The Artists in the Schools (AIS) Grant Program is designed for schools and districts that wish to augment their regular visual, literary and performing arts curricula with a teaching artist residency.
Donor Name: Alaska State Council on the Arts
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Artists provide classroom art experiences, professional development for teachers, community engagement activities and opportunities for students to observe an artist at work. Involvement of school staff is critical to the continuity of the program, as well as to the follow-up activities provided by the artist. The typical length of an AIS residency is two weeks for a single school, however other lengths of time are possible for multiple school sites. For example: a district applies for a four-week residency with an artist who visits four schools during the four week period, or visits two schools for two weeks each.
Funding Information
AIS Grants will fund up to $5,000 for individual schools and up to $15,000 for district-wide applications.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individual public or private nonprofit Schools, School Districts, and nonprofit, tax-exempt Local Arts Partners—in partnership with schools and school districts—are eligible to apply. Local Arts Partners may be nonprofit, tax-exempt arts organizations.
- Local Arts Partners may also be tribal nonprofits and tribes, or nonprofit parent/teacher organizations, where these organizations have an interest in school arts partnerships. If a nonprofit, parent group, or tribe is the applicant, they must provide a letter on district/school letterhead from the school partner, describing how the plan augments and supports the district-approved arts curriculum and/or state arts standards, and how the district/school is working with the organization on the residency development.
- The Alaska State Council on the Arts will not fund:
- Residencies lasting less than two weeks per application. Shared residencies that last less than two weeks in each school should be submitted jointly, with one school serving as the lead applicant.
- Residencies that are designed to be an isolated arts experience and have no connection to the district’s approved arts curriculum or Alaska State Content Standards for the arts. For example, projects that do not contain outcomes or follow through of skills.
- Incomplete or late applications.
- Funding for organizations or schools that received funding in prior years, but failed to file a final report.
For more information, visit ASCA.
