Funding available to support Art Education Projects in New York

The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (The ARTS Council) is seeking applications for its 2024 Teaching Artist Grants.

Donor Name: The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (The ARTS Council)

State: New York

County: Cattaraugus County (NY), Chemung County (NY), Schuyler County (NY), Steuben County (NY), and Tioga County (NY)

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 12/15/2023

Size of the Grant: $500 to $5,000

Grant Duration: 12 months

Details:

Teaching Artist grants support sequential, arts education projects that take place in schools or community centers in Cattaraugus, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, and Tioga counties. These grants are made possible with public, Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) funds from the New York State Council on the ARTS (NYSCA), a state agency, and administered locally by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (The ARTS Council). Applicant Eligibility Individual teaching artists, nonprofits, or unincorporated groups from Cattaraugus, Chemung, Steuben, Schuyler, or Tioga County can apply.

Funding Criteria & Priorities

Grants are funded based upon the following funding criteria:

• Artistic and/or Cultural and Programmatic Merit
• Student Benefit & Accessibility
• Managerial & Fiscal Competence
• Learning Outcomes & Evaluation

Priority is given to the following

• Projects that pay artist fees
• BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and/or Folk & Traditional applicants and/or focused projects

Funding Information

• Applicants can request grant funding from $500 to $5,000.
• Projects may occur during or after school hours from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024 and must have a minimum of three, sequential sessions between the same teaching artist(s) and the same group of K-12 students.

Project Eligibility

The following are additional project eligibility requirements:

• Projects must incorporate one or more participatory, hands-on art forms and involve in-depth, age, and skill appropriate learning opportunities.
• Projects can involve multiple groups of students, however, the same teaching artist must have a minimum of 3 sessions with each group of students.
• Projects cannot appear to take the role of the classroom teacher.
• Projects can support a closed group of learners, however, school-based projects must be open to all students within the selected classroom or grade level.
• Projects cannot specifically target home-school participants.
• School partners cannot be private or parochial or receive direct funding from NYSCA.
• Projects must include an artistic component and cannot support commercial arts or other forms of entertainment for entertainment’s sake such as magicians or sip and paint.
• Projects cannot propose the acquisition of artwork, have a primary focus of fundraising, or propose financial gain for the applicant as the primary benefit.

Eligibility Criteria

The following are additional applicant eligibility requirements:

• Schools cannot apply, however, PTAs with nonprofit status independent of the school can apply.
• Teacher cannot be the applicant for their own school unless the project occurs during off-contract hours.
• Direct 2023 NYSCA applicants, regardless of funding status, are ineligible.
• Previous 2023 SCR Round 1 grant recipients must have fulfilled all grant requirements.

For more information, visit NYSCA.