Teaching Artist grants support sequential, arts education projects that take place in-school, after school, or in community centers in Cattaraugus, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, and Tioga counties.
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), Tioga County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Projects can only support K-12 aged students.
Project must provide at least 3 sequential, teaching sessions between the same teaching artist(s) and the same group of students.
Funding Information
Grants ranging from $500 to $5,000 are available to artists and nonprofit organizations.
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 or audiences.
Project Eligibility
Applicants may partner with either a public or charter school certified by BOCES or a community center. Partners must be located in the same county where the applicant resides.
Projects may occur during or after school hours from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 and must have a minimum of three, sequential sessions between the same teaching artist(s) and the same group of K-12 students.
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
Individual teaching artists, nonprofits, or unincorporated groups from Cattaraugus, Chemung, Steuben, Schuyler, or Tioga County can apply. 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.
- FY25 NYSCA applicants, regardless of funding status, are ineligible.
- Previous SCR funded grant recipients must have fulfilled all grant requirements.
For more information, visit The ARTS Council.
