Arts in
Education - Arts Curriculum Project  
Arts
in Education Arts Curriculum Project (AIEACP) grants up to $10,000 are
awarded to schools and non-profit or governmental organizations and
institutions to help support projects that advance the goal of arts as
a basic part of education. Projects must seek to enhance current arts
curricula or must assist in the goal of establishing on-going arts
programming and/or curricula in schools and organizations. Arts in
Education artists or outside consultants may be used to provide
special expertise.
Application
Deadline: January 16, 2009
Arts
in Education - In-School Residency
Arts
in Education In-School Residency (AIEISR) grants up to $40,000 are
awarded to place professional artists in residencies at specific
school sites or in conjunction with other non-profit community or
governmental organizations and institutions. The AIE In-School
Residency program provides a way for artists to demonstrate their art
form and to create or perform works of art so that participants may
observe the creative process and relate the art form to other preK-12
curriculum areas. These in-school residencies may last from 10 days to
the entire school year.
Application
Deadline: January 16, 2009
Arts in Education -
After-School/Summer Residency
Arts in
Education After-School/Summer Residency (AIEASSR) grants up to $10,000
are awarded to sponsor professional artist residencies that provide
positive alternatives for children and youth during non-school hours.
The settings can include after-school and summer programs and can be
located in community centers, low-income housing projects, juvenile
facilities, social service centers, parks/recreation programs, boys
and girls clubs, and other community-based or governmental
organizations and institutions.
Application
Deadline: January 16, 2009
Collaborative Project Support
Collaborative
Project Support (CPS) grants up to $10,000 are awarded to Arkansas chartered not-for-profit
organizations or 501(c)(3) tax exempt organizations to assist with the
contracted costs of arts projects that involve some form of community
outreach. The proposed project must involve a collaboration of at
least one other organization with the lead applicant and should
involve one or more underserved community groups as defined by the
Arkansas Arts Council: An underserved community group is one in which individual lack access to
arts programs due to geography, economic conditions, ethnic
background, physical challenges, or age.
Application
Deadline: January 9, 2009
Expansion Arts
Expansion Arts (EA)
is designed to strengthen small and mid-sized nonprofit art
organizations by providing salary assistance and technical support for
an executive director for a period of three years. Eligible
organizations include producing or presenting community cultural
non-for-profits. The current applicants are in Year 1 of a three-year
funding cycle.
Application
Deadline for Year 2: February 20, 2009
General Operating Support
General
Operating Support (GOS) helps fund administrative operating expenses
for established not-for-profit local arts agencies or single
discipline arts organizations with total annual operating budgets
equal to or greater than $50,000 but less than $1 million.
Letter
of Intent Deadline
for New Organizations or Returning GOS Applicants that have missed a
year of funding: December 5, 2008
Application
Deadline: January 23, 2009
Major Arts Partners
Major
Arts Partners (MAP) grant programs are designed for eligible nonprofit
tax-exempt arts organizations with a three-year budget average equal
to or greater than $1 million. MAP organizations are eligible to apply
for MAP-GOS and one MAP-AIE grant in either AIE Arts Curriculum
Project, AIE After-School/Summer Residency, or AIE In-School Residency
programs.
Application
Deadline for MAP-AIE: January 16, 2009
Application
Deadline for MAP-GOS: January 23, 2009
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