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.