AIE Arts Curriculum Project Grant

The AIE Arts Curriculum Project, funded by the Arkansas Heritage, aims to enhance arts education in schools across Arkansas. By providing mini-grants, the project supports initiatives that integrate arts into curricula, fostering creativity and innovation among students. This initiative not only enriches the educational landscape but also strengthens community ties through cultural engagement.

Arkansas Arts Council
The Arkansas Arts Council advances and empowers the arts by providing services and funding for programming that encourages and assists literary, performing and visual artists in achieving standards of professional excellence. The Arkansas Arts Council also provides technical and financial assistance to Arkansas arts organizations and other providers of cultural and educational programs. This statewide programming and assistance ultimately provides cultural, educational and economic opportunities for the benefit of all Arkansans.
In 1971, Act 359 (A.C.A. § 13-8-101 et seq.) gave independent agency status to the Arts Council, with an executive director and a 17-member council appointed by the governor. In 1975, the Arts Council became an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, now the Division of Arkansas Heritage.
The Arkansas Arts Council is an agency of Arkansas Heritage and shares the goals of all big Division of Arkansas Heritage agencies, that of preserving and enhancing the heritage of the state of Arkansas. Funding for the Arkansas Arts Council and its programs is provided by the State of Arkansas and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Our Goals
Encourage artistic excellence, diversity and innovationPromote equitable access to the arts for all ArkansansDevelop arts in education for life-long learningEnhance community cultural and economic developmentBuild and sustain the capacity of the Arkansas Arts Council to fulfill its mission
Arts In Education Grants
The Arts in Education program initiates new arts programs, or enhances existing ones, in schools and local arts agencies by providing direct interaction with professional artists in residencies for pre K–12 students. All artists involved in AIE residencies must be selected from the Arts in Education Artist Roster.
Arts Curriculum Grants
These mini-grants are awarded to schools and nonprofit 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. Artists selected for this grant must be from the Arkansas Arts Council’s Arts in Education Artist Roster.

Eligibility

Grant funds may be used for workshops, technical assistance, in-service training, or safe other projects designed to increase skills and awareness of arts in education. Activities may serve pre K -12th grade students, adults and/or special constituents directly or indirectly. Applicants for the AIE ACP program must be either a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, or a federal, state, or local government or governmental unit; a church or convention/association of churches; a hospital, a hospital service organization, or medical research affiliate; a public school or institution of higher learning.

Ineligibility

Funding for organizations is not available for:Deficits or start-up costs for new organizationsContingency fundsContributions and donations to other organizations or individualsBuilding renovations or capital expenditures for facilitiesEntertainment expenses, including busses for field trips, tickets to performances, or refreshmentsTuition for academic study or any form of scholarship or student financial aidFaulty salaries, and additionally, staff salaries in Arts in Education grantsLobbying expensesInterest and other financial costs