The Community Arts Partnership (CAP) is pleased to announce its Arts Education Grant to assist artists in developing and implementing artist residencies.
Donor Name: Community Arts Partnership
State: New York
County: Tompkins County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
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 after artists working in after school programs. 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.
Teaching through the arts makes difficult concepts more easy to understand. The best arts education projects are those that allow the children to use their imagination and creativity to create their own interpretation of the art form being taught.
Although this is not a requirement for this grant, ideal arts education projects use teaching artists to use their art to help understand a non-arts subject or address a potential student challenge. For example. an artist can use fiber art to teach math and measurements; teach history through writing and performing; teach songwriting to express current issues; use dance to teach literacy. Integrating art with other disciplines reaches students who might not otherwise be engaged in classwork.
The Grant is for:
- Sequential (at least three sessions with the same group of students), skill-based learning and study that teaches the students one or more art forms. 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); film media, and the like.) as opposed to an activity the outcome of which is primarily rehabilitative, educational, spiritual, religious, therapeutic, or recreational.
- Projects that focus on the student’s exploration of that art form and the artistic process.
- Students should create something from their own imaginations using the art form (rather than just coping or memorizing).
- Emphasis must be placed on the depth and quality of the creative process through which students learn through or about the arts.
- The project can (optional) culminate in exhibitions, productions, or demonstrations.
Can be in-school, or after school programs:
- at a Tompkins County public (not private) school during the school day.
- at an after-school program at a public school or cultural organization. Programs can be registration based, but the cost must not prohibit inclusion.
Funding Priorities
- Higher consideration will be given if the project addresses specific non-arts 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 audience.
Funding Information
The maximum grant is $5,000 for all SCR grants.
Uses of Funds
Artist fees, consumable supplies (used during the course of the project), mileage (up to $75), space rental, and any other expenses directly related to the project. Staff or school teachers can be paid for hours spent on project that are not part of their regular working hours, such as afterschool time.
Eligibility Criteria
- Tompkins County artists
- Artist applicants must be Tompkins County residents as of January 2024, must be at least 18, and not enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program in 2024.
- However, if the Applicant is a cultural organization, their teaching artists do not have to reside in Tompkins County.
- Municipalities
- Tompkins County Arts or Cultural Organizations
For more information, visit CAP.
