Teaching Art Together Grant

Teaching Art Together Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Kentucky Arts Council
Amount: US $3,200
Last Updated: September 16, 2025

Summary

The Teaching Art Together Grant empowers Kentucky teachers to collaborate with professional artists, enhancing the educational experience through innovative residencies that last from one to four weeks. This program aims to integrate the arts into the curriculum, fostering creativity among students and teachers. By providing financial support for artist fees, the grant enables schools to enrich their teaching methods while ensuring that the arts remain a vital component of education beyond the residency period.

Overview

Teaching Art Together Grant The Teaching Art Together Grant lets teachers collaborate with practicing, professional artists on the design and implementation of innovative one-to-four-week residencies. Residencies provide teachers with the tools to continue to incorporate the arts into the curriculum after the residency is completed. Program Purpose To support teachers in bringing professional teaching artists into Kentucky classrooms for one-week teaching residencies. To involve students and teachers directly in the creative process during an artist's residency, and to integrate the arts into daily instruction through links to the Kentucky Academic Standards for the Visual and Performing Arts. To provide teachers with tools that will enable them to incorporate the arts into their classrooms after the residency is completed. Program Description The Teaching Art Together Grant enables teachers to implement artist residencies in their classrooms. Teachers and artists work in partnership to design and implement the residencies. Residencies may be focused on a specific artistic discipline or explore cross-curricular pairings such as dance integrated into a math curriculum, new media integrated into a science curriculum, etc. Grant Amounts and Matching Requirements The following grant is available: $80 for every class session of a 1- to 10-day teaching artist residency (maximum 4 sessions per day). The grant amount ONLY covers the artist’s fee. The artist's fee is $80 per session ($320 per day) of the residency. The applicant’s school or organization is responsible for costs associated with any supplies or materials required to implement the residency, per diem, as well as any culminating events, such as performances or exhibitions that take place after school. These expenses should not be included in the application but should be discussed with the artist before applying. Grant funds will only be released after the final report is completed by the applicant. This should be done as soon as possible after the residency concludes so the artist’s payment can be processed.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Any teacher at a Kentucky public or private school that supports preschool through grade 12 is eligible to apply.Any representative of a nonprofit or public organization in Kentucky with full -time staff providing education to minors, such as juvenile detention centers or residential group homes, is eligible to apply.For every day of a residency, there must be four class sessions of contact time with the artist.Artists should be scheduled for four to six class sessions daily.The schedule may include a combination of core and non-core groups as well as professional development for teachers (for 20+ sessions and not to exceed three hours total).Core group: If a teaching artist visits a school multiple days, the artist must meet with a minimum of one and a maximum of four core group(s) each day.A core group is a class of students that meets with the teaching artist for 5 class sessions and receives a deeper learning experience as the teaching artist and teacher scaffold instruction for this group throughout the residency. Core group sessions can include assemblies as well as classroom instruction.In a 10-day residency, you might have up to 8 core groups, each meeting with the artist five times.Non-core group: Non-core groups may spend 1-3 class sessions with the artist as well as attending assemblies presented by the artist.Non-core groups allow for flexibility in scheduling and can increase the number of classes participating in the residency. Professional development (PD): PD may be provided at a maximum of three hours per five days (20 hours) of the residency in lieu of an equivalent amount of class time. This time can include pre- and post-planning time between the artist and the teacher as job-embedded professional training.

Ineligibility

Restrictions:All artists must be selected from the arts council’s Teaching Artists Directory. No more than two Teaching Art Together applications will be accepted from one school or organization per fiscal year. No more than four Teaching Art Together grants may be awarded to one teaching artist per fiscal year. Classes may not be combined to exceed more than 29 elementary students and 31 high school students with the artist during any one class session. Teachers may not leave artists alone with students for any reason. Residency hours may not be used for before or after-school programming (except for PD). If a school would like to include a culminating assembly after school or other evening program, the school must negotiate the rate of pay with the artist outside of this grant.