the community while enriching the Island’s diversity of offerings in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences.
Featured below are the 2025 grant recipients:
Aquinnah Culture Center Inc. / 18th Annual Native Artisan Market and Festival
Abby Bender / Built on Stilts
Abby Bender / Schmantze Theatre
Circuit Arts, Inc. / Live from the Grange
Circuit Arts, Inc. / The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival
Circuit Arts, Inc. / The Vineyard's Drive-In at the YMCA
Edgartown Board of Trade / Porchfest
Kate Feiffer / Islander’s Write
Mabelle Felipe / The Weather in Perspective Bilingual Podcast
Friends of the Edgartown Free Public Library, Inc. / Sounds Like Summer: Music on the Lawn
Friends of the Up Island Council on Aging / Hamilton at the Providence Performing Arts Center
Great Pond Foundation, Inc. / Great Pond Foundation's Seine Science Beach Day
Helene Johnson and Dorothy West Foundation for Artists in Need / Heritage Poetry Park
Island Community Chorus, Inc / Instrumentalists for Island Community Chorus Concerts
Roberta Kirn / Winter Concert and Community Sings
MVavcay / Email Newsletter Spotlighting Arts Organizations + Events on MV
Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society / Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society Harvest Festival
Martha's Vineyard Center for Living, Inc. / Music for a Diverse Island
Martha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp, Inc. / Camp Jabberwocky Across Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Inc. / Artist in Residency Free concert
Martha's Vineyard Diversity Coalition (MVDC) / Martha's Vineyard Living Legends: BIPOC & Immigrant Elders Oral History Project
Martha's Vineyard Film Society, Inc. / 20th Annual Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival
Martha's Vineyard Film Society, Inc. / 7th annual Women In Film Festival
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse, Inc. / Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Winter Season 2024-25
Oak Bluffs Association, Inc. / LGBTQ+ Pride in Oak Bluffs
Plays in Place LLC / The Kittie Knox Plays
Sassafras Earth Education, Inc. / Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
TBD Improv Company / TBD Improv 2025 Season - paying our cast!
The Yard / Âs Nupumukômun (We Still Dance)
Lynn Thorp / MV Signs Then & Now
Lynn Thorp / Basic ASL Course Series ( 24 Lessons) w/MV's historic legacy tidbits
Town of Tisbury / Traditional Music for Memorial Day Picnic
Vineyard Haven Harbor Cultural District / First Friday Events
Jon Waterman / Live Music Making History Live: Popular Music and Veterans
Marion Wilson / 100 Lagoon Pond Floating Gallery and Studio
Elizabeth M. Witham / Species in Focus: The Biodiversity of Martha's Vineyard in 4K
If you received a grant from the MVCC, completed your project, and are now in need of reimbursement, please click here for more information.
Reimbursement request forms should be accompanied by:
Invoices, receipts, or paid bills that meet or exceed the granted amount
Evidence that the event took place and was credited as promised (programs, articles, press releases, photos, etc.)
Evidence that the Mass Cultural Council logo was used and the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council was credited in articles, posters, programs, etc.
A completed W-9 for the grantee
Please send the completed reimbursement form and supporting documentation to MVCC treasurer Kelly Kaye and marthasvineyardculturalcouncil@gmail.com.