Teaching Artists Directory Grant

The Teaching Artists Directory Grant by the Kentucky Arts Council aims to empower local artists by providing career opportunities and professional development in arts education. It supports artists of various disciplines, encouraging them to collaborate with educators and students in creative settings. This initiative fosters artistic engagement within Kentucky, ensuring a diverse and accessible arts community. By highlighting qualified teaching artists, the grant serves as a valuable resource for educators seeking to enrich their programs with high-quality artistic contributions.

Core Values of the Kentucky Arts Council
Working in partnership with organizations and individuals to deliver arts programs and services throughout the state, we ask that applicants and partners keep the following guiding values in mind when working with the Kentucky Arts Council:

• Artists’ Compensation
• The Kentucky Arts Council believes that artists’ time and work have real value, for which artists should be fairly compensated.
• Diversity

The Kentucky Arts Council believes that arts programs and services should be accessible to all people of the Commonwealth. The members of these groups share a common culture and a sense of aesthetics.
Advocacy
The Kentucky Arts Council believes it is important for individuals and organizations to advocate for the arts and promote how they enhance our communities and our lives.
The Teaching Artists Directory is an online directory of Kentucky artists who produce high quality artistic work and have the skills and competencies needed to work with teachers and students in designing and implementing arts education programs.
Program Purpose
To provide paid career opportunities and professional development for teaching artists.
To encourage professional artists to share their talents with Kentucky’s students and teachers through teaching residencies.
To provide a public resource where educators and organizations can find the biographies, qualifications, work samples, and residency examples of professional teaching artists who are adjudicated by the arts council.

Eligibility

Artists working in any discipline(s), including visual arts, media arts, performing arts, literary arts, and folk arts.
Applicants must be 21 years or older.
Applicants must be United States citizens, lawfully admitted to the U.S. for permanent residence, or have permission from the Department of Homeland Security to work permanently in the U.S.