Arts Education Grant is designed to assist artists in developing and implementing artist residencies in school during the school day, or after.
Donor Name: New York State Council on the Arts
State: New York
County: Tompkins County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/21/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Weaving the arts into K-12 core curriculum. as well as teaching youth new artistic skills and abilities, is at the core of this Arts Education grant. Art instruction (visual, dance, music, theatre, literary…) helps children with the development of motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, creative problem solving, inventiveness.
The grant can also fund K-12 education in closed groups at cultural organizations or community centers. Artists need to meet with the same group of students at least 3 times to teach them an art form. The students must also create something from their own imaginations as part of this residency. Partnerships with non-art teachers is required for in-school programs and residencies must be in regular classrooms and not for students self selected or appointed.
This Arts Education (AE) grant has two funding strands: Pre-K-12 in-School or afterschool projects and Community-based Learning.
For the purposes of this grant, arts is defined as visual art (painting, photography, drawing, etc.) performing arts (theatre, music, playwriting, dance), literary (poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction, spoken word); art film media, and the like) as opposed to an activity the outcome of which is primarily rehabilitative, educational, spiritual, religious, therapeutic, or recreational.
Funding Priorities
- Higher consideration will be given if the project addresses specific non-arts related challenges that the students may have.
- For In-School Programs: Higher Consideration will be given if the project meaningfully aligns with the student’s curriculum.
- For In-School Programs: Higher Consideration will be given if the school’s certified art, music, dance and/or theater teachers participate in the project in addition to a non-arts teacher(s).
- Higher consideration will be given if the project fulfills a cultural need, or otherwise unmet need in terms of geography or community engagement, increases access to the arts, or reaches a broad and diverse student body.
Funding Information
The maximum request and award is $5,000.
Uses of Funds
Artist fees, consumable supplies (used during the course of the project), mileage (up to $75), space rental, and other expenses directly related to the project. Staff or school teachers can be paid for hours spent that are not part of their regular working hours, such as after-school time.
Grant Period
Funded projects can occur from January 1, 2025 through January 15, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Artist applicants must be Tompkins County residents as of January 2025, be at least 18, and not enrolled in a full time undergraduate or graduate degree program in 2025.
- (However, if the applicant is a community based organization, their teaching artists do not have to reside in Tompkins County.)
For more information, visit NYSCA.
