2025 Cycle 2 Microgrant Recipients

4Congratulations to the 2024 Cycle 4 Microgrant Recipients! 

Desiree Murphy
The Dancing Queen 2025

August 15, 2025

The Dance Den
9350 Bay Plaza Blvd #121
Tampa, FL 33619

The Dancing Queen is an annual event, created by a women-lead organization called She’s Got It, focusing on empowering and celebrating women in the local freestyle/street style dance community.

Ketsy Ruiz (Sketzii)
Mi Gente Mi Pueblo presents “Reclamando Our Untold Stories” Exhibition

August 29, 2025

The Gallery at Creative Pinellas
12211 Walsingham Rd
Largo, FL 33778

Reclamando Our Untold Stories invites viewers to witness how Mi Gente Mi Pueblo anchors contemporary experience within historical context, creating a temporal map that ensures present and future generations remain visible, connected, and thriving.

Nyla Hazratjee
Celebrating The Muslim Woman: A Night of Music, Monologues, and Movies

Location and Date TBD

The Tampa premiere of a local short film created by a female Muslim director, supplemented with a Q&A panel with the filmmakers, live music, and spoken word performances uplifting the power of Muslim women’s voices.

Tatiana Mesa Pajan
MINE MÍO The Wind Making Roots El Viento Hechando Raíces

January 16 – March 1, 2026 

Dunedin Fine Art Center
1143 Michigan Blvd.
Dunedin, FL 34698

MÍO/MINE is an exhibition that explores the use of found objects as a medium to examine memory, possessions, and identity within the context of diaspora.

Treasure Tampa

Treasure Tampa (T²) facilitates creative placemaking – the utilization of creative talent to elevate a community through cross-sector and community partnerships – in Tampa.  Through education, collaboration, and funding, Treasure Tampa will increase the quantity of placemaking projects within Tampa.  Ultimately projects funded through this initiative will be fun and bring new reasons to why the community treasures Tampa.

Microgrants

The goal of the Gobioff Foundation microgrant program is to enhance the cultural landscape of the Tampa Bay area (Hillsborough and Pinellas counties) through small grants that encourage and make possible publicly accessible art projects and events.

2025 Cycle 1 Microgrant Recipients

Congratulations to the 2025 Cycle 1 Microgrant Recipients!  Ric SavidDarkroom Silver Linings May 1, 2025 Florida Museum of Photographic Arts1630 E 7th AveTampa, FL 33605

2024 Cycle 4 Microgrant Recipients

Congratulations to the 2024 Cycle 4 Microgrant Recipients!  Ashley RiversBird of Paradise March 1, 2025 ArtsXchange515 22nd St SSt. Petersburg, FL 33712 New Public Art

2024 Cycle 3 Microgrant Recipients

Congratulations to the 2024 Cycle 3 Microgrant Recipients!  Brenda McMahonArtJones: Gulfports’ Open Studio Tour December 7-8, 2024 Saturday 10 – 5Sunday 11 – 4 Begins

Emergency Resources

Emergency Relief Resources We know that many artists are suffering and have lost much due to Hurricane Helene. While we can’t provide direct support we