The Arts and Health Grant supports art programs and artist residencies with health-related goals that take place in health-based or community spaces.
Donor Name: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
State: Rhode Island
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/03/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $9,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The grant funds both “non-clinical arts engagements that promote and facilitate individual health” and “public arts activities that provide a public health benefit in Rhode Island communities”.
The arts have the capacity to transform the lives of individuals and communities, contributing to health, well-being, and overall resilience. This grant program acknowledges that arts and culture facilitate the physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional aspects of individual healing, and that when applied to public health, promote healthy environments and policies in communities by fostering empathy, awareness, and social cohesion through shared narrative and aesthetic experiences.
Project Priorities
- Develop arts programming with an understanding of the expressed needs of the community to be served.
- Connection to Rhode Island State Arts/Health Plan:
- Patient Care – employs arts as part of the treatment plan
- Healing Environments – physical space design as well as what happens in these spaces
- Caring for Caregivers – professional, para-professional, informal (family/friends)
- Education – improving clinicians’ diagnostic tools, empathy, resiliency, and observation and communication skills
- Community well-being – using the arts to address public health concerns such as health literacy, health equity, and trauma resiliency in public areas
Funding Information
Award Amount: Up to $9,000
Project Period: July 1 – June 30
Project Requirements
- Participatory arts programs or artist residencies are the primary focus of the project.
- Identified health need/challenge with a clear plan to deliver health-related outcomes for individuals and/or communities via arts-based experiences.
- Activities take place in health-based or community spaces.
- Participating artists are Rhode Island residents and paid for their services.
- Activities are accessible and provide an opportunity for meaningful participation for people of all abilities, and representative of diverse identities and communities.
- For projects specific to health: Utilize the arts to enhance the quality of life and create an environment conducive to healing for individuals, communities, caregivers, or staff. Artists need to partner or consult with a health professional(s) and/or subject matter expert(s).
- Sample: Senior center offers an interactive music program once a week over 6-months to stimulate memory and cognitive awareness for adults with Alzheimer’s or dementia.
- For programs specific to Public Health: Utilize the arts to build healthy communities for all Rhode Islanders by generating awareness and using creative strategies to address the social determinants of health. Artists need to partner with a public health agency or social service or community-based organization.
- Sample: A weekend arts-intensive workshop for Opioid Task Force, with follow-up visits by the workshop artist(s) to help staff incorporate their learning into community health practice.
Eligible Applicants
- Nonprofit or fiscally sponsored organizations based in Rhode Island.
- Eligible nonprofit organizations may include health-based, social service, faith-based, community-based, or arts and cultural organizations.
For more information, visit RISCA.
