Pop-Up Grant Recipients

TACA Pop-Up Grant Recipients

TACA Pop-Up Grants reward exciting artistic work that fuels a local culture of creativity and innovation. Thanks to the generosity of the March Family Foundation and PNC, two-thirds of the grants we give will go directly into the hands of key and supporting artists in 2024.

Since August 2020, TACA has awarded $600,250 in grants to 132 arts programs and 1341 artists.

HEADER PHOTO: Bruce Wood Dance 14th Anniversary Performance – Photo by Natalie Bracken

Meet Our 2024 Grant Recipients

July & August 2024

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Bombshell Dance Project & Dallas Contremporary

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$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

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Prism Movement Theatre & AT&T Performing Arts Center

La Maupin: The French Abomination
$3,000 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

SD 280 THE ODYSSEY

Shakespeare Dallas


The Odyssey
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

May & June 2024

Liz Mikel As Fannie Lou Hamer 1 Photo By Alex Leffall

Produced by Bishop Arts Theatre Center in collaboration with Dallas Theater Center

Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

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Kitchen Dog Theater

Love and Vinyl
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

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Pegasus Contemporary Ballet

Synergy 2024
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

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Teatro Dallas

Cloud Tectonics
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

March & April 2024

Uncle John - Guinn Powell

Bishop Arts Theatre Center & Guinn Powell

Black History Month Art Exhibit
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

Bruce Wood Dance Nine Sinatra Songs By Twyla Tharp Featured Dancers Mia Rosin & Domingo Estrada Pc Natalie Bracken

Bruce Wood Dance

The 14th Anniversary Performance
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

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Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Uptown Nights: It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant

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Orchestra of New Spain

Angels & Devils
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

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Verdigris Ensemble

Dust Bowl
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

January & February 2024

Dallas Black Dance Theatre & DMA - Photo  by Jenny Thompson

Dallas Black Dance Theatre & Dallas Museum of Art

Echoes of Diaspora: A Ballet Inspired by “Afro-Atlantic Histories”
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

Irving Symphony Orchestra – Photo by R.J. Moore Photography

Irving Symphony Orchestra

Let's Dance
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

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Nasher Sculpture Center

Empire of Dirt
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding

Thank you to our Pop-Up Grant Supporters:

March Family Foundation