The Middlesex County Neighborhood Arts Consortium (MCNAC) is the first coalition of its kind in New Jersey. Through the Consortium and funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts State/County Partnership Program, the Cultural and Heritage Commission joins together local not-for-profit art organizations in a unique venture of cooperative cultural planning, promotion and audience development. This project links the public and private sectors, in order to offer arts activities to Middlesex County.

 

GRANTS	Looking for funding for your arts project? Funding is available to support local arts organizations and projects of high artistic quality. Your group must be Middlesex County based and incorporated as a non-profit. Both arts groups and other nonprofit organizations may be eligible, if you hire professional NJ artists and consistently present arts programming to the residents of the County. See our grants page to learn more or email a request for the guidelines and application forms.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE	The Commission has a professional staff available on a full time basis, to provide assistance to all local arts groups and to grants recipients that wish guidance in promotion and maintenance of artistic excellence. In addition, we offer technical assistance workshops with consultants, expert in all types of arts management areas, such as volunteer development, grants writing, promotion . . . and more. Need help getting the word out about your public arts project? Ask about our free distribution system. Or, obtain a free copy of our Cultural Bibliography that lists over 400 publications that you may borrow free of charge.
LOCAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT (LAD)	Each year, the Commission sponsors a variety of cultural programs, intended to increase opportunities for diverse audiences, encourage development of ethnic arts and provide opportunities and services for people with disabilities. This project is designed to assure that the arts are accessible to undeserved and new communities. LAD also provides opportunities for cooperative marketing and promotion. LAD projects include The Arts, our cable TV program; Teatro Café, a Latino theater company; the Hungarian American Athletic Club Folk Arts dance group and in 1998 - a gathering of representatives from Asian cultures.
DIRECTORY	Our Art Directory is a listing of Middlesex county organizations and groups that provide arts programming. For arts and humanities groups outside of Middlesex County, visit our Links Page.
	Open Studio The Arts Online This web page has been made possible through a generous grant from the Benton Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. The Benton Foundation has funded similar sites throughout the country, with each providing high quality, up to date information, on arts resources, nationwide. Just click here for your link to the arts community on the World Wide Web. - The Arts Online. Open Studio and the Cultural and Heritage Commission have created a public access site where anyone may surf the net, using a publicly accessible computer and software. Commission staff will help you navigate. We’ll show you how to locate arts and history web sites, folk arts and museum collections online, preservation and archaeological resources on the Internet. Installed in the reading room of East Jersey Olde Towne Village, the public access computer is available at the Village - Monday through Friday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm and every Sunday 1:00 PM to 3:00pm. Please be sure to read and follow the published policies for access to the computer.