Bring Your Next Big Idea to Life

Up to $5,000 for local businesses to create better tourism marketing with local creative talent.

Visit Port Angeles is investing approximately $20,000 in local businesses and local creatives through the 2026 Local Creative Grant Program. Eligible Port Angeles businesses can apply for up to $5,000 toward a defined creative project that helps them better reach, welcome, or engage visitors.

Think new photography. A brand video. A better website. Fresh design. A mural. New visitor-facing collateral. Or another creative idea that helps tell your story and strengthens Port Angeles as a destination. There's one important requirement: Your project must use local creative talent.

The goal is simple: invest tourism dollars locally, help Port Angeles businesses tell better stories, and support the photographers, filmmakers, designers, artists, developers, and other creatives who live and work here.

2. Find your creative partner

Connect with a local photographer, filmmaker, designer, artist, developer, writer, or other eligible creative professional. Visit Port Angeles is building a Local Creative Directory to make finding local talent easier. You can select someone from the directory or work with another eligible local provider.

3. Build the project together

Talk with your creative provider and develop the actual project before applying. Determine what you're making, what it will cost, what will be delivered, how you'll use it, and when it can be completed.

4. Apply together

Submit the complete project proposal to Visit Port Angeles. Your application should tell us:

Here's what we're creating.
Here's who we're creating it with.
Here's what it costs.
Here's how we'll use it.
Here's how it helps us reach or serve visitors.

5. Bring it to life

Selected projects will receive up to $5,000 toward approved creative expenses. Once approved, you and your creative partner can get to work.

How It Works

1. Start with an idea

Identify a specific creative or marketing project that would help your business better connect with visitors. This isn't a grant for general marketing expenses. We're looking for defined projects with tangible outcomes.

What Could You Create?

Build a professional image library showcasing your business, products, food, people, experiences, or location.
Create a brand film, visitor experience video, short-form video series, social content, drone content, or other multimedia.
Build or significantly improve a website, visitor landing page, online experience, or other customer-facing digital presence.
Create a mural, illustration, installation, environmental graphic, or other creative work that enhances the visitor experience.
Develop professional written, visual, or social content that helps visitors discover and understand your business.

Something Else?
Pitch it!

If you have a creative project that helps promote your business to visitors and strengthens the way Port Angeles is experienced or presented as a destination, we'd like to hear about it.