The Huntington Arts Council is inviting applicants for its Creative Learning In School grant to support arts education projects in K-12 public schools.
Donor Name: Huntington Arts Council
State: New York
County: Suffolk County (NY), Nassau County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/23/2023
Size of the Grant: $2500 or $5000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
This funding is designed to support effective and innovative approaches to artist-led instruction in the school setting. These grants are meant to build the capacity of local artists and non-profit arts organizations while providing public school-aged students with high-quality artistic learning experiences. Projects should draw on arts education practices to engage participants in the creation and interpretation of artistic works. Instruction must be sequential, age- and skill-based, and focused on the exploration of art and the artistic process. Emphasis is placed on the depth and quality of the creative process through which participants learn through, or about, the arts.
Creative Learning grants strive to build the capacity of local teaching artists and nonprofit arts organizations while providing K-12 public school students high-quality artistic learning experiences, and supporting projects that provide in-depth, age-and skills-appropriate opportunities for participants to create and experience the arts. This grant opportunity allows for teaching artists to work during-school to encourage and promote the importance of lifelong learning.
Priorities
Priority will be given to new applicants and applicants not previously funded within the past 3 SCR grants cycles, this includes Restart. These applicants will have 1 point added to the marketing component of their project.
- School districts in low-income areas
- Collaborative and intergenerational projects
- Projects involving students with special needs
- Underserved/Underrepresented populations
- Projects that incorporate SEL and CRS (DEI) principles.
All Creative Learning programs must provide:
- Sequential, skills-based study that incorporates one or more art forms
- A minimum of three (3) sequential, hands-on learning sessions
- In-depth, age and skills appropriate learning opportunities
- Hands-on, participatory creation and/or learning opportunities in one or more art forms that may culminate in exhibitions, productions, or demonstrations Stated learning goals, methodologies and outcomes, and a means for student evaluation
Funding Information
- Award Amount: $2500 or $5000
- Project Period: January 1 – December 31, 2024
Eligibility Criteria
Individual Artists, Artist Collectives, 501(c)(3) or New York State non-profit organizations with an active board of trustees either incorporated in NY State or registered to do business in NY State. Government or quasi-governmental entity, or tribal organization
Requirements for In-school programs, during the school day:
- Eligible projects will involve a direct collaboration between at least one non-arts (core curriculum) classroom teacher and at least one teaching artist not currently affiliated with the partner school.
- Students should not be taken out of regular classes to participate, or be selected on a voluntary basis for participation in the program.
- Creative Learning funds must not replace, or appear to replace, the role of certified arts teachers in schools. However, it is recommended that the school’s certified art, music, dance, and/or theater teachers participate in the project.
- Project must involve at least three (3) hands-on learning sessions with the teaching artist and the same teacher/group of students (called the “core group”). Each session should be at least 30 minutes long. (Each block of time a teaching artist connects with a group of students, separated by time, can be considered one contact session.) It is recommended that contact sessions are separated by enough time for reflection and refining.
- Teaching Artists must provide a completed Program Template with their proposal and submit the completed Classroom Teacher Feedback form, along with the Final Report upon completion of the project. A letter of commitment from the Partner (school) to the Applicant must be included with the application in order to be eligible for funding. The letter of commitment must outline in detail the Partner’s support of the project (monetarily and otherwise) and anticipated roles and responsibilities for each team member involved. The letter of agreement must be on the school letterhead and signed by the school’s Principal.
- Projects must incorporate elements of Social-Emotional Learning or Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework principles as described here:
Ineligible Projects:
- Projects taking place in private or parochial schools.
- Stand-alone assembly programs, single performances, single visits to or from cultural institutions.
- Undergraduate college-level courses, scholarships, fellowships, contests, or student performing groups.
- Equipment. The grant can fund supplies, which are defined as materials that are used up during the course of the project, but not permanent equipment.
- Schools that already receive funds from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for 2023
- All direct applicants to NYSCA for 23 are not eligible (regardless of funding status).
- Any applicant incorporated as an LLC is ineligible to apply
For more information, visit Huntington Arts Council.
