The Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation is seeking applications for its 2025 Marrazzo/Bartol Teaching Artist Micro-Grants.
Donor Name: Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
City: Philadelphia
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/11/2025
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Marrazzo/Bartol Teaching Artist Micro-Grant awards of $1,000 help teaching artists complete community-based arts education projects that are underway; to support their own professional development as teaching artists; or to buy equipment/materials essential to their teaching artist practice. The engagement of community members as active art(s)-makers is essential to any application.
Eligibility Criteria
- For You
- I live in the Philadelphia area.
- I am the lead, initiator, or founder of this project.
- I am 18+ years of age.
- I am not a student taking more than 6 credit hours in the fall of 2024.
- I have worked as a teaching artist for at least a year.
- I have not received a Bartol Micro-Grant before.
- I am not already paid as a teaching artist (as an employee or contractor) by my host site.
- For Your Project
- My project will take place in the City of Philadelphia.
- I can use the funds by June 30, 2025.
- If I am working with community members, my project has to engage community members (of any age) as active, creative, art-making participants (in any discipline), not just as an audience.
- If I am asking for support for my own professional development or materials/equipment, I must demonstrate how this will position me to strengthen my teaching practice in the future.
Who should apply?
- Grants will be made to teaching artists who live in the Philadelphia area and projects must take place in the City of Philadelphia.
- If you are working with community members, your project must engage community members (of any age) as active, creative, art-making participants (in any discipline), not just as an audience.
- If you are asking for support for your own professional development or equipment/materials, you must demonstrate how this will position you to strengthen your teaching practice as well the audience you hope will benefit from your future programs.
- Teaching artists are not required identify a community host site or partner, although you have the option to share a letter of support from a community partner if you have one. You cannot currently be a paid teaching artist (employee or contractor) for the organization which is your host site. This is not intended to be a grant to an organization to pay their teaching artists.
- The project, either in the community or for a teaching artists’ own teaching practice, must be urgent and timely. Funds must be expended within three months of receiving the grant.
- Note that these grants are not for your own creative practice. They are only for your work as a teaching artist.
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