TACA expanding Pop-Up Grant program with Artist Bonus funds Feb 1, 2021 | Kateri Cale, artistic director of Echo Theatre. Echo received a Pop-Up Grant from TACA last fall. The Arts Community Alliance has announced an expansion of its Pop-Up Grant program to include Artist Bonus funds, a new source of funding for individual artists, providing them financial support while the arts continue to feel the impact of the pandemic, while extending the program through 2021. The addition of the artist bonus funding is made possible by a $180,000 gift from the March Family Foundation. The Pop-Up Grant program debuted in August 2020 as part of the new TACA Resiliency Initiative, and TACA has distributed Pop-Up Grants since then as small, unrestricted disbursements to arts organizations demonstrating quality short-term programming, exceptional creativity and innovation. These monthly merit-based awards are designed to increase the awareness of artistic work happening in and around the community. Some recipients so far include Echo Theater, Dallas Summer Musicals, TITAS/Dance Unbound and Bruce Wood Dance. A complete listing of Pop-Up grantees to-date can be found here.