The Vallejo Arts Fund provides grants to Vallejo-rooted artists, cultural bearers, collectives, and organizations, from a broad range of life experiences and perspectives, that support arts and cultural practices and work in Vallejo, CA.

The Vallejo Arts Fund (VAF) will distribute $1,000,000 over the next two years, from 2025 - 2027, to support arts and culture in Vallejo, which is a start to addressing structural inequities that have impacted historically excluded artists, culture bearers, arts organizers, and their communities. The Fund seeks to support artistic and cultural work within the performing arts, visual arts, digital and media arts, traditional folk arts, and oral/written storytelling.

VAF is led by priorities from Vallejoans, facilitated by Great Leap and Calling up Justice, administered by Center for Cultural Innovation, and supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. 

ABOUT

VAF respects and values Vallejo artists and cultural bearers. The Fund is grounded in the voices of Vallejo’s diverse communities and their lived experiences as artists, culture bearers, and arts organizers. Many have shared the impacts of gentrification, exclusionary and racist practices, and the historical lack of support for culturally rooted arts and traditions in the city. Therefore, VAF values diversity, inclusion, and equity around race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, ability, socio-economic status, artistic genre, experience, and regional lived experiences. Just as important is VAF’s approach - we enter this opportunity with humility, centering respect for all, an environment of mutual learning, collective and deep relational practices, transparency, and action-based care. VAF recognizes that any new effort takes patience, time, and care.

Details about VAF (eligibility criteria, application requirements, deadlines, and more) will be available in fall 2025.

Check back soon! 

QUESTIONS & SUPPORT

We’re here to help! If you have questions about the Vallejo Arts Fund, contact vafadmin@greatleap.org.