Arts Integration Training Grant

The Arts Integration Training Grant, offered by the California Arts Council, supports nonprofit arts organizations and teaching artists in delivering professional development in arts integration strategies. Grants of up to $25,000 per year aim to enhance equitable student learning through collaborative projects in various educational settings. This initiative fosters partnerships between arts organizations and educational entities, ensuring that robust arts education is accessible to all students.

NOTE: Virtual office sessions are available to provide technical assistance for the Arts Integration Training and Arts Education Exposure grant programs. Join the Arts Program Specialist and Arts Program Manager as they discuss your organization-specific grant application questions. Prospective applicants are welcome to drop in during any session; registration is not required. The AIT and AEE office hour schedule and links for each session are listed here.
Background & Purpose
Since 1976, the CAC has supported arts education programs that bring together local arts organizations, teaching artists, and school communities through its grants. The CAC’s arts education grant programs are rooted in the agency’s belief that robust, sequential, culturally and linguistically responsive arts learning is an essential tool for healthy human development, and that it should be a core element of the education of every student. The overarching purpose of our arts education grant programs is to expand participation in meaningful arts learning opportunities by supporting these activities in a diversity of settings and contexts for infants, children, and youth.
In recent years, the CAC expanded the arts education grant programs, including the Arts Integration Training (AIT) grant. Awards of up to $25,000 per year support nonprofit arts organizations and teaching artists to plan and deliver professional development in arts integration strategies to classroom teachers, as well as site, district, and county-level administrators. Arts Integration Training projects should be designed to pave a pathway for increased equitable student learning in, through, and about the arts. This may be realized in a specific classroom, in all classrooms across a school site, or as a central strategy for a district- or countywide arts plan. The Arts Integration Training project can stand alone or be executed in conjunction with an Artists in Schools project. The project must be planned and implemented with collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization, teaching artists, and the educational entity, with full commitment from all participants.