The Artists in Schools Grants support quality, multiday arts experiences in schools with Vermont teaching artists in residence and encourage collaborations between schools, youth, artists, and arts organizations.
Donor Name: Vermont Arts Council
State: Vermont
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/26/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The program encourages collaborations between schools, youth, artists, and arts organizations. Grant funding supports multi-day projects typically between 3-10 days in length and supports preK-12 teachers, staff, and students within an eligible school or district. Activities may engage students in classrooms; schoolwide projects; or accessible, after-school programs.
Arts and arts-integrated projects provide experiential learning opportunities that offer many benefits, including helping students create and express ideas, fostering connections within the school and the broader community, supporting students around targeted proficiencies or personal goals, building student confidence, building connections with the arts and artistic processes, and encouraging reflection.
Examples of fundable projects include:
- A math teacher works with a dancer to integrate kinesthetic learning into the classroom. Students learn about dance concepts and use them to talk about geometric shapes and spatial relationships.
- An English teacher works with a poet or playwright to mentor students and provide opportunities for them to develop and workshop their writing.
- A music teacher works with a professional composer to help students compose and perform original works of music.
- A physical education teacher works with a circus artist to integrate movement, performance, and social emotional objectives into the curriculum.
- Students work with a theater artist to explore theater concepts and to write and perform a short play focusing on key themes such as collaboration, empathy, or flexible thinking.
- Students work with a visual artist and classroom teacher to research and document the story of place through multiple perspectives in their community through an exhibit or mural.
- Students work with a musician to explore musical concepts and to compare or contrast cultures through drumming or music.
Funding Information
Schools/arts organizations may apply for an award of up to $4,000 to support eligible project costs.
Eligible Expenses
Eligible project costs include:
- teaching artist instruction or student contact time
- other time contributed by the teaching artist. Such activities may include, but are not limited to, planning time, development of content, and/or time for assembling culminating projects or performances
- materials—up to $250 of the funds may be used for materials or student transportation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants who have already received an Artists in Schools Grant for the same school year
- Applicants applying for the same project with the same teaching artist more than two years in a row
- Applicants who have incomplete reports for any Vermont Arts Council program
- Applicants who receive a multi-year operating grant award from the Vermont Arts Council during the project year
For more information, visit Vermont Arts Council.
