The Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program, a re-grant initiative of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, administered in northeastern Pennsylvania by the Pocono Arts Council, is now accepting applications for project stream grants for art projects in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike and Wayne counties.

Arts-related and community-based nonprofit organizations or individual artists conducting arts programming open to the community are eligible for the grants and are encouraged to apply.Awards, not to exceed $2,500, will be made through a local decision-making process. A total of $39,003 in awards will be made in the five-county area.Applications are taken online via eGRANT at

http://ppa.egrant.net. Submission deadline is June 22.A series of workshops are available for prospective applicants to meet with Tassy Gilbert, PPA program coordinator for Pocono Arts Council, to discuss the grant writing and application process for the PA Partners in the Arts Project Stream Grants at the following locations:• Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the ARTSPACE Gallery Pocono Arts Council, 18 N. Seventh St., Stroudsburg;

www.poconoarts.org.• June 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Wilkes-Barre YMCA, 40 W. Northampton St., Wilkes-Barre;

www.wbymca.org.• June 4 from 6 to 8

p.m.at the Pike County Public Library, 119 E. Harford St., Milford;

www.pcpl.orgFor more information or to register, contact Gilbert at

tassy@poconoarts.org or 570-476-4460.