St. Johns Cultural Council Announces its Third Annual Haiku Contest
The St. Johns Cultural Council is pleased to announce its Third Annual Haiku Contest. Local poets of all ages are invited to submit up to three haiku with the theme [...]
St. Augustine, Florida featured in Samantha Brown’s “Places to Love” – Season Six
Beautiful and historic St. Augustine, Florida is the focus of the next episode of the Emmy award-winning PBS travel show Samantha Brown’s Places to Love. In early 2022 Christina Parrish [...]
Iris DeMent to Headline Gamble Rogers Folk Festival, April 14-16
Headliners include Bill and the Belles, Robin and Linda Williams, and Richard Smith The Gamble Rogers Folk Festival and the St. Johns Cultural Council have announced the headliners and ticket [...]
Request for Proposal and Qualifications (RFP): SEA Community Help Resource & Cultural Center
Request for proposal and qualifications (RFP) for architectural/engineering and historic preservation work for the SEA Community Help Resource and Cultural Center renovation in Armstrong, Florida.BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEWThe Spuds, Elkton, and [...]
St. Johns Cultural Council Announces Recipients of Fall 2022 State of the Arts Grants
The St. Johns Cultural Council has awarded this year’s recipients of the Fall 2022 State of the Arts (“SOTA”) Grants. The grants, presented annually, are available through funds raised by the [...]
Request for Proposal and Qualifications (RFP): St. Augustine Beach Hotel Roof Repair
Location of Work: St. Augustine Beach Hotel, 370 A1A South, St. Augustine Beach, Florida Scope: Reroof Spanish tile on building mansard and upper to include: Remove single layer of existing tile [...]
Gullah Geechee Heritage Festival to Celebrate St. Augustine’s Rich History
The St. Johns Cultural Council, the organization that promotes arts, culture and heritage in St. Augustine, has announced a Gullah Geechee Heritage Festival that will be held on December [...]
St. Johns Cultural Council and the Gamble Rogers Folk Festival Present Live from The Waterworks – A Gamble Rogers Concert Series, October through June
The St. Johns Cultural Council and the Gamble Rogers Folk Festival have partnered to present a new concert series, Live from The Waterworks, celebrating the legendary recording artist Gamble Rogers, whose [...]
St. Johns Cultural Council applications for 2022 State of the Arts (SOTA) Grants, September 1st
The St. Johns Cultural Council will open its applications for the 2022 State of the Arts Grants on Thursday, September 1. The annual State of the Arts (SOTA) grant [...]
The St. Johns Cultural Council and its “Art in Public Spaces” program has selected the work of St. Augustine-based fine artist Nancy Hamlin-Vogler and her exhibition “Swimming in the Infinite”
St. Johns Cultural Council and its "Art in Public Spaces" program has selected the work of St. Augustine-based fine artist Nancy Hamlin-Vogler and will present her exhibition Swimming in the Infinite from Tuesday, [...]
Request for Proposal and Qualifications (RFP): St. Augustine Beach Hotel Phase I Restoration and Phase II Plans
The St. Johns Cultural Council is seeking requests for proposals and qualifications (RFP) for architectural/engineering and historic preservation work for the St. Augustine Beach Hotel in St. Augustine Beach, [...]
St. Johns Cultural Council Receives $25,000 from National Trust for Historic Preservation to Help Tell the Full American Story
$2.5 MILLION FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES THROUGH THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN At a news conference today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Telling the Full History [...]
Local Arts Organizations Can Apply for Share of $400K in Grants
The St. Johns Cultural Council has announced opportunities for funding local organizations that present arts, culture, and heritage programming. The Cultural Council administers St. Johns County’s Tourist Development Council Arts, [...]
St. Augustine Nonprofit Organizations Slated to Receive $2,933,500 in African American Cultural and Historical Grants
St. Augustine Beach Hotel On Monday, February 28, the Florida Department of State released the ranked list of applications and scores for its African American Cultural and Historical Grants, following [...]
The St. Johns Cultural Council’s 2nd Annual Haiku Contest
What is a Haiku? A haiku is a type of short form poetry originated in Japan. These poems traditionally contain 17 total syllables in three lines. Line one is [...]
St. Johns Cultural Council names 2022 Dr. Gail Pflaster ROWITA Award winners
Each year the St. Johns Cultural Council recognizes women who have profoundly influenced the artistic environment of St. Johns County with the Dr. Gail Pflaster ROWITA (“Recognizing Outstanding Women in [...]
Call for Entries: Solo and Group Visual Arts Exhibitions
The St. Johns Cultural Council presents opportunities for local artists to exhibit at the St. Johns County Administration Building: February 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023 The St. Johns Cultural [...]
St. Johns Cultural Council Announces Recipients of Fall 2021 State of the Arts Grants
The St. Johns Cultural Council is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2021 State of the Arts (“SOTA”) Grants. These grants, presented annually, are available through funds raised by the [...]
2022 St. Johns County Arts, Culture and Heritage Grants $450,000 in Grants Awarded to 23 Organizations
The St. Johns Cultural Council is pleased to announce that 23 organizations will receive $450,000 in St. Johns County Tourist Development Council Arts, Culture and Heritage Grants during the 2022 [...]
2021 Haiku Contest: Comments from the Reviewers
This year's inaugural St Johns Cultural Council Haiku Contest was a smashing success with over one hundred individual entries and over four hundred poems. Competition was close and it was very difficult to select just a [...]
St. Johns County Tourist Development Council Arts, Culture and Heritage Grants October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021
July 19, 2020 The St. Johns Cultural Council (SJCC) is pleased to announce that 24 Arts, Culture and Heritage (ACH) grants totaling $275,000 have been awarded by the [...]
Arts Emergency Fund
March 27, 2020 Pursuing a career in the creative sector can be challenging in the best of times. Emerging artists may live from paycheck-to-paycheck with little opportunity to [...]
Important Information from the St. Johns Cultural
March 23, 2020 We at the St. Johns Cultural Council know that many individual artists and arts organizations are suffering greatly as a result of closures and cancellations related [...]
Five Local Women Recognized for their Contributions to the Arts by the St. Johns Cultural Council; Public Celebration on March 22nd
February 3, 2020 Each year the St. Johns Cultural Council honors a select group of women for lifetime achievement influencing arts and culture in St. Johns County with [...]
St. Johns Cultural Council Welcomes our New Executive Director
January 10, 2020 The Board of the St. Johns Cultural Council (SJCC) has named Christina Parrish Stone as the next Executive Director of the Cultural Council effective December 1, [...]