The Kentucky Arts Council is seeking applications for its Creative Chapters Library Program.
Donor Name: Kentucky Arts Council
State: Kentucky
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/30/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Creative Chapters Library Program (CCLP) grant enables public libraries to implement artist residencies in their year-round schedules. Librarians and artists work in partnership to design and implement the residencies. Residencies may focus on a specific artistic discipline or explore educational pairings, such as integrating dance into a reading campaign, storytelling relevant to a historical/commemorative event, a painting class that connects to environmental awareness, or a writing residency combined with an author study.
Juried teaching artists may partner with libraries wishing to create and exhibit participant work in public locations, such as arts venues, schools, hospitals, and medical plazas.
The purpose of this program is to support communities in bringing professional teaching artists into Kentucky’s public libraries for up to 30-hour teaching artist residencies, involve youth, families, and other community members directly in the creative process during an artist’s residency, and to integrate the arts into community activities and provide libraries with tools that will enable them to incorporate the arts into their activities after the residency is completed.
Residencies supported by this grant must:
- Employ teaching artists from the Kentucky Arts Council’s Teaching Artist Directory.
- Be open and marketed to the public and dedicated to serving a broad audience.
- Follow all local, state, and federal safety protocols in effect at the time of the residency.
- Be held during times that public schools are not in session (holidays, winter, spring, and summer breaks, after school, weekends, etc.).
- Be accessible to audience members and teaching artists with disabilities. For the purposes of these guidelines, accessibility refers to both the residency program and the facility.
Additionally
- Funding may be used for up to 30 instructional, in-person hours.
- All eligible applications must include a signed letter of intent for each Teaching Artists Directory artist involved. The letter must include the artists’ names; fees; residency date, time, and description. The agreement with the artist will be contingent upon confirmation of CCPL funding.
Funding Information
The Kentucky Arts Council will provide funding to approved applicants up to the amount of $2400 for arts education activities.
Eligibility Criteria
Any Kentucky public library may apply.
For more information, visit Kentucky Arts Council.
